IESE Gets Diwali Fever!
The India Club brought the festive atmosphere straight from India to Barcelona this week with a string of activities - culminating in their flagship event Diwali ! All through the week you could see groups of students dancing to Bollywood songs, clicking pictures in traditional Indian clothes and watching recorded videos in the hallways.
The event on Saturday was full of glitz and glamour - with everyone demonstrating their best Bollywood dance moves in their Indian outfits. This event, attended by over 150 students, is truly a demonstration of how the vibrant IESE community celebrates diversity!
IESE Heads to London in Fashion...and in Retail and Luxury!
The Retail, Fashion, and Luxury Goods Club traveled to London this past week. The trek included visits to Uniqlo, Diane von Furstenburg, TK Maxx, and Yoox/Net-a-Porter.
We also had a talk on Fashion Theory, Conspicuous Consumption, and Consumer Behaviour with a PhD candidate, Mandy Lall. Club members gained greater insight in the industry, company culture, and had a chance to network.
IESE Hosts 4th Latin America Career Fair
On November 5th and 6th, 10 companies came specially from Latin America to meet around 80 students from LBS, INSEAD and IESE.
The event attracted a variety of corporations from sectors as diverse as FMCG, banking, consulting, airline, energy, e-commerce, construction and real estate: ABInbev, Amazon, Avianca, B2W, Falconi, Gafisa, Itau, PetroRio, Raizen, Virtus Partners
Company presentations were followed by on site interviews for summer internships as well as full-time positions.
The Latin American Business Club received very good feedback from attendants, and thanks all participating students as well, as IESE Career Services, for this successful edition!
IESE Partners Show that Sharing is Caring! YUM!!
The partners once again got together to share their skills and talents. This time was more gastronomic! For those with "food for throught", check out the pics!
 
Responsible Leaders Needed for Refugee Crisis!
Responsible Leaders needed for the Refugee Crisis
The Responsible Business Club had yet another busy week where 12 teams participating in the Hult Prize took part in a design thinking workshop to hone their ideas for a brighter and more dignified future for refugees.
The teams are keeping their eyes on the $1 million prize as they prepare their pitches to a panel of judges on Nov 25.
Students Uncork and Wine Down in Carcassonne. A Pour Choice!
The French Business & Culture club and the Wine & Spirit club brought 57 students to discover the French city of Carcassonne on November the 5th and 6th.
This weekend trip included the visit of the old city of Carcassonne, three vineyards tasting, and typical meals of the region. In summary wine, wine and a lot of wine!
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The BTTG Group Celebrates its Second Workshop
Last Saturday 19th of November, the Barcelona Technology Transfer Group (BTTG) organised its second workshop of a series of four. This event had an outstanding group of speakers: David Marimon (founder and CEO of Catchoom), Ignasi Costas (Partner at law firm Rousaud Costas Duran), Ignasi Vilajosana (founder and CEO of WorldSensing) and Jorge Gonzalez (IESE professor)
Next workshop will be held on Saturday 28th of January. Save the date!
Marketing Club Trek to London
The Marketing Club visited industry-leading firms like Unilever, American Express or GSK during three days in London. Fabio Rodriguez, IESE Marketing Club President said “The London Marketing trek is one of the key events of our club. We need the trek to cater all the participants.
We had some students with very strong marketing experience in big firms like Coca-Cola or WPP whilst others are career changers with little knowledge of the industry.
The mix of companies and content of visits needed to be enriching regardless of your marketing knowledge and hearing the feedback I believe we achieved that.
 Family Business Succession:
Ask the Expert!
David Bork is a family business consultant with many decades of experience providing guidance and support to family businesses. Over the years, he has worked with more than 450 family businesses across the world. He is also the author of 2 books on the subject and is regularly invited to give keynote speeches on family business topics at conferences, higher education programs and business retreats.
We had the opportunity to hear him for the first time last year as part of our Family Business Conference. Following positive feedback of the event from many students, he kindly offered to come back this year for this special Family Lab session.
This two hours’ session will start with a lecture based on the model Mr. Bork uses when counselling families: The Bork Process based on the Four Pillars of Family Business. When asked about succession, Mr. Bork quickly replied: “Succession is a process, not an event. It needs to start years in advance of actual transfer of corporate control. Begin with transfer of knowledge and wisdom as that is the foundation of succession “. He insists that the lecture should not take more than one hour and that he wants to open the floor for questions for at least another hour.
For more information on Mr. Bork’s background, please refer to the attached bio. You can also consult his website at:
https://www.familybusinessmatters.consulting/
Spots are limited and will shortly be offered to students outside of the club, so RSVP now!
https://groups.iese.edu/family/rsvp?id=300004747
Looking forward to see you all at 16h in G-301 next Thursday the 17th.
Countdown to Dubai!
The MENA club is getting ready to whisk away over 20 students to Dubai to meet their tax-free future. The Dubai trek preparation is in full swing where lucky 1st and 2nd year students are meeting Emirates airlines, Google, Uber, BCG and many others over a five-day trip. December on a beach? Sign us up!
IESE vs IE Rugby
On Halloween weekend the IESE rugby club took their traditional trip to Madrid to compete against IE in rugby and general life ability. While the Men's contact team stoically withstood two hospital visits and several bashings, they came out moral if not actual victors.
The Mixed team were champions on the other hand, and in the Halloween costume competition there was clearly only one winning team. As per usual a fun event all round, and looking forward to the arrival of the 60-strong LBS women's troupe this weekend.
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