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 offers an alternative to corporate internships for those students wanting to spend their summer trying their hand at entrepreneurship in a program called the Summer Entrepreneurial Experience. In this program, students stay on campus working right alongside Professors to test and tweak business ideas. The original plan for our business, True | North, during…
August 29th kicked off the first week of the Overseas Module in IESE’s New York Center. Overseas Modules are elective courses that are offered in the second year of the MBA Program right before the normal school year begins. This fall, the courses are being offered right now in the New York and São Paulo…
Today I am writing from London. As I look out the bay windows of my studio apartment, the sun is shining, but it’s raining. The tiny place is absent of a desk so I am sitting cross-legged with my computer on my lap reflecting from my lofted bed on how exactly I ended up here….
I recently participated in a Design Thinking bootcamp event organized by IESE’s Innovation & Design Club in conjunction with bootcamp leaders Paula Vega and Rocío García Ramos and our host company Ayre Hoteles Caspe. Over the course of two days, grouped into teams of four, participants sought solutions to Ayre’s Challenge Brief utilizing a design-thinking…
Recently, I started volunteering at Braval, a non-profit organisation established in the Raval neighborhood in Barcelona about 16 years ago. Its mission is to integrate youth from immigrant communities, and to impart values consistent with respect, integrity, service and conscientiousness. This gives the youth a means to establish a solid educational foundation, which translates into…