Last winter term I chose to take The Bridge’s Python Bootcamp for Data Analysis because I wanted to relearn a lost skill. I hadn’t coded for ten years since my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering! Even though the trends of coding experience were rising and I understood how this skill could help me in my…
“Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests” – Sir Ken Robinson To quote one of the lines from an iconic Spanish song, “What is a girl like you doing in a place like this?”, sometimes I can’t help but think what a person like me is doing in…
I still remember that the key element that brought me to IESE Business School was its mission to develop future leaders with ethics, social responsibility, and a calling to make a remarkable change. Thanks to the amazing alumni network, this summer I found myself doing my second internship for an NGO, Jobortunity, in Tanzania. Why did…
About Myself I was born and lived most of my childhood in the city of Fortaleza, a sunny coastal city in northeastern Brazil. My father raised my brother and I practically within the offices and factories of our family business, a company over 80 years old that operates mainly in the wheat milling, real estate…
Venture capital (VC) has always been an attractive sector for some IESE MBAs, but it is also a sector where recruiting is mostly unstructured. How can one successfully navigate this career transition? In this post Kevin Peer, MBA Class of 2022 who completed his summer internship in VC shares his personal experience so far with…