Six Essential Factors for Today’s CFOs
"Today, more than ever, CFOs generate value," said Juan Luis Ramírez Beláustegui, a founding partner of Portobello Capital. Speaking on July 9 at the 1st Chief Financial Officers Meeting, Ramírez...
View Article“It’s Like Coming Home”
"An MBA is a significant investment. You have to be sure you’re making the right choice." So says Luis Palencia, IESE professor of accounting and control. And one of the best ways to be sure, he...
View ArticleMayoral Wins National Industrial Excellence Award
Mayoral Moda Infantil, a Spanish, family-owned children’s fashion firm with over 70 years of history, has been handed the national Industrial Excellence Award 2015 by IESE through its CELSA Chair of...
View ArticleAfrican Business Leaders Gather in Barcelona
"People are saturated with events about the big numbers and the macroeconomics of Africa," says IESE’s Prof. Alejandro Lago, co-director of The Africa Initiative. "We wanted to focus on key operational...
View ArticleTimes Might Change, but Values Endure
"In the past half-century, the world has changed, but what remains unalterable? Values like honesty, meritocracy, honor and solidarity may be redefined with time. But in essence, they don’t...
View ArticleNew Website for IESE MBA
IESE has unveiled a new-look MBA site, optimized for the web, smartphones and tablets. The new site has been built from the ground up with a focus on improved users experience and navigability across...
View ArticleBank “Not Ready” for Digital
"The past is holding banks back." This is the key finding of Industrialized and Ready for Digital Transformation, a study by IESE professor Robert W. Gregory and Synpulse Management Consulting.More...
View ArticleA Summer of Innovation in Health Tech
How do you turn a great health technology idea into a viable business? Forty researchers, PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and innovators from across Europe gathered on IESE’s Barcelona campus to...
View ArticleEssential Business Reads for Summer
Entrepreneurial Icebreakers Authors: Mª Julia Prats; Marc Sosna & Sylwia Sysko-Romanczuk Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publishing date: December 2014 Fifteen companies, ten countries, one goal:...
View ArticleA Summer of Social Internship
The summer break isn’t a stop signal for IESE MBA students. Some are developing their own projects as part of the Entrepreneurship Experience while others are putting their skills into practice on...
View ArticlePreparations Underway in Munich for Global Alumni Reunion 2015
Munich will host the Global Annual Reunion 2015 this October. The city, which is also the site of the new IESE campus (read news article), will be the backdrop to a full line up this year which...
View ArticleFurthering Management Knowledge
Senior managers are not alone in their search for answers to questions such as what skills will tomorrow's global leaders need? How should organizations be governed to create economic and social...
View Article15 Essential Posts
Five years on from its launch and freshly revamped, the IESE Blog Network is blooming. It continues spreading the expert insights of IESE faculty further afield, bringing enhanced content to readers...
View ArticleGlobal Research Gets Global Recognition
IESE faculty’s research gains international recognition this academic year. Their intense and rigorous research activities garnered more than a dozen awards and acknowledgments. Not only from leading...
View ArticleIESE MBA Jubilee: A global celebration
1964 marked the launch of the IESE MBA. A full-time, two-year program. The first of its kind in Europe. Hard to imagine that only a year had passed from the the first Harvard-IESE Committee meeting. To...
View ArticleBlended Learning to Benefit You
For busy executives, time spent out of the office is limited – and precious.So investing in an executive education program to accelerate performance and deliver benefits, while desirable, hinges on...
View ArticleMaking the Best Companies Even Better
Getting to the top is a challenge; staying there is an even greater one. When IESE’s Custom Programs were ranked number one in the world by the Financial Times in May 2015 (read news article), the...
View ArticleNew Focused Programs for 2015-2016
The IESE Focused Programs portfolio, ranked first in the world by the Financial Times (read news article), goes from strength to strength. September sees the launch of three new programs on the...
View ArticleSeven Sectors to Keep on the Radar
For more than 25 years, IESE Industry Meetings have been a leading forum for professionals looking for a glimpse of future trends and opportunities in major industries. They bring together eminent...
View ArticleWelcome to the New MBA Class
An exciting and game-changing experience awaits the 297 new students who begin the 2015-2017 MBA program today. Around them as they sit down in class will be the unfamiliar faces of peers from 55...
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