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The Master in Advanced Finance class 2012 has already started! This year the class welcomes students from 13 countries of 5 continents, with an average age of 29, ranging from 24 to 36 years old, 23% women, and an average full time working experience of 5 years. The countries represented are: Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Germany, India,  Kazakhstan, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, USA.

19% of these students are CFA level II or level III holders, 42% of them have worked overseas and 31% studied their undergraduate degrees overseas before IE. 15% of the class are Dual Degree students (International MBA and Master in Advanced Finance).

The students started the course with two days of orientation where they attended several World Awareness Seminars, followed by official classes of the first semester.

If you wish to get more information on the Master in Advanced Finance, please join our events or visit the program website.

Aleksandra, current student of the Master in International Management, talks about her experiences during the Master.

Hi Aleksandra! Start off by telling us about yourself…
Hello! My name is Aleksandra! I’m a girl from Cleveland, USA, with Serbian blood, heart, and soul. I did my Bachelor degree in International Business at the University of Akron, USA, and now I am in beautiful Madrid pursuing my passion in international business and management. I first fell in love with Spain when I lived for a summer in Sevilla (southern Spain, in Andalusia). Having that daily magical influence of exquisite Arab architecture, centuries upon centuries of Roman, Jewish, and Moorish history at every step, and the daily siesta coma that apparently comes with the arrival stamp in your passport, the Spanish summer heat just ignited my passion for this land. Did I mention that I also love the culture, language, and zeal for life here in Spain?!

Great stuff, do you have an interesting fact or story to share with us?
I started learning Arabic during my last semester of university! I loved it… but haven’t done it since. It’s such a beautiful language to write!

What are the kinds of things you admire in a person?
I admire people who “dare to be themselves in the face of adversity. Choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience, and truth over popularity….. Since these are the choices that measure your life” (author unknown). Read more…

Global Engagement through Social Entrepreneurship is the topic of the 2012 IB World Student Conference hosted by IE University, Spain.

This conference provides to IB Diploma Program students the opportunity to meet students and social entrepreneurs who share a concern about our society’s most pressing problems and want to design an innovative action plan to solve them.

IE University hosts this event in their beautiful historic campus, housed in a 15th century convent, the perfect setting to get inspired and come up with new ideas to achieve social change. Participants will also be able to explore the surrounding areas, and enjoy and absorb all the history and culture that Spain has to offer.

The program includes interactive lectures by renowned social entrepreneurs, as well as team meetings in which, through the process of design thinking, the teams will create an action plan to implement their ideas. In addition, IB Diploma students have the opportunity to take part in cultural, social, and outdoor activities that will allow them to get to know their fellow participants better and learn from their experiences.

Registration is now open on the IB website.

IE Business School´s Net Impact Club cordially invites you to the 6^th Annual Social Responsibility Forum (SRF), IE´s most widely attended conference as seen by the geographical reach of its speakers, the increasing number of students from other top European MBA programs, and successful professionals who attend the event every year.  Mark your agendas, this year´s SRF will be held on November 11-12, 2011.

Sustainability is not only for tree-huggers. It is for global strategists as well. For this reason we are convening more than 30 experts from 5 continents to tell you why.

The concept of SRF 2011 is Invent Your Paradigm and hopes to enable a platform to discuss cutting edge developments within sustainability and management thinking: multidisciplinary systems thinking, knowledge networks, change management, as well as the ability to simultaneously view problem solving from local and global perspectives.  Whether we are in the private, public or third sector, this forum believes we need to constantly shift the sustainability paradigm to be effective leaders and decision-makers. With the right dose of empowerment and inspiration, anyone can become a paradigm shifter.

Enjoy some of the most recent impressions about IE, the facilities and its people!

The IE International MBA starts with an innovative, constantly changing module called LAUNCH. In past edition, students had to play basketball, talk like actors and develop their creative side guided by the Architecture Association of London.

In this year edition, the IE School of Architecture created a workshop related to Design Thinking. Enjoy the video!

IE University is an international university in two complementary meanings of the word:
1 It is a university which has an international faculty and staff, with students coming from almost 60 different countries.
2 Students are prepared for international careers and draw on IE University’s international experience. 

Both the contents of its academic programs, and the academic and professional profiles which students are trained in, are international. This approach is a prerequisite for contemporary higher education in which graduates have to interact in other countries and languages from the start of their academic and professional lives. More importantly, when the barriers between what is global and what is local no longer exist, professional and academic projects have an immediate and far reaching impact on customers, readers, audiences, partners, etc, across the globe.  

Some features of IE University’s international outreach include:

• The two official working languages at IE University are English and Spanish. All its undergraduate and postgraduate programs are taught in English and many are also taught in Spanish.
• Internships in countries around the world and in international companies and institutions.
• The almost 60 undergraduate nationalities and over 90 postgraduate nationalities. Dozens of languages are spoken on campus, something that visitors to our Segovia and Madrid sites quickly notice.

 However, higher education at IE University is international not just to meet the needs of the contemporary academic and professional world. It aims to go further. Exchanging ideas and being familiar with different cultures and lifestyles are expected of people with  an excellent education in the 21st century and are an absolute necessity for professionals and academics who will guide the course of the complex world we live in. This is why we say IE University’s model of higher education is international.

But let’s see how Keiko McNally explains it to you:

IE Focus | By Celia de Anca, Director Centre of Global Diversity Management at IE

The midlife crisis affects both men and women, but while men tend to seek an emotional answer, women often need a more rational approach. It would be to business corporations’ advantage to provide women with just that.According to Jewish mysticism, a man can only start his learning of the cabbala after his 40th birthday, when life starts to fall apart and needs to be rebuilt, not so much from the outside, but rather from within, from a connection with his true nature. In our more prosaic civilisation, we speak of the midlife crisis, which, as Tony Judt pointed out not long ago, is that crucial moment when many men either get a new wife or buy a motorbike. 

A woman could not study the cabbala so there was apparently no reason for speaking about when her life starts to fall apart in mystic terms, and women have not traditionally changed their husband for one who was 20 years younger when reaching the age of 40. Her crisis, at least in our society, used to be the empty nest syndrome, which left a woman waiting to refill it with grandchildren.
Our society has changed, even if the midlife crisis is still with us. A woman no longer cries when her chicks fly the nest. Indeed, many of them are happy to see them go and become hungry for a professional career with some kind of meaning. A male friend once told me that after 20 years in the same profession, the time had come to change his life. At the same time, his wife, after 5 years at home looking after the children, had reached a point where she really needed to go back to work. Hence pure logic led them to change their roles, whereby he stayed at home for a few years enjoying his time with his children, who were still small, while she went back to work to enjoy the pleasures (yes, there are some) of a full professional life. Read more…