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Emma Arakelyan is a Featured Speakers at Columbia Business School Executive Program and she will deliver her next speech on Business Digitization.
She will be instructing students on how plan for 10x growth, best to automate their Accounting and Finance process and align it to their overall business strategy.
About Columbia Community Business Program (CCBP)
CCBP is an executive education program for small business owners aligned with the core curriculum of the MBA program at Columbia Business School. Participants will receive one-on-one business counseling, entrepreneurial education, and professionally facilitated peer learning. The program helps established business owners focus on their goals, maximize their time, increase revenues, build the right team, and make a big leap forward.
The program year is divided into four semesters and aligns with the core curriculum of the MBA program at Columbia Business School. Summers offer CEOs and their next-level managers the option of attending skills trainings designed to build on the educational modules of the previous semester. An important element of the second-year curriculum is intensive training on the procurement process.
The program consists of three hour instructor led classes on specified topics offered weekly or on alternate weeks. After completion of each module, students work together in small groups in order to develop business goals incorporating their studies. Once a semester, students meet with instructors one on one to review goals.
CCBP participants also have access to the broadly-offered resources of the Columbia University-Harlem Small Business Development Center and select Business School offerings during the program and beyond. At the conclusion of the program, students will have completed an operations manual, a human resources manual and a case study. Upon graduation, CCBP alumni receive a certificate of completion and credits towards the Certificate in Business Excellence conferred by Columbia Business School. After graduation, CCBP alumni can continue to work closely with CH-SBDC counselors and participate in Columbia University entrepreneurship events.
Emma Arakelyan is a Featured Speakers at Columbia Business School Executive Program and she will deliver her next speech on Business Digitization.
She will be instructing students on how plan for 10x growth, best to automate their Human Resources process and align it to their overall business strategy.
About Columbia Community Business Program (CCBP)
CCBP is an executive education program for small business owners aligned with the core curriculum of the MBA program at Columbia Business School. Participants will receive one-on-one business counseling, entrepreneurial education, and professionally facilitated peer learning. The program helps established business owners focus on their goals, maximize their time, increase revenues, build the right team, and make a big leap forward.
The program year is divided into four semesters and aligns with the core curriculum of the MBA program at Columbia Business School. Summers offer CEOs and their next-level managers the option of attending skills trainings designed to build on the educational modules of the previous semester. An important element of the second-year curriculum is intensive training on the procurement process.
The program consists of three hour instructor led classes on specified topics offered weekly or on alternate weeks. After completion of each module, students work together in small groups in order to develop business goals incorporating their studies. Once a semester, students meet with instructors one on one to review goals.
CCBP participants also have access to the broadly-offered resources of the Columbia University-Harlem Small Business Development Center and select Business School offerings during the program and beyond. At the conclusion of the program, students will have completed an operations manual, a human resources manual and a case study. Upon graduation, CCBP alumni receive a certificate of completion and credits towards the Certificate in Business Excellence conferred by Columbia Business School. After graduation, CCBP alumni can continue to work closely with CH-SBDC counselors and participate in Columbia University entrepreneurship events.
Emma Arakelyan is a Featured Speakers at Columbia Business School Executive Program and she will deliver her next speech on Automating Work Process.
She will be instructing students on how plan business automation for 10x growth, best to automate by aligning it to their overall business strategy, leveraging readily available tools and build partnerships.
About Columbia Community Business Program (CCBP)
CCBP is an executive education program for small business owners aligned with the core curriculum of the MBA program at Columbia Business School. Participants will receive one-on-one business counseling, entrepreneurial education, and professionally facilitated peer learning. The program helps established business owners focus on their goals, maximize their time, increase revenues, build the right team, and make a big leap forward.
The program year is divided into four semesters and aligns with the core curriculum of the MBA program at Columbia Business School. Summers offer CEOs and their next-level managers the option of attending skills trainings designed to build on the educational modules of the previous semester. An important element of the second-year curriculum is intensive training on the procurement process.
The program consists of three hour instructor led classes on specified topics offered weekly or on alternate weeks. After completion of each module, students work together in small groups in order to develop business goals incorporating their studies. Once a semester, students meet with instructors one on one to review goals.
CCBP participants also have access to the broadly-offered resources of the Columbia University-Harlem Small Business Development Center and select Business School offerings during the program and beyond. At the conclusion of the program, students will have completed an operations manual, a human resources manual and a case study. Upon graduation, CCBP alumni receive a certificate of completion and credits towards the Certificate in Business Excellence conferred by Columbia Business School. After graduation, CCBP alumni can continue to work closely with CH-SBDC counselors and participate in Columbia University entrepreneurship events.
Emma Arakelyan is a Featured Speakers at Columbia Business School Executive Program and she will join the program graduation pitch day, be a speaker and judge.
She will be instructing students on how effectively pitch to investors, advisors, and clients. She will also provide evaluations to the presenters.
About Columbia Community Business Program (CCBP)
CCBP is an executive education program for small business owners aligned with the core curriculum of the MBA program at Columbia Business School. Participants will receive one-on-one business counseling, entrepreneurial education, and professionally facilitated peer learning. The program helps established business owners focus on their goals, maximize their time, increase revenues, build the right team, and make a big leap forward.
