Gioia Bonso, Rosana Portela and Cédric Devivier are active members of the IESE community, not as MBA students but as partners. How was their move to Barcelona and did it match their expectations? In this post, they reflect on their journey so far. We have always been sharing, caring, playing, dancing with and supporting our partners…
IESE Experience
Dear Incoming Class of 2019…
When I was asked to write to you about my experience over the past 20 months, it took me a while to figure out what to say. It’s unbelievably hard to sum up this experience and what it has meant to me in brief, but here goes nothing. You are about to embark on the…
Learning to Break the Frame
In August 2015, I walked into a daunting hall crowded with 296 new faces. The people that would be my classmates for the next 19 months waited eagerly for the ceremony to begin and the first speaker to take the stage. Professor Alejandro Lago walked up to the stage and posed a bold question to…
Our Experience in the World Government Summit
Last week, by the courtesy of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Prime Minister of the UAE, MBA students from IESE and other three leading business schools—LBS, Harvard and Wharton—attended the 4th edition of the World Government Summit. Held in Dubai, the event welcomed 53 students from five continents and more than…
An investment with guaranteed returns
Risk. Risk-management. Risk-aversion. Risk-tolerance. Inherent risks. Risk mitigation. Riskiness. Eliminating risk. I’ve certainly heard a lot about “risk” during my first term of the MBA. A year ago I was prayerfully considering what felt to me like the BIGGEST risk of my career. I had just been accepted to my top-choice MBA program – IESE….