On Friday, May 11 2012, MBA Meet the CEOs series welcomed an ACT graduate (class of 2003) Mr. Zlatko Leov. A family-owned business, Leov Company, a unique producer of electrical water heaters, has been competitive in the domestic as well as foreign markets for more than two decades. Having served as a Sales Manager for Leov Company, Mr. Leov assumed the position of General Manager in 2006. Mr. Leov is also the owner of EasyMedia, a billboard advertising company and InfoCell, a mobile telephony and sales company.  Taking calculated risks, ensuring product quality and reinvesting most of the company’s profits facilitated the company’s growth through the years. Initially, Leov Company considered geographical proximity and relied mostly on partnerships to enter neighbouring foreign markets.  Mr. Zlatko Leov explained that starting at an entry level and becoming familiar with all the work components has been essential in his professional development. “Enhance ‘theory’ with ‘practice,’ he advised ACT business students, “and maintain a balance between work and personal life.” 

The 2012 ANATOLIA COLLEGE SYMPOSIUM ON RETHINKING TEACHING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY (teAch) is an event that will offer teachers from Anatolia College and the wider district of Thessaloniki the opportunity to network, learn and reflect on what they are doing in the classroom and how they are using new methodologies and technologies to engage their students and enhance learning outcomes.

This new generation of students called Gen Nexters has grown up with personal computers, cell phones and the Internet and expects its teachers to be capable of operating in the digital world. At the same time parents anticipate that schools are systematically preparing their children for a world in which the only constant is rapid change.

Celebrating 30 years of SBALA/ACHS/ACT!

Friday, June 8th, 2012

8:30 p.m. ACT Campus

Venture capital money for you business. Find the mechanism to get it!

Necessary qualities for a venture funded company.

May 24th, 19:30

Raphael Hall - Anatolia College

The American College of Thessaloniki cordially invites you to attend the 3rd Inspiration Exchange Event under the auspices of the Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center for Humanitarian and Public Service:

“Post-election Greece: Looking Ahead”

a workshop on the future of Greece

with Simon Bensasson, former senior official of the European Commission

Wednesday, May 16, 5 PM, ACT New Building Conference Room.

The American College of Thessaloniki cordially invites you to attend the 2^nd Inspiration Exchange Event under the auspices of the Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center for Humanitarian and Public Service: “How to raise you child’s IQ” with guest speaker William Maxwell, Professor of Thinking.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at 18:30, Bissell Library – ACT

On Wednesday May 9th, from 11:30 - 5:00, in the NB AV Room, the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences will host ACT's 1st Student-Organized Conference on Globalization and Digital Culture.  Students will be presenting their research in three areas which are:  Digital Culture, Digital Identities, and Digital Geographies of Political and Social Activism.

Click here to download the program of the Conference.

Prospects and forecasts regarding the future development of European and Greek economy and possible scenarios on the future of the euro, as well as a practical response to uncertainty in the business environment were presented at the event "Preparing for the Unpredictable - How companies can embrace the economic uncertainty in Greece to their advantage ", which was held on April 2, 2012 at the Bissell Library of the American College of Thessaloniki (ACT). The event was co-organized by the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, Anatolia College and Deloitte.

During the event, reference was made to economic developments and prospects of the countries of the Black Sea Region as well as the potential expansion of Greek enterprises’ activities in the region with financial help from the Black Sea Trade & Development Bank.
 

Deloitte presented the "Scenario Planning" methodology in response to the growing uncertainty of the environment within which businesses operate today.
 

Opening remarks were made by Dr. Hans C. Giesecke, President of Anatolia College, Nikolaos Bakatselos, Vice President of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, and Vassilis Kafatos, Deloitte Partner.
 

Invited speakers were Rafal Antczak, Economist – Deloitte CE Europe, Panagiotis Gavras, BSTDB Head of Policy and Strategy, and Efthymis Konstantopoulos, Deloitte Greece Principal.

Politis: A Citizen’s Guide to Greece 2012  is the new blog of the Dukakis Center. The aim of the blog is both to encourage an open and dynamic exchange of ideas on what citizenship means in the Hellenic Republic in these unprecedented times, and to serve as a resource for innovative citizenship projects all over Greece. Its principal objective to interact with a broad and diverse audience, in part to generate self-sustaining discussion and citizen action, in part to share data and results from various research projects undertaken at the Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center for Public and Humanitarian Service.

A team of twenty faculty, staff, interns, and research associates are working on the blog and related research projects during the spring 2012 semester. Among the research projects is a comparative study of municipal governance in Thessaloniki and in select cities in the USA, being conducted by three study abroad and three Greek interns under the direction of ACT alumnus Dimitris Diamantis. The group will present their findings in a mini conference in late May.

For the spring 2012 semester, the Dukakis Center will host volunteer research associates Ian Kehoe, Maria Patsarika, and Despine Ventouri. The core group of the Dukakis Center team also includes Laura Strieth, Ruth Sutton, Stelios Kelaiditis, David Wisner, and students Stavroula Dolmatzi and Pandelis Rafail.

Politis welcomes posts, ideas, or merely feedback at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
 

On March 28, Meet the CEOs welcomed  Ms. Lia Barbatura, Project Manager, co-founder and Vice President of ASSETCOM S.A. Ms. Barbatura  explained the applications of smart devices in energy consumption management and the way ASSETCOM S.A designs its own platform of devices to enhance consumer value-added in the Greek market. The company’s niche strategy was discussed with reference to competition and networking arrangements with large and small companies in the industry. Finally, Ms Barbatura described the corporate leadership in small, flat corporations and discussed how she dealt with leadership and management-related gender issues.  The event was moderated by Giorgos Anastasiades, MBA Adjunct Professor.