IE & Asia-Pacific

Students of the IE University BBA program will have to get involved into a Social Impact project during their studies. See some of the examples of their initiatives and feel the impact they created.

This pilot project’s objective was to develop the digital presence of students of the Global MBA with the help of digital tools. Personal Branding also forms part of Reputation Management in the digital environment and is an important pending task for managers.

About.me is a free service that allows the creation of very aesthetic one-page website about persons and their interests. Users are able to upload a photo, write a short bio and add their favourite social networks to show the world the picture of them.

These dynamic launch pages direct visitors to their content from around the web. It also details how many people see their profile, where they’re coming from, and their interactions with the page.

As the professor David Gracia mentions:
“The web is becoming more and more social and the content is created primarily by the very users. In this context brands cannot choose whether to be or not to be in social networks, they will be there anyway. If you think about yourself as a brand the same principle applies. The question is not IF you want to be in the Internet but HOW you want to be there. In this course, students can learn how to manage both their personal and professional identity in social networks in order to build a digital identity that is aligned with the image they want to convey about themselves.”

Some examples of the students could be found here:
http://aboutme2012.wikispaces.com/

With a continuously growing impact of social media in our personal and professional life’s, there is no way back NOT to think about building and orchestrating your digital identity.

In the upcoming seminar series in South East Asia (dates below), we will highlight certain social media and the way you should use them in your job search. We will show you how IE supports its students and alumni in the digital identity building and how to manage it wisely for the next step of your professional development.

Are you ready for the future?

IE Impact Weekend is back and once more sets out to share ideas and develop socially responsible business plans by bringing together students from IE Business School with social entrepreneurs from across Spain. The main goal: to reach impact!

Created by IE Business School and IE Venture Lab, along with strategic partners such as the IE Net Impact Club and iWeekend, the Impact Weekend experience will take place in Madrid from 20th to 22nd April 2012.

How does it work?

After an open idea submission period, which will end on April 11^th for IE students, everything will start with a Pitch Your PeersSession on Friday evening. During this session a short list of 10 ideas will be presented in front of an audience of judges and Impact Weekend participants. The 5 ideas that will appear most promising will then be handed over to 5 IE students/alumni who will work on each of them on Saturday and Sunday, using innovative and practical methodologies to build scalable ventures that address real-world issues. Cocktails and tapas will make the evenings even sweeter.

The winning team will be announced on Sunday and be provided with a direct entry into the next IE Venture Lab as well as some valuable media attention. The second- and third-place teams will have an opportunity to pitch their ideas at IE Venture Network events.

Thus, submit your idea, learn how to create social impact through business, gain unique networking opportunities and make “social responsibility” two words that should be on everybody´s agenda!

Hi Prateek, thank you for taking the time to share some insights about your IE experience. Please tell us a little bit about yourself before we get started!
Well, my name is Prateek Rathore. I am from India and I am 24 years old. Currently, I am finishing the second core period of the Master in Management Program here at IE. I am a computer science engineer and did my undergraduate studies at IIT Delhi, considered one of the best engineering colleges in India. Before coming to IE, I also worked at the Royal Bank of Scotland for over a year. I like to travel; have travelled across 16 countries in Europe and a lot in India as well, and I’ve also choreographed dance teams at various national-level competitions.

Thanks Prateek! And now a question that might be interesting to prospective students; why did you choose IE as your center of excellence?
First of all, it is not a secret that IE is one of the best schools in the world that offers a master program in international management. Besides, I am a firm believer that in management studies, one learns more from one’s classmates than from the professors, and given that diversity is one of IE’s core values, it made my decision to apply to IE fairly easy. In addition, as I am very interested in technology, IE is one of the only schools to my knowledge that offers a specialization in Digital Business which I am about to start in a few days. And last but not least, I applied to IE because of the Venture Lab and the overall entrepreneurial spirit it instills in the students here.

Perfect! Prateek, but what about your actual IE experience? Now that you have completed two of the three core periods, what are the things that stand out during this time?
The one thing that immediately comes to my mind has to do with how classes are being taught here at IE. The case methodology really makes the classes more interesting and interactive while giving one a great variety of practical as well as theoretical knowledge about different sectors in the market. Another thing that stands out is the competition between classmates. Everybody and when I say everybody I mean everybody, is competitive at IE. However, it is a healthy competition because people really grow together, learn from each other and many times help each other with problems. One more reason to do so may be the high workload here, as you simply cannot complete all the tasks by yourself. And this brings me to my next point. Over the last two periods, I really learned how to manage my time and prioritize the things that I had to do. IE offers you many extracurricular activities, such as speeches, workshops, weekly meetings etc.; thus, you really have to learn how to manage your time well if you want to grab as much as you can on the way. And, I think I don’t have to tell you about the Madrid night life; it’s amazing. But I guess the most important thing is truly the diversity in class, on campus and even in Madrid. You can get so many different view points on a topic that you feel like you grow with every class discussion while your global network keeps increasing day in and day out. Read more…

We all hear this word at least a few times during the day. It’s a short one, starts with “c” and ends in “risis.”

