Purpose-Driven Leadership in the MENA Region
Key Benefits for Participants
Enhance your network and forge new connections with similarly-minded leaders and entrepreneurs from the MENA region
Engage in joint strategic thinking with regional experts and executives about real world problems
Learn from Notre Dame faculty about cutting edge research that supports making your business be a force for good in the region
Applications
The documents linked below refer to the program that was run in June 2023. New documents will be uploaded for June 2024 soon. Please reach out per email or leave your contact details in the form if you have any questions and if you are interested in the program.
To participate in the program send your application and motivation letter to rbeundt@nd.edu.
Special grant available: All applicants are encouraged to apply for a fellowship in their motivation letter with a potential to receive tuition subsidy of up to 100%.
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About the Program
Reimagining Business Excellence (RBE) is an intensive program designed to equip those purpose-driven leaders with the necessary tools, know-how and network to succeed in their entrepreneurial endeavors and be agents for a better future for all. The program will focus on the larger MENA region, exploring the increasing challenges and new opportunities.
The program provides theoretical foundations in strategic decision making, ethics and relevant regional knowledge. At its core, the program is based on practice-oriented instruction, allowing participants to work together with faculty from the University of Notre Dame and other leading international universities and industry executives on real-world problems with case studies from the MENA region.
RBE is administered by the University of Notre Dame at Tantur (UNDT), an integral part of Notre Dame International (NDI). UNDT is committed to bring together a diverse and inclusive group of future leaders that care for the larger region, stewarding an attitude of multilateral dignity and respect.
This program and the special fellowship model were made possible through the generosity of Mr. Tim Schlindwein of Chicago, Illinois, USA, Notre Dame Class of 1969.
Curriculum
The program's curriculum includes the following key modules.
Modules taught by regional experts and faculty from the University of Notre Dame and other leading institutions:
- Business Excellence in Creating Wealth and Respecting Human Rights, taught by Georges Enderle, John T. Ryan Jr. Professor Emeritus of International Business Ethics at the Mendoza College of Business and Concurrent Professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
- Climate Change and Sustainable Development Opportunities for Business in the Region, taught by Atef Al Shabrawi, Economic Development Advisor at the World Bank
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GCC States as Economies between Oil and Diversification, taught by Eckart Woertz, Director of GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies, Hamburg
Professor for contemporary history and politics of the Middle East at the University of Hamburg - Innovative Finance and Islamic Finance for the Next Business Generation, taught by Atef Al Shabrawi, Economic Development Advisor at the World Bank
- Rawabi Case Study Presentation, taught by Kristen Collett-Schmitt, Associate Teaching Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame
- Socially Responsible and Sustainable Entrepreneurship, taught by Melissa Paulsen, Director, Pulte Institute for Global Development’s Entrepreneurship and Education Division and Term Teaching Professor of the Practice, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame
- Voicing Values for Organizational Leadership, taught by Jessica McManus Warnell, Rex and Alice A. Martin Faculty Director of the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership, University of Notre Dame
Who Should Attend
Teams or individuals in senior management positions as well as “rising stars” with the professional focus in management, strategy, business development, corporate social responsibility, public affairs, marketing, communications (non-exhaustive list).
We welcome organizations of all sizes from a wide range of industries in the for-profit and non-profit sectors.
University of Notre Dame Team
Associate Dean for Innovation and Inclusion and Associate Teaching Professor in Finance at Mendoza College of Business
Professor Emeritus of International Business Ethics at Mendoza College of Business
Rex and Alice A. Martin Faculty Director of the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership
Director, Pulte Institute Entrepreneurship and Education Division
Term Teaching Professor of the Practice, Keough School of Global Affairs
Executive Director, University of Notre Dame at Tantur
Regional Executives and Experts
Atef Al Shabrawi
Economic Development Advisor at the World Bank
Bashar Masri
Chairman of Massar International
Director of GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies, Hamburg
Professor for contemporary history and politics of the Middle East at the University of Hamburg