Upcoming BALAS Conference

BALAS Annual Conference 2011
Value Creation through Innovation: Latin America's Unavoidable Challenge
April 13-15, 2011
Santiago, Chile
hosted by UAI Business School
Paper submission deadline: November 1st

BALAS presentation at CLADEA:

Virginia Lasio, dean of the ESPAE Graduate School of Management, organized a BALAS panel at the 2009 CLADEA meeting in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The panelists who shared diverse views on sustainability included Juan Carlos Blum, manager of Efficacitas; Inés Manzano, director of legal and environmental area of Estudio Jurídico Manzano & Asociados; Lourdes Luque, manager of Desarrollo Económico de SNV; and Christian Bakker, director of corporate responsibility for PRONACA. Victoria Jones, executive director of BALAS and associate dean of international relations at UTSA moderated the panel. .

BALAS Executive Committee:

• President – Esteban R. Brenes, INCAE Business School
• Immediate Past-President/Awards – Denise Dimon, University of San Diego
• VP of Membership/Nominations and President-Elect – Jerry Haar, Florida International University
• Central America & Caribbean – Luis Sanz, INCAE Business School
• Brazil – Jorge Carneiro, PUC-Rio
• US/Canada – Chris Robertson, Northeastern University
• Northern South America - Virginia Lasio, ESPAE
• Europe - Xavier Mendoza, ESADE
• Mexico - Anabella Davila, EGADE-Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Southern South America – Alfonso Gómez Morales - Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
• Treasurer – Sergio Olavarrieta, Universidad de Chile
• Executive Director – Victoria Jones, Seattle University
• 2011 Program Chair – Mauricio Villena, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

BALAS Newsletters:

BALAS has started an electronic Newsletter to periodically bring to you news, events and information. If you have some items of interest please send to Victoria Jones, BALAS Executive Secretary