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….
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…
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…
When one thinks of Spanish food, one may not automatically think to pair it with Japanese sake but some IESE students are trying to change this perception. What started as an idea for the Summer Entrepreneurship Experience evolved into an Independent Study Project, culminating in “Sake Tomo”. This is a sake discovery event held recently…
The Class of 2017 began its MBA journey a couple of months ago, so now seems like a good time to look back on how this transformational experience is impacting our lives and our perspective of the future. I came to IESE for the first time in March 2015 for my assessment day. I already…