Posts Tagged ‘IESE’
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
Posted in Admissions, ESADE, Event, MBA Preparation | 5 Comments »
November 14, 2009
The day has come and today we will find out whether all this training has paid off. It is the day of the Iberia Rugby Cup of ESADE vs. IESE vs. LBS (women touch rugby only). Join this great event as spectator and show us your colors. We need all your support!!
Time: 16.00 to 18.00 (Warm-up starts at 15.00)
Location: Universitat de Barcelona Sportsgrounds on Avinguda Diagonal 695 (View the map here)
Details: Guys are playing rugby 7′s (at 4pm) and girls are playing rugby touch.
Preliminary Schedule:
16.00 LBS1 v ESADE
16.30 IESE v LBS2
17.00 LBS1 v ESADE
17.00 IESE v LBS2
17.30 IESE v ESADE
17.30 LBS1 v LBS2
Dinner
Time: 21.30
Cost: 25 Euros/Person covers food and Sangria
Location: Gran Via de Corts Catalans, 692 (map)
Late Night
Cost: We have arranged for free entry before 2am.
Location: Opium Mar, Paseo Marítimo, 34. (map )
Proudly supported by the ESADE MBA Rugby Team.
Tags:competition, ESADE, Event, IESE, lbs, rugby, sport
Posted in Clubs, ESADE, Event, Social Activities, Universities | 1 Comment »
November 7, 2009
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Update: This article made it to the 6th most-read article in a few hours and today the blog has received the largest amount of visitors in one day, exceeding the record by 22% reation!
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After having written 99 articles and having had 4000 visitors (October 1050 alone) since March 2009 I was thinking that it might interest you to find out some statistics about the blog. The following are the 10 most read articles of my blog, which should give you an idea of the topics people are most interested in:
- About My ESADE MBA
- The Economist – FT MBA Ranking 2009
- Good luck for the first exam!
- Barcelona – Insider Tips
- My ESADE MBA: Statistics and insights
- Accomodation – ESADE Entrepreneurship
- Recommended Pre-MBA Readings
- MBA Career Portals
- Subjects & Seminars
- Pre-MBAT Soccer Match: ESADE vs. IESE
The following are the 10 most searched terms on the My ESADE MBA search engine:
- entrepreneur
- esade mba
- esade
- esade mba blog
- esade blog
- esade entrepreneurship club
- esade student blog
- my esade mba
- esade good at entrepreneurship?
- esade marketing career
I have received an increasing amount of personal emails, questions and enquiries about ESADE, the MBA and myself. A few issues keep popping up and I wanted to share my thoughts about some of these with you:
- Many people are enquiring about entrepreneurship and marketing, which highlights the fact that ESADE is still famous for these, which also reflected in the statistics.
- Yes, ESADE is focusing increasingly on Finance and Consulting
- Yes, the fact that ESADE is famous for producing entrepreneurs makes it complicated to score on the salary-related aspects of the MBA rankings because usually entrepreneurs don’t earn that much at the start-up phase.
- Barcelona plays an important role for people chosing ESADE
- Why did I chose ESADE over IESE, IE and LBS? I will dedicate an article about this soon. Bear with me
- What is the quality of the teaching, professors and course material?
- Who is writing this blog, why and whether I have a link to ESADE? I would like to refer to the page About MYESADEMBA and reinforce that I have NOT received a scholarship from ESADE for writing this blog and I am free what I post here. To(un)bias-ed ;)
I wanted to thank you all for your support, comments and readership! I hope that I keep helping you in answering some of the questions that you have been asking yourself about ESADE and the MBA. Please don’t hesitate to spread the word about the blog and happy reading :)
Tags:articles, blog, Entrepreneurship, ESADE, ie, IESE, LSE, MBA, MY ESADE MBA, ranking, rankings, search terms, statistics, tags
Posted in Admissions, Barcelona, Clubs, Courses & Subjects, Entrepreneurship, ESADE, MBA, MBA Preparation, Universities | 4 Comments »
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
Tags:ESADE, Event, Halloween, IESE, party
Posted in Clubs, ESADE, Event, Social Activities | Leave a Comment »
October 15, 2009
The Economist published the full-time MBA rankings for 2009. Number one is IESE, second IMD and third Berkley. ESADE this year ranks 29 followed by HKUST. For the full rankings, click here.
