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…
Career Change
My Startup Life: IESE’s Summer Entrepreneurship Experience (S.E.E)
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…
My Summer Internship at Amazon (and how you can do it too!)
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…
From Military to MBA: Veterans at IESE
Veterans have always found a good home at IESE, in fact our MBA class of 2020 has the most American veterans of any class in IESE’s history. To support his classmates and other vets around the world, Ryan Fritsch, MBA Class of 2019 has also recently launch the website Global MBA Vets to help create…
From designing buildings to building brands – My Internship at Facebook
My name is Kate Guimaraes and I worked in architecture for several years before I decided to take an MBA at IESE Business School in Barcelona. When I started the MBA I wanted to pursue a career in strategy but wasn’t sure which industry to follow between consulting, tech or real estate. I decided to…