Name: Jeffrey Leung Year of Graduation: 2020 Nationality: Hong Kong SAR Country of Residence: Switzerland Current Employer: Novartis As a young child from Hong Kong, my parents always taught my sister and I the values different cultures bring, as well as the importance of understanding and adopting practices that would improve our quality of life…
Every year, we are pleased to welcome exchange students from our partner business schools around the world to our Barcelona campus. This allows IESE MBAs to expand their network and learn alongside students from other top business schools and for other international MBAs to experience life at IESE. In this post, Isabella Zhang an exchange…
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….
As the end of the school term draws near, students who participated in IESE’s exchange program are preparing for their return to Barcelona. In this post, two Spanish students from Class of 2017, Gabriela Barbier Avanzini and Lucia Alcazar Cuartero, who spent the last few months at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai shares some…
IESE has many partner schools all over the world, including more than a dozen in the United States alone. Once you have decided that you want to go on an exchange, the question becomes “Where to?” If you are thinking about spending an exchange term abroad, read on and discover five reasons for choosing Wharton….