Executive Program: Boston Innovation Trends for Family Businesses

The Executive Programme “Boston innovation trends for  family business” provides hands-on education that will equip top management in family businesses with an overview of the innovations and practices in the Boston area and provides insights into how to assimilate them into their companies.

Over 3 days participants will attend sessions with leading experts in the field of family business, innovation and best practices in the Boston area and then have the opportunity to network with those experts as well as with other participants during the coffee breaks  and buffet lunches.

There will be 5 guided afternoon visits to significant innovation driven organizations in the Boston area, offering actionableinsights. In these visits that include MIT Media Lab, Harvard Innovation Labs, LabCentral, MIT.nano or the Martin Trust Center, participants will have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the different technologies and practices developing in the Boston ecosystem and how their companies could potentially interact with those organizations and their leaders.

Speakers: Prof. John A. Davis (MIT Sloan School of Management/Cambridge Family Enterprise Group); Robert Buderi  (Former MIT Tech Review Editor Business Author); Ms. Elizabeth Reynolds (MIT Dept of Urban Studies & Planning,Former Special Assist. to the President for Manufacturing &  Economic Develop. the National Economic Council); Prof. Javier Tafur (Dean/Director at ESCP Business School Madrid Campus); Prof. Macauley Kenney (Entrepreneur in Residence and a lecturer at MIT Sloan and MIT D-Lab); Jordi Albo-Canals (Chief Scientific Officer Lighthouse DIG)

Directors: Prof. Miguel Palacios (Professor of Management I Associate Dean Executive Education, ESCP Madrid Campus); Prof. Luis Salgado (ECE Full Professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | UPM  Director for North America - RCCHU)

Organized by: ESCP Business School and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) with the sponsorship of the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University (RCCHU)