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Recent events at the FoundationClick on images to enlarge |
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• Results of the finals of the competition Test Your Managerial Skills held on 4 May 2010 in Prague • "BOHEMIAN RAPSODY" - fashion show • Finalists of Miss Akademie 2009 at the Bata Villa • Czech archeologists in Egypt - February 2009 • Luxemburg graves in Moravia? - February 2009 • Michal Viewegh reads to children - January 2009
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Results of the finals of the competition Test Your Managerial Skills held on 4 May 2010 in Prague
The most successful managers are again the students of VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava.
The interest of Czech university students in the competion Test Your Managerial Skills is growing year after year.
225 student couples from 25 Czech high education institutions took part in the 3rd year of the competition organized by the non-profit educational organization Junior Achievement and The Tomas Bata Foundation in Zlín. The competition was severe and so the goal of everybody was to succeed in the basic and semifinal rounds and win through to the Prague finals held at the seat of the company Hewlett Packard on 4 May 2010, where eight best manager teams competed for valuable prizes awarded by the partner of the competition, the company Hewlett Packard. The management and economic simulation exercise JA TITAN (simulation accessible via the Internet at http://titan.ja.org) demonstrates to students decision-making within a company and helps them understand the basic market principles. The students represent individual companies, which exist on the same market, sell the same product and compete one with another. In the final round the teams had to deal not only with the launching of a new product on the market, but also with big fluctuations in the demand due to seasonality of the economic cycle of the imaginary product. The following economy students coped best with these difficult conditions and brought their company to the winner's rostrum:
1st place
Martina Palonciová and Stanislav Rejchrt
VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava
2nd place
Martin Kabát and Stanislav Pouska
University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
3rd place
Klára Trávníková and Jan Rojíček
VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava
The winning students brought to Ostrava and Pilsen mini notebooks HP, external harddiscs with a capacity of 500 GB and LCD monitors. We believe that they will use these great prizes during their futher studies or managerial practice.
1st May Celebration in 2010
The Tomas Bata Foundation organized, with considerable support of the company Baťa, a. s., the traditional 1st May celebration. It was attended by citizens of the Zlín region, in particular then by families with children, for whom plenty of games, contests and attractions were prepared. We would like to thank all the volunteers helping in organizing the games and contests for children. Students of the Gymnasium Lesní čtvrť Zlín and children from the Children's Home Vizovice were of great help to us.
We would also like to thank all sponsors for financial support, thanks to which all the attractions for child visitors of the 1st May celebration were for free.
We received financial support from: Baťa, a.s. Zlín, Cominfo, a.s. Zlín, Impromat - Computer, s.r.o. Zlín and LUCO klima s.r.o. Otrokovice.
From left to right: Pavel Velev, Managing Director of the Tomas Bata Foundation, Ján Holčík, Member of the Board of Directors of Baťa, a. s. Slovenská republika, Rosemarie Bata - Blyth, Eugenio Olabe, Managing Director of, a. s. Česká republika
10 award winning works in the competition "Spring Shoe"
Zdeněk Babica, 8 years, Zlín
Hanka Čihánková, 13 years, Otrokovice
Honzík Nosálek, 6 years, Želechovice
Kájka Nosálková, 10 years, Želechovice
Maruška Nosálková, 13 years, Želechovice
Lukáš Plšek, 10 years, Zlín - Prštné
Adélka Polanská, 7 years, Zlín
Anička Schovajsová, 7 years, Zlín
Anička Vančuříková, 7 years, Zlín
Nikola Vršková, Zlín
"BOHEMIAN RAPSODY" - fashion show on 30 April 2010
The Tomas Bata Foundation together with the Department of Fashion and Shoe Design of the Faculty of Multimedia Communications of the Tomas Bata University in Zlin organized a fashion show on Friday 30 April.
Students of the Shoe Design Studio and Fashion Design Studio presented their models.
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The Thomas Bata Prize
The winner of The Thomas Bata Prize for the best thesis written and defended in the English language, Ing. Martina Lovecká, is currently staying in the Dutch Best, where she is on a two-week attachment with the Bata company.
Pictrure: Ing. Martina Lovecká (sitting) with her colleagues.
Bata factory in the Dutch Best. The factory manufactures highly specialized safety and protective footwear.
Revealing a new tomb slab of Tomas J. Bata at The Forest Cemetry in Zlin
On 18 September 2009, one day after the day when Tomas J. Bata would be celebrating his 95th birhtday, his wife Sonja Bata revealed a new tomb slab within the grave of his father Tomas Bata and his mother Marie Batova at The Forest Cemetry in Zlin.