It’s a word that has the power to change the world and can be found throughout history. This time, everything started with the collapse of the debt crises in the US, which led to financial problems for the rest of the world and a tremendous collapse of the global growth. Will the euro break up? Will the US dollar keep its reserve currency role during the upcoming decade? Why is the Japanese Yen weak after the last Bank of Japan intervention?

These are only a few questions on which we will focus during this Virtual Master Class, as its topic will be the foreign exchange market.

Virtual Master Class: Foreign Exchange Market
Date: April 18, 2012
Time: 3pm Madrid time, 9pm Singapore time
Registration: IE Event Page 

About the speaker

The session will be spearheaded by Carlos Gallo, Associate Professor at IE Business School and Head of Head of Total Return & R&D at Invercaixa Gestión S.G.I.I. Professor Gallo’s areas of interest include the evaluation and analysis of risk return relationships, optimal and efficient portfolios construction, fundamental analysis and valuation of companies and other kind of investable assets. He started his career at the Spanish Market for Futures and Options followed by his incorporation as a derivatives expert at HSBC Investment Bank in Madrid. Some years later he joined Invercaixa Gestión, SGIIC, and the financial management firm in which he handled specialist investments in global equity markets as the Japanese, British, Swiss and the euro zone. At present, he manages the total return funds as the Fund Manager, Asset Allocation Team.

In response to the slow job market and heightened interested in strategic career planning, IE Business School sponsored a special lecture for AIESEC Korea (an international collegiate leadership group) and the Seoul business community titled “The Future of the Job Market: What HR Managers Want, What Job Hunters Need to Know” last Tuesday, March 20th 2012.

Held at the Center 1 Building in the City Center downtown Seoul, the event featured guest lecturer William Davila, director of Asia Pacific Region from IE Business School who spoke about the rapid changing trends in talent recruitment and retainment, the competition for global talent, and peculiarities of the Millennial generation of skilled labor.

On the expert panel were top executives from Merck Group (Global HR Division), Hyundai Motors (Head of Global HR), SK Telecom (Corporate Investment), Samsung Electronics (Head of Global Talent Recruitment), and PaulnMark Consulting (University Career Consultant). The event drew out a large crowd ranging from seasoned executives, young business professionals, and university students from the neighboring college district.

Following the lecture and presentation, many remained afterwards for individual consultations and small group discussions. Due to huge needs expressed, another career related session is being planned for this summer.

Following a session on the admissions process at IE Business School in Singapore, here is a presentation which details the steps to take to gain admission to IE.

Since yesterday to March 30^th 2012, IE University’s Junior Advisory Board will hold its fourth annual meeting. Founded in 2009, organized and promoted by IE School of Arts and Humanities, Junior Advisory Board is a highly selective group of pre-university students, aged from 16 to 18, who advise IE University about the future of university education.

Members of the board serve as advisors to IE University, and offer their unique and practical perspective about education.  However, unlike most advisory boards, the Junior Advisory Board is made up of teenagers.  The board is made of members who are still in high school so that IE can understand and appreciate the expectations of the rising university student and incorporate their excitement and insight into its dynamic educational programs.

IE’s Junior Advisory Board members represent five regions of the world; Europe, United States of America, Latin America, Africa and Asia. This year´s committee comprises of twelve pre-university students, all with an international profile.

They will meet in Madrid and Segovia to debate the challenges facing university education. The members of the International Junior Advisory Board were selected using IE’s network of 23 international offices in 20 countries, and are from: Zimbabwe, Turkey, Germany, Slovenia, South Africa, Colombia, India, Peru, Wales, Romania, Spain, and the US.

For more information visit http://jab.ie.edu

Are you a lawyer or a manager with responsibilities on Marketing and Business Development activities inside your firm? Are you a fee-earner in charge of supervising these actions? If your answer is yes, IE Law School Executive Education designed a specific online program for you.

“Organizing the Marketing & Business Development Activity inside the Firm: from Strategy to Execution” intends to explain the marketing activity a law firm is due to display nowadays. Since lawyers are not taught about management at law schools but then they are expected to carry out these actions, Ms. Marisa Mendez (professor, marketing consultant and lawyer with a specific management course at Harvard) will provide you with the knowledge and tools to organize and supervise such activity.

3 live videoconferences and 3 online forums with specific practical cases will enable you to manage in the most efficient way your duties and eventually to understand the best talent inside the firm to take their ideas on the subject into practice.

For more details, please visit the IE Law School web.