By Arabdha Sudhir The first thing you notice about Chashah and Judy is how unpretentious and down to earth they are! It can´t be easy staying so focused on a social impact cause – in a world that´s increasingly measured in terms of time and money. But these girls make it seem so easy and…
DetailsBy Mallory Pierpoint In an effort to give back to Madrid some of what it has given to us, the IMBA November 2013 Intake, in conjunction with Campus Life and #IECares, has collected donations to create care packages for the homeless around our city. We have received an outpouring of support both through donations and package…
DetailsIn August, IE Professor Gayle Allard and IMBA Benedict Faber led a group of IMBA students to Ethiopia for the second year, to do volunteer work and research about doing business at the bottom of the pyramid. During their two weeks in the town of Zway, the students volunteered in a summer English program run…
Details….Part 2 of Yvonne´s story…. ….A prolonged job search followed, but after my previous experiences in South Africa and Tunisia, it was only natural that I would end up back in Africa. I’m not sure if I picked the continent or if it picked me. I ended up working at an organization called CMAP, a…
DetailsOnce upon a time, there was a government lawyer who was very unfulfilled in her career. She wanted to transition into a career in social business, specifically geared towards poverty alleviation in developing countries, despite lacking any relevant work experience. So she went on a journey from Washington, DC, to Port Harcourt, Nigeria, with several…
DetailsBackground Information: The Social Impact Lab is a cross-functional project embedded in a Development Cooperation Program in which IE University has been collaborating with Financieros sin Fronteras since 2012. Financieros sin Fronteras is an NGO from IE Business School that promotes financial inclusion as a tool for development and has developed different projects aimed at…
DetailsBesides diversity and entrepreneurship, another one of IE´s core values is social responsibility; something that the school hopes manifests itself in the minds of each and every single student of the IE family. A couple of weeks ago BusinessBecuase published an article on IE IMBA alumnus Brad Krauskopf and his co-working start-up in Australia. Reading…
DetailsAs part of the diverse and innovative character of the Intentional MBA program here at IE, students can take advantage of numerous customization options to tailor their IE experience through Spanish language classes, over 80 electives, corporate internships, consulting projects, international exchanges, dual degree programs with for example Yale and MIT, and the IE Venture…
DetailsLast Friday, Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in Eastern Samar, Philippines; two-thirds of the country was affected by this storm. As of today, government numbers report that it has left 1,732,477 families in nine (9) regions displaced and 2,357 dead. In the wake of one of the strongest storms ever recorded in history, we are appealing…
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“We came away with a deep appreciation for the Ethiopian people and for the workers who devote their lives to alleviating poverty there.”
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