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30 de June

The event will take place THIS THURSDAY in:

Aula Magna, Maria de Molina 13, Thursday, 3rd of July, from 5.00 pm to 8.00 pm.

There will be limited seats (164 PLACES)- served on a first register first serve basis (see below).

The session will be held in English.

According to our Club statements, this new event is another chance for IE students and alumni to gain a deep understanding of the different alternative careers in Banking after their Programs or once decision is made to change a career path.

PE is in a very special moment as the firms have a lot of investment opportunities but they have to search really hard for financing, as all the banks are short of liquidity, would this mean that they will have to finance the operations with more equity?...Come and find out the solution!!!

The program, issues and speakers will be:

5.00 p.m. INTRODUCTION

5.10 - 6.00 p.m. AN OVERVIEW OF THE PE PROCESS

1). First Block: Carlos Santana. ADVENT INTERNATIONAL 

·         Looking for opportunities (Investment strategies)

·         Structuring the deal

 

2). Second Block: Jorge Mendoza. AMBERS&CO

      • Implementing strategy
      • Follow up

3). Third Block: Leopoldo Reaño. GALA CAPITAL

·         Day-to-day management.

·         Exit strategies.

·         Specific case/deal of a failure.

 

6.00-6.30 p.m. BREAK

 

6.30 p.m. INTRODUCTION OVER THE 3 TOPICS TO BE TREATED

 6.40 - 8.00 p.m.  TOPICS

 

TOPIC 1: How did the crisis affect the sector? Opportunities in the liquidity crisis. With Claudio Aguirre, ALTAMAR CAPITAL

 

TOPIC 2: The added value of the funds of funds of PE. With Ignacio Sarría, ARCANO CAPITAL

 

TOPIC 3: What can a PE firm do better than the current management? How to manage a new business bought by the firm? With Gonzalo Fernández, INVESTINDUSTRIAL

 

Q&A

 

The event will be led by [moderator pending to be appointed].

Who should attend? All those students regarding the possibility of working in PE, all those interested in the area and any of them who want to learn more about PE as a general finance background. Students from any program are welcome.

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Published, June 30 on the IE Finance Club,
30 de June

 (The event will be held in Spanish)

 El Club Gourmet tiene el placer de convocaros este miércoles 2 de julio de 18.00 a 20.00 horas, en el aula S-105, al evento "CATA DE VINOS DE RIOJA", impartida por el Consejo Regulador de la principal denominación de origen española.

 El contenido de la cata incluirá:

 

Rioja como modelo del vino español

* Breve aproximación a la historia del vino de Rioja

* Los ingredientes de los vinos riojanos 

* Los diferentes estilos del Rioja

        1. Joven, crianza, reservas y grandes reservas

        2. Riojas clásicos y riojas modernos

        3. Nuevas elaboraciones en blanco con madera

 * Cuidado y tratamiento del vino

* Taller sensorial de los vinos de Rioja

* Cómo elegir un vino para cada momento

 

La asistencia al evento tiene un coste de 10 €.

El número de plazas está limitado a 25 asistentes, que serán inscritos según riguroso orden de pago en la Oficina del Alumno. (Serrano 99, 3ª planta). PÁSATE YA POR LA OFICINA PARA PAGAR TU INSCRIPCIÓN!

NO SE ACEPTARÁN RESERVAS POR EMAIL!!! LA COMPRA DE LA ENTRADA EN LA OFICINA ES EL ÚNICO MEDIO PARA APUNTARTE A ESTA CATA.

Esperamos contar con vuestra asistencia.

 

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Published, June 30 on the Gourmet Club,
27 de June

Bar Of The Week for Friday the 27th of June / Viernes 27 de junio

 

¿Dónde/Where? NEW GARAMOND
¿Qué/What? BOTW
¿Quiénes/Who? Everyone is invited / todo el mundo
¿Cuándo/When? Friday the 27th of June, 2008
¿Horario/Schedule? 00:00 - 06:00
¿Dirección/Address? C/ Rosario Pino 14, esquina Capitán Haya, MAP
¿Metro?
PLAZA DE CASTILLA/CUZCO

 

IMPORTANT: Ask for Abel, el cubano, at the entrance to enter for free!

IMPORTANTE: Pregunta por Abel el cubano en la puerta para entrar gratis!

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Published, June 27 on the
24 de June

DSC00557.JPGComenzamos nuestra visita a Inditex el día 6 de junio de 2008 a las 10,30 de la mañana. María, una de las directoras de Comunicación de Zara, nos estaba esperando. Nos explicó todo al detalle y pudimos preguntar a medida que se desarrollaba la visita no sólo a ella sino también a algunos empleados de Zara que amablemente nos explicaron algunos procesos.

