Santiago Iniguez talks about being The Dean!

I have always believed that the dean of a business school carries out a role equivalent to that of the CEO of a multinational company. A bold assertion, perhaps, but one that is upheld by a glance at the job descriptions for deanships, which increasingly emphasize managerial and leadership skills over traditional academic qualities. Furthermore,…

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The Story of a Disruptive Food Concept!

              The seed of Gourmista planted during an IMBA program while three of the original co-founders were attending IE Business School in Madrid. Through the entrepreneurial spirit harnessed at IE and the ambitions of these co-founders, Gourmista started to sprout; albeit, many iterations later, Gourmista is quite a different…

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CAREERS – June 2016

As a result of the IE Career Management Center’s ongoing relationship development with companies, 3 top consultancy firms came on campus, several networking events were co-hosted with sectorial clubs and almost 500 job opportunities were published in the IE Career Portal. Here is a summary of the activities coordinated by IE Career Management Center during…

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MBA students learn how to infiltrate a hacker’s mindset!

(Extract from Financial Times article http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/98932bf0-2bd1-11e6-bf8d-26294ad519fc.html#axzz4Dj3Fp88N) While many business schools now teach cyber security, one professor has a rather unorthodox approach.The day Michelle Raymond discovered that she had been hacked is etched on her memory.The first-year MBA student at the IE Business School had just sat down for her first lecture of the digital innovation…

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Enrique Dans on Snapchat!

Snapchat’s youthful users are starting to get worried that “their” app, seemingly designed to bamboozle anybody above the age of 25, is going mainstream. The figures from the United States seem to support this: the idea of the app as something exclusive begins to decline as the 67.5% of users aged under 24 see that…

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The IE IMBA #1 MBA for Entrepreneurship!

We are very proud to announce that our International MBA has been named #1 in Europe and #8 worldwide in the ‘MBAs for Entrepreneurship’ ranking by Financial Times! This new FT ranking examines the entrepreneurial profile of MBA graduates worldwide and the work carried out by business schools in the area of entrepreneurship. This recognition…

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