In this post, Margherita Guerra (MBA Class of 2021) reflects on her first year and explains how coaching from our CDC team supported her learning journey in the MBA. Can you please tell us more about yourself? I can’t say I grew up aware of it, but I did grow up in a multicultural family….
How I leveraged my network to analyze the impact of COVID in different industries Close to the end of my MBA, my whole class was caught by surprise by the COVID pandemic. We were forced to stay in our homes for several weeks and I saw my friends going through a hard time to push…
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….
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…
“No, there’s no way we can make it!” It is the 2nd of September 2019. Excitement is overflowing in the Portuguese WhatsApp group! It is the first day of orientation week and the all-time high of seven Portuguese students in IESE MBA class of 2021 meet for the first time. Among all the enthusiasm of…