FOURTH HONORARY DOCTORATE FOR Dr. ICHAK ADIZES!
The Adizes Institute is very pleased and proud to announce that Dr. Ichak Adizes will be receiving two more Doctor Honoris Causa this winter: One from the International School of Management (IEDC) from Bled, Slovenia and the second from the Singidunum University from Belgrade, Serbia.
Fourth Honorary Doctorate
The International School of Management (IEDC) Bled, Slovenia
December 7, 2007
Dr. Ichak Adizes will receive the Doctor Honoris Causa award on Friday, December 7. The official ceremony will start at 10:00. At this occasion, Dr. Adizes will deliver a lecture with the title Change Management in Business life. The event will take place in the Congress Hall in the immediate vicinity of IEDC School. The hosts expect some 300 guests (ambassadors and other guests, their graduates, Alumni, their managers, their families etc.).
In addition to Dr. Ichak Adizes, the same title will be conferred upon Dr. Erhard Busek, Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact and former Vice Chancellor of Austria, and Dr. Aleksandra Kornhauser Frazer, a reputable Slovene scientist, former Minister of Science and internationally renowned expert for education in science. Dr. Busek will give a short speech on Change Management in Public Life, and Dr. Frazer-Kornhauser speak about the management of technological innovation.
Almost100 of the IEDC graduates who will be attending this ceremony come from 21 other countries.
IEDC Graduataion Day Program
Festival Hall, Bled, December 7, 2007
10:00 – 11:40: The Ceremony of Conferring the Academic Title and Distinction of DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA to
Dr. Ichak Adizes, Founder and President of the Adizes Institute, Santa Barbara, California; Dean of Adizes Graduate School for the Study of Change and Leadership.
Dr. Erhard Busek, Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and former Vice Chancellor of Austria
Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Kornhauser Frazer, Professor (Emeritus), Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, and Director, UNESCO International Centre for Chemical Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Change Management in Business and Public Life
Academic addresses of Dr. Ichak Adizes, Dr. Erhard Busek and Dr. Aleksandra Kornhauser Frazer
12:00 – 14:00
The Ceremony of Conferring the Diplomas to IEDC MBA and Master of Science graduates
Address by Prof. Danica Purg, President of IEDC–Bled School of Management
Presentation of Company Projects and Announcement of Professors of the Year
Dr. Nenad Filipovic, One-year Executive MBA Director and MBA Projects Director
Dr. Tina Erzen, Two-year Executive MBA Director
Graduation Address
Prof. Randy Kudar, Emeritus, Richard Ivey School of Business, Canada and IEDC – Bled School of Management, Slovenia
Awarding of Diplomas (musical intermezzo by Mrs. Manca Izmajlova)
Address by MBA Graduation Class Representatives
14:00 - 15:30
Reception at the IEDC-Bled School of Management
Just as a reminder: the first honorary doctorate was granted to Dr. Adizes on December 1, 2005 by the University "Cyril and Methodius" from Skopje, Macedonia; the second was granted by the State University of Management from Moscow, Russia in October, 2006; the third Honorary Doctorate was granted by ANE, The Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, April 24, 2007.
More about the IEDC- Bled School of Management
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Founded in 1986, the IEDC - Bled School of Management in Bled, Slovenia, was one of the first management schools of Central and Eastern Europe. Over the years, it has offered more than 900 management and executive education programs to business people from more than 60 countries. The school accepts about 3,000 students a year. It is an outstanding teaching institution, which provides learning with the world’s best professors teamed with top regional experts, and which develops managers with the highest professional and ethical standards. IEDC combines high academic and professional excellence, innovative research, and the intellectual curiosity of its professors, as well as the ability to communicate effectively with business leaders, which results in mutual support and synergy. |
In addition to three executive MBA programs, IEDC offers MSc in Management, tailor-made programs for companies and other organizations, customized short seminars for executives and a range of general management programs, including an international summer school for young managers. In 1999, it received International Quality Accreditation status from the Central and East European Management Development Association, an international accreditation body, while in 2005 it received an international accreditation by the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
IEDC’s location facilitates an easy exchange of knowledge and experience amongst business leaders and managers from differing cultural and economic systems. State-of-the-art facilities provide a comfortable and stimulating learning environment and encourage an ongoing exchange of ideas. IEDC houses its own art collection, regularly invites guest lecturers from society at large, and has been continually developing a creative environment.