IESE’s Capstone project is a highlight for many first year MBA students. The objective is to bring together all the learnings of the first year, by having students act as consultants and working with real companies to provide solutions to a business problem. It is run as a case competition, where senior executives will evaluate…
Although the halls and classrooms of IESE have become empty over the last month, and students have spread around all corners of the globe, the IESE spirit of service continues to live strong within its students, teachers and staff. Inspired by this vision, the Start-up and Entrepreneurship Club, looking out for its members and holding…
When I decided to pursue an MBA at IESE Business School, I did it for two main reasons: to discover new facets of business and to become a better version of myself. Since I’ve started this MBA journey, I already had to deal with several new challenges. Every time I overcame the challenge and learnt something…
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,…
Are entrepreneurs born or made (in business schools)? The word ‘entrepreneur’, was first coined by Richard Cantillon, an Irish-French economist, in his book Essai sur la Nature du Commerce en Général (written around 1730!), where he defines entrepreneurs as non-fixed income earners, risk-bearers and people that brought equilibrium to the market by correctly predicting consumer preferences….