From Japan to the World – A Bold Initiative by IESE’s Japan Business Club Written by Taisuke Ojima and Naoyuki Mayumi, MBA 2025 Introduction Since arriving at IESE, we’ve been struck by how much global interest there is in Japanese culture – from sushi and anime to Toyota Production System. Over 100 classmates join our…
A group of IESE MBA Class of 2024 students, Chris Batchelor (USA), Juliana Marroquin (Colombia), and Joaquin Santos (Argentina) took home 1st Place in the First Pitch Case Competition, sponsored by Sony Sports Businesses, at the 2023 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. This is the first time that an international business school has won the…
The Hult Prize is the world’s premier sustainable startup competition for students, referred to by the Huffington Post as the “Nobel Prize for Students.” The competition is focused on a different theme related to sustainability each year, challenging teams to create solutions to urgent issues such as food security, water access, energy, and education. This…
A group of LGBTQ+ MBA students at IESE, Adarsh Nair (India, ’21), Chris Coraggio (USA, ’21), Patricia Royo (Brazil, ’22) and Piyush Mediratta (India ’22), took home 2nd place out of 18 top-tier teams at the 2020 Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) Consulting Case Competition, sponsored by Bain and Company. ROMBA is a US-based NGO supporting…
The Roland Berger Case Competition The task: to put together a go-to-market plan and presentation to launch Visualfy’s innovative products, Deaf Smart Space (DSS) Home and DSS Places. The challenge: to complete the task in ~30 hours and do it better than some of the top business schools in the world (Booth, CEIBS, ESADE, HKUST, IESE, INSEAD, LBS,…