Iniciamos la ruta por las oficinas centrales donde están todos los diseñadores, country managers y directores generales de Zara. Las instalaciones de Zara en la Coruña tienen unas dimensiones enormes y todos trabajan en un ambiente que parece relajante aunque estén delante de ordenadores que les envían información en tiempo real de lo que está pasando en cada tienda del mundo. Todo a su alrededor es blanco, con pocos muebles y espacioso, sin oficinas individuales. Esto permite el intercambio de información ya que la cercanía entre trabajadores facilita el movimiento de sillas con ruedas de una mesa a otra si quieren ver algo en los ordenadores de otros empleados. Los diseñadores ya están trabajando en las colecciones de la próxima temporada primavera - verano, no pudimos hacer fotos por el tema de la confidencialidad.

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Esta parte de las instalaciones se divide por distintas áreas (mujer, hombre y niño). Cada división tiene sus propios diseñadores, country managers, etc.

A través de las ventanas del edificio donde trabaja la mayoría de empleados se pueden ver las montañas y entra muchísima luz por las ventanas. El comentario general fue que era una oficina poco convencional, con un ambiente muy joven e informal. Además tienen el mar bastante cerca...

(En este LINK podrás ver el resto de las fotos.)

En la planta de abajo pudimos ver las tiendas piloto de Zara y Zara home, los escaparates, y la nueva tienda de Inditex (Uterqüe) que saldrá a la luz en verano. Todos pudimos entrar y ver los productos que nos gustaron bastante. Auguramos que tendrá también bastante éxito en la calle...Tendrá complementos de gama más alta a precios asequibles.

Por allí estaba Amancio Ortega trabajando con un equipo de empleados en una de las tiendas piloto. Parece ser que él está al tanto de todo, sabe qué colores se venden más, qué diseños hay para las nuevas colecciones, etc. Es, sin duda, un hombre que está al frente de su imperio. Según María es bastante cercano y le gusta trabajar en la sede de Inditex.

De allí pasamos a la fábrica y centro de logística. Nos sorprendió a todos ver el poco personal que trabajaba en la fábrica debido a la automatización de los procesos. En tres plantas tienen 500.000 metros cuadrados de instalaciones. Primero vimos cómo en un ordenador mueven las piezas de los patrones sobre la tela para poderla aprovechar al máximo. Desde allí envían la información a un ordenador conectado a una máquina que corta automáticamente las piezas. Varias capas de tela se colocan una sobre otra, se recubren por un plástico y se envasan al vacío para que una potente máquina con cuchilla comience el proceso de corte. María nos explicó que al sacar todo el aire  el bloque que forma la tela es tan duro como una tabla y las capas no se moverán permitiendo así un corte perfecto.

Estas piezas cortadas junto con todo lo necesario para el acabado de la prenda (botones, cremalleras, etc.), se envían a talleres cercanos a La Coruña (en Galicia y en Portugal) para que se cosan y cuando la prenda está completa es de nuevo enviada a las instalaciones de Zara. Este proceso suele tardar aproximadamente 48 horas.

Una vez que las prendas están preparadas, hay que plancharlas y pasar un control de calidad. Cada hora unas 7.000 prendas son procesadas en la fábrica. ¡Es impresionante la velocidad a la que trabajan!

Cada tienda recibe dos pedidos de prendas a la semana que salen de las instalaciones en la Coruña. Casi todo el sistema de envío es automático. En la Coruña reciben los pedidos que hace la encargada de la tienda por PDA. Ella conoce muy bien a su clientela y sabe qué colores, prendas, etc tendrán más éxito. En el centro de logística las prendas con percha ya preparadas cada una en su envoltorio de plástico se mueven por raíles que llevan un chip que las va dirigiendo a sus cajas correspondientes para hacer el envío. Las prendas finalmente van a unas cajas y se clasifican por país, ciudad y tienda. Pudimos ver prendas que iban a distintas partes del mundo como Madrid, México, Alemania o Dubái.

Las prendas que van dobladas llevan otro proceso. Unos empleados pasan un lector de código de barras y según el código, la prenda va ya a la caja correspondiente de la tienda que la ha pedido. En cada caja que va a una determinada tienda se ponen automáticamente todas las prendas correspondientes al pedido. ¡Parecía que las prendas "volaban" por la cinta transportadora!

Las cajas se transportan de manera que las que van a la misma ciudad y tienda irán en el mismo camión. Los camiones están preparados para llevarse las cajas dos veces a la semana. Fuera de Europa la mercancía se suministra por avión. Ellos trabajan con Air France y DHL y suelen usar el aeropuerto de Santiago de Compostela.

Nos pareció divertido que los empleados de cada equipo en el centro de logística llevan camisetas del mismo color para identificarse, además estaban sentados juntos en el comedor a la hora de la comida. El ambiente allí parece distendido y agradable a pesar del ritmo de trabajo que llevan a diario...

