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…
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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…
From Engineer to Strategy Consultant
It was exactly two years ago when I was hustling through the business school application process, introspecting deeply to identify exactly what makes me an ideal candidate for a world’s leading MBA program, trying to figure out the best stories for my essays and speaking to alumni and students of the MBA schools I was…
It’s a Startup World: IESE Startup Career Fair
The second edition of the IESE Startup Career Fair was held in April in our Barcelona campus. It was a great turnout with more than 100 IESE students as well as 10 startups, investors and incubators from Barcelona and other European capitals. The participating companies were Berepublic, Cooltra, Eccelerate, Force Manager, Innocells, Red Ventures, Seed…
IESE Meets the Valley 2018: A Memorable Week
8:30, Blue Bottle Coffee, 66 Mint St. This is where and when everything began. Great building, fabulous lobby, amazing view. Even better than that, was our host, David Hadley, MBA 2015, currently working at AppDirect. While it took some of us a while to truly understand what AppDirect does, which David confessed that took him…