IE Business School was recognized by the prestigious Business Week MBA raking as the number two Business school in the world in the non-US Business school Ranking. According to this ranking IE is the best school in Europe and the Best school in Spain, and excluding the US and Canada, IE is the best school in the World.
Also, the article about the raking mentions who IE received the highest overall student satisfaction rate from all school both international and US.
With this great news, Business Week recognizes the efforts IE has made in the last few years to overhaul and improve its MBA program; consistently ranked for many years by other publications as one of the best in the World.
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This year again we have the chance to participate in the 3rd Annual IE Social Responsibility Forum, conducted next November 14th and 15th at our campus in Madrid.
You can see in the detailed agenda the large number of wide ranging panels and discussions.
Each year, the number of MBA students and professionals who engage in social and environmental issues, be it through corporate social responsibility, starting their own social enterprises or through business endeavors in the environmental arena, grows exponentially.
Led by a diverse range of committed business people willing to apply their intelligence and training towards more than just the economic bottom line, this new breed of leaders tackle social issues head on while incorporating solutions to society’s problems into their business plans and operations.
This third edition of the Forum, which is this year sponsored by Endesa, Johnson and Johnson and Etture, will showcase key international speakers from the Business and Academic worlds, with extensive experience and knowledge in the environmental and social issues explored in the event.
You can attend to this forum by registering in this LINK, or if you would like to attend remotely you shall have the opportunity to view the WEBCASTS of the event thru the link located in the main page.
IE Business School opens its Multimedia Documentation
The multimedia documentation of IE Business School is now open to all of those people interested in accessing it through a Creative Commons license . This documentation is available both in Spanish and in English, and it includes more than 100 modules which cover all business administration areas. These modules include case studies, simulators, on-line games and interactive graphics.
This documentation is not intended to be a form of self study material but instead it has been designed to be used as part of the supporting materials used by professors in the classroom- If anyone is interested in licensing this material for an institutional use please contact with multimedia@ie.edu
IE Business School holds 4th position worldwide and 1st in Europe in the annual ranking of MBAs carried out by leading Latin American business journal America Economia.
Many students indicate during the admission process that they are interested in seeking work opportunities after their program graduation to work in high growth areas like Asia, Middle East and Latin America.
In this case IE Business School programs and students have been awarded high in another international ranking of business school programs reported by America Economia. This is a publication that is highly regarded by Executives and Hiring managers in Latin America, and this may translate in higher visibility and reputation for the students graduating from our MBA and Masters programs.
IE Business School has climbed 8 places this year to consolidate its position as one of the world’s top business schools. In this year’s survey Harvard headed the worldwide ranking, followed by Stanford, Wharton and IE Business School.
The criteria on which the America Economia MBA ranking is based includes the school’s prestige, networking potential, knowledge of the Latin American region, scholarship programs, international agreements and alliances, the return on investment offered by its MBA program and career progression of its graduates.
Gonzalo Garland, Director of External Relations at IE, sees the school’s position in the ranking as a result of IE’s work in the Latin American region over the last three decades. “IE has offices in 8 countries in Latin America that provide support for IE students while serving as a platform for networking among our alumni and for building relations with institutions that play a key role in each country. We are proud that our MBA program has achieved 4th position worldwide and will continue to strive to attract the best candidates and top professors from around the world to meet the demands of the international business community”. This year, the student body of IE Business School’s International MBA program comprises young professionals from 57 countries, making it one of the most diverse MBA environments in the world.
Students from IE Business School and Wharton School provide assessment to firms in the mobility technologies sector
Madrid, September 2008. Students from the International MBA programs at IE Business School and Wharton School have just completed 6 months working as consultants for 5 Spanish companies in the mobility technologies sector looking to operate in the U.S.
The initiative forms part of the Global Consulting Practicum (GCP), an international consulting project run by Wharton School for the last 30 years. Wharton School run the GCP in collaboration with schools from China, India, Israel, Chile, Peru and, since 2007, Spain, after signing an agreement with IE Business School, the only European Business School to participate in the initiative.
The IE Business School-Wharton School project team comprises a mix of 11 students from the two schools. Participating students from the IE Business School International MBA Program were Carlos Raventós (Spain), Marco Guarda (Belgium), Rafael Angélico (Venezuela), Tom Schapira (US) and Andrew Reader (UK). All worked for 6 months alongside Wharton students and the directors of 5 companies that are members of the CIM -Centro de Innovación en Movilidad (Innovation and Mobility Center), co-financed by Microsoft and the Castilla y León to provide assessment for their entry into the US market, their search for funding for international expansion plans, and their search for synergies.
In the course of the project students interviewed the senior directors of participating firms to gather relevant information, and have worked with professors from IE and Wharton. Thus students put into practice their consulting, marketing and entrepreneurial skills, and the knowledge of strategy, internationalization and technological development acquired during the MBA programs. Finally, students presented their proposals to the senior management teams of the participating firms at a workshop on US Mobility Trends held at the Wharton School campus in San Francisco (US), and attended by the Dean of Wharton School, Thomas Robertson, and executives from companies that included Google, Salesforce.com, Benchmark Capital, Accel Partners and Clairmail. All participating companies visited technological firms in Silicon Valley to meet management teams and explore potential areas of collaboration.
