Archive for January, 2010
January 31, 2010
Several readers have contacted me to provide information about the ESADE MBA that is essentially on the website of ESADE. Therefore I decided to write this directory that you will also find on the right side as a separate page for easy access (click here).
NAME: ESADE, Ramon Llull University
HISTORY: ESADE timeline since 1958
LOCATION: ESADE MBA, Avinguda d’Esplugues, 92, 08034 Barcelona, España
FACILITIES: Barcelona-Pedralbes Campus, Barcelona-Sant Cugat Campus, Madrid Campus, Buenos Aires Campus
PROGRAMS: Full Time MBA – 12, 15 or 18 months (Brochures, Information Sessions), Part Time MBA, Executive MBA and Global Executive MBA, all other courses
RANKING: Overview (Business Week, FT, Wall Street Journal, Aspen Institute, America Economia)
ADMISSIONS: Full Time MBA, Part Time MBA
DATES: Application deadlines, interview dates, information sessions, news
GMAT: Preparation Courses
COURSE: Core courses and electives
CAREER: Parners and recruiters (Recruiter Portal)
ALLIANCES: Academic partners and Exchange Programs
FINANCE: Full Time MBA Financial Aid, Scholarships
STUDENTS: Full Time MBA Class Profile
FACULTY & RESEARCH: Directory and Profiles
STUDENT ASSOCIATION: MBASA
ALUMNI: ESADE Alumni
BLOG: ESADE MBA Blog
STUDENT LIFE: All about Barcelona and ESADE
Tags:Admissions, alumni, core, course, directory, electives, ESADE, financial aid, professors, scholarships, students, subjects
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January 29, 2010
A message from MBASA for the first cultural event of the year:
Dear ESADE MBAS
Don’t miss out on getting your ticket TODAY, for our first cultural event of the year… happening next week!
Event: Flamenco show and 3 course dinner (price all inclusive)
To clarify the questions that many of you asked me yesterday: You will not be asked to dance or dress up in traditional flamenco outfits :)
Date: Saturday, 6th of February, 21.00 – late
Venue: El Tablao de Carmen in Pueblo Español (close to Montjuic).
Deemed the most authentic show in Barcelona !!!
http://www.tablaodecarmen.com/
Special Esade offer: € 38 including show and three course dinner
(the regular price is € 69 !!)
Tickets will be sold outside the cafeteria on level 2 from 13.00 – 15.00.
We need to collect the money in advance to take advantage of our special offer, so please let us know asap if you would like to attend put cannot make it tomorrow at those times!
Contact: Rachel K., Sharon Y. or Karolin K.
MBASA
Tags:culture, Event, flamenco, mbasa
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January 28, 2010
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Update [31.01.2009,21:37h]: I think that the points have been made. I have taken the comments offline for now and now it is time for a dialogue. Everybody involved has been informed.
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Today somebody explained the Career Week quite well in class: “Career Week was a good branding exercise for the companies…!“
ESADE itself did a great job! The networking tent was excellent and the video conferencing presentations worked really well. They also did well in attracting quite a good number of interesting companies and there where some good positions available without a doubt. That however applied to only a few company presentations I attended!
From a lecture point of view some of the company presentations were very interesting especially the questioning session.
From a presentation skill or assessment point of view, they failed! Not all but many of them failed the whole point of Career Week. A French luxury goods group was a good example!45min company presentation in Spanish, 20min questioning session. In the 65th min (5min overtime) one student finally asked the most important question: why did come you to ESADE? Answer: Oh yes, btw. we have a position in Portual but you have to speak Portuguese and preferably French! Mission of branding accomplished. Task failed!
If you give a presentation at a Career Week you should at least have a vacancy, mention the job profile at the beginning and sponsor visas in case applicants are non-residents! How about a job vacancy in Korea and you need to speak Korean! That applied to 1 student at entire ESADE. Thank you very much!
I still wish everybody applying to those companies a lot of luck and best of luck with your own job hunting in case you are also looking outside!
(For those interested in working for the French luxury goods group, I can confirm that everybody present had a handbag from its own company, men included!).
Tags:career services, career week, companies, presentations
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January 27, 2010
Today being the 27th of January 2010 means that today in 2 months will be the first day after graduation. What an amazing experience it has been and still is however the speed with which the end is approaching is quite terrifying. Let’s finish strongly and pocket a job before we finish or raise the funds in time if you start your entrepreneurial future!!!
Tags:career, Event, social life
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January 26, 2010
The online discussion with e-learning experts about the use of social media in higher education takes place today at 12.30pm (GMT+1). This virtual “discussion aims to share best practices, experiences and interest in the use of social software technologies in Higher Education”, as explained by Margarida Romero (Twitter).
The dicussion will take place on Facebook, Twitter (#09CD10001) for external experts and on Nexus for Esade’s experts.
