Archive for the ‘Clubs’ Category

ESADE-IESE Halloween Party

October 24, 2009

As a member of the ESADE Social Committee I would like to inform you about the upcoming Halloween party. Halloween is one of the top ESADE parties of the year and we will be partying with our friends from IESE next Saturday. Last year we had over 400 students from both schools partying until the early morning.

Come dressed to kill as we will be awarding the Sexiest, Scariest and Simply the Best costumes of the evening at 1am.

Place: Club Elephant
Address: Passeig dels Til·lers 1 (close to ESADE and just off of Diagonal)
Time: 11:30 pm until the sun comes up
Date: Saturday, October 31st

In order to enter the party you will have to purchase bracelets. There will be designated students from each class selling bracelets starting on Monday. You will receive an email at the beginning of the week with detailed information as to where and when you can purchase them.

Price of Bracelets: 8 euros in advance and 10 euros at the door.
Deal: Bracelets will give you 2 for 1 specials all night.

It is imperative that you don’t look like you’ve just come off the street. Make sure you are appropriately attired from your head to your feet, Lest you might be confused with the goodies provided to eat!! Check out below for some costume shops around Barcelona!

* LaPimpinel-la de Sarria (discount for ESADE and IESE Students), Major de Sarria, 16 (cantonada Rocaberti),
* Menkes, Gran Via de los Corts Catalans, 646
* Estape, Aribau, 188
* El Relampago, Torrent de l’Olla, 115-130
* Commercial Bolsera, Xucla, 15 (in the gothic quarter)

The Halloween Committee

Event: ‘Meet the Serial Entrepreneur and VC’

October 23, 2009

The entrepreneurship club hosts the guest speaker Christopher Pommerening (blog, twitter) Founder and Managing Partner of Active Capital Partners S.L. today.

I will let him introduce himself:

“I started my professional career in Spain in 1998 co-founding AutoScout24 Spain as CEO and member of the Board of Directors. AutoScout24 is part of the Scout24 Group, Europe’s leading operator of virtual market places. I was appointed Managing Director of Scout24 Spain in 2001. While preparing the internationalisation (FriendScout24) of the Scout24 Group , I also created B24 Networks (Boot24.com), a Europe wide market place on the internet for the yachting sector.

In 2002 I decided to join my friend and partner Philipp Schroeder at our already established venture catalyst company VCMORE GmbH and devote myself full time to Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship by offering consulting and investment services to start-ups through our contact network in Europe and the US of consultants, business angels and industry specialists. Alongside the latter, in 2002, I co-founded EO Spain, the Spanish chapter of EO Entrepreneurs’ Organization, being one of the largest entrepreneur organisations in the world, and in the same year I co-founded Active Capital Partners.

In 2006 my fellow EO Members elected me to be the Ambassador for EO Europe, in order to foster Entrepreneurship in Europe and grow the organisation in 10 different countries.

In 2007 I created the terminology for Venturepreneurship and Venturepreneurs and together with my partners we created the concept for the Venturepreneurs’ Organisation.

In 2008 I initiated the Global Entrepreneurs Week in Spain and I founded the Barcelona Entrepreneurship City Community, in order to promote Barcelona to become one of the leading Hubs for entrepreneurship in Europe.

Currently I’m a member of the Board of Directors of Vinus & Brindis , Polymita Technologies, BuyVIP and Non Executive Co-Founder and Advisor of Linqia.”

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The details of the event are:

Date and time – Friday 23 October 2009 from 1.00 pm to 2.00 p.m
Venue – room A012

Source: Xing

The ESADE Fun Regatta

October 12, 2009

The ESADE Fun Regatta is ON! On the 24th of October there will be a regatta with 40 feet boats in front of the Port Olympic, Barcelona. This regatta is aimed at people who like to sail but have not necessarily sailed a regatta before. Of course if you have sailed regattas before, then this event is also for you.

Each boat will fit a team of 7 plus a skipper supplied by the boat rental company. But he doesn’t need to be the skipper during the regatta, whatever his role it’s up to you and your team. He is just there for safety and to help bring the boats into port after the event. So quickly form up your team of 7 people and come and join us for a fun day of sailing.

