During your time studying with IE Business School, you will have the opportunity to build up a network of contacts within the school. Your classmates will broaden your professional and personal networks contributing to your experience both within the program and upon graduation. Your professors, with their vast experience, will provide you with a further network of professional contacts, many of whom will also be IE alumni.
In addition, IE Business School runs a number of centers dedicated to research and development in key areas of international business that are closely linked to the real needs and specific demands of the business world. You can also collaborate in a number of global initiatives and projects, which IE leads or takes part in, covering a host of sectors and issues including Entrepreneurship, Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability and Strategy.
In addition, the IE Communities platform is a network of virtual communities that promotes the development of your international network and enables the sharing of theoretical and practical knowledge of sectors, functional areas and geographic regions. You can visit the IE Communities at: communities.ie.edu
IE Business School has cultivated extensive relationships across the world, all of which are open to you. All of these contribute to your IE network.
The IE Alumni Association currently has some 35,000 alumni members that hold management positions in over 100 countries and serves as a platform for networking, training, information and professional services. More than 80 alumni representatives and over 60 clubs around the globe will help you maintain your network and keep in contact with IE, wherever you are.
The IE Alumni Association works to maximize contact between members and strives to provide its members with continuous training, keeping IE graduates up to date with the latest management techniques.
A network of Alumni Association chapters around the world forges links between alumni and a range of business organizations that collaborate with IE Business School. These Alumni Clubs organize a variety of academic activities - courses, conferences, round tables, forums and open debates, as well as leisure activities such as trips and sporting events, generating great opportunities to enhance this essential network.
The Alumni Association provides personalized careers guidance through the Careers Management Center. Ideas Empresariales, a quarterly journal, features interviews with international business leaders, sector, market, and country specific reports, plus the latest management trends and legal and tax issues.
Open Forums offer the chance for graduates from around the world to meet, promoting the exchange of information, providing unique cultural insight, as well as allowing you to build upon your IE Network. Among the different forums and thematic clubs created by the Association are The Entrepreneurial Management Club, the Family Business Forum, IE Women in Business (IEWB).
We offer alumni assistance relating to their professional development by promoting business start-ups through the Entrepreneurship Department and the International Center for Entrepreneurship and Venture Development (ICEVED). We also offer legal and tax counsel through graduates of the Master in Legal Practice and the Master in Tax Law.
As an alumnus, you are invited to attend conferences and online training activities designed to meet firms' demands for skills and capacities in new disciplines. We firmly believe in promoting our alumni and we are constantly innovating in terms of the content and design of courses, seminars, practical cases, conferences, sector-specific programs, and forums. The Association also offers alumni specialized courses that have enjoyed great success in IE programs in recent years. These include the Management Course organized for Executive MBAs, and the MBA Update: Business in China. The latter is held in Shanghai, equipping you with a deep knowledge of the fastest growing economy in the world, and the opportunity to establish business relations in China.
The Annual Alumni Conference reflects the spirit of the Alumni Association and plays a key role in the development of your IE network as well as promoting lifelong training. Last year's conference brought together 1,500 alumni from around the world.
All information related to the IE Alumni Association can be consulted online at alumni.ie.edu
IE Business School has developed relationships with a host of International companies, and collaborates with many within our programs. Listed here are just a few:
The International Executive MBA will help you strengthen your hard skills through a comprehensive understanding of business across functions and sectors, however also fostering specific soft skills highly valued by corporations -around the world. Both combine to build strong communication and interpersonal skills, adaptability, teamwork, diversity management, cross-cultural sensitivity, leadership, and time management skills which all contribute to making the IE graduate a much sought after and skilled professional.
The IE Alumni network, spanning over 85 countries, is a powerful resource to obtain feedback and mentoring on your career objectives, access to new business circles and investors, and introductions to recruiters in top companies worldwide.
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