Summer MBA positions offer the opportunity to experiment, to explore, and to be exposed to different types of companies and sectors. There is a lot to be achieved and learned in a few months, so I decided early in the MBA that I wanted to have two summer internships. I spent the first half of…
Student Life
In this section, current and prospective MBA students share their experiences. Classes, career forums, internships, career treks, off-campus activities and family life all fit in the Student’s Corner.
IESE Tech Club: Our story in bits and bytes
“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.” – John Lasseter Technology has been at the forefront of human evolution since times immemorial. The progress of the human race is widely tied to the innovation that we have gone through. In the 21st century, digitalization, digital transformation are some of the ever-increasing…
Trust the Process: How Coaching helped me in my MBA
In this post, Margherita Guerra (MBA Class of 2021) reflects on her first year and explains how coaching from our CDC team supported her learning journey in the MBA. Can you please tell us more about yourself? I can’t say I grew up aware of it, but I did grow up in a multicultural family….
Lessons Learnt in Quarantine
Over the past few months, a group of IESE MBA Class of 2021 students led a research study named “Project COVID Mirror” that sought to understand the impacts of COVID on the IESE Class of 2021, as well as their reflections around how they coped with the quarantine, what they learned and what they hope…
Dear Incoming Class of 2022…
The above quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of my favorites and closely related to my definition of leadership. I would recommend every student of IESE’s incoming class of 2022 to “Forge your own IESE experience,” and find their own path. This post is inspired by my own IESE experience and I hope that…