Archive for December/2011

22
Dec

Anna Znamenskaya - a student of Master in Digital Marketing program @IE Business School has recently launched a start-up aimed at making the life of women with both families and careers easier.

Anna with her WorkingMama.Ru has already won the Best Start-Up award at MITEF (mitef.ru) and is invited to the Silicon Valley to present the project to the potential investors. Speaking about the role of IE’s Master in Digital Marketing role,  Mrs. Znamenskaya says that IE helped her crystallize the idea and launch the site.

 Anna is the former top manager of different big Russian Internet companies. She has a daughter of 6 years and she from her own experience the issues that modern women face. Her project will share different success stories, provide tips and real tools to successfully combine demanding jobs with even more demanding careers of happy mothers. For women with traveling needs there are parts of the website dedicated to different destinations. Anna is looking for the contributors who would be able to add valuable information about Russian and foreign cities that they know well.

 

6
Dec

 

Jeremy Bedzow

The New York Times featured IE student Jeremy Bedzow as an example of an MBA who went off the beaten path and decide to pursue an experience working in a social enterprise.

Jeremy joined a team of IE students in Madrid that helped Microsoft develop a model program to provide training to prepare young people in Saudi Arabia for jobs in finance and IT.

Known as ITCAN Academy, a pun on the Arabic word for perfection, itqan, the course recruited 100 university students, all of whom had to be Saudi nationals. According to Sultan Al-Sahli, a spokesman for Microsoft in Riyadh, at the end of the two-month training period, 75 percent of the trainees had found jobs with monthly salaries ranging from 7,000 to 13,000 Saudi riyals, or $1,800 to $3,500 — well above the average wage.

The company also arranged for Jeremy to travel to Saudi Arabia to observe the program first hand, and to gather data that will be useful when the program expands.

Read the full story to learn more about Jeremy’s experience.