Posts Tagged ‘team’

The Responsible Bank – ESADE identifies education needs

March 9, 2010

The team of ESADE Business School in the Citizen Act Competition disclosed the outcomes of their “information responsibility poll” last week. Almost all of the visitors of their site agreed that educating consumers about finance is primarily a responsibility of the finance industry.

Next question now must be:  how are the banks doing it now?

To get an impression they are gathering anecdotes people might have on how banks did or did not educate consumers. So far, they have some interesting examples from India and the Netherlands. It would be interesting to see what examples exist from the rest of the world. Join the discussion in the quest for change here.

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ESADE vs. IESE vs. others – my choice

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!

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Follow MBAT on Twitter

May 9, 2009

For those of you that cannot or could not go to the MBAT at HEC in Paris, France, check out all the tweets on Twitter about it: MBAT-Twitters.

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HumanTower – World record attempt

April 30, 2009

I have previously written about our group-building activity of building a humantower in Villafranca. Our entire class went to Vilafranca, a city 30min drive from Barcelona, to learn about this “sport” from the world record holders themselves: the “Castellers de Vilafranca“. We found this brilliant video, which shows the club’s world record attempt in 2008. It is impressive!

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Networking and Social Media

March 18, 2009

One of the main reasons to start the MBA is arguably to expand the personal and professional network. During the Open Day in January 2009 ESADE has presented itself to undertake numerous measures to strengthen this connection among students, one of which would have to be the extensive team work in the classrooms itself. Presentations and team projects are said to be structured in a way that it is never apparent beforehand who will be presenting in the end. Every team member needs to be prepared to such depth that each one could hold the presentation and represent the teamwork at any point in time. This uncertainty unites the team in a unique fashion because the strongest will always have to support the weakest in order to survive. Nobody will be left behind and students work together instead of against each other.

The social networking among the students is highly important as well because in order for a relationship to last, the students must be wanting to stay in touch with one another. Usually the first encounter and interaction of the students is the Introductory Week prior to the course begin however a new trend has come to my attention. The power of the social networking tools on the internet has accelerated this process and most of the students are already in touch before heading to Barcelona. Facebook seems to be the most used social platform for ESADE students at the moment to facilitate this interaction. Almost every MBA intake has its own Facebook Group where the members are actively interacting and sharing information, especially regarding accomodation arrangements, transport, mobile phone offers and other useful subject (Check out the ESADE bookmarks on Delicious). Have a look at the group at the ESADE One Year MBA Class 2010 and you will see what I mean. ESADE is also using  twitter, a microblogging tool, to communicate news.

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