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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Consulting careers at IE

Last week the International MBA students of the November 2010 intake saw the launch of the Consulting Track, an initiative developed by the Career Management Centre (CMC) in partnership with the IE Consulting Club and aimed at providing students with an in-depth and practical preparation for the management consulting profession. It’s a fact that the…

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Alumni with entrepreneurial spirit

One of IE Business School’s key values is entrepreneurship. The school was founded in 1973 by a group entrepreneurs and we are proud that 10% of our alumni start their own ventures after gradauation. Jeremy Melul, International MBA Class of 2009 graduate,  decided to start his own company Jogabo after finishing the program. We interviewed Jeremy…

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