Name: Andrew Pratt Year of Graduation: 2015 Nationality: American Country of Residence: United Kingdom Current Employer: Strategy Insights and Planning Manager, ZS Associates Tell us a little bit about yourself and your current role. I’m American, I did my undergrad in the University of Minnesota and got my major in Economics and minor in…
Many MBA students aspire to gain some overseas work experience through their MBA. Several of our IESE Class of 2020 students successfully achieved this last summer and worked with companies across the globe. In a recent webinar, Suryansh Shrivastava, Marika Morita and Seung Ri Baek (Felix) talk about their summer internship experiences outside of their…
After my eight-year career at a large Japanese financial institution, I joined and graduated from the IESE MBA Class of 2019 and formed the very first search fund (*) in Japan. *This is a model that IESE Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business, which have search fund research institutions, call the traditional search…
Each summer IESE offers the Summer Entrepreneurship Experience (S.E.E.), a unique alternative to a traditional corporate internship allowing entrepreneurially-minded students to test the entrepreneurial career path and develop their own startup project through a full-time, practical, team-based program. During the S.E.E., students immerse themselves in their own idea-stage startup for 10 weeks, and by the…
This summer I did my internship at Amazon Madrid. It was an intense but very rewarding experience. I chose Amazon because I was seeking a challenging work experience that pushed me to my limits. Prior to the MBA, I had 5 years of experience in sales operations, account management, and performance/acquisition marketing in the advertising…