This year Professor Thorsten Hens has taken over the directorate of the prestigious Swiss Banking Institute (ISB) at the University of Zurich. In today’s webcast we asked Professor Hens about the institute’s role in the private banking industry and talked to him about his specialist area, behavioral finance.
Enjoy the webcast:

Besides his academic activities Professor […]

Popularity: 30% [?]

For today’s webcast we visited Professor Hans Geiger of the Swiss Banking Institute (ISB) again. He was one of the first interviewees on our blog. We talked about various issues related to the current state of the private banking industry.
Enjoy the full webcast with Professor Hans Geiger below:

In a first series of questions […]

Popularity: 48% [?]

In this webcast we talked to Professor Gerhard Buurman, who manages the newly created Swiss Design Institute for Finance and Banking (SDFB), which was launched in June ‘07 (disclosure: Arvetica partner Stefano Mastrogiacomo will be part of the research council that advises the SDFB on projects).
In the webcast Professor Buurman explains that the SDFB […]

Popularity: 26% [?]

In today’s podcast we asked Rita McGrath of Columbia Business School about the essential steps towards “making strategy work”. This is quite a hot topic for private banks and wealth managers, since many of them are in the process of implementing strategic management processes to better connect strategic vision, strategy implementation and measuring strategy.
In the […]

Popularity: 27% [?]

Today I was invited to Professor Jeffrey Huang’s class on “The Architecture of Banking” to comment on his students’ projects at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). It was quite a fun experience because the students explored a variety of different types of banks to match them with suitable concepts of space and […]

Popularity: 70% [?]