15th May 2020 marks the official end of the MBA for the IESE Class of 2020. I look out of my window here in Pedralbes Barcelona and smile wistfully. It would have been a bright sunny day at the North campus of IESE, filled with the smiling faces of the class of 2020, bobbing red…
Dear classmates, The cavalry is not coming. This pandemic has been called “a dress rehearsal for climate change.” And yet…it is much shorter-lived, at a much smaller scale of human and economic devastation, perpetrated by a culprit that’s easier to single out and solvable by methods within our grasp. Consider, on the other hand, everything humans have…
My IESE MBA journey has finally come to its end. Of course, no MBA student from any 2020 class in the world was expecting to be known as “the corona class”. Our graduation ceremony has been postponed to the next year, our graduation trip to Japan was canceled, and farewell events will never happen. The…
Manuella is responsible for developing the Career Management programs for our MBA & MiM students. In this post, she tells us more about her background and her role in the CDC. Can you please start by telling us something about yourself? When I was young, maybe due to my Sri Lankan background, I was convinced…
How I leveraged my network to analyze the impact of COVID in different industries Close to the end of my MBA, my whole class was caught by surprise by the COVID pandemic. We were forced to stay in our homes for several weeks and I saw my friends going through a hard time to push…