Name: Jingru (Lois) Liu Year of graduation: 2019 Nationality: Chinese (Hong Kong) Country of residence: Switzerland Current Employer: Novartis Pharma AG About myself I was born and raised in a small city of China, and moved to Hong Kong for my undergraduate study. After graduation, I joined PricewaterhouseCoopers as a consultant, serving financial…
IESE Alumni Footprint Series, An Interview with Elaine Kuo (Taiwan)
Name: Elaine Kuo Year of Graduation: 2018 Nationality: Taiwanese Country of Residence: United States Current Employer: Amazon Tell us a little bit about yourself. What inspired you to pursue an MBA, and how did you choose IESE? My career has been in the technical field, I am a scientist at heart and trained as…
IESE Team places 2nd at LGBTQ+ MBA Conference
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…
UNICEF and Startup internships: My Summer Experience
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…
IESE Alumni Footprint Series, An Interview with Yanyan Yue (China)
Name: Yanyan Yue Year of Graduation: 2018 Nationality: China Country of Residence: Switzerland Current Employer: Novartis My story I grew up in a small village in China. Before going to university, the farthest place I went to was the center of the town that I lived, around 20km from my home. Most people…