From the 13th of October to the 17th of October, International MBA students (April 2014) started the Challenge Week, during which they worked on developing new lines of business and made diversification proposals for GE Healthcare’s services portfolio. Guided by managers from GE and professors from IE Business School, the students met with professionals from…
DetailsIE’s foundation was built on entrepreneurship and we continue to bolster this in our curriculum. The incorporation of the Challenge Week modules as a core component of the MBA, equips students with hands-on, practical experience and soft skills that they can utilize in their careers. IMBA students took on the role of consultants for an…
DetailsSecond part of the interview between current IMBA student Jacob Huber and Joe Haslam, founder of the startup Hot Hotels. Did you have any previous experience in this industry? Two of my co founders were both veteran travel guys, O’Connor had set up a company called hoteles.es which is very close to what we are…
DetailsFirst part of the interview between current IMBA student Jacob Huber and Joe Haslam, founder of the startup Hot Hotels. Tell me about Hot Hotels? Hot Hotels is Europe’s leading mobile-only same day hotel booking app. We are in 52 countries and 310 cities, two years old and based in Spain. We have four founders,…
DetailsThis post first appeared on the IE Alumni News Blog. This past May, 350 International MBA Students dedicated a week of their studies to help IKEA address the following challenge: What should IKEA change in order to become a more customer focused company? Aside from IKEA being a successful multinational company that students can identify with,…
DetailsInterview by Jacob Huber (current IMBA) and Matan Ganani (Founder of Never Empty) Can you tell me a bit about what Never Empty is, and how it works? “Unlike other ticket distributors we are not a secondary market. There are a lot of companies today with algorithms that search online for tickets, while we work…
DetailsInterview by Chris Holman, (Current IMBA student and President of the IE Entrepreneurship Club) to Chema González (co-founder of Alterkeys.com and IE Alumni) Comments by Chris Holman: “I was able to hear his story of working a number of years in banking, being inspired by traveling the world, and the moment when he decided to make…
DetailsInterview by Jorge Simarro Cabrera (current IMBA student) to Jordi Díaz (CEO of TripMenu and IE Alumni) The Challenge Week is approaching for the International MBA students, we present TripMenu, an IE Alumni start-ups that will be working side-by-side with current students during the Challenge Week. What is TripMenu? TripMenu is a platform that connects travellers with restaurants.…
DetailsI think it is inevitable when you begin an MBA programme to encounter speculation on which term is the most challenging. “I heard the first term is killer!” or “Term 2 is supposed to be crazy!” Whichever may be the case (only time will tell) we, of the IMBA November 2013 intake, have officially survived…
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