Archive for August/2011

Summer 2011
IE BUSINESS SCHOOL joins Forté Foundation a Consortium of Leading Corporations and Top Business Schools that seeks to increase women’s Access to Business Education and Careers.

The Forté Foundation is the leading organization that provides a national infrastructure for college students, business school women, and working professionals to access the “real world” information, scholarship opportunities and essential networking connections they need to succeed in business careers.

Called to action by a landmark research study, Women and the MBA: Gateway to Opportunity, looking at why women are under-represented in leading business schools compared with medical or law schools, the Forté Foundation was founded in 2001 to address this inequity and its impact on the business landscape.

Forté Foundation enables its corporate and business school sponsors to effectively reach, recruit and retain top female talent. Forté’s agenda to reach college-aged women, MBA candidates, and MBA alumnae will build on its founding commitment to increase the number of women in the early business pipeline, and will create partnerships with academic and advocacy groups, as well as its own sponsors, to attract and retain women in business careers

ABOUT FORTÉ FOUNDATION
Forté Foundation is a consortium of leading multinational corporations, top business schools in the U.S. and abroad, and the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC). Forté has become a powerful change agent directing women towards leadership roles in business and enabling corporations to more effectively reach and retain top female talent. It is the leading organization that provides a national infrastructure for women at all stages of the career continuum to access the information, scholarship support and networking connections they need to succeed in business careers.
To learn more about Forté Foundation visit www.fortefoundation.org

FORTE SPONSORS

Forté Sponsor Companies: AIG, Bain, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, BlackRock, The Capital Group Companies, Capital One, Chevron, Citi, Citizens Financial Group, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Eli Lilly and Company, Ernst & Young, ExxonMobil, Fidelity Investments, Goldman, Sachs & Co., The Hartford, IBM, Intel, Liberty Mutual, New York Life, Pfizer, PIMCO, The PNC Financial Services Group, UBS

There are only 10 days left for the big event on August 28th, 2011 when our IE Business School boat will be paddling through Zurich Lake’s “wild” waters while competing against other business schools.

Our IE brave paddlers (10 + 4 replacements) will be rewarded with lunch buffet a barbecue with salads and beverages (soft, beer, wine). Family and friends are welcomed to join as well! In this case, the food buffet charge is of CHF 50/guest and free for kids.

For those who are NOT on this list, you are more than welcomed to join us to support and cheer our team! IE Alumni + their family & friends can sign up for the food buffet at a charge of CHF 50 (Free for kids).

The details for this event are the following:

DATE: August 28th, 2011
PLACE: Lake of Zurich Seeclub ZH – Mythenquai 75
AGENDA:

11:00 Reception & Introduction
12:30 Lunch Buffet
14:00 Dragon Boat Race
17:00 Farewell

Registration link: http://www.swissamba.ch/article.html?aid=372

If there is bad weather the decision will be communicated on Thursday, Aug, 25 (joint decision by team leaders and majority of vote). Changing room and parking available in Lake of Zurich Seeclub ZH, located on Mythenquai 75<

IE is closed for summer break. So, why not take this moment to check out this fun video made by International MBA students from the November 2010 intake.  It´s a “playback” to the song “Don´t Stop Me Now” by Queen that the students made just before leaving for the summer as a memory of their program. The term “N4″ is their section number.  There are eight sections in the November intake and each has its own personality. It seems N4 is winning out for being the most creative!

David Bach – Dean of Programs of IE Business School recently held a master class “Creating Competitive Advantage Beyond the Market” in Kiev.
The event was attended by 50 Ukrainians who actively participated in a Formula One case discussion and other issues related to the interaction
among business, government and society. See the above video about the event produced by Ukranian web site MBA Strategy.ua.

And also check out these photos from the event:

Professor Ganzalo Garland, one of IE´s fall master class speakers

The Europe and CIS team in Madrid at IE is planning trips throughout the region for Autumn 2011. With the support of some of the top professors at IE, we will be holding Master Classes and conferences on everything from Sports Marketing, Entrepreneurship to the World Economic Outlook.

Among the many other events that we are organising, Masters Classes will be held in Moscow and Tbilisi in September, Moscow and Paris in October and also in Bucharest and Baku in November. For specific details and to register, please view this link-  Events in Europe and CIS 
You will have the opportunity to meet professors Gonzalo Garland, Pablo Martin de Holan, Eduardo Fernández-Cantelli and Gayle Allard, among others, in your city.

Here is information about each of these professors:

Gonzalo Garland- As well as teaching the core course on Economic Environment, an elective course on Business in Developing Countries and several short courses and conferences in the executive education division, Gonzalo Garland also finds time to carry out the administrative responsibilities required of him in his role as director of external relations at Instituto de Empresa.

But teaching – which he says he first experienced at the age of 17 – is in his blood and he remains passionate about it. “Teaching is crucial,” he says. “I like transmitting knowledge and being able to explain things that at first might seem difficult for people. But when they suddenly understand what you’re talking about and see the relevance, it’s very gratifying.”

In the field of macroeconomics, Prof Garland has conducted research into the economic effects of demographic changes and he is also an expert on financial crises. And with his specialist knowledge of the economics of developing countries such as China, India, Brazil and Mexico, Prof Garland expertise is much in demand, as MBA students look for business education programmes that have an increasingly international flavour.

“Everyone wants a more global vision,” he says. “And the fact that 85 per cent of students in the international MBA at Instituto de Empresa are from outside Spain makes the classes fascinating because often, what you’re talking about is something that people are relating to the situation in their own countries.”

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