In 2008, ACTEC began designing and delivering the MBA Acelera, a programme inspired by the teaching methods of MBA programmes at the world’s leading business schools, adapted to the circumstances, profiles, needs, opportunities and constraints of entrepreneurs—both men and women—running micro-enterprises in a situation of vulnerability. Its aim is to develop managerial and strategic competencies among the target audience so that they can transform their businesses, which in turn become a driver of community development.
Since its inception, the programme has continued to evolve: the experiences and lessons learned with each of the institutions with which ACTEC collaborates have helped improve the quality of the programme, leading to its current reality. Today, we are at a stage of deepening and expanding the programme.
In 2022, the programme is being implemented by four institutions in three different countries (Guatemala, Colombia and El Salvador) and in two different formats (agro and urban). Naturally, each local partner and each country has its own identity and specific characteristics that require a certain degree of adaptation and contextualisation of the programme. It is expected that in the coming months the MBA Acelera will begin in Kenya, involving a language, a business context and a culture entirely different from those of the countries where the programme has been carried out so far; and, therefore, a new challenge.
The institutional strengthening that ACTEC is committed to offering all its partners can be broken down into three distinct modalities: group sessions in the form of seminars, classes, lectures, etc.; individual support in the form of personalised coaching and advisory services; and publications in the form of manuals that present, in a concise and systematic way, various facets or essential aspects of the programme (Methodology, Case Method, Impact Measurement, Communication, etc.).
To summarise the essence of ACTEC’s MBA, we offer this brief presentation by the programme’s founder, Daniel Turiel.