We will start sailing at 11 and head into the sea. We will have some practice sailing so everybody gets familiar with the boats and then we will have two regattas. The best of both races will be the winner of the day.

The price of 460 Euros per boat also includes the skipper. As mentioned, you can fit up to 7 people in a boat (that would be a total of 8 including the skipper) so the price per person will be 66 Euros.

The schedule will be the following:
10:00 Arrival at the meeting point
10:30 Captain’s Meeting and boat distribution
11:00 We start heading out to sea
11:30 Sailing practice and team building (get your team ready for the regatta)
12:00 First Regatta
13:30 Second Regatta
14: 15 Boats head back to the dock
15:00 The event ends

ESADE dances Salsa

October 10, 2009

Hola students,

With the return of the Salsa season, we would like to inform you of some activities that will help you relax and make the most of your MBA experience.

First of all, everyone is welcome to join the club on Facebook here.

Whether you are a beginner, intermediate or expert, we can arrange Salsa classes for all levels and negociate discount prices for ESADE students. There are several schools in Barcelona. So far we have been training at “Buenavista” next to Mojito club (carrer del Rossello, 217, metro Provença).

Should you be interested in Salsa, please fill out the following spreadsheet to indicate your experience level and provide your contact information here.

A new president will be elected in November to run the club as well as select and prepare a team for 2 major Salsa events: “Spring Fling” (a sport competition organized by IESE in Barcelona – March 2010) and MBAT (MBA Tournament, organized by HEC in Paris – May 2010).

Last year, the ESADE Salsa club participated to the MBAT event in Paris, and our performance can be seen on YouTube here and hereto below.We hope that ESADE will present a team for both Spring Fling and MBAT events next year.

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me and I will forward it to David from the ESADE Salsa Club.

Reminder: Rugby Training

October 10, 2009
Rugby Training:
1st SATURDAY 10OCT (today) – 11:00 (Bogatell Beach, corner Carrer De Llacuna with Avinguda Litoral)
2nd MONDAY 12OCT – 14:00 (Playa Mar Bella)
For more information, visit the Facebook Group: ESADE Rugby

ESADE Sports – Rugby

October 7, 2009

There are numerous sports initiative at ESADE, one of which is rugby. I am a great fan of this sport myself and there are many others who have now teamed up to play rugby more or less seriously. There will be a training sesson next Monday, 12th October, on Mar Bella Beach at around 14h. We will be playing on the beach just behind the rugby pitch. (Metro: “Poble Nou”). Google map location is here.

As we are looking at playing more seriously we suggest to bring some mouthguards. According to the main coordinator “we will start with some proper practice and contact” so we are looking forward to a nice game.

Reminder: The Good Entrepreneur – Deadline 31.07.09

July 30, 2009

A quick reminder that tomorrow, the 31st of July 2009, the application process to the Business Plan competition “The Good Entrepreneur” closes as mentioned earlier. This event is organised by CNBC and is looking for the entrepreneur whose idea can change the world.

Quite a few of us, particularly members of the ESADE Entrepreneurship Club, had planned to participate in this very interesting competition but the final exams have made it almost impossible to deliver something sound that can compete with other European innovators and entrepreneurs. Maybe next time…

The Good Entrepreneur

“The World is Flat” and “OpenCourseWare”

July 28, 2009

During the preparing for the Management Information Systems (MIS) exam on Thursday I was wondering whether I should/have the time to really read the recommended book by Thomas Friedman “The World is Flat”. Then I made two interesting discoveries and his title fits well to the discoveries I made: the world is really flat!!!

1) Why read the book if you can watch the video about it. It is incredible that almost every reading has somewhat been “videomized”. We are truly living in digital era. Thank you for the tip, Romit!

2) I also tumbled over a very interesting consortium/website, called “OpenCourseWare“. This consortium basically provides the course and lecture material of all participating universities. This is somewhat similar to the initiative “AcademicEarth“, a portal with course videos (my article about Academic Earth is here) however the OCW seems much larger. The Spanish universities are well represented (view list here) and maybe ESADE should also join and start publishing course material. As we all know transparency ignites a lot of productive competition.

