Written on December 29, 2010 by Dirk Hopfl in Go for IE
We appreciate very much your loyalty reading this blog and hopefully we can welcome you as well in 2011 – and some of your friends! Use this blog as your starting point for an exciting journey through IE, as student, as alumni or just as curious person seeking broaden your knowledge.
Written on December 7, 2010 by Dirk Hopfl in Go for IE
At IE Business School, we take a holistic approach to evaluating each candidate. We look at every aspect of your application; as such no single element is of unique importance within evaluation, but rather a compilation of all the elements submitted.
Between those submitted elements are the letters of recommendation, fundamental in “adding score points in the path to admission” as Julian Trigo, Director of Admissions at IE Business School. He also addressed that ”finding the right recommenders is crucial” to get to know the strenghts and weaknesses of a candidate applying to the International MBA program.
Here are some tips when choosing your recommenders: Read more…
Written on September 8, 2010 by Dirk Hopfl in Academics, Go for IE
The IE Brown Executive MBA is to be launched in March 2011. One core element of this program is Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship which pulls together all management areas with the aim to create value for the firm as well as for society introducing Brown’s expertise into the value creation process.
The objective of the teach the innovation processes and develop the entrepreneurial skills associated with the continuous creation of value in a business environment and social context. The ability of a company to create new value for customers and end users is essential to sustained growth. This module is therefore about participants understanding corporate innovation processes and learning the leadership skills associated with entrepreneurial management and new business development. The pedagogical approach is that of ‘experiential learning’ in which the faculty provide a framework for understanding, but the participants develop and sharpen their skills by undertaking projects based upon relevant xperiences drawn from their own environment. The projects blend team and individual activities, culminating in a business case. The project also incorporates the nuanced learnings from the liberal arts and critical studies curriculum in framing the business case in a relevant cultural, historical and geopolitical context.
In the following video, this approach will be visualized by Angus Kingon from Brown and Joseph Pistrui and Pablo Martin from IE.
Written on September 6, 2010 by Dirk Hopfl in Academics, Go for IE
The IE Brown Executive MBA breakes with the traditional Executive MBA model purely focussed on management. Starting in March 2011, this program integrates leading management thinking with wider perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, engineering, and life sciences.
Follow this video in which Angus Kingon from Brown and David Bach from IE provide insights into the program structure and its innovative learning approach.
Written on September 2, 2010 by Dirk Hopfl in Academics, Go for IE
One of the most innovative Executive MBA will start in March 2011 and is a joint initiative from Brown University, the leading Ivy League school, and IE Business School, one of the leading business schools in the world.
The IE Brown Executive MBA will introduce participants not only into the most updated management knowledge but instill the critical liberal arts thinking which helps managers to think out of the box!
In the following video Brown’s Provost and IE’s Dean explain why the connection between liberal arts and business becomes critical in the future, and therefore why this alliance makes sense.
Written on August 22, 2010 by Dirk Hopfl in Go for IE, IE University
Explore the Master in Corporate Communication and follow the suggestions from Adrian Monck, Managing Director and Head of Communications at the World Economic Forum (Davos-Switzerland):
Written on August 6, 2010 by Dirk Hopfl in Explore IE, Go for IE
The continued demand of online education, makes IE launching a second intake in March 2011 of its renowned Global MBA.
Since already 4 years, the IE Global MBA provides candidates with an extraordinary flexbility when studying their MBA program. They can continue progressing within their corporations meanwhile they connect on a daily basis to the online campus, exchanging experiences and discussing cases in teams like in the full-time MBA class.
Every Saturday they enjoy the class setting through videoconferences where teams have to present their conclusions on a given case discussing it with the entire class moderated by the professor. If you’re working in an international oriented company, videoconferences are most likely to be happening at some stage of your career development and during the program you learn the tools to efficiently conduct those conferences.
Due to the increasing demand of the Global MBA and a more diversified outreach, IE introduced last year a second time slot for the Saturday Videoconferences. Now, those sessions can be followed from 11am to 3pm and from 4pm to 8pm (Madrid time). The second time slot boosted the diversity in class and the program counts now with 43 different nationalities within a class size of about 70.
… and there is another good news: in addition to the September intake , IE launches a second intake, starting in March 2011. The official program start is set for March 19, 2011 and the first residential week starts on March 28, 2011. This first residential weeks helps to know the other team and classmates as well as the professors. The second residential week at the end of the program is rounding up the whole online experience with the graduation together with the full-time MBA. Being awarded the same degree, it makes sense that both classes graduate together!
The next virtual presentation will be on September 8 at 1pm Madrid time (7pm Singapore time). You can sign up for on our event page and explore in the meanwhile the IE Global MBA web.
In a network society, as individuals or organizations, we express our human and digital identity. The practice of story-telling abilities as a mean to communicate strategically & creatively is crucial as the world becomes smaller as a result of greater connectivity between information & opinions. With this mindset we encourage individuals to put in test their story-telling skills by answering one of these two questions:
“How should global corporations communicate with local bloggers?”
“How is the economic downturn affecting you community?”
These competitions will grant the two winners a publication of their submitted work & one scholarship of 60% to each one, applicable on tuition fees of the Master in Corporate Communication or the Master in Economics & Business Journalism from the IE School of Communication. You can choose the challenge that relates to the program of your interest & elaborate your view with blog entries of 500 words or a 10 minute video uploaded on YouTube.
Good luck!
Start date: 14th of May 2010
End date: 20th of June 2010 (at 24.00 CEST)
More details you can find on http://competition.mccmebj.ie.edu/
The Master in Global Environmental Change from the IE School of Biology is an innovative program with a unique focus. The Master will prepare students to translate the emerging insights about our changing living environment into understandable information to guide decision-makers in business, governments, and communities.
To celebrate this pioneering program, IE School of Biology will grant a publication of the winner’s submitted work & a scholarship of 60% of tuition fees of the Master. The competition tests your ability to communicate about environmental issues. Tell your story about how environmental change affects (or will affect) your living environment with twenty images. We are looking for a strong message without bells and whistles.
Submissions will be judged by a professional jury. Unleash your creativity and enter the competition!
Start date: 14th of May 2010
End date: 20th of June 2010 (at 24.00 CEST)
More details you can find on http://competition.mgec.ie.edu/.
Written on May 21, 2010 by Dirk Hopfl in Go for IE, IE University
The Pritzker-Hyatt scholarships, for the education of professionals in the world of Architecture, are directed toward students of IE University’s Bachelor in Architecture + Business.
The IE Foundation and Pritzker-Hyatt have signed an agreement, offering two scholarships to candidates that have successfully completed the admission process, therefore being admitted to the IE School of Architecture, for the fall 2010 intake. The goal of this agreement is to ensure that no economic reasons will interfere with candidates who have excellent potential from gaining access to IE University and helping us, at the same time, promote the entrepreneurial spirit, which is the foundation of social and economic development on both the national and international scopes.
Scholarship details:
Please do not hesitate to contact the IE Financial Aid Office – María de Molina, 11 – 28006 Madrid, España, if you need clarification on any aspect of the scholarship, by calling +34 91 568 96 00 or by sending an email to financialaid@ie.edu.
If you need any further information, or would like to begin the IE University admission process, please call us at +34 921 412 428 or write to university@ie.edu.