Al final de la visita nos fuimos todos a comer a un restaurante en el centro de la Coruña. Marisco, pescado, empanada, vinito Albariño...qué bueno! Hemos hecho una visita increíble a uno de los centros de logística más famosos del mundo.

El equipo organizador
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Published, June 24 on the IE Women In Business (IE WIB),
23 de June

After the success of the first Sushi lesson by the "volunteer chef" Yutaka...

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  ....the Partners Club has decided to continue the tradition, organizing a second lesson, which was assisted by: Andrea, Maria, Alexandra, Juliana, Amelia and Silvana.

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n579105810_973187_9143.jpgTHANK YOU, YUTAKA!!!

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Published, June 23 on the Partners Club,
20 de June

Bar Of The Week for Friday the 20th of June / Viernes 20 de junio

 

¿Dónde/Where? BANGALOO
¿Qué/What? BOTW
¿Quiénes/Who? Everyone is invited / todo el mundo
¿Cuándo/When? Friday the 20th of June, 2008
¿Horario/Schedule? 00:00 - 06:00
¿Dirección/Address? C/General Perón, 29 MAP
¿Metro?
SANTIAGO BERNABÉU

 

IMPORTANT: Ask for Fernando at the entrance for IE area. Special price for IE: 7 €. No trainers!!!

IMPORTANTE: Pregunta por Fernando en la puerta y os llevará a la zona del IE. Precio especial para IE: 7€. No zapatillas!!!

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Published, June 20 on the
19 de June

El 26 de Mayo de 2008, el banco UBS dio una charla en el IE Business School sobre análisis y predicción de mercados, pero en este caso en vez de mercados, sobre la actual Eurocopa 2008 de Suiza y Austria.

En el evento tomaron parte: por parte de UBS, D.  Roberto L. Ruiz Scholtes, que se encargo de dar a conocer el proceso de análisis y predicción que luego UBS aplicó al mundo del futbol y por parte de IE Business School, el profesor D. Eduardo Fernandez-Cantelli, profesor de Marketing de IE Business School.

El profesor Fernandez-Cantelli hizo una introducción al mundo del futbol, previa a la exposición de U BS, en la expuso las ventajas y desventajas del cambio de puntuación en los partidos. El sistema de puntuación, que paso a ser: 3 puntos ganador, 1 empate y 0 el perdedor tenía como objetivo incentivar a los clubes y jugadores para que hubiese menos empates de los habituales. Es decir, motivar que hubiese más goles, que son la base de este deporte. El resultado de mas goles tendría como objetivo incentivar el ESPECTACULO!! Esto permitiría que la gente asistiese mas a los eventos y los clubes tendrían mejores resultados económicos. Por otro lado esto permitiría más incertidumbre y que las apuestas fuesen menos fáciles de predecir ya que si los jugadores estarían más motivados y si se juegan más en cada partido, habrá menos empates y las probabilidades disminuyen.

Este sistema de puntuación se empezó a utilizar en Inglaterra por primera vez  en 1981 y se ha ido implantando por toda Europa, hasta ser el sistema de puntuación usado en casi todas las ligas de Europa y por supuesto en esta fase final de la Eurocopa.

El resultado de este cambio de puntuación fue que los cambios no se hicieron notar, según los datos del profesor Fdz-Cantelli, pero se llego a una conclusión, que esto podría ayudar a la ESPERANZA DE VICTORIA de los equipos. Que es esto?  Literatura, Keller: La probabilidad de que un equipo gane depende de la media de goles que los dos equipos marcan por partido. Equipo A: 1,3 goles/partido. Equipo B: 1,1 goles. También se puede considerar en qué momento del partido se meten esta media de goles...esto ayuda para la estrategia de cada equipo en cada momento del partido.

Después de esta introducción, D. Roberto L. Ruiz Scholtes, de UBS, hablo sobre los programas de regresión multi-variable y los procesos matemáticos, como los que usan para los tipos de interés, bonos, divisas etc... en UBS. Aquí incluyen variables monetarias y económicas, factores estacionales, primas de riesgo, análisis técnico y sentimientos, para predecir los mercados.

Una vez que se tiene un modelo base como el de UBS, solo hay que meterle unas variables diferentes para predecir el resultado sobre un evento u objetivo concreto. En este caso hablamos de la Eurocopa 2008 de Suiza y Austria.

Por qué hace UBS una predicción de la Eurocopa? Porque ya en el mundial de Alemania 2006, predijeron que ganaría Italia, usando un modelo similar y acertaron. Después de aquel éxito, este año han hecho una nueva apuesta sobre quien ganara esta actual Eurocopa. Quien será el vencedor?