Tags:ESADE, IESE, imd, MBA, mba rank, rank, ranking, the economist
Posted in Courses & Subjects, ESADE, MBA, Universities | 2 Comments »
October 7, 2009
Student led donation drive for the victims of
Typhoon Ketsana (also called
Typhoon Ondoy) in the
Philippines. It is a joint effort of students and alumni all over the world including:
Columbia, Harvard, INSEAD, MIT, Stanford, UPenn/Wharton, Audencia Nantes SOM, London Business School, University of New South Wales, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, SMU, IESE, AGSM, Berkeley, Yale, Babson, NYU, ESADE, Tuck, Purdue and others.
More on Typhoon Ketsana:
Sept. 26, 2009 – typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines. The tragedy claimed more than 140 lives and displaced over 430,000 people. It’s the worst flooding recorded in the country since 1967. Manila and surrounding areas were lashed with heavy rains and flash floods for nine hours, leaving some areas under 20 feet of water. The capital and 23 other provinces have been declared under a STATE OF CALAMITY. Many people are missing or trapped and numerous areas are still submerged in floodwater. More than 1.2 million people have no electricity. Victims are in dire need of basic relief goods like food, water and clothing. The death toll is expected to climb, and so are the number of missing and injured.
(Footage)
HOW TO HELP:
The Filipino student community all over the world would like to ask for your help. So far it is best to send international donations through
OPTION 1 – Ayala Foundation USA by selecting either:
1) “Ateneo Task Force Ondoy c/o OSA and SLB” or
2) “Philippine National Red Cross”
(Note: This is tax deductable in the U.S., if you not from the U.S. the following link will be better www.myayala.com/ondoy)
OPTION 2 - Philippine National Red Cross through:
1) Credit card (http://www.redcross.org.ph/Site/PNRC/Default.aspx?S=48&SS=972) by selecting “Typhoon Ondoy”
2) Paypal (Paypal email address: give@redcross.org.ph)
(Note: For students in other jurisdictions, you may want to check if your specific local Red Cross would better facilitate the tax deductibility. Read comments for more info)
Information on Ayala Foundation USA (AF-USA):
Established in 2000, Ayala Foundation USA is a public charity registered with the United States Internal Revenue Service as a 501© 3 tax-exempt organization. As the bridge between US-based Filipino individuals and communities, and Philippine-based social development institutions, AF-USA becomes a mechanism by which donations and other forms of support can reach intended beneficiaries in the Philippines.
Information on Ateneo Task Force Ondoy:
Ateneo de Manila University is a Jesuit institution and one of the largest schools in the Philippines. The school and student body are sending goods to Cainta and Marikina, which are the hardest hit by the typhoon. Watch this video to see what they are doing now http://vimeo.com/6794745
ALSO: More information on efforts in each country/school are posted in the DISCUSSION THREADS and in this http://bit.ly/17DQ7b. For schools/communities who want to coordinate with us, just send a message.
RESOURCES:
Materials from each school http://groups.google.com/group/ondoy-student-calamity-fund
Consolidated info http://bit.ly/17DQ7b
For live news, GMA DZBB 594 streaming radio station http://www.gmanews.tv/radio/dzbb
This is the ESADE Charity Poster:
Tags:AGSM, Audencia Nantes SOM, Babson, Berkeley, Columbia, ESADE, harvard, IESE, INSEAD, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, London Business School, MIT, NYU, Purdue, SMU, stanford, Tuck, University of New South Wales, UPenn/Wharton, yale
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April 26, 2009
This day will go down in the history of the ESADE vs. IESE soccer rivalry. Today ESADE beat IESE in soccer for the first time ever.
As the 19th MBATournament (MBAT) at HEC in Paris, France, is coming up soon (7-10 May 2009), ESADE and IESE decided to play a friendly soccer match today at 14h at Can Caralleu. ESADE was clearly the underdog as they hadnever trained together, players were absent and they had never won a match against IESE and therefore this day was not very promising. When the players of ESADE slowly trickled in, was the IESE team already in the midst of doing a nicely coordinated warm-up, dressed in IESE uniforms and union. Intimated? No need!
The first half was a bit rough when IESE led by 2:0 however the ESADE team found its unity and strength shortly afte and powered through the second half. Well what is there to say and I rather let the final score speak for itself:
ESADE vs. IESE 3:2
It seems that uniforms, weekly training and a coach don’t make a good team when you lack talent ;)Good job, ESADE!! May the skill be with you at the MBAT!!
Tags:activity, club, IESE, MBAT, soccer, social
Posted in Social Activities, Universities | Leave a Comment »
