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….
The IESE Business Spanish Program (BSP) is a 12-module course that aims to help MBA students develop their ability to successfully interact in Spanish. “Absolute beginners and junior-level students develop their ability to communicate in basic every day challenges and interactions, while intermediate and higher-level students engage in increasingly challenging and complex professional situations and…
Each summer IESE offers the Summer Entrepreneurship Experience (S.E.E.), a unique alternative to a traditional corporate internship allowing entrepreneurially-minded students to test the entrepreneurial career path and develop their own startup project through a full-time, practical, team-based program. During the S.E.E., students immerse themselves in their own idea-stage startup for 10 weeks, and by the…
Veterans have always found a good home at IESE, in fact our MBA class of 2020 has the most American veterans of any class in IESE’s history. To support his classmates and other vets around the world, Ryan Fritsch, MBA Class of 2019 has also recently launch the website Global MBA Vets to help create…
I was lucky enough to spend the 19 months up to May 2018 studying in the full-time MBA program at IESE Business School. After 400+ case discussions, I should have all the technical tools I need to help lead organisations through a wide range of challenging situations. This is great, and was one of the…