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最近在《华尔街日报》（欧洲版）看到一篇“growing with a menter”的文章很有意思，这里大概介绍一下。
“mentor”用我们中国人通俗的说法就是“师傅带徒弟的关系”，想想武侠书里师傅训练徒弟的情节：有时师傅会一招一试地教徒弟，有时则让徒弟自己悟，有时候会对谈；师傅的功力远在徒弟之上，对徒弟的水平了如指掌，而徒弟也绝对信任师傅。这篇文章则是在执行层面上对成功的“mentor”和“mentee”关系做了一个表述。
大意如下（当然你要先給自己找个”mentor”）：
1）在两人开始讨论任何话题之前，花足够的时间去了解对方的个人背景和职业生涯。比如对方的个性、兴趣、成长经历、教育背景、成长环境、职业发展道路等一些比较隐私的东西， 以建立信任。
－－－这个过程要一直贯穿于整个“mentoring”的过程，这种因为信任和了解而给双方带来的利处将会在未来显现它的力量。
2）“mentee”尤其需要弄清楚自己在被“mentoring”之后要达成的目标是什么，最适合自己的学习方式是什么。
－－－事实就是如此，你可以向任何人索要解决问题的处方，但只有你真正了解自己的内疾，才能对症下药。
3）“mentor”和“mentee”在第一次正式会面时应该设定基调：每次见面的具体时间、频率，以及怎样在见面之外的时间保持沟通，否则，“mentoring”就很容易就会因为种种推迟最后不了了之了。
－－－提前确定见面议程，并且雷打不动地执行下去，是确保“mentoring”不提前流产的非常强有力的工具。
可以看一下The Value of a Mentor这篇文章，开始給自己找个”mentor”吧：－）

As Chinese, eating is very important part in our life and culture, and it never changes even if we are now in Madrid. This hot-pot place is very well known in Chinese community and almost every one of us has been there at least once (well, I basically go there once per month:p)
This video was our gathering with IE’s new Asian intakes and exchange students. A pity not every one of us was there, but just show you some IE faces :p

This was my first time, maybe also the last time to actually “see” the bull fight. For me, the fight was too much, even if it is considered as art, in terms of the move, the power and the wisdom of our human beings (as most of us think so) woven into the whole performance. But here you will only see the pre-fight performance which was nice…

Looking at many of current western media, there are more reports about China, and the topics are very much diversified with positive, negative, neutral perspectives. Citing today’s Wall Street Journal as an example, in its 32 pages of newspaper, 5 reports are about China. Well, from a personal point of view, it is always a good thing to get a third party feedback, positive or negative, to help improve and make adjustments to ongoing situations.
These 5 reports are:
1) “Bear grabs China toehold” in Section “LEADING THE NEWS“, which analyzes the deal of Wall Street titan Bear and Beijing-based Citic’s $1 billion investment in one another.
2) “Challenge for China’s Hu: Local officials” in Section “ECONOMY & PLOLITICS”, which focuses on how the newly formed central government leaders “get solutions into place across a huge and increasingly divided nation” centering on the latest meeting of The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
3) “News magnate baits Beijing by pairing politics and sex” in Section “NEWS INDEPTH”, which tells stories of Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong Next Media founder and the wealthiest media owner in Great China, who agitates for China democracy and media freedom in his media practice.
4) “Gateway to a China IPO” in Section “THE INTERNATIONAL INVESTOR, which explains how a once little known Chinese B-2-B website Alibaba grew up into an internet company with value of US$1.49 billion, with overtaken control of eBay and Yahoo’s Chinese operations.
5) “China becomes a beacon to the world’s in Section “MARKETPLACE”, which talks about China’s open attitude towards foreign business emigrants with a feature story of an Islamic trader doing business in Yiwu, a city 4 hours south of Shanghai.

For many of us, one of reasons to study in IE is that we take into account IE’s huge talents pool and close business connection to Latin America. If this is your case, have a look at Tax Reform: Mexico Marks the Path by IE professor Rafael Pampillón, who made a through country wide analysis for tax reform in current Mexico.

Ok, guys, here is again IE’s Aspen Ranking in 2007.
(Don’t know what is Aspen Ranking?
Check Some General Introduction about Business School Rankings)
We ARE doing GREAT, esp. given that we are the ONLY European business school in the rank out of top 10 business school world wide. Have a look at IE’s MBA program among the top 10 worldwide in Aspen Institute’s sustainability ranking

Just in case many of you hardly have chance read China Economic Review , here is the link about IE’s EIU 2007 ranking news published there.
Well honestly I don’t like that pic very much…

As we can see each year, there are a variety of rankings about business school programs from different organizations, and it has been more common than before that school’s ranking from one organization varies a lot from another. The answer is obvious: different rankings have different standards and specialization. Here are some general introduction about the most commonly applied business school ranking.

Economist Intelligence Unit 英国经济学人信息中心（EIU）每年发布一次全球百强商学院排行榜，其依据的是校友和在校学生的反馈，以及学校提供的数据。该排名主要考量的是商学院能在多大程度上满足学生的预期。

Financial Times《金融时报》（FT）每年推出的商学院全球百强榜，主要依据的是毕业三年后的校友的反馈、校方提供的数据以及对商学院研究成果的评估结果。排名的三大标准是：毕业生的职业发展情况、学校的国际化程度和新思想的开创性。

The Aspen Institute (Aspen）的榜单主要衡量的是在世界排名前100位的商学院中，将社会和环境问题纳入课堂教学和课后实践的广度和深度。其排名被认为是目前在该领域最具权威性和发言权的。

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Have a look at this BUSINESS EDUCATION 2007: Empathetic business sense nurtured by disaster, a story of one of IE alumni from Financial Times
Jamila Bravo Maagdalia is a EMBA student @IE Business School, before that she had been working for non-government organizations long time such as commercial adviser attached to the Spanish Embassy in Johannesburg, director of international relations for the EU’s @LIS programme in European Commission. She is now director for south-east Asia at Excem, a family-owned company with diverse global interests, one of her current assignments also taps her passion for international co-operation and development.

I have been an IE student for over one year, but to be honest I hardly know any confernce going on inside IE until very recently when I started my internship in IE campus. Well here is the first conference I attended called “Leading for the Future”, which was an international workshop co-organized by IWE (International Women of Excellence) and IE.
The idea of the workshop is ¨to help women maximize both of their individual and career potential by sharing successful experiences from others and building on positive experiences; meanwhile, to help organizations attract and retain women talents by creating flexible working environment for them.” as said by Brian Hadfield, Chairman of IWE.
Well if you think carefully about it, this women issue is getting more important among all corporate stuff. But the problem is—–
despite the fact that women are gaining more important positions in the corporate world due to their contribution to facilitating the organization’s capacity to innovate, more women are leaving their organizations due to issues such as inhospitable corporate culture, lack of visibility in the organization, commitment to personal life or family responsibilities.
So what can we do?
(Yes, I was also participating the workshop, and surprisingly the result turned out that many of us rarely do any self development planning regarding social networking with peer business women, or seeking ways of dealing with a male dominated business world, etc., even if we´ve already been in middle management level.)

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