Archive for the ‘IE News’ Category

See the results of the first IE Venture Day in Shanghai celebrated at Fudan University. Students for the Global Executive MBA and from other IE MBA programs presented in front of investors and venture capitalists. As it happens, the winner didn’t get the full attention from the investors side, but the project XXBB, an idea for a online community in China got seed funding on the spot. Congratulations!

The global financial system is providing us with more challenges than ever before. As a response, the financial sector is increasingly looking for individuals who not only have a deep understanding of financial markets, new financial products, risk control and the new financial structures emerging from the credit crisis, but also a competent knowledge in business management. However, young professionals with this kind of expertise are still hard to find.

In response to this, IE has launched its Dual Degree Master in International Management + Master in Finance. This Dual Degree will combine IE’s prestigious Master in International Management program with the sophisticated and deep financial education provided by the Master in Finance, ranked No.2 worldwide by Financial Times in June 2011. Our Master in International Management covers all the core fields of business such as entrepreneurship, strategy and accounting, whereas our Master in Finance looks at cutting edge fields such as corporate social investment, securitization, leveraged buyouts, behavioral finance and Islamic finance. All this is led by our dedicated faculty, 93% of whom are leading practitioners.

Dual Degree students will graduate in 17 months and start the Master in International Management from February to July and then, instead of taking the specialization course of Sales & Marketing, International Business or Digital Business in their 3th period (September – December), they will join the complete Master in Finance program from September to June of the following year.

IE officially inaugurated this month the Saudi-Spanish Center for Islamic Economics and Finance.

Some of the guest speakers share their views on the role and influence of Islamic Finance in the current global financial turmoil :

Mr. Abdulrazak Elkheraji, Executive VP and Head of the Islamic Banking Group:

Dr. Rja Bin Mnahi Al-Marzooqi, of the Islamic International Foundation for Economics & Finance:

IE China Club hosted the Chinese New Year event on 19th January 2012, celebrating the Year of Dragon.

The Ambassador of China to Spain, Mr. Zhu Bangzao, has attended as the Guest of Honour delivery the opening speech for this event. Around 80 corporative executives from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Caja, Telefónica, BBVA, IBM, Loewe, Peugeot España, ZTE, BMW, LAVINIA, Hotel Ritz Madrid, Organe, have participated the event.

The IE Chinese Dragon Year 2012 event is organised by the world-class institution’s China Club was been held at Serrano 99. The event has featured by cultural events which include performance such as Lion Dance, Martial Arts, Face-changing, Pekin Opera, Chinese musical instrument and vocal performances collaborated with Ouhua News agency (El Madarín), the only official Chinese news agency in Madrid, and VIP cocktail reception with LAVINIA.

The event is sponsored by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, ITC , YouMobile, Casa Asia, China Club Spain and Ouhua News, the largest Chinese press in Spain.

IE商学院龙年文化节

1月19日下午4点至9点，IE商学院（IE Business School）和IE中国会在西班牙马德里Serrano大街 99号 的户外空间隆重举行 IE 中国龙年活动庆典2012。旨在认识并了解中国文化，以精湛的文化活动和东方美食鉴赏，中西合璧为契机，本次活动不仅面向学校来自全球90国超过1000名管理精英中推广­了中国正宗”年”文化，而且将作为一系列以IE商学院为基石的商业合作和创业论坛的起步，积极地和国内顶级商学院和大型企业和企业背后的管理巨人资源进行交流互换。

此次活动隆重而盛大，首次在位于马德里的世界顶级商校举行，也成为今年春节期间马德里庆祝龙年春节活动中的亮点。

Imagine social media without images and videos? If you replace all the visual media on Facebook with just text, wouldn’t it be boring?

Who is creating this content? What is the message behind it? Can we develop – on a corporate level – a strategic approach to communicate our values through visual media?  To gain a reply to these questions, IE School of Communication is launching in October 2012 the Master in Visual Media Communication. Here is a short introduction to the program.

How can you convince top managers to invest more in corporate communication? Experts from top leading institutions give their opinion and provide us with good arguments on why corporate communication is important . Hereafter some quotations from the video “The importance of Corporate Communication”.

- “Companies understood that communication has to be supported  by behavior, [...] making a big claim is
easy to do, supporting it is the real challenge” (Stephen Greyser, Harvard University)

-“Times are in constant movement [… ]Companies disappear, appear  again [branding and corporate communication] are the tools to make your offer  tangible and speak to your audiences” (Gabor Shereier, Saffron Brand Consultant)

- “Companies realize that they are not able any more to have a strong  impact on the image they have out there [.. ] through corporate communication  you make the company build dialogues [..] shaping the perception”  (Francesco Lurati, University of Lugano)

- “Today’s issue is communication.  Either you communicate or you do not have success!” (Emanuele Invernizzi, EUPRERA-  IULM University)

“We are moving from a  marketing perspective to a corporate perspective […]Companies have to recover  the trust they have lost[nowadays] it is about having long term indicators  instead than short term  financial indicators” (Angel Alloza, CEO Corporate Excellence, Centre for Reputation Leadership)

“Organizations have to be consistent in the messages they send out  to stakeholders” (Craig Carroll,  Lipscomb University)

“Companies have changed the way they conceive what communication is.  In the past it was more about supporting a strategy that was already taken and  decided. Nowadays is more about helping this decision or strategy to be taken”(Laura Illia, IE University)

What would be your argument?

First published on Blog of IE School of Communication

IE Business School’s International MBA program is No. 3 in Europe and No. 8 worldwide according to the latest Financial Times ranking of MBA programs. The result of this latest ranking further consolidates IE Business School’s International MBA as the best in Spain.

This year 87% of IE Business School’s International MBA is made up of international students from 76 countries, making the School’s student body one of the most diverse in the wold. The School continues to strengthen its commitment to a global environment with programs like the IE Brown Executive MBA, an innovative blend of management and humanities run jointly with Brown University. Launched last year, the IE Brown Executive MBA is geared to directors with more than 10 years of experience in management, combining IE’s strength in the field of business management with the recognition of Ivy League member Brown University as an international leader in humanistic, social and scientific disciplines. The English-taught program comprises online sessions with 5 residential periods held in Madrid and Providence (US).

The Financial Times ranking comprises 21 categories that refer to both the institution and alumni. They include data like the international outreach of each school and its programs, the extent to which expectations are met, the weighted salaries of alumni three years after graduation, the percentage of women faculty and students, the percentage of international professors and professors with a PhD, and levels of research.

For the upcoming academic year 2012-13, IE University launches the Bachelor in International Relations.  This 4-year degree is a hands-on, practical and comprehensive program that prepares students for a career in the international public and private sectors, guaranteed by the expertise and know-how of IE School of Arts and Humanities, a member of the exclusive Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA). IE has been running a Master in International Relations for the past 5 years.

Have a look at the video to learn more about the program.

Studying a BA in Psychology might seem irrelevant to the job market nowadays. Business, Engineering, Law or even International Relations look, especially to parents, to be a more promising option. Learn from the Dean of the School of Social and Behavioral Science, Prof. Dr. Lee Newman, why this impression is not quite right and how beneficial and exciting a psychology related career can be.

This week the IE expanded its official alumni network by another chapter in Melbourne, Australia. With a continuously growing group with currently about 15 members, Jason Andrew, EMBA 2011, took the lead and will be president of this chapter. For the start the gatherings will happen every 3 months. To connect with Alumni in the Melbourne area and in the rest of Australia, please visit the group on LinkedIn.