Para hacer posible esta predicción había que meter una serie de variables, unas pocas de muchas son:

1). Factores socio-económicos

·         Población país.

·         PIB.

2). Factores deportivos

·         Número de jugadores federados.

·         Rendimiento de los jugadores: goles, titularidad etc..

·         Cuando han acabado sus ligas: par ver el estado de forma de los jugadores.

·         Ranking  FIFA.

·         Experiencia del país en competiciones de este tipo.

·         Ventaja de campo.

·         Enfrentamientos anteriores.

·         Etc...

Después de explicar a los asistentes cómo funcionaba cada una de estas variables, se procedió a dar a conocer los resultados...

RESULTADOS según UBS:

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Desde el Club de Finanzas de IE Business School queremos agradecer al profesor Fernandez-Cantelli su ponencia y a UBS su explicación y ejemplo sobre predicción de mercados (y Eurocopas) y deseamos que sigan cosechando muchos éxitos en sus predicciones...aunque por otra parte también deseamos que España pase de cuartos! Que gane el mejor!!

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Published, June 19 on the IE Finance Club,
18 de June

CLUSTERSTAR: A MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FIRM RUN BY STUDENTS

ClusterStar is a young dynamic consulting firm run solely by students. ClusterStar provides high-quality services at low cost. Its teams are created through a worldwide student network and thrive on developing innovative ideas. The ultimate goal is customer satisfaction. An international pool of consultants can meet diverse needs requiring different specialization.

For more information about the company, please visit: www.clusterstar.com

We will host Daniel Molina co-founder of this incredibly fast growing company. He is currently studying law and economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. As Senior Manager, he is responsible for developing the network in Spain and Latinamerica and promoting the new company. He will talk to us about their unique consulting and entrepreneurial approach.

Please join us for a stimulating discussion Monday, June 23 from 18:00 to 19:30 in room S-101.

 

For more information, feel free to contact us at entrepreneurshipclub@ie.edu

 

Looking forward to see you there,

IE Entrepreneurship Club & IE Consulting Club

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Published, June 18 on the IE Consulting Club, IE Entrepreneurs Club,
16 de June

On the 16th of April 2008 D. Ignacio Dolz de Espejo, Manager of the Morgan Stanley SR Fund, came to IE Business School invited by the IE Finance Club to talk about how social investments can be an option in the financial world, and that people who care about this issue have an opportunity to invest outside of the traditional investing world.

Mr. Ignacio Dolz has worked for several years in Morgan Stanley. Now, MS bank has been sold to Grupo LaCaixa, and therefore the fund will probably change the name in the short-term.

Mr. Dolz started talking about the creation of the fund and its history. The fund was created by Intermon Oxfam (ONG) and AB Asesores (small boutique bought by MS), and with the help of an ethic committee they launched it in March 1999.

The fund was created with an objective: "to promote the companies' social responsibility as well as to obtain capital growth...."

Part of its management fee goes to ONGs, the client can choose which one. (Intermón Oxfam, Cáritas Española, Cruz Roja, Médicos Sin Fronteras, Entreculturas, Alboan and the Fundación para la Lucha contra la Esclerosis Múltiple.)

The fund selects the companies based on three criteria:

1.     The Ethical and SR investment policies of the companies.

2.     The Ethical Committee pre-selects the investment universe.

3.     Company investigation tools. (External and Internal).

To do these studies they use instruments like EIRIS (Ethical Investment Research Services). EIRIS uses 350 ethic and environmental indicators in 40 subsectors to classify the companies.

The fund searches for companies that protect human rights, follow the pharmaceutical deontological code, the Children's milk International Code, and are against armament, nuclear and tobacco.

The fund also uses evaluating criteria: the committee assigns valuation to aspects as: Corporate Governance, environmental policies, human rights and stakeholder issues.

After having passed all this filters the Strategic Committee decides which stocks will form part of the fund and the specific weight inside the portfolio. Here they use only the company´s financial results, ratios and any financial instrument that helps them to decide between two companies of the same sector.

The fund was created with a weight of 25% Equity and 75% in fixed income. The variation of the equity was not very high as before (1999) the law did not allow many changes in the structure of the fund. Now a day Mr. Dolz said, it is better to have a 100% Equity Fund, as all the (developed) country debt is supposed to be ethical and also because funds can now a day´s change the percentage of equity and fixed income.

The investment of the Equity part is invested in companies from all over the world. (Vodafone, Enagas, Saipem...etc)

Compared with other funds like private equity or hedge funds or pure equity funds or even pension plans, this SRI Fund manages a very small quantity of money, but it is the start of a new option for investors. The team that work at this fund have demonstrated that ethical profits are possible and that people are thinking more on this issue.

