Name: Charles Nweke Year of Graduation: 2019 Nationality: Nigerian & Australian Post-MBA Country of Residence: Nigeria Post-MBA Employer: McKinsey Tell us a little bit about yourself and your current role. I grew up in Nigeria with my big family of 5 siblings and lots of extended family. I completed my Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, then headed…
One of my biggest takeaways from my IESE MBA was that the future lies in Asia. Most of the growth in the world economy will be driven by Asian countries. India is going to be one of the biggest contributors to that growth story. According to a recent article in the Financial Times, coming back…
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….
After my eight-year career at a large Japanese financial institution, I joined and graduated from the IESE MBA Class of 2019 and formed the very first search fund (*) in Japan. *This is a model that IESE Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business, which have search fund research institutions, call the traditional search…
Get ready for the adventure of your lifetime. It was June 2017, and I was exactly where you are right now. Watching Marc Badia in the -for some- much needed accounting Coursera course, trying to find roommates and a decent-looking flat in the city (good luck with that!), feeling the nerves of starting this new…