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Executive MBA Masterclass: The Green Transition and Europe’s Coordination Gap: Organizing Business Models and Ecosystems

Masterclass: Leading Europe’s Green Transition Through Business Ecosystems

Europe’s green transition has become a defining challenge for competitiveness, innovation, and long-term resilience. As highlighted in the Draghi Report on European competitiveness, Europe risks falling behind unless it rethinks how innovation, investment, and industrial transformation are organized.

This masterclass explores the green transition through the lens of business ecosystems. Moving beyond firm-centric approaches, it examines how value creation and competitiveness increasingly depend on coordinated action across companies, supply chains, financial actors, public institutions, and societal stakeholders.

Participants will engage with the core insights of the Draghi Report and connect them to pressing strategic questions: How do ecosystem dynamics shape the speed and direction of the green transition? How can business models and partnerships help overcome fragmentation and investment gaps? And how can firms move from isolated sustainability efforts to ecosystem leadership?

Through cases, frameworks, and interactive discussion, the session offers a pragmatic and forward-looking perspective on navigating regulatory pressure, technological uncertainty, and geopolitical change—while contributing to a more competitive, resilient, and sustainable European economy.

The green transition will not be achieved by individual firms acting alone. It will be shaped by those able to mobilize, orchestrate, and transform business ecosystems.

Key takeaways

Understand the Draghi Report and its implications for European competitiveness
Learn why green transformation increasingly unfolds at the ecosystem level
Explore how business model innovation enables coordination and shared value creation
Gain strategic insights into regulation, investment, and technological uncertainty
Identify leadership capabilities for shaping transformative business ecosystems

This masterclass also offers a glimpse into the thought-provoking and transformational learning experience of DTU’s Executive MBA program. Join us to learn from an award-winning scholar and reflect on your organization’s role in Europe’s green transition.

Here are the details:

Date and time: 17 March 2026 from 16:00 to 18:00
Place: DTU Lyngby Campus, Kollegiebakken Building 421 – Entrance C, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Program:
15:45 Arrival – light refreshments
16:00 Introduction to the EMBA programme & Reflections from an EMBA alumnus
16:20 Masterclass, including Q&A
18:00 Masterclass ends

DTU Executive MBA is master programme for senior specialists, project managers and business leaders who wish to continue their lifelong learning journey and enhance their skills in leadership, innovation and technology.

Innovation is essential for growth. Without constant renewal of products, services, processes and business concepts, companies stand to lose market share. That is why the DTU executive MBA focuses on innovation, new business creation and leadership of current and future technologies.

Every assignment in the programme is focused not only on expanding your knowledge but also on impacting your business challenges. In other words, your Executive MBA can be implemented in your daily work life from day one.

The admission requirements are five years of work experience with three years of experience as knowledge-leader, project-leader and/or people-leader.

Visit the DTU Executive MBA programme page for more information.

Speaker

Francesco Rosati

Associate Professor of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Research Fellow at Copenhagen

Francesco Rosati is Associate Professor of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Research Fellow at Copenhagen Business School. His research examines the role of business in society, focusing on how entrepreneurship and business model innovation contribute to addressing societal grand challenges. His work has been published in journals such as Organization & Environment, Business Strategy and the Environment, and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. He serves as Associate Editor for Business & Society and in the editorial boards of other leading business sustainability journals. In 2025, Francesco was included in Poets&Quants’ Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors list, which recognises outstanding contributions to MBA education through research-informed teaching, pedagogical innovation, and sustained impact on management practice. Francesco’s research received the 2020 Tietgen Award from the Danish Society for Education and Business and a Semper Ardens Accelerate grant from the Carlsberg Foundation. He teaches sustainable business innovation at DTU’s Executive MBA and is an advisory board member for DTU’s Master in Sustainable Leadership. He was recognized in 2025 in Poets&Quants He also serves as an impact strategist to various private and public organizations.

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fran-rosati/