Ampliamos las fronteras del conocimiento

Ampliamos las fronteras del conocimiento
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SEKN provides knowledge and tools for quality business and social projects.

What is SEKN?

SEKN has developed and offers pedagogical knowledge and tools through its research, publications and teaching cases to researchers, academics, business schools and anyone interested in business and initiatives, inclusive and sustainable. Likewise, SEKN is at the service of companies and organizations to carry out rigorous quality research projects on the before-mentioned topics.

SEKN is comprised of representatives from renowned Ibero-American business schools, including: EGADE Business School (Mexico), ESPAE Graduate School of Management (Ecuador), ESADE Business School (Spain), University of Sao Paulo FEA / USP (Brazil), IESA (Venezuela), INCAE (Costa Rica), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile), Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), Universidad del Pacífico (Perú) and Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina).

Affiliated Schools

Mission

MissionTo expand the boundaries of knowledge and the practice of inclusive and sustainable corporate and social initiatives throughout joint research and the strengthening of managerial training centered in participative learning. Picture: James Austin, founding member of SEKN.

Vision

Surpass the actual knowledge boundaries of inclusive and sustainable corporate and social initiatives thru the generation of an important flow of new research aiming to become a recognized thinking leader in the topic.

Knowledge Generation
Dissemination of Knowledge
Teaching
Institutional Development
Network Development

History

Origins

SEKN originated in 2001, through an initiative of Harvard Business School and the participation of a group of leading business schools in Latin America, in alliance with the AVINA Foundation.

How does SEKN create value?

01

Origen

Managerial training of corporate and civil society leaders

02

Para generar

Responsible and dynamic corporate sector and a strong and capable civil society

03

Changes and improvements in the quality of life of society’s most vulnerable sectors

The SEKN network will increase the capacity of educational institutions to research and develop pedagogic programs offered to graduate, undergraduate and executive education students.

SEKN’s educational strategy consists in reaching a growing quantity of students throughout degree courses and programs, as well as executive formation, in order to give them transformational learning experiences. This objective is executed through diverse manners in the different schools, but the strategy points to assure that the participating schools develop new courses about inclusive and sustainable corporate and social initiatives or that they enrich notably their actual programs, thanks to the knowledge and teaching materials produced by SEKN.

The management of the network uses a shared leadership approach assigning responsibilities on a rotating basis. This leadership model avoids concentrating responsibility and power. National leaders in each of the universities in SEKN meet in periodic workshops to advance research topics and share best teaching practices. Likewise, specific committees are formed to develop the specific tasks that are emerging in the development of the work of the Network.

  • As of today SEKN Network is led by the following members:
  • General Coordination: Andrea Prado, INCAE Business School (Costa Rica).
  • Teaching Case Coordination: Ezequiel Reficco, EGADE Business School (Mexico).
  • Editorial Coordination: Rosa María Fischer, FEA/USP (Brasil), Alfred Vernis, ESADE (Spain), Josefina Brunni, IESA (Venezuela).
  • Coordination of the Inclusive Distribution Networks Project: Maria Helena Jaén, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).
  • Coordination of the Sustainable Business Models Project: Roberto Gutiérrez, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).

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