IE Alumni Association Oktoberfest 2013 Blog

It is Oktoberfest time! On last Sunday, Sept 29th, we embraced the opportunity to gather with our IE alumni and professors at the fascinatingly vivid Munich Oktoberfest to share our joy and life stories and also to celebrate the 180th Birthday of this world’s biggest beer festival. This year our 70 IE alumni, not only those from…

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Global Executive MBA – first hand experience

An interview with the current Global Executive MBA student from Russia Olga Grischenko, where she shares her story from the point of looking for a suitable program up to the unexpected level of challenge that she faced at IE’s Global Executive MBA program. The interview is in Russian and can be read here: http://www.mbastrategy.ru/content/view/2882/209/lang,Rus/

Innovation and Real World Experience in the Classroom

Since this is the first of possibly a few posts, I should take a moment to introduce myself. My name is William Pacheco and I am a part of the April 2011 intake for the IE’s IMBA program. I am originally from the United States, but more specifically, from the state of Florida. I graduated from the University of Florida and worked for 6 years with Accenture then for another 5 years with Pfizer before coming to IE to begin the MBA program and also my fellowship with the International Development team. I cannot say enough about my time here; much has been learned, many friendships have been made and much fun has been had.

The reason for this post however, is to highlight one of the key offerings that I feel has made my time here at IE especially enlightening. While most business schools these days offer case based learning techniques, several courses I have taken during the year have featured simulations that give a student such as me a better feel for what “a day in the life” of a specific career is really like.

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Russian Master in Digital Marketing Student Launches a Successful Start-Up

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…

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