On Nexus, some ESADE IT staff joins (Raquel Boza, Manuela Calatayud, etc.) and ESADE’s DIPA members (Learning Innovation Department, Albert March, Cristina Martin).
In Facebook the participants will be the Esade PhD Students in Management and worldwide researchers and experts in elearning such:
Pirkko T Hyvönen (Uni. Oulu) – CSCL Researcher, Finland
Esteve Almirall – IS Researcher, Spain/Taiwan/Finland…
Niki Lambropoulos – CSCL Researcher, UK & Greece
Damien Clauzel (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) – IS Researcher, France
Richard Peirano – Elearning Expert, France
Gaëlle Molinari (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) – CSCL Researcher, Switzerland
Franck Amadieu – CSCL Researcher, France
Beatrice Lantres – Elearning Expert, France
Bernhard Ertl – CSCL Researcher, Germany
Drechsler Michèle – Elearning researcher & expert, France
Josep M. Contijoch – Elearning Expert, Esade, Spain
Join the Twitter discussion and to read more about the topic have a look at these recommended readings: Owen, Grant, Sayers & Facer (2006). Social Software and Learning. URL: http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/opening_education/Social_Software_report.pdf
Lambropoulos, N. & Romero, M. (2009). Educational Social Software for Context-Aware Learning: Collaborative Methods and Human Interaction. IGI Global. URL: http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=34747
Tags:dicsussion, e-learning, education, ESADE, Event, nexus, social media
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January 25, 2010
The Financial Times MBA rank 2010 has just been published (full rank here). ESADE’s rank is #19, one down from 2009 (#18) with a 3-year-rank of 19. The top 3 MBA school in 2010 are again London Business School, Wharton and Harvard.
Source: FT.com
Tags:comparison, ESADE, ft, harvard, lbs, MBA, mba rank, rank, wharton
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January 24, 2010
According to my blog statistics the comparison and choice between ESADE and IESE has be one of the main interests of my readers. Therefore I decided to dedicate an article to my choice of ESADE over IESE.
IESE simply was never an option to me!!! It never made it to my radar. ESADE’s reputation was being the school with great people and culture and that reputation had reached me. Nothing alike about IESE. So i never considered IESE to be quite honest.
I met many of the schools at the MBA fair in London in 2008 and I based my choice simply on gut-feeling at the end of the day! LBS for example had some students present and the contact with them was terrible. After seeing how they were reacting to each other, talking to applicants, it was clear that I had no interest whatsoever in applying to them!
Another very important factor to me is the teamwork! I love teamwork and team focus and don’t like the cut-throat mentality of many other schools. When you have a school with a bell-curve grading system I assure you that you will feel enormous horizontal pressure. ESADE students are competitve but we are teams at the end of the day and not competitors. The feeling I got from IE, INSEAD and LBS namely showed me the exact opposite.
But at the end of the day you have to make the choice that feels right. you should definitely look beyond rankings though and consider the soft factors as well. I example only applied to HKUST, RSM and ESADE because these are the ones I had the best feeling about!! it is not only about ranks for me but about whether it feels right…
One last thing that I can recommend is that you ask to attend some of the classes when you visit the schools. And speak as intensively with students while on campus as possible!!! Keep asking and asking and asking!!! The responses and the way people respond will tell you a lot!
Overall i can say that I am very happy, I amazed with the selection of colleagues and definitely enjoy the experience!
I hope that helped you a little with your choice and let’s stay in touch!! Good luck with your applications!
Tags:admission, choice, collaboration, ESADE, hkust, ie, IESE, lbs, MBA, rsm, team, teamwork
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January 23, 2010
Today is my 10th anniversary of having left my hometown in Germany and of roaming around the world. I left Germany on the 23rd of January 2000 to move to Australia to study at The Southport School. Since then I have lived in Australia, Singapore, China, India, France, Spain and Germany. I had spent 1.5years in Germany in this time however life 1/4 of that time in Paris. What a great experience it has been. So what will the next decade bring?
Tags:anniversary, australia, china, France, germany, India, singapore, Spain
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January 22, 2010
Today the ESADE Winter Career Week begins and will take place as well on Monday (25.01.10) and Tuesday (26.01.10) on the ESADE Campus Building 3. This will be great recruiment opportunity for all MBA students graduating in March 2010 and the first year students looking for summer internships.
There is a great line-up of companies presenting on campus as well as video presentations and workshops. Today the Career Week was kicked off by LVMH followed by PepsiCo LatAm this afternoon. Other companies coming are the following:
- ALFA CONSULTING
- ALTAIR MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
- AXIS CORPORATE S.L.
- CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PUBLIC HENRI TUDOR – TECHNOPORT
- COCA – COLA FEMSA
- DISNEYLAND PARIS (Business Case)
- DISNEYLAND PARIS (Presentation)
- DSM
- EVERIS
- GE LATAM
- INFOSYS
- JOHNSON & JOHNSON
- LOEWE
- L’ORÉAL ESPAÑA S.A.
