Archive for October/2008

IE Business School will be in Kuala Lumpur on October 21 to explain more in detail its academic portfolio but also give an overall introduction into IE. Participants can learn about the reason why IE is one of the leading business schools of the world.

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The University inaugurates its first academic year with two new degrees in Architecture and Communication that are fully compliant with the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). In his address during the inauguration of the first academic year of the new international university model launched by IE in April of this year, Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño, Rector of IE University  stated that â??The university we are building will be one of Europeâ??s most prestigious centers of learning, in line with the achievements of our business schoolâ?.
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The Rector described IE University as â??A private institution with a public mission: that of educating global citizens, entrepreneurs who are committed to society and have an excellent working knowledge of their fields.â? He went on to underscore the fact that IE Universityâ??s innovative, market-oriented programs will also equip graduates with a solid grounding in humanities and management, given that â??humanities are the binding agent that integrate other knowledge, and the base for shaping individuals in the fullest sense of the wordâ?. Iñiguez de Onzoño also spoke about how behind every good business practice there is a good management practice, which is why IE University graduatesâ?? education will be equivalent to that of an MBA graduate, in that they will be entrepreneurial in their fields, change agents in their profession, and generators of value and social well-being.

After speaking about the Universityâ??s  two new degree programs  in Architecture and Communication launched at the beginning of the academic year, both of which are adapted to the European Higher Education Area, Íñiguez de Onzoño announced that in the next academic year, following the receipt of the pertinent approval, IE Universityâ??s Santa Cruz la Real campus is set to launch new degrees in Business Administration,  Biology, Law, History of Art, Construction Engineering, Journalism and Audiovisual Communication, Psychology, Tourism Management, and Systems and Technologies. â??One of the key features of these new degree programs will be their markedly international slant in terms of content, student profile, Spanish and English versions, strategic alliances and exchanges with leading international universities, and relations with global business organizations and institutions. Read more…

October 2008 | By Antonio Rivela, Professor at IE Business School

One of the collateral effects of the crisis is a purge of the entire system as Darwinâ??s famous survival of the fittest kicks in. But should all species be left to fend for themselves?

What should the central banks do to combat the recession? That is the question asked constantly by investment banks, politicians, legislators and people on the street. Many players on the market will see a digital answer to the question.

Should they inject funds indiscriminately into the system from the public treasury to correct the upset caused by the investment banks? Or should they be allowed to fall in pure Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest style? On this particular occasion I happen to think that it depends on each case.

There are banks which, owing to their status, help the financial system on a structural scale. They can be compared with the age-old trees that form a basis for an ecosystem. Without them, no animal would be able to exist. The latest examples are the agencies that support the mortgage system in the United States, affectionately known as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, since their initials are unpronounceable, believe me. I think it is blatantly obvious that these institutions should be helped in order to avoid a potential collapse of the United States property market, which could have been comparable with the 1929 recession. In these two cases, the Fed was correct to inject $100 billion into each institution. Read more…

IE today presented its new Master in International Relations, run by the IE School of Arts and Humanities, and focused on professionals set to map a career path in the field of international relations in both the business and institutional worlds.The inauguration of the program included an address by Ana Palacio, former Spanish Minister Foreign Affairs, on ‘Energy: A Global Challenge’, together with contributions from Arantza de Areilza, Dean of the IE School of Arts and Humanities and Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Director of the Master in International Relations.

The IE Master in International Relations is run onsite at IE’s Madrid campus, and includes a week of fieldwork in Brussels to equip students with a privileged insight into key EU institutions. It runs for 10 months, is taught 100% in English and is aimed at graduates from disciplines that include Political Sciences, Sociology, Law, Economics, Business Sciences, Communication, Languages and Literature. The program includes sessions on managing multinationals, international financial markets, negotiation in the EU, challenges in Latin American democracies, global terrorism, approaching contemporary China, and new players on the strategic map: China and India.

The program’s student body has a markedly international profile, with participants from Spain, Mexico, US, Russia, Sweden, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Lebanon. The program faculty comprises professors like Riordan Roett, international analyst and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University (Washington, US); José María de Areilza, Director of the Jean Monnet Chair at IE and Dean of IE Law School; Fernando Reinares, expert in international terrorism and senior lecturer in political science at Rey Juan Carlos University; and José Ramón Montero, senior lecturer in political science at Madrid’s Autónoma University.

Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Director of the Program, sees it as a natural progression of the process that has made IE Business School an international school with 35,000 alumni working in five continents. “A global institution like IE needs a program dedicated entirely to teaching and research in the field of international relations. That is the vocation of this new master program, which shares IE’s commitment to academic excellence and a student-centric learning process based on interactive experience.”

Over 150 Spanish and international companies will be participating in the 8th edition of the IE Business School Careers Fair to recruit executive talent for their organizations.

The fair will serve as a platform for recruiting companies to give presentations on their strategic development at the IE campus, and to hold interviews with 800 students and alumni of IE Business School programs. The number of participating companies is 48% higher than the previous year, having risen from 105 to 155 companies, which further consolidates the IEâ??s Career Fair Week as a leading recruitment event in Spain.

