Interview with Miguel Cuberos, Strategic Insights Manager, Established Products (Initiator and leader of the Roche case competition) How did the idea of a case competition occur and why did you want to collaborate with MBA students? As an Insights Manager, I am always open to listen to what is happening outside of Roche. In fact,…
Student Life
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…
IESE Meets the Valley 2017: A Week in Silicon Valley
Richard Oxland (MBA Class of 2018) co-organised IESE Meets the Valley 2017. In this post he shares his experience during the trek and talks about the companies visited. The annual Silicon Valley trek, IESE Meets the Valley, took place over the Easter vacation and as every year, it was packed full of amazing visits, events…
“Moving beyond Perception”, IESE’s first Business in Emerging Markets Conference
Michel Rassy, Sarah Lee, Elodie Delonca and Matt Kloos from Class of 2017 co-organized IESE’s first Business in Emerging Markets Conference. In this post, they write about the highlights of the day. The balance of powers between global economies is shifting, and many emerging economies have moved beyond what they once were and are now…