From the IE Finance Club would like to thank Mr. Ignacio Dolz for his seminar and hope him great success in the future development of the SRI Fund.

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Published, June 16 on the IE Finance Club,
16 de June

The 13th of March 2008 IE Finance Club presented a conference held by Mr. Ignacio de la Torre, Executive Director of Investment Banking at UBS' Madrid office. He is currently the academic Director for the Master's Program in Financial Management and for the Executive Master in Finance Management at IE Business School, as well as professor of finance, economy and accounting.

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The event took place at IE Business School with the attendance of 50 students from the school's diverse programs. The presentation was titled "Reasons and Aftermath of the Financial Crisis", and provided an overview of the current global financial and economic situation, the causes of the recent circumstances and predictions for the future.

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As a starting point, Mr. de la Torre said that the German people have been significant net savers in recent years. Germans have poured large sums of capital in the Chinese market, which is a major reason why the Chinese have had so much money to invest around the world, and specifically in the USA and its bond market.

Let´s briefly cover the circumstances surrounding the current financial situation, particularly the lack of control in the financial market. Hyman P. Minsky, a Wall Street economist developed a theory in the 60´s that was launched by him in the 80s when the markets were deregulated and the state encouraged investors to take greater risks in hopes of spurring innovation. Minsky believed that Wall Street encouraged businesses and individuals to take on too much risk,, generating ruinous boom-and-bust cycles. The only way to break this pattern was for the government to step in and regulate the lending practices. A few months ago, at the beginning of the crisis, we could see a similar lack of control in financial markets and how the US government announced the creation of new regulatory measures. This included giving more authority to the Federal Reserve, as Minsky's theory recommended.

We also need to know what a Credit Default Swap is. A simple explanation: passing the debt to a third party. In the case of firms or banks, the debt holders sell loans from their customers to an outside investor. A public debate ensued between two famous figures, one in favour and the other against the wisdom of such a policy. Alan Greenspan believed it was good for the economy as the risks were diversified between more people and more countries. On the other hand, Warren Buffet opposed it because it generated overly risky decision-making.

How does it work?

A person in (e.g) Tulsa, Oklahoma, without a job or future expectations of income wants to buy a house. The real estate agencies have two types of clients: Prime and No-Prime (subprime), this person would be SUBPRIME. When agencies have too many subprime mortgages, they make a pooled instrument known as a structured investment vehicle (SIV) and sell it to banks or other entities, so it is the new owner who has the right to collect the debt from clients.

Banks securitize the mortgage packages and create a bond with three ratings:

1)     Good. AAA rating.

2)     Medium.

3)     Bad. This one will have a 3% default. S&P will give them AAA rating.

As a result, an unemployed mortgage holder at high risk of default is inadvertently folded into the AAA rating category. In fact, SIV buyers oftentimes had no means of properly assessing solvency or liquidity risks underlying such debt.

When the credit crisis began to explode, banks and other entities did not have the possibility to recover the debt and suffered from major losses. These unrecoverable holes were as big as $7 billion at Merrill-Lynch, and $8 billion at UBS, and led to a series of announcements that banks would write down large amounts of assets from their balance sheets.

As the banks could not recover their money, lost liquidity, and could not continue lending. This impacted the overall credit market when consumers who had to pay down debts (e.g. a car purchase) could not obtain additional credit lines from banks.

The banks will have to wait until they recover some cash before they resume lending, which will eventually help jumpstart the economy again. But the question is: How much time will it take to recover from such big write downs?

This liquidity crisis also affects the inter-bank lending markets. Previously, banks with more liquidity would loan money to others at a small premium. Now, however, banks are reluctant to or cannot lend, and no lending means no income to expand the credit market. A vicious cycle results.

In summary, the economy must wait until banks recover sufficient liquidity to restart lending (more safely). This should fuel real economic growth once again.

To this we have to add the impact of much higher crude oil prices, which makes all goods much more expensive at a moment when families are already struggling with mortgage interest payments. These two factors will lower consumption and may cause the economy to stagnate or even contract for several terms.

In Spain, the subprime crisis did not affect the banks as much as in other countries due to the limits established by regulators that mandated that the amount of subprime lending could not pass a specified limit.

On behalf of the IE Finance Club we would like to thank Mr. De la Torre for his excellent seminar on the reasons behind the crisis and we hope to count on him again in the future for another outstanding seminar.

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Published, June 16 on the IE Finance Club,
13 de June

Bar Of The Week for Friday the 13th of June / Viernes 13 de junio

 

¿Dónde/Where? ANANDA
¿Qué/What? BOTW
¿Quiénes/Who? Everyone is invited / todo el mundo
¿Cuándo/When? Friday the 30th of May, 2008
¿Horario/Schedule? 00:00 - 06:00
¿Dirección/Address? Av. Ciudad de Barcelona MAP
¿Metro?
ATOCHA (renfe)

 

IMPORTANT: Special price for IE: 2 drinks x 10 €. No trainers!!!

