Founded by the MBA Class of 2017, the IESE Impact Fund (formerly known as IESE For Impact Community Fund or IFIC) is IESE’s own student-led impact investment fund. Its mission is to create the next generation of impact-focused leaders, investors, and businesses poised to deliver tangible and sustainable good. Practically, this means giving students hands-on…
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My journey from family business to IESE MBA, Ravi de Macêdo MBA 22
About Myself I was born and lived most of my childhood in the city of Fortaleza, a sunny coastal city in northeastern Brazil. My father raised my brother and I practically within the offices and factories of our family business, a company over 80 years old that operates mainly in the wheat milling, real estate…
Venturing into VC for my summer internship, Kevin Peer MBA 22
Venture capital (VC) has always been an attractive sector for some IESE MBAs, but it is also a sector where recruiting is mostly unstructured. How can one successfully navigate this career transition? In this post Kevin Peer, MBA Class of 2022 who completed his summer internship in VC shares his personal experience so far with…
How concentrations can complement your IESE MBA
At IESE, we regularly review and update our program to ensure our graduates are best prepared for their future careers. This past year, concentrations were launched as a complementary certificate to the IESE MBA degree to allow students to further personalise their MBA experience. Concentrations are offered in four subjects – Finance, International Business, Entrepreneurship…
“We did it…again”, IESE MBAs at Web Summit 2020
2020 has seemed like the year where everything has gone wrong. As MBAs looking for both learning and networking opportunities, we were looking for a bit of solace. And what better way to turn our year around than with one of the largest tech conferences on the planet? In 2019, IESE students organized the first ever…