IE Alumni startup Lendbox, one of the top 12 #fintech startups in India!
Find out more at : http://www.iamwire.com/2016/08/finalists-winning-startups-of-ibm-smartcamp-challenge-for-fintech/140386
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,…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsCAREERS – 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…
DetailsSo… we have a great idea for a startup. What’s next?
It’s the final term of our MBA and this was exactly the question we asked ourselves. We, that’s Christian and I, two IMBA graduates from the class of April 2014. Our idea, a product that would help people to lose less, forget less, and ultimately worry less. Today, one year later we hold in our…
DetailsThe Oliver Wyman IE Case Competition – June 2016
On June 17th, IE Business School held the Final Round of the Oliver Wyman IE Case Competition at the IE Madrid campus. The event was the result of the initiative of Stefano Piscitelli and Anthony Combet, both IE Consulting Club Coordinators graduating from the IE IMBA in 2016, assisted by Ms Ana Olaguibel, Associate Director at the IE Career Management…
DetailsMBA 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…
DetailsEnrique 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…
DetailsSantiago Iniguez on ´What does Brexit mean for higher ed?´
In the run up to the EU in-out referendum held on June 23, most stakeholders in the United Kingdom’s higher education sector opposed Brexit. This included 103 vice-chancellors, 56% of college students, as well as Jo Johnson, the UK’s secretary of state for education and the brother of Boris Johnson, who led the out campaign…
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