IE Business School wins EFMD Case Competition

For the last 30 years EFMD has been organizing Case Writing Competitions with the aim to improve management education by developing new teaching materials and learning methodologies. This year IE Business School won the “Euro – Mediterranean Managerial Practices and Issues” category for the case “Novartis, Commercial Strategy for Success” written by professors Claire Bastien…

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IE Consulting Project with Unilever

During the International MBA program students have the opportunity to participate in several real consulting projects. The IE Consulting Project (IECP) is offered during the elective period and this April marked the conclusion of the April 2010 class’s IECP where 16 International MBA students presented their final projects to senior management at Unilever. This year…

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Spanish entrepreneurial situation

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), which measures global entrepreneurial activity and in which 59 countries took part, announced in its latest report that Spain’s entrepreneurial activity has lightly decreased. This is owed to the slow recovery during 2010, the high destruction of employment, the difficulty  of accessing financing for entrepreneurs and the lack of specialized…

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New IE Office in London, UK

IE Business School has international representation in 23 countries; today, we are happy to inform you that we just opened a new IE office located in London. The new office will serve as a regional hub for prospective students, alumni, and companies in the UK and Ireland. It is the 23rd foreign office for IE and…

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Pablo Martín de Holan and the Strategic innovation

On 25th March IE’s annual Global Alumni Forum 2011 took place in Lima. IE directors as well as important Latin American companies participated. One of the speakers, Pablo Martin de Holan, Director of IE’s Entrepreneurial Management Department, talked about “Strategic innovation: How to encourage innovative spirit in companies”. In an interview with Peruvian newspaper Gestión,…

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Short Exchange in South Africa

Sergey Gorbatov, International MBA Candidate 2011, writes about his experience during the Short Exchange in South Africa.  Africa has always attracted the world by its untamed natural beauty, majestic wild animals and abundance of local indigenous cultures. We, however, went to that continent with quite a distinct mission: learn how to do business in Africa. A…

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IE Consulting Day 2011

IE Consulting Club in association with Accenture and Cemex are hosting the “IE Management Consulting Forum 2011”. The forum will be held this afternoon at 4pm and Saturday 9th of April. The event will include presentations, case workshops and discussion panels involving senior business leaders sharing their opinions on different topics in businss. For more…

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