IMPORTANTE: Precio especial para IE: 2 copas x 10€. No zapatillas!!!

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Published, June 13 on the Bar of the Week (BOTW),
13 de June

"Country Branding- The new era of branding Countries and Regions"

 

Imagen Thumbnail para BloomC.jpgJose Filipe Torres, CEO of Bloom Consulting

Tuesday, June 17th 2008

Pinar 211

17:00 - 18:30

 

Bloom Consulting is one of the few Brand Strategy consultancies in the world specialized in the area of Country "Trade Offer" Branding.

 

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­With clients such as:

The Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Latvian governments among others, also consistently working with the Region of Madrid.

Locations among others in:

Berlin | Buenos Aires | Caracas | Copenhagen | Istanbul | Madrid | Miami | New York | Lisbon | Oslo | Paris | Sao Paulo | Singapore | Sofia

_______________________________________________________________________

For more info:

http://www.bloom-consulting.com/

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Published, June 13 on the IE Marketing Club,
13 de June

 

PRESENTS

Should Turkey be admitted to the EU?

Is a younger workforce an opportunity or a threat? Can Europe handle a new balance of power? What are the real economics and who stands to gain? 

 

Find answers to these questions and many more through a lively academic debate with:

 

Hakan Karabalik, Trade Attaché of the Turkish Embassy: promoting the accession of Turkey to the EU

 

AND

 

Gonzalo Garland, an IE Professor with expertise in macroeconomics and the effects of demographic changes

who will point out the arguments for and against that make Turkey´s accession to the EU one of the most controversial issues that EU faces

  

DATE: Wednesday the 18th of June 2008 

TIME: 17:30 - 18:30

LOCATION: S-003, at Serrano 99

LANGUAGE: The debate will be conducted in English

FORMAT: There will be time for questions following the debate

30 PLACES AVAILABLE

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Published, June 13 on the Emerging Markets Club,
12 de June

(versión en inglés más abajo)

 

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Proudly presents

 

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Key speaker series con

 Luis Fernandez de Nograro

 

"Consultoría Operativa e Internacional. Evento de Contratación"

 

Miércoles, 18 de Junio 5.45pm-7pm
7-8pm Networking Cocktail

 

 Serrano 99, S101

 

Contratación: Atención IMBAs bilingüe, español MBAs, EXMBAs MM y Programas de todas las nacionalidades!!!

 

El Club de Consultoría se siente orgulloso de invitaros a la continuación de nuestro programa "Key Speaker Series" con Luis Fernández de Nograro, Socio Director de Axis Global Business (AGB). Si tienes interés en el área de consultoría y quieres aprender más sobre la función de un consultor y de lo que significa trabajar en esta profesión, por favor únete a nosotros el 18 de junio, 5.45pm a 7pm.

Luis es co-fundador y socio de Servicios Financieros y Sector de fiabilidad. AGB es una división de consultoría empresarial del grupo Axis Corporación y es considerada altamente emprendedora. Se centran en consultoría operativa para mejorar la eficiencia empresarial a través de los resultados económicos y las operaciones en todos los ámbitos de un negocio. AGB tiene operaciones en España y Shanghái y próximamente realizaran la expansión a  Brasil y el Reino Unido.  Para obtener más información, visite: http://www.axisglobalbusiness.com/

 

Este evento tendrá una duración de 40 minutos más  20 minutos de preguntas. La conferencia será en español! Os motivamos a hacer preguntas creativas y estimulantes! Posteriormente habrá un cóctel para relacionarse y conocer a Luis y otros estudiantes con intereses similares.

 

Vestir para el Éxito! Traed vuestro CV! Preparad vuestra introducción y aprovechad esta oportunidad. Axis está interesado en personas que hablen dos idiomas o más y de todas las nacionalidades.
 
Si te registras, la asistencia es obligatoria o cancelar por adelantado enviando un
e-mail dchopra.imba2008 @ alumno.ie.edu. En caso de incumplimiento se notificará a la Oficina del Alumno y se tomará en cuenta para futuros eventos. Gracias por tu comprensión y cooperación.

 

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Key Speaker Series with

Luis Fernandez de Nograro

 

"International Operational Consulting

 & Recruitment Event"

 

Wednesday, June 18th 5.45pm -7pm

7-8pm Networking Cocktails

 

Serrano 99, S101

 

Recruitment: Attention BILINGUAL IMBAs, Spanish MBAs, EXMBAs and MM Programs from ALL nationalities!!!!

