Archive for March/2008

Charmaine Eggberry, Vice President and Managing Director of EMEA at Research In Motion, talks on behalf of the MET Program about how the mentoring helps participants to achieve both personal and professional success in the â??IT & Technology Women Business Leadersâ? conference held at IE Business School.

The conference examines how four key factors – communication, technology, people, and commitment – help companies achieve success, in line with the underlying philosophy of the MET Program.

The address given by Charmaine Eggberry (in the photo on the right together with Yanire Braña, director of the MET Program), who is also a member of IEâ??s MET Program advisory board, underlined the fact that people play a key role in a companyâ??s success and made the following recommendations:

1) Use technology as a communication tool to manage talent and enable a flexible corporate structure.
2) To achieve success, both the company and employees need to find ways to share their common objectives, on the basis of which employees can develop their full capacity both in and out of the company, thus finally leading to their long- term commitment to the company.
3) Companies need to identify as many diversified talents as possible whose vision and skills are in line with corporate development strategies.

The conference serves to complement the programâ??s highly participative approach, which includes methods like online mentoring, forum discussion, and blogs. The main objective is to building on previous virtual communication to further strengthen the connection among participants.

See the video, she gave meanwhile Charmaine was at IE.

If you wish to learn more about the MET program, please visit the dedicated web.

IE Business School will host in the coming week three promotional activities in South East Asia.

Philippines – Manila
Activity: Insight Session
Date: March 10, 2008
Time: 18:30 – 20:30
Venue: The Peninsula Manila

Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City
Activity: Insight Session
Date: March 11, 2008
Venue: High Q Vietnam

Thailand – Bangkok
Activity: Interview Day
Date: March 13, 2008
Venue: Grand Hyatt Erawan

If you wish to register for one of these events, please go to the IE Event web.

Entrepreneurial activity in Spain grew by 4.11% in 2007, as shown by the results of the GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) Report, the leading international observatory on entrepreneurial activity worldwide.

Experts from IE Business School lead the Spanish arm of the project, sponsored by the Department for SMEs at the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Banesto and the Incyde Foundation. The presentation of the new edition of the GEM Report took place on Thursday, February 28, 2008 at IE Business Schoolâ??s Madrid campus, and was attended by Spainâ??s General Secretary for Industry Joan Trullén, the Spanish Director General of Policy for SMEs, María Callejón, and other key players from the field of entrepreneurship.

One of the main conclusions of the report is that there was moderate growth of entrepreneurial activity in Spain 2007. The TEA (Total Entrepreneurial Activity), an index used to measure the number of business start-ups, stands at 7.6% for 2007 in comparison with 7.3% for the previous year. This rate of growth places Spain in 4th position among EU countries and 8th among the OCDE countries analyzed by the GEM Report. Moreover, the â??death rateâ? of business start-ups in Spain has dropped by 16.6%, pointing to higher rates of consolidation. In the words of Ignacio de la Vega, Director of the GEM Report in Spain and Professor at IE Business School, â??2007 was a good year for entrepreneurial activity as a whole. In addition to an increase with regard to 2006, which saw spectacular rates of growth, business start-ups are growing in quality and dimension, and are based on increasingly solid business models which translate directly into a marked drop in business death ratesâ?. Read more…

IE Women in Business in cooperation with the IE Finance, IE Net Impact Chapter and Colombian Entrepreneurs Clubs are delighted to invite you to the conference: “MICROFINANCE. The world of microloans: a women’s world“.

Microfinance refers to the supply of small amount loans, savings, and other financial and non-financial services to low income people. Microfinance programs have generally targeted poor women. It is an activity that has grown above the average of the industry and we invite you to find out about its origins, development and the reasoning behind the target segment and its high performance indicators.

Speakers:
Tomás Gutiérrez Pérez, Professor of Finance at IE Business School. Tomás will tell us about the history and background of the Grameen Bank, founded by Muhammad Yunus. He will explain why this is a women’s world, the evolution of microloans and the future of Microfinance.
Marcela Torres, IMBA 2008 Student. A practical example. Marcela has done extensive research in this field and has launched a project in Colombia. She will tell us about her experience and how she has contributed to help women building successful businesses in Colombia.

When: Wednesday 5th March 2008
Venue: Aula Magna (María de Molina, 11)
Time: 6.30 pm (duration: 1.5 hours)
The conference will be held in English.

This event is one of the many Student initiatives at IE Business School. If you wish to learn more, please visit the web of the IE Student Office, http://studentoffice.ie.edu/.

The ecologIE initiative at IE Business School is organizing conference on sustainable design, examining sustainable design as an economically viable and profitable option.

Date: 6 March 2008 (19:00 to 20:30 hours) Cocktail: 20:30 to 21:30
Place: Aula Magna, IE Business School, Madrid, Spain
Audience:  Students and alumni of IE Business School, IE University and Madrid-based design students.
Language: English
Organised by:  FLOOV Visionary Design, ecologIE Business-Environment Platform, IE
Supported by:  The Netherlands Embassy in Madrid

Topics:

Getting to know Sustainable Design – Definition of Sustainable Design, Sustainable Innovation and Eco-Design. How to integrate these new concepts into the organisation?
Speaker: Ursula Tischner, Design Academy of Eindhoven â??Manager Sustainable Design Program.

Developing Sustainable Products-Services-Systems – How can Product-Services contribute to more sustainable production and consumption systems?  What business opportunities are there for product/services/systems development in various need areas?
Speaker: Arnold Tukker TNO, The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research â?? Manager of Sustainable Innovation Programs.

Doing Sustainable Business – How to determine the commercial feasibility of a good idea?
What business attitude and skills are required? How do you get enterprises to adopt new sustainable technologies?
Speaker: Thomas van den Groenendaal, Managing Director and Yoeri Nagtegaal, Designer of Evening Breeze.

Moderated debate with question and answer period
Moderator: Steven Adolf, NRC Handelsblad Correspondant for Spain

If you wish to learn more about IEâ??s initiatives in Sustainability and Social Impact Management, please visit www.ie.edu/sim.