Considering that I am graduating in a few weeks, I have been thinking about the future of this blog. What shall I do with it?
Help me with your opinions and thoughts because I think that this blog has turned out to be a great medium of discussion and interaction among students, faculty and staff.
In addition the Google rank is very good, which makes it quite attractive to the person taking over the blog ;)
Who is interested in continuing this blog? Drop me an email at myesademba@gmail.com
Tanvi B Savla, Louise Ralston and Bas van Ulden, Fulltime MBA 2011 students, made it to the second round of Société Générale’s Citizen Act competition. Their “Bank Better” concept received praise from the jury for originality and thoroughness. They now need your help!!!!!!!
The next round is about getting their fellow students involved in their thinking. To accomplish this, they will be maintaining a discussion forum (Blog) for the next three weeks until 12th March, on the topic of “Do people need to be taught how to handle their personal finances?”. The forum (Blog) will feature a different poll each day and the team will be evaluated based on the number of visitors to the blog as well as number of useful comments people make on it. So let’s hear your thoughts here.
Source: Citizen Act Competition
Can it be true? I just searched “ESADE MBA” on Google (language set to English) and guess what page just slipped on the bottom of the first page, result 10? My ESADE MBA… wow… cool :) at least it does so on my computer…
Apparently it takes 154 posts and 11,600 clicks to make it to the first page. Interesting!
10.000th view of my blog “My ESADE MBA“*! Who would have guessed that? I am celebrating a little :) Thank you very much for your support and readership!!!
I started to blog about my ESADE experience in Feburary 2009 in the wake of my application for a scholarship. However once the scholarship application was rejected I decided to continue the blogging nevertheless because I enjoyed doing it. (btw. some of those who received the scholarship are blogging on the ESADE blog)
Considering that today I have finally reached the 5-digit-views for MyESADEMBA blog I decided that I would give you some more insights about this blog and ESADE in general through my statistics. The statistics give you a very good overview of what people are interested in and what they like to read about ESADE. Let’s see what we’ve got:
Top Posts
Busiest day: 285 — Sunday, January 31, 2010
Busiest month: 2565 – January 2010
Top Search queries on my blog (last week)
roland berger interviews, myesademba unhappy student, iese mba tournament 2010, some images of top mba university in singapore, oxford mba ranking
Search Engine Terms used to find my blog:
Google Search Engine Ranking for following search terms (?)
Most clicked links:
There are tons of more interesting stats such as these but that might be a little too much. What fascinates me most is the interest, almost obsession, in the rankings, comparisons against other schools and interview questions. What I don’t understand is that so many people are obsessed with the rankings and placements of ESADE students but why do I see so few candidates visiting the campus and enquiring about the life as ESADE students? Is that all there is to a school? Visit the campus, speak to the students, attend lectures… Ask me ;) I am looking forward to seeing you all on campus and happy readership :)
*my own visits are not counted obviously
After being flooded with online advertising from other MBA schools I thought it would be worthwhile checking out the online advertising of the ESADE MBA.
First of all I am seeing that ESADE is starting with banner advertising as you can see on Business Week. Unfortunately the ad is placed on a quite disadvantageous article, stating that online advertising produces very few clicks, however I am glad to see that ESADE is becoming active. They haven’t taught much about online marketing in Marketing Class but apparently they are starting to do it themselves, which is a good move.
In addition I noticed that the ESADE Marketing team started to buy Google adwords and is promoting the ESADE Marketing Master as you can see hereto below when I searched for ESADE. I left the URL behind the ad so if you want to find out where it leads you click on it.
I am not sure whether it makes a lot of sense to advertise on the keyword “ESADE” as all the search results are direct ESADE links anyway but I am glad to see that ESADE is doing something! Keep it up!! Have you found any other online ads and/or banners of ESADE?
Saurabh Mishra, former president of the ESADE Entrepreneurship Club, just pointed out that Barcelona Radio reported about the Elevator Pitch Contest. To listen to the report click here.
If anybody wants to make a transcript feel free to add it here ;) Did they talk about the three winners and what did they say about the system of mobile payments if mentioned at all?
The competition of LetsBuyIt.com for “the (second) best job in the world” is coming to an end in 3 days. I have previously talked about this competition but to quickly summarise again:
€5000 salary for one month, €10,000 shopping budget, 5 star hotels, business class plane tickets, all major shopping destinations (London, Berlin, Milan, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Japan, etc.) and a lot more.
All you have to do is advise, report and blog on the latest fashion trends out there! This is the official description on Monster.com:
- Find and visit the best shopping districts of each city
- Find products that you simply can’t find anywhere else
- Find products that are cheaper than other countries
- Present the latest trends in a variety of products ranging from fashion to electricals.
Check out some of the application videos because they are extremely well done sometimes!
If you are asking yourself why I am posting this job offer, I do so because I used to work LetsBuyIt.com so I am more than happy to support this company ;) I LOVE it…
Tired of looking for career information in complex websites?
Tired of endless online job applications?
Tired of too general information that does not help you to take a decision?
We want to change that! Tell us what you would like to improve in companies’ career websites and we will let them know!
Potentialpark is conducting this research to improve the communication between job seekers and recruiters. The survey is anonymous and takes about 15 minutes to complete. It is independent and not sponsored by any company or organization.
What’s in it for you?
1. You will shape the future of online recruitment so that it will become easier to find the right career opportunity at the right company.
2. You will learn more about the latest trends in online recruitment and gain insights that will be valuable for your own career.
3. You can win an iPod Touch, a PS3 slim, a Sony Digital Ebook Reader or vouchers for Amazon or iTunes. A jury will pick the winners out of the best free text answers!
Please follow this link to take part:
http://www.potentialpark.com/teweb2010
We will publish the results in the media in spring 2010 and, if you like, we will share them with you if are interested.
Thank you, have fun and learn a lot!
The Potentialpark Team
http://www.potentialpark.com
The recently re-launched online price comparison shopping portal LetsBuyIt.com just posted a job for the “second best job in the world” (view site here). You can get the job as the jetsetting “Shopping Consultant”: fly around the world, shop in the best shopping cities of the world, have a spending budget of €10.000, sleep in 5-star hotels of the Accor Group and fly in Business Class. That does sound pretty good.
What do you have to do for that?
Apply and then blog and report about your experience. You are then the official Shopping Consultant of LetsBuyIt.com
To view the entire job description and add click here
Source: LetsBuyIt.com
Thanks to Donal Q. I just found this little software that generates tag clouds: Wordle.net
Thes are two sample tagclouds for My ESADE MBA. I love it and it is a great software for presentations as we saw today during class for the VW presentation :)
Version 1
Version 2
After the financial crisis there are many descriptions about business studies floating around because most of the big business failures where caused by MBA graduates. My favorite one are that MBA stands for “Mediocre But Arrogant” or “Married But Available”. I guess it is important that from time to time you have a good laugh about yourself and I agree that some of the case studies are quite irrelevant for the real business world. The comic artist “Dilbert” created a whole series of comics making fun of MBA students like us and they are hilarious. Check out his blog BEFORE you start your MBA and do it better ;)
After having used the standard domain of wordpress.com I decided to upgrade my account and get a direct domain. My main domain is now myesademba.com and not myesademba.wordpress.com anymore (this domain is redirected to myesademba.com still). For you nothing changes except that you can access the blog more easily now.
