Global Leadership Series: Elevate Strategic Competencies Part 1

How do you develop strategic competitive advantage? In using the value chain as our framework, we will offer insights to help you gain tools in understanding and analyzing your company’s competitive advantage to deepen your strategic competencies. Subject matter experts from The University of  Texas at Dallas Global Leadership MBA program will lead the panel discussion around marketing, operations, business analytics, finance and leadership.

Watch this virtual event, first of our five panel discussions from Global Leadership Series: Elevate Strategic Competencies, as we highlight the value of B2C and B2B marketing with our panelists, Dr. Maria Albrecht and Professor Nick Hassan. This discussion series will cover one area of leading towards a deeper understanding of strategic competitive advantage.

You will also have a chance to:

   ➢   deepen your understanding as to why any leader should have knowledge of All these topical areas,

   ➢   understand how each of these areas will impact your company’s or business unit’s competitive advantage,

   ➢   gain tools to help you analyze your company’s or business unit’s competitive advantage.   

Professor Nick Hassan

Associate Professor of Practice, Executive Education​ at Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas

Professor Hassan has been a part of the Global Leadership MBA and Executive MBA programs at The University of Texas at Dallas since 2001, teaching courses in operations and supply chain management, and managing strategy execution. He holds eight US patents and has authored numerous papers and articles. Professor Nick Hassan’s professional career of 33 years spans a number of leadership positions in technology and business organizations, as well as in academia. 

While at Texas Instruments, Inc., from 1994 until his retirement in 2020, he held leadership roles in strategic programs, product development functions, product line departments, business units, and served as the general manager responsible for business strategy, execution, and P&L for multiple product lines. Before his retirement from TI, Nick was director of innovation and technology partnerships in TI’s CTO office. Prior to joining TI, he held leadership roles in the design and development of superconducting magnets at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory for five years, including major assignments at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fermilab.

Dr. Maria Gomez Albrecht

Chief Marketing Officer at Alonos®

Dr. Maria Gomez Albrecht is the Chief Marketing Officer at Alonos®, an international consulting firm specializing in products and services for human resources, leadership training, and business performance assessments. She is an accomplished and highly-skilled business professional leveraging 30 years of experience in all areas of marketing in multiple industries. Her specialties include strategic planning, loyalty and growth programs, advertising and promotional initiatives, project management, brand and digital marketing, new product launches, and multicultural marketing. Maria has launched campaigns in multiple languages (she speaks five) worldwide. Besides leading the company’s marketing practice, she is also a professor of marketing at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for the Executive MBA and the Global Leadership MBA programs. Maria earned a Doctorate in Business Administration from Swiss Management Center University in Switzerland and a PhD from Universidad Central de Nicaragua. She also holds an MBA and is a PMP-certified candidate. For service to the profession and the community, Maria is a board officer and member of several organizations, including President of Prospanica’s DFW Chapter, as well as an active participant of the collegiate American Marketing Association. Maria is an author, global speaker, DEI champion, Dallas Cowboys fan, world traveler, and loves everything about culture and marketing!