> Return to the #93 Newsletter The IESE Library now has access to Pitchbook, a venture capital, private equity and M&A database. Search thousands of private equity and venture capital deals by hundreds of criteria. Use PitchBook to establish benchmarks, find real time data on deals, identify and analyze comparables, and search investor details. Boost your advantage and productivity with the PitchBook platform: Enabling students, professors and researchers to get richer…
#93 February 2022
Parable of the Polygons
> Return to the #93 Newsletter Parable of the polygons is a playable post on the shape of society, based on the work of Nobel Prize winning game theorist, Thomas Schelling. Using simple geometric shapes, the game shows how small individual biases can become large institutional biases. Created by Vi Hart and Nicky Case the interactive article focuses on a society of blue squares and yellow triangles which have slight personal…
Finding Fellow Graduates in VC Firms
> Return to the #93 Newsletter The PitchBook Platform’s people search enables users to find and connect with fellow graduates from your alma mater. Go to Pitchbook. On the “Screeners” section, in the left-hand menu, select “People”. In the “Person Information” section, in the “University/Institution” box, type the institution you are interested in (i.e. IESE Business School) and click on “Search”. Retrieve a list of contacts belonging to said institution.
2021 Employment Report
> Return to the #93 Newsletter The IESE Career development Center (CDC) has achieved a difficult goal in uncertain times. Ninety-four percent of the MBA class of 2021 landed jobs within three months of graduation. We want to highlight this success, which is thanks primarily to the CDC team’s rapid adaption to the new context and the great work it has done with more than 400 top companies looking for talent….
Blockchain
> Return to the #93 Newsletter Blockchain has already started to revolutionize ways of doing business. Many policy makers and business leaders see it as a means of bringing greater trust and transparency to digital environments. Gartner has estimated that blockchain could generate as much as $3.1 trillion in new business value by 2030, half of it by 2025 with applications designed for operational improvement. The potential of blockchain to engender…