2012 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

105 Universidad ORT Uruguay AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2012 Dr. Michael G. McMillan (United States) Director of Ethics and Professional Standards at the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA Institute). He led the workshop “Ethical Decision Making” organized by the CFA Society Argentina & Uruguay on August 10. Prof. Marye Tharp (United States) Senior Lecturer at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Member of the American Academy of Advertising, the International Trade and Finance Association, and the Association for Consumer Research. Taught the course “Understanding the Consumer” in the MBA program and in the Specialization Diploma in Marketing Management, July 9–19. Lawrence S. Speidell (United States) Founding Partner, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer of Frontier Market Asset Management, a firm that invests in frontier market equities worldwide. He delivered the lecture “Frontier Markets: Finding the Winners of the Future,” organized by the Graduate School, on June 20. Dr. Alberto Spectorowski (Israel) Professor of Political Theory and Comparative Politics at Tel Aviv University. He taught the course “Analysis of the International Situation” in the Bachelor’s Degree in International Studies, from June 25 to July 3. Dr. Harry Yuklea (Israel), Director of the ASPER Center for Entrepreneurship at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He taught the course “Economics of Innovation” in the Master’s in Technology Business Management, February 6–10. Dr. Jaime Alonso Gómez (Mexico), Distinguished Professor at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Taught the course Global Business Models in the MBA and Master’s in Technology Business Management programs, July 9–13.