Author Archives: IMBA Team

Hectic Times – A day in the life of IE IMBA student Steven Ghoos

07:45am: Alarm rings; I wake up and get into the shower. Like always, I quickly check my email for updates; last night some team members stayed up late to make the latest changes to our marketing project. 08:40am: After a quick breakfast, I’m off to school with my Indian flatmate, Syd. He tells me about…

On education, the British Prime Minister and virtual Champagne

“MADRID — With the world economy mired in recession, the British prime minister learns that one of his country’s largest banks is experiencing liquidity problems and is close to collapse. The government has three options: It can publicly bail out the troubled bank, risking widespread panic in the financial sector; it can secretly move to…

Insights into the Wharton Global Consulting Practicum

“I have a doctorate degree in Pharmacy (Pharm.D) and I am a current IMBA student with over 6 years of experience within the healthcare and media industries in the Middle East as a medical consultant, project manager and executive producer for health media projects. I am also a current member of the Wharton Global Consulting Practicum here…

It’s Venture Day Time

IE’s Dean Santiago Iñiguez about his new book, kangaroos and other forms of intelligences during his Forbes MBA50 Interview

In his current interview with Matt Symonds of MBA50, Santiago Iñiguez talks about a need to reinvent management, the use of innovation, and how transgressing many of the rules has made IE a special place to work and study. [..]…Education has been focused mostly on traditional, analytical intelligence. This is the way we admit students…

IE StartUp Day – Thanks for all the Opportunities!!!

As the warm weather approaches, students inevitably begin to think about their summer vacations: their families, friends, the beach. However, in the IE Entrepreneurship Club we think about how we can get the absolute most out of the year. Many of our Club members want to start their own businesses. However, some have no entrepreneurial…

What you SHOULD know about the last IE Impact Weekend

From 20-22 April, the IE Net Impact Chapter held its second annual Impact Weekend.  The event was a 60-hour, hands-on, innovative startup experience that brought together 25 students from IE Business School along with social entrepreneurs from across Spain and aspiring social entrepreneurs from the IE student body to share ideas and develop socially responsible…

Three IE alumni, Three great stories, One common theme – Finance

On 17 April, the IMBA program organized a cross-sectional event centered on the finance industry. The event featured a panel of three speakers who shared their professional experience and personal journeys in finance as well as provided some advice for IE students that are committed to finance as a career option.  The first speaker, Alvaro…

The International MBA Experience – Discover IE

You have probably heard these three words before: “The IE Experience.” But what exactly do these words imply? What enigma lingers in their meaning? Ok, the last question might be a little dramatic, but check out the video below in which IE sits down with students from the International MBA, and discovers the reasons that make its…

Tripku Co-Founder and IE Alumnus Alice Neves – What IE meant to ME (Part 2 of 2)

…a very special part of my IE experience. The Club was formed by amazing people with whom I have learned a lot about the challenges of measuring business success based on the triple bottom line. Because, really, money is only one part of it. Together we accomplished great things, such as doing the very first…