- LUXOTTICA
- LVMH
- NESTLÉ
- PEPSICO LATAM
- ROCHE FARMA SPAIN
- SK GROUP
- TECH DATA ESPAÑA SLU
- TECHNOPAK
- TRADEBE
- WERFEN GROUP
- WILLIAM J. CLINTON FOUNDATION
- WIPRO
- ZURICH FINANCIAL SERVICES
This is a great line up offered to us with plenty of networking chances so we have to take advantage of it. I wish everybody a successful recruiment process!!!
Tags:career services, career week, Event, post-mba, presentation, recruiment
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January 20, 2010
Besides the student initiatives, it seems that the top management of ESADE has reacted to the earthquake tragedy in Haiti. They have just transfered €60,000 to four NGOs (ICRC, doctors without borders, Intermon and Caritas) to support their help and relief efforts! Congratulations and hopefully Haiti will get all the help they need, guidance and quick recovery!
Tags:earthquake, haiti, relief, student effort
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January 18, 2010
Many people have contacted me regarding the Admissions process and my interview. Therefore I decided that it would be easier to just post the information to everybody.
My interview was conducted during the Open Day on the ESADE Campus on January 31st, 2009. After a general roundtable discussion with Mary Granger and around 5-6 other candidates I was fetched by my interviewer Xenia Jarque shortly after.
At first I had to work on a case study about Starbucks. The founder was made CEO again and was coming to Europe. I had to recommend him what to do with Starbucks in Europe to improve the operations and increase the turnover. I had to draw a Powerpoint Presentation on a piece of paper on what I would recommend him.
The case study was followed by the interview about my resume and in particular my application essays. We had a discussion about post-MBA plans, asperations, motivations, etc. Then we discussed some scenarios and I was asked how I would react:
- What will I bring to ESADE?
- How I would behave in a team when they are cultural differences among two team members?
- If my team member is not working to his potential, what would I do?
- What would I do if I observed another guest at a conference taking my bag and walking away with it?
- Which all other institutes I have applied for and why?
Considering that my interview was almost a year ago the questions might not be the exact questions but that is what I remember. Your questions would most likely be similar but probably not the same and therefore should only serve as a guideline. I hope that this helps you a little in your preparation and best of luck with your applications.
Tags:application, case study, ESADE, interview, mary granger, post-mba, questions
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January 18, 2010
a message from the entrepreneurship club:
Dear Classmates,
As you all are aware, January 12, 2010 marked a series of earthquakes devastating Haiti. There are currently at least 300, 000 people without shelter, thousands of families separated from each other, the injured are countless!
Let us recognize once again that an MBA is not there only for personal advancement but also stands for servicing humanity. ESADE Entrepreneurship Club encourages you to help the emergency relief and recovery efforts in Haiti by donating money to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
We kindly hereby request your cooperation and contribution of a small donation of at least 1 euro (<1 cup of coffee) as we believe small gestures can make a difference. Please donate in the next 48 hours; representatives of the Entrepreneurship Club will be gathering money on Planta 2 at lunchtime on Monday and Tuesday and making the bank transfer. Apart from these time slots, you can hand your donation to Christian and Zorina from Section A, Ahmed and Rahul from Section B and Saurabh and William from the 2nd years.
Your contribution can help save lives and give emotional support to real people in despair!
Yours truly,
The Entrepreneurship Club
Tags:foreign aid, haiti, international red cross, relief effort, support
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January 11, 2010
The Microsoft campaign “The ultimate steal” or “Da el golpe” is available for ESADE students. Under this student special offer, ESADE students can buy Microsoft Office 2007 for only €52. To get your own copy of Office 2007 click here to download. This “Ultimate” version includes Access, Excel, InfoPath, Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Publisher, Groove and Outlook.
As of now the Office 2007 version is in Spanish however you can buy the language pack for €12 that converts Office in any language you want pretty much. I am still waiting for the feedback from Microsoft whether I can get an English version despite being a student in Spain. I keep you posted!
Source: Microsoft
Tags:discount, ESADE, Microsoft, MS Office 2007 Premium, Office, software, special offer, student
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January 11, 2010
Considering that we spent so much time on ESADE campus anyhow I have always liked to break out and work in cafés with free wifi. I figured that it might help you to know there are whole lists with wifi cafés around town, which I am slowly discovering. Wifium.com for example provides a whole set of cafés with wifi (website here, list in .pdf).
Usually I go to Bar Lobo in the Hotel 1898 near Ramblas (Metro: Liceu), which is very stylish however a little expensive. The advantage of Bar Lobo however is that it is quiet, has great wifi coverage with fast internet.
Many Starbucks have free wifi however it is limited to 90mins. In case you like the Starbucks coffee and don’t mind the noise, the network is fast! Note that not all Starbucks cafes have internet access.
Which ones are you using?
Tags:cafe, internet, off-campus, study, wifi, wlan
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