Rome Business School welcomes more than 1,000 students with the Welcome Week 2023 October Intake, seven days on campus of meetings and workshops with staff, lecturers, mentors and top managers of many partner companies including Mastercard, Oracle and KPMG.
The first to speak and to meet the students of the Global Master in Human Resources Management was Laura Nurra, Collegue Strategic Partner Director of American Express Italia, who told the students about her experience and her teachings. “It is important to know the basics, then you can be creative. If you don’t have the hard skills it’s difficult to contribute or even just double-check, so even though there is a lot of talk in HR about soft skills, I encourage students to learn the basics first.”
Laura Nurra also spoke about the evolving role of HR and how any company that wants to thrive must be willing to innovate. “You always have to look at data, that’s how you can take calculated risks. Data-driven decision-making is key and that’s why I ask to see the data every time my team comes to me with a proposal.” Learning about Laura Nurra’s experience was a great start to our students’ learning journey.
Umberto Macchi di Cellere, an expert in the fashion and luxury sectors with a career spanning over 30 years, former Worldwide Managing Director Sales & Retail of Bulgari and then CEO of Tod’s, then met with the students of the Global Master in Fashion and Luxury Management. It was an inspiring session in which Macchi di Cellere stressed the importance of staying true to one’s values and stepping out of one’s comfort zone to learn from each challenge.
“I think that’s what students who enrol in a Master’s programme do and, in my experience, it takes some effort to do something you are not comfortable with.” Furthermore, he spoke about the long-term success of companies working in harmony, his transition from Marketing to General Management and perseverance “Every opportunity that comes along is a mix of different factors, but with perseverance you can achieve a lot more, so this is my advice to students: be persevering”.
A piece of advice to new students from Ching-Mei Chen, now an RBS Alumni: ‘Every day you are embedded in this environment of people from all over the world. Every day you travel the world while staying in one place: be curious! I have learnt so much just by understanding different lifestyles and asking what people are working on or what they will work on’.
In 2023, RBS once again confirms itself as the most international business school in Italy, with 61% of foreign students, mainly from Germany, Spain and the United States. Not only: 35% of its staff is international, as is 59% of its faculty, 274 partnerships with educational institutions on 4 continents. In this intake, more and more partner companies, and networking opportunities for students, workshops, company shadowing in the headquarters of the most important companies in Italy, Practice Labs with numerous multinational partners to allow students to put into practice the notions learnt in the classroom, Bootcamps, brings to over 900 the number of partner companies and 101 the members of the Corporate Advisory Board, including CEOs and top management of leading companies in the world including Amazon, EY, Adidas, Eni and Max Mara.
In this intake, Rome Business School strongly reaffirms its commitment to the training of the leaders of the future, based on a methodological approach oriented towards doing, strongly connected to the needs and new trends in the world of work, designing courses that are the result of constant comparison with managerial realities from all over the world. In fact, through the many opportunities for meeting and networking, students immerse themselves and interact with the world of management from their very first days at RBS.
Antonio Ragusa, Dean of Rome Business School comments: “The new edition of the Rome Business School programmes reflects well the key principles of our educational mission: positive impact on students’ professional lives, strong connections with the corporate world, internationality and value dimension according to the principles of corporate social responsibility. All this translated into welcome training sessions featuring top managers from leading international companies, who shared with our students valuable advice for their career path. The unique combination of knowledge, multiculturalism and networking on an international scale that the Rome Business School is able to offer, makes the experience of studying at the Rome Business School a path of extraordinary professional and human enrichment.”