{"id":197,"date":"2012-03-23T21:33:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T21:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acg.ez-pea.com\/?p=197"},"modified":"2012-04-05T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:36:50","slug":"food-for-thought-from-business-week-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/food-for-thought-from-business-week-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought From Business Week 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEREE Business Week 2012, a four-day business-oriented conference organized by students of the DEREE School of Business in cooperation with their faculty, acquired additional poignancy this year, when its opening speaker, Greek enterprises union president, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, ventured to say that Greek society suffers from a deep-seated and short-sighted ideological deformation that amounts to \u201cleft wing conservatism.\u201d Daskalopoulos said that this is one of the main causes of the current crisis, since it has consistently stifled reform and entrepreneurship in the country (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">see Daskalopoulos\u2019s full address <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b4nNCw1WiJA&amp;context=C4168f3fADvjVQa1PpcFMkn1sb-1awTS4vOlMu4G9CJoy2dMA_dLg=\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b4nNCw1WiJA&amp;context=C4168f3fADvjVQa1PpcFMkn1sb-1awTS4vOlMu4G9CJoy2dMA_dLg=<\/a> ] in English<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Four days later brand strategist Peter Economides, closed the conference in front of a standing-room-only audience of students with a stirring oresentation about the need for learning in an interconnected world. Economides said that Greece has to learn its way out of the current, severe financial crisis. (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">see Economides\u2019s full presentation in English <\/span>[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m66R1Guncw4&amp;context=C4e14a97ADvjVQa1PpcFMkn1sb-1awTYWdcOzwLhTGKjoE6xrOlFo=\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m66R1Guncw4&amp;context=C4e14a97ADvjVQa1PpcFMkn1sb-1awTYWdcOzwLhTGKjoE6xrOlFo=<\/a><\/span>]).<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the week a series of high profile speakers discussed the week\u2019s topic, \u201cThe Learning Organization: A Key to Competitiveness?\u201d They included Aegean Airlines CEO Dimitris Gerogiannis, TNT Greece CEO Christina Alevizou, Costa Navarino General Manager hotelier Peter Alatsas, venture capitalist Onic Palandjian, journalists Babis Papademetriou and Antonis Papagiannides.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of DEREE Business School students worked hard to bring off Business Week. In fact, Business Week stands out as a learning experience that teaches students the exhilarating results of cooperation and teamwork. They were assisted and advised by faculty members who brought to the table years of experience with similar events and ensured that the choice of speakers served the core theme of this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The student-run four-day business-fest at DEREE started and ended with a bang with heavyweights from the business and advertising worlds. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/blog\/2012\/03\/23\/food-for-thought-from-business-week-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.acg.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}