You are all about to embark on a 20-month adventure that is the IESE MBA, and surely you have your different reasons for coming to Barcelona. What you don’t realize is that during this short (and I assure you it will feel very short) time, you will each change in your own way. Far be…
IESE Business School is one of the few schools across the world to provide college seniors and professionals in their first year of experience the chance to be pre-admitted to its MBA program and the chance to receive a scholarship through the Young Talent Path (YTP). While most schools follow the process of an application…
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…
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…
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…