A group of IESE MBA Class of 2024 students, Chris Batchelor (USA), Juliana Marroquin (Colombia), and Joaquin Santos (Argentina) took home 1st Place in the First Pitch Case Competition, sponsored by Sony Sports Businesses, at the 2023 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. This is the first time that an international business school has won the…
The Hult Prize is the world’s premier sustainable startup competition for students, referred to by the Huffington Post as the “Nobel Prize for Students.” The competition is focused on a different theme related to sustainability each year, challenging teams to create solutions to urgent issues such as food security, water access, energy, and education. This…
A group of LGBTQ+ MBA students at IESE, Adarsh Nair (India, ’21), Chris Coraggio (USA, ’21), Patricia Royo (Brazil, ’22) and Piyush Mediratta (India ’22), took home 2nd place out of 18 top-tier teams at the 2020 Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) Consulting Case Competition, sponsored by Bain and Company. ROMBA is a US-based NGO supporting…
The Roland Berger Case Competition The task: to put together a go-to-market plan and presentation to launch Visualfy’s innovative products, Deaf Smart Space (DSS) Home and DSS Places. The challenge: to complete the task in ~30 hours and do it better than some of the top business schools in the world (Booth, CEIBS, ESADE, HKUST, IESE, INSEAD, LBS,…
Interview with Miguel Cuberos, Strategic Insights Manager, Established Products (Initiator and leader of the Roche case competition) How did the idea of a case competition occur and why did you want to collaborate with MBA students? As an Insights Manager, I am always open to listen to what is happening outside of Roche. In fact,…