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...versity of Lausanne, where he is also a member of the management committee of the Master in International Management and a member of the management committee of the Graduate Institute for International Management.
He is also the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of "Le Temps", the leading French language Swiss newspaper
Someone once called Stéphane Garelli a "practicing" academic in the sense that, as well as his involvement in the academic world, he has always managed to remain very close to market realities and the world of business. He has been, and still is, closely associated to some of the world's leading companies.
Between 1974 and 1986, he was managing director of the World Economic Forum and the Davos Symposium, the world's most important annual gathering of business and government leaders.
He subsequently began a 14-year long association with the European Management of Hewlett-Packard, a leading information technology company. He has been permanent senior adviser to two European Chief Executives, and has also been Secretary to the European Management Team.
Stéphane was advisor to the Managing Director of the Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), the world's largest inspection company, in the early 90's. He developed projects for the business unit in charge of government contracts relating to customs, import and export verification, tax collection, etc.
In the banking industry, he designed and implemented a new strategic management process at the Swiss Bank Corporation head-office in Geneva. The SBS, formerly one of the three largest Swiss banks, has now merged with the former Union Bank of Switzerland to form the new United Bank of Switzerland (UBS).
For the Management Board of Nestlé, the world's largest food company, he designed the methodology for, and conducted a "Competitiveness Audit". This major project focussed on Nestlé’s relationships with key suppliers and top customers.
More recently, he was Chairman of the Board of the FF Sandoz Financial and Banking Holding (2000 to 2003) and member of the Board of Directors of the Banque Edouard Constant (1998 to 2003). These two entities were part of the Sandoz Foundation (a prominent European investor in the pharmaceutical, telecommunications, hotel, watch, and financial industries).
An insightful and experienced speaker, Professor Garelli is in great demand by organisations from around the globe eager to benefit from his considerable expertise. He presents in English or French.
Memberships
China Enterprise Management Association, Board of the ‘Fondation Jean Monet pour l'Europe’, Swiss Academy of Technical Sciences, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Mexican Council for Competitiveness, the Business Advisory Board of the WWF International, etc.
His presentations
Because the economic and business environment is particularly volatile, his material is regularly updated and adapted as circumstances. evolve. Below are some of the issues tackled in his presentations.
- The mechanism of the crisis: how did we get there?
- The domino effect from a subprime crisis to a credit crisis and now a recession: why did it go so fast?
- How long could the recession be, and what shape will it take (V,W,U or L): what do companies expect will happen?
- How governments react to the crisis: the bailout plans - is there a model that works?
- What will consumers do: spend or save?
- At the end of the tunnel, which world economy will emerge?
- Will governments and politicians have more power? Yes!
- Shall we have more regulations, more corporate governance rules? Yes!
- What shall be the consequences of printing massive amount of money and reducing interest rates?
- Will the dollar weaken? and the pound? The Euro will remain stable (and reasonably successful).
- Raw material prices will stay volatile. But present price levels are unrealistic. When the economy recovers, prices will go up just as fast.
- Markets in the emerging world did not disappear into a big black hole. The middle class there is still eager to work hard, make money and consume!
- In a recession international trade is always affected, and exporting nations, e.g. China will suffer from this decline.
- Where shall future growth come from? Infrastructure investments, Technology, Clean Tech?
- So what for companies? Plan A is well known: cut cost, freeze salaries, delay investments, etc. In short, cut the fat and preserve the muscles.
- But is there a plan B? The next frontier in management is to drastically simplify the business model (processes and products). There are huge reserves of productivity and customer satisfaction in this area - how to do it?
- Finally, a recession is a period not only to reinvent the company but also to revisit the management competencies and personal skills needed to succeed. What are they? Turbulent times are excellent opportunities to test the quality of people. Everybody can manage fair weather, but in a storm? You have to be good at what you do but also at what you are. How?
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- The Competitiveness of Enterprises on World
- The Impact of New Technologies
- The Consequences of Competitiveness on Work
- The Competitiveness of Nations
- The Globalisation of the Value Chain
- The New Rules of Competitiveness Today
- Reassessment of the Ownership of Assets
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