 

The Consulting Club is proud to invite to you the continuation of our Key Speaker Series with Luis Fernandez de Nograro, Socio Director at Axis Global Business (AGB). If you have an interest in consulting and want to learn more about the operational consulting and the career of an operational consultant, please join us on June 18th, 5.45pm to 7pm.

 

Luis is the co-founder and Partner for the Financial Services & Assurance Sector. AGB is a highly entrepreneurial consulting division of Axis Corporate. They focus on operational consulting to improve corporate efficiency through economic performance and operations in all areas of a client's business. AGB has operations in Spain and Shanghai and is shortly expanding into Brazil and the UK. For more information visit:

http://www.axisglobalbusiness.com/

 

This event will have a 40-minute presentation and a 20-minute Q&A. The discussion will be in Spanish! Prepare for intellectually stimulating questions!  Afterwards there will be a networking-cocktail to meet Luis  and other like-minded students.

 

Dress for Success!! Bring CVs!! Prepare your pitches and networking skills!! Axis is interested in BILINGGUAL Speakers from all nationalities!

 

If you sign up, attendance is mandatory so please attend or cancel in advance by sending an email dchopra.imba2008@alumno.ie.edu.  Failure to comply will result in the Student Office barring you from future club events. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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Published, June 12 on the IE Consulting Club,
10 de June

June 03, 2008, Madrid: IE Telecom Club organized its speaker series with a distinguished speaker Mr. Alejandro Romero, Director Strategic Relationships, Yahoo, Iberia. The topic for the event was "Yahoo & Its Mobile Strategy". The event was attended by the alumni of IE Business School. Yahoo is trying to be an early bird in the field of mobile search by doing partnerships with the leading telecom operators. It has created a different eco system for the mobile users and enhances the experience through their new product "Yahoo One Search". They have engineered different kind of search pages for the relatively smaller mobile phone screens.

 

 

With Yahoo One Connect, they provide users the ability to control and access their friend lists from various Social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIN and Orkut. This Mobile strategy also finds synergy with the strategy of Telecom operators who are finding out ways to increase their ARPU (Average Revenue Per User). As more services on Mobile Internet transforms into more data usage by the subscribers. Yahoo's mobile applications are compatible to almost all the Operating systems running on mobile phones like Windows Mobile, Symbian etc. They are extremely cautious about the Google's entry into the mobile market with their new proprietary mobile handset operating system called "Android". Google has already been supported by the leading handset makers like LG and Samsung in this cause.

 

Yahoo is keeping all its options open to remain in this dynamic and growing world of Mobile Internet.

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Published, June 10 on the Telecom Club,
9 de June

We are pleased to announce the diversity conference that will take place next Thursday 12th June at 19.30 hrs in Maria de Molina A-205. The conference will be hosted by Nieves Delgado, VP of Sales at IBM and she will be talking about today's diversity issues in the society and business environments.

 

Bio of the Speaker:

Nieves Delgado López started working at IBM in 1988, where she held several posts as Sales Responsible for small and medium enterprices in the area of Personal Systems (PCD) of IBM EMEA. She was also Director of the Personal Systems area for Spain and Portugal. Nowadays, Nieves is Vice-President of the Systems Division at IBM in Spain, Portugal, Greece, Israel and Turkey. She graduated in Economics.


We look forward to seeing you next week!

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Published, June 09 on the IE Women In Business (IE WIB),
9 de June

international development team.JPGThe  IE International Development team held their annual meeting at Madrid campus from May 26th  to May 30th. Some people wonders how IE can be such an international School, with students coming from more than 76 different countries from all around the world. Well, here is the answer.

From left to right last row:

Stepan Kuznetsov, Russia IE Representative; Raoul Benaim, Venezuela IE Representative;  Mauricio Yuri, Chile IE Representative; Gonzalo Garland External Relations Director; Albert Krisskoy, China IE Representative; Fernando Fontes, External Relations Senior Advisor; Iñigo Castellano, Executive Education Deputy Director ; Federico Paviolo, Argentina IE Representative; David Bach, MBA Vice-Dean; Karan Gupta, India IE Representative; Felix Valdivieso, Communication Director; Deise Leobet, Regional Manager - Europe; Newton Campos, Brasil IE Representative; Gonzalo Gaspar,  United Arab Emirats IE Representative; Eduardo Fernández-Cantelli, External Relations Deputy Director; Dirk Höpfl, Singapore IE Representative; Alfonso Martinez de Irujo Executive Education President.

Middle row: Alvaro Sánchez & Yolanda Fernandez, Mexico IE Representatives; Sergio Negri, Italy IE Representative; Bruno Garro, Peru IE Representative; Alexandra Perez, Ecuador IE Representative;  Diego del Alcazar, IE President; Jean Marie Winikates, USA (West Coast) IE Representative; Carlos Saldaña, Marketing Director; Luis Miguel Sarmiento, Colombia IE Representative; Maria Margarita Amin, Central America IE Rrepresentative; Fiorella Gamero, International Development Coordinator; William Davila, Regional Manager - Asia.