The program year is divided into four semesters and aligns with the core curriculum of the MBA program at Columbia Business School. Summers offer CEOs and their next-level managers the option of attending skills trainings designed to build on the educational modules of the previous semester. An important element of the second-year curriculum is intensive training on the procurement process.
The program consists of three hour instructor led classes on specified topics offered weekly or on alternate weeks. After completion of each module, students work together in small groups in order to develop business goals incorporating their studies. Once a semester, students meet with instructors one on one to review goals.
CCBP participants also have access to the broadly-offered resources of the Columbia University-Harlem Small Business Development Center and select Business School offerings during the program and beyond. At the conclusion of the program, students will have completed an operations manual, a human resources manual and a case study. Upon graduation, CCBP alumni receive a certificate of completion and credits towards the Certificate in Business Excellence conferred by Columbia Business School. After graduation, CCBP alumni can continue to work closely with CH-SBDC counselors and participate in Columbia University entrepreneurship events.
Emma Arakelyan joined as speaker and mentor at Neruzh 2022 on October 21-25, 2022. It is the diaspora tech startups third program titled Neruzh 2022, a 5-day event. More than 30 startups from around the world are invited to Armenia to participate. They learn about the advantages of doing business in Armenia, receive exclusive and individual mentoring, claim up to USD 30.000 grant in order to expand their business initiatives, training, workshops, master classes, mentoring, exchange of experience, quality networking, grants, acceleration Neruzh BootCamp – A joyful and startup-oriented 5-day event full of learning, networking & inspiration. MasterClasses – Expert-led sessions covering the latest trends in tech and global markets; Networking – Expanding your network, accessing relevant and influential people with the right knowledge, experience, connections; Funding and Acceleration – which will allow to receive a grant up to $30,000 and acceleration tailored to the startups’ needs Neruzh 2022 aims at promoting repatriation of Armenian entrepreneurial minds established in Diaspora. The organizers of event are RA Ministry of High-Tech Industry and “My Step” Foundation.
Orion Worldwide Innovations and BDO Armenia organized two day event in Yerevan, Armenia on November 8-9, 2023 at the Congress Hotel. Read more about the event here: https://orionwi.com/blog/view?blog=the-international-conference-alternative-investments-in-armenia-will-take-place-in-yerevan
Digitain organized a hackathon event in Yerevan, Armenia where Emma Arakelyan was a speaker on the panel. The M1TQ program, organized in the framework of Digitain’s DigiTown project<https://www.1lurer.am/en/2021/02/11/%E2%80%9CDigitown%E2%80%9D-International-Center-for-Innovative-Technologies-to-be-built-with-5-000-jobs/412168>, aims to crowdsource innovative technological solutions and empower the Armenian startup ecosystem. This year, the program was organized in cooperation with Garage48<https://garage48.org/> and was composed of 2 parts: the hackathon and acceleration. The M1TQ hackathon<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA6IjgudXE8&t=840s> kicked off in Yerevan on 20-22 of May with a whopping 187 participants and 50 ideas pitched. The hackathon was followed by the 12-week acceleration program led by Garage48 experts and professionals. As a result, seven startup teams finalized their ideas and made MVPs.
Emma was a speaker at FinWave event to cover Inside Fintech Investment Decisions. Emma covered insights about VCs still heavily targeting Fintech in their investment thesis despite lower revenue growth and valuation multiples. Emma Arakelyan led a discussion on which aspects are attracting capital today, key areas of due diligence, and how investment decisions are made for Fintech startups. Emma Arakelyan is the Co-Founder of New York based BAJ Accelerator, Venture Partner at Covenant Venture Capital, and CEO & Founder of Orion Worldwide Innovations, LLC. Emma’s broad leadership experience, across business strategy, M&A, governance and compliance, includes roles in management consulting (E&Y Accenture), adjunct professor at New York University, Featured Speaker at Columbia Business School and mentor at the Singularity University.
Orion Worldwide Innovations organized a summit in New York City, USA at The Horizon Building and Harvard Club on June 19-22, 2023. The slogal of the summit was “Investments Position Armenia”. It was a one of a kind international event bringing together world-class professionals and organizations representing different countries from the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and various industries, such as Science and Technology, Financial Services, Legal, and Professional Services. Orion Summit has become a powerful opportunity for Armenian and non-Armenian startups globally to build content, customer and capital. The key objective of Orion Summit 2023 is to create reliable alternative investment opportunities for startup ecosystem through establishing Private Equity Firms, Corporate VCs, and Family Offices in Armenia and with international partners. Learn more about the results of the summit in this article: https://orionwi.com/blog/view?blog=orion-summit-2023-was-successfully-held-in-new-york-city
Emma Arakelyan joined Seaside Startup Summit 2023 as a speaker and mentor. This was her forth time joining this startup competition and learning event. Learn more here: https://www.seasidestartupsummit.com/upcoming-events/sevan-2021