The overriding objective of the Careers Fair is to serve as an interface between recruiting companies and the students and alumni of IE Business Schoolâ??s MBA, Executive MBA and specialized master programs. Participating companies have an international profile that requires top-level managers for their organizations to meet the demands of expansion and diversification. This yearâ??s participating companies include Accenture, Amadeus, Arthur D. Little, Avon, BBVA, Barclays,  Santander, BT, Beiersdorf, Carrefour, Cemex, Deloitte, Dell Computer, GE, IBM, Ikea, , Hilti, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, Lâ??Oreal, LVMH, Mercer, Microsoft, Oracle, Philips, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Roland Berger, Schering Plough, Telefónica, Vodafone, Wrigley’s.

The last day of the fair is dedicated to the field of law and tax, and this year over 30 law firms will be presenting their organizations and holding interviews with students from IE Law Schoolâ??s Master in Legal Practice, Master in Tax Law and Master in Law in International Legal Practice. Law firms at this yearâ??s Careers Fair include Allen & Overy, Cuatrecasas, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Garrigues, Latham & Watkins and Uría & Menéndez.

Some 85% of the students and alumni that attended the last edition of the IE Business School Careers Fair were interviewed by participating firms, and 65% were hired as a result. The fair enables students and alumni to gain a privileged insight into the key strategic developments of the participating firms on both a national and international level, and of their hiring policies and job opportunities. Rosalía Rodriguez, Associate Director of Careers Management at IE Business School feels that now, more than ever before, firms are acutely aware that hiring talent is the best way to tackle an economic crisis. â??Talent is a scant resource and there is a great deal of competition in the market. Firms are seeking new formulae in their search for talent, like our Careers Fair, where they have direct access to top-tier managers. This is why we have seen a 48% increase in the number of participating companies this year with regard to last yearâ??s edition, rising from 105 to over 150 firmsâ?.

IE University and consulting firm Gavin Anderson & Company presented on October 1 the findings of a survey on embassy networks in 18 countries. The information presented in the report was based on bilateral agreements among participating countries and between said countries and the rest of the international community, complete with export figures.

The study, which was coordinated by Professor Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo of IE Business School and academic director of the Master in International Relations, covered the G8 countries (Germany, France, UK, Italy, US, Canada, Japan and Russia) and the countries that comprise the BRIC group formed in 2001 (Brazil, Russia, India and China), along with Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Chile, and Venezuela.

Spain has diplomatic presence in 84% of the countries (192 in total) included in the report through numerous embassies or accreditations, the same level as China and lower than that of countries like Germany, France, Italy, US, Canada, Japan and Argentina. The countries with which Spain enjoys the greatest trade relations are Germany, France and Italy.

The study has also revealed that the greatest changes in the last two years in terms of diplomatic representation have taken place in Africa, due to the interest in the natural resources of the African continent.  Trade between Africa and China has risen from 18.5 billion dollars in 2003 to 73 billion in 2007. China is Africaâ??s second biggest trade partner, after the US. 85% of African exports to China are from five oil-producing countries (Angola, Ecuatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Congo and Sudan) but it also imports other African raw materials like copper, wood and diamonds.

Brazilâ??s foreign policy has placed numerous diplomatic tools in Africa to serve its interest. According to the report, between 2003 and 2007, Brazil opened 12 new embassies in Africa, and Brazilian exports to African countries rose from 2.5 billion dollars in 2003 to 7.5 billion in 2006.

Turkey, Korea and Venezuela have also shown their interest in building on their diplomatic network in Africa.  This has led to an increase in trade between Turkey and Africa. Turkeyâ??s volume of business grew from 5 billion dollars in 2003 to 12 billion in 2007.  Meanwhile Korea has already announced that it is to open embassies in the Congo and Cameroon as part of a plan to expand cooperation in the field of natural resource development, and Venezuela has expressed its intention to establish embassies in Sudan, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic and the Congo.

The growing democratization of the international community led to the disappearance of the distinction between embassy and legation, which used to be based on the importance of the country in question. However, the Commonwealth countries (an association of 53 independent states headed by the Queen of England) still call the offices they have in other commonwealth countries â??High Commissionâ? as shown on the maps and tables that form part of the report.

Multiple accreditation is the term used to describe numerous diplomatic offices that represent the state not only in the country in which they are located but also in other, often neighboring, states.  The phenomenon of multiple accreditation is also covered by the report, as are cases in which two countries do not maintain any type of diplomatic relations.

Just some days ago IE Business School inaugurated its Master in Finance the first 100% Finance focused program. This program is along with the Master in Advanced Finance the continuation of the Master in Financial Management.  Even though the financial industry is not experiencing its best moment and every minute there can be a new money devalueing news on the ticker, 35 students decided to dedicate the next 10 months to immerse into the academic world of finance.

Over this period they will learn about key areas in today’s finance including derivatives, mergers and acquisitions
or private equity and covers up-to-the-minute fields that now play a critical role in the finance world, such risk control as emerging markets, current global economic issues, financial entrepreneurship and how to invest in markets.

That Finance is not anymore a male domain demonstrates the high percentage of women in this intake with nearly 1/3 of the entire class. The globalization of the world economy and its financial system makes that there is a wide spread of nationalities – 25 – with no dominant culture in class. Asia is represented with roughly 15% of the class and shows the increasing importance of this region in the financial industry.

Just only 11% of the class brings previous industry experience into the classroom where the work experience is around the targeted 1 year. Once they finish the program in July 2009, will start as analyst in the investment banking, private equity or hedge funds in those companies which has survived the current crisis.

If you wish to learn more about the Master in Finance or the Master in Advanced Finance just click the corresponding link.