First row: Guillermo Montes, USA (South East Coast) IE Representative; Kim Janulewitz, USA (North East Coast) IE representative; Nancy Cueto, International Development Director & Regional Manager Latin America; Boris Nowalski, Regional Manager -  Nort America.

Missing: Ines Holtreman, Portugal IE Rrepresentative; Patricia Salgar Colombia & Central America Representative; Javier Amézaga, Regional Manager - Middle East.

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Some of them are IE Business School Alumni and took this opportunity to meet some old folks.

Mirna Rojas, Manuel A. Gomez´spouse, Manuel Antonio, Miguel Angel Perez Lloria, Maria Margarita Amin, Naldo Peliks.  Marely Pacheco, Diogo Lemos Pereira.  All of them IMBAS 2005.

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Published, June 09 on the
9 de June

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"Gillette Fusion-

How to launch a new product in the Spanish Market and making it successful"

Demian Pintos

Brand Manager of Gillette and IE Alumnus

Thursday, June 12th

S-201 @ Serrano 99

18:30 - 20:00 

Procter and Gamble manages a house of brands with over 350 popular products. They span from household cleansers and personal care to laundry detergents and luxury products.  Come and find out what it takes to launch a new product in the Spanish Market and making it category leader.

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Published, June 09 on the IE Marketing Club,
6 de June

Donde/Where? El Confidencial
¿Qué/What?
BOTW
¿Quiénes/Who?
Everyone is invited / todo el mundo.

¿Cuándo/When? Saturday the 6th of June, 2008
¿Horario/Schedule?
11:00 - 06:00
¿Dirección/Address?
Paseo de Eduardo Dato,8 MAP

¿Metro? Ruben Dario

Important to bring IE Student card . Drinks 7 Euros.  Very important to dress smart. No casual clothes will be accepted.

Trae tu carnet del IE. Copas a 7 euros. SIN camisetas ni deportivas!!!

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Published, June 06 on the Bar of the Week (BOTW),
4 de June
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 Presents the 5th Annual IE Strategic Consulting Day
June 9th, 2008

"Strategic Consulting:  Emerging vs. Developed Markets"

 

We look forward to welcoming you to the 5th annual strategic consulting day, June 9, 2008.  The event begins at 4pm in Aula Magna and will include, Bain and Company, Booz & Co. and Accenture.

The format will be a panel discussion between the firms followed by break out session hosted by each company.  The evening will conclude with a cocktail reception.

Bain & Company "Strategic consultancy in the Private Equity sector: Learn to think like them"

Booz & Co.  "Consulting in the Middle East: Risks, Rewards, Opportunities and Threats"

Accenture "Consulting in a Multi-polar World - The Challenges in an ever-changing global landscape"

*Registration for both the panel discussion and break out sessions

Sponsors:

 

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Published, June 04 on the IE Consulting Club,
3 de June

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"How IT & mentoring can help you develop your business strategy"

IE Business School, Serrano 105

Thursday 5th June, 7.15 pm

Dear friend,

I am writing to invite you to the conference* about how IT and mentoring can contribute to your business strategy. It will be opened by Rafael Puyol, President of IE University, with Helena Herrero, VP of Hewlett-Packard and professor Ramiro Montealegre, from University of Colorado, as keynote speakers.

In today´s international business environment,  innovation is essential. Prof. Ramiro Montealegre and Helena Herrero will present how talent and IT are critical organizational resources to develop a successful business strategy.

Please confirm your assistance to met@ie.edu o through the online invitation.

Best regards,

Yanire Braña
MET Program Director

*The session will be in English and Spanish

"Cómo las TI y el mentoring pueden contribuir a desarrollar tu estrategia de negocio"

Jueves 5 de junio a las 19:15

IE Business School, Serrano 105

Estimado alumno,

Es un placer invitarte a la conferencia*  sobre cómo las TI
y el Mentoring mejoran tu estrategia de negocio. Será presentada por Rafael Puyol, Presidente de la IE Universidad y en ella intervendrán Helena Herrero, vicepresidenta de HP y el profesor Ramiro Montealegre de la Universidad de Colorado.

En un entorno empresarial cada vez más complejo e internacional  la gestión de la innovación es esencial.  Helena Herrero y el profesor Ramiro Montealegre hablarán de cómo el capital humano  y la tecnología son recursos clave para desarrollar una estrategia empresarial de éxito.

A la espera de que sea de tu interés,  esperamos poder  contar con tu presencia.

S.R.C.  en met@ie.edu o en la invitación online.

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Published, June 03 on the Telecom Club,