This commemorative meeting was further attended by
Ing. Pavel Velev, Managing Director of the Thomas Bata Foundation,
JUDr. Stanislav Knotek, Member of the Administrative Board of the Thomas Bata Foundation,
Miroslav Šenkýř, Deputy Mayor of the Town of Zlin,
Ing. Svatopluk Jabůrek, Chairman of the Bata School of Work Graduates' Club,
Miroslav Hovořák,, director of B.F.P., Lesy a statky Tomáše Bati
members of the Bata School of Work Graduates' Club.
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A meeting to mark the 1st anniversary of the death of Tomáš J. Bata
On 1 September 2009 a commemorative meeting was organised to mark the first anniversary of the death of Tomáš J. Bata.
The meeting was attended by (left to right):
Ing. Michal Janský - General Director of Bata, a.s.
Ing. Pavel Velev - Managing Director of the Thomas Bata Foundation
DVM. Stanislav Mišák - Governor of The Zlin Region
Irena Ondrová - Mayor of the Town of Zlín
Judr. Stanislav Knotek - Member of the Administrative Board of the Thomas Bata Foundation
prof. Petr Sáha - Tomas Bata University
The Message of Thomas Bata regarding the Economic Depression
Where are the roots of the economic depression?
The world lived too long relying on disproportionately high economic figures. Businessmen from major countries got used to long rows of nulls in their books. They preferred not selling to selling cheaper. The current situation is an evidence of natural economic laws pushing with their weight life on the soil of reality.
How to resist an economic depression?
Through work. During a crisis the work efforts must be doubled at all cost until we finally find a gound, where the customer may buy and the business thus grow. Entrepreneurs and responsible economic leaders must be determined, self-confident and optimistic. They have to realize that nobody else will solve their troubles and that they cannot escape them.
Protectionism?
This contradiction between theory and practice rests in that laws and political interventions will much rather make inefficient entrepreneurs from efficient ones than the opposite. Incompetent entrepreneurs, who managed to convince politicians that it is in the interest of the state to protect their incompetency, are hiding behind protectionism.
The thing is to make a lifelong occupation from business and trading, not only an opportunity to rob people for several years and then retire.
Major European countries need men, who are affraid neither of the anger of entrepreneurs, who will be forced to count on loosing a part of their capital, nor of the curses of millions of workers, who will be forced to temporarily put up with lower wages. Such intervention in all countries is the only means to stabilizing economic conditions of those countries, reduction of prices, increase of wages and will result not only in a boom of entrepreneurship, but the entire Europe and humankind will benefit.
Once you, entrepreneurs, achieve wealth and power through your business, remember the words of Jesus: "The one, who wants to be the most powerful among you, let be your servant". Remember that your powers, abilities belong to the public. Remember that property, circulating money in your business have about the same importance for your colleagues as your blood in your body has for you.
Tomáš Baťa died tragically 77th years ago.
Tomáš Baťa died during aviation disaster 12. July 1932. Representatives of Thomas Bata Foundation, Club of Bata alumni,city Zlin, Zlin Region and Tomas Bata University reminded his memory in front of the statue in Zlin.
Manager in Rough
The Thomas Bata Foundation and Junior Achievement organized very interesting, entertaining and, most practical computer simulation called JA Titan, whose aim was not only to test the management decisions in the company and see and understand their impact on the market, but also to verify the knowledge of a foreign language. And it's all been "painless", without the risk of bankruptcy and possibly execution.
This year the competition was "Manager in rough" invited students of all universities and universities in the Czech Republic, which have economic, managerial, business or commercial interests. The competition took place in the English language and is appropriate for students of lower classes who do not yet have enough knowledge in the field. A condition of entry into the competition was to build a two-team. The competition did not require precise knowledge of the economy and it can be complete only with the use of so-called "common sense" and intuition.
The competition was supported by Hewlett-Packard, which sponsored the main prizes. The main prize was the HP iPAQ, for the 2nd place of LCD monitors and HP for the 3rd place PhotoSmart printer. Next 5 teams won the small prizes in the final.
Winners of contest Manager in rough 2009 with the main price iPAQ Martina Polonciová, Stanislav Rejchrt
2nd & 3rd place
Finalists of Miss Akademie 2009 at the Bata Villa
Czech archeologists in Egypt
An update on the research achievements of Czech archeologists in Egypt,
specifically in the area of Abúsíru.
Presented by PhDr. Ladislav Bares, CSc.,
Director of the Czech Institute of Egyptology
Luxemburg graves in Moravia
Margrave John Henry of Luxemburg, brother of Charles IV, founded the Augustinian monastery at Brno. Records indicated that he and his son Jošt were buried beneath the Baroque tomb before the altar. Following his successes at the Iufaovy tomb in Egypt, ing. Michael Balík was asked to investigate. What did he find there ?
Lecture by Ing. Michael Balík, 20. January 2009, 18:00 pm
Michal Viewegh reads to children
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