In case you want to watch the presentation of Thomas Friedman, check it out here.

Asia Investment Banking Conference(AIBC) 2009

July 23, 2009

A message from the Entrepreneurship Club:

Dear Members,

We have received an invitation from the Singapore Management University for their event – “Asia Investment Banking Conference 2009“, a conference co-organized by the Singapore Management University (SMU) and the London School of Economics (LSE).

The AIBC, where its main focus would be on investment banking and the Asian Market, will be held in Singapore at the SMU Campus on the 23rd and 24th of September 2009. So far, they have invited senior bankers from major financial institutions such as UBS, Goldman Sachs, Normura, the Blackstone Group, Temasek Holdings, Lazard, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, The Carlyle Group, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, PwC, Ernst and Young, Oaktree Capital, Bain Capital and McKinsey and Co.

Consulting Club and Career Services Event

July 16, 2009
A message from the Consulting Club:
The Consulting Club and Career Services would like to invite you to attend a Q&A session with Mr. Darek Tasak, ESADE ’06, about his interaction with Career Services during his (recent) time at ESADE and how he managed to secure his first job out of ESADE, at Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

We hope you can all attend this informal Q&A session to learn more about what we should all expect once we start looking for jobs starting in September.
When: 6:15 pm – 7 pm (after class tomorrow)
Where: TBD
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When: 6:15 pm – 7 pm (today)

Where: Room B21
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Agenda:
- ESADE & Career Services
- Expectations & Reality of the job market
- Management Consulting Opportunities after ESADE
- Q&A
Thank you,
Maneesh

Quick Overview of Mr. Tasak’s background:
Tech Data, Barcelona, Spain
Director of Productivity and Efficiency, EMEA
- Designs and implements productivity improvement initiatives, identifies cost saving opportunities and drives related projects in various European business units (17 countries)
- Processes, organization, streamlining, automation, portfolio management, shared services

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Barcelona, Spain
Business strategy consulting firm
Senior Consultant
- Advises clients’ top management on improving their companies’ business performance, identifying, understanding and evaluating growth options and strategies, developing action plans
- Elaborated commercial strategy, budget and operation plans for a Spanish broadband division of a major European telecom operator. The plan resulted in double digit client base growth
- Developed strategic plan for a Spanish regional fix line provider (mobile / fix line convergence)
- Counseled a leading media group in launching its expansion into digital media formats
- Optimized back-office functions of an industrial manufacturer through the use of ERP technologies
- Prepared international expansion of a real estate group into Eastern Europe and Latin-America

Entrepreneurship Club – “How to write a Business Plan”

July 7, 2009

The “Entrepreneurship Clubinvites the ESADE MBA students to attend the “Business Plan class” today, 7th July 2009, 16:00 -19:00 hrs. The class will be taken by Professor Jordi Vinaixa and provides an in-depth analysis of how to write a Business Plan. This class will be very interesting for those people joining the competition “The Good Entrepreneurof CNBC, which I have mentioned earlier.

Operations Club – Step 1

June 12, 2009

There are numerous student clubs under the roof of MBASA (ESADE student association) such as the consulting club, marketing club, entrepreneurship club, net impact chapter, renewable energy club etc. however one was missing: Operations Club!

At first we were considering starting a Supply Chain Management Club (SCM) however we quickly realised that it was too specific and our keen interest exceeded SCM. The idea of creating the “Operations Club” was born.  We thought it imperative to start this club particulary when taking into consideration that ESADE offers a particular Master of Operations and ESADE ranks 15 globally in Operations Management education.

However we have been experiencing a lot of difficulties starting this club and the bureaucracy of ESADE is showing its ugly side. Not only has the application process to start this club been extremely slow and tedious but no we are even faced with almost unreasonable requirements that we need to fulfill to start this club.

Now we need your support so this initiative can take off and please contact us through LinkedIN if you have an interest in Operations Management and want to join the club (in order to get it started :). This is real intrapreneurship!

The official LinkedIN Group is here.


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