What an incredible feeling. Few more hours and the day of our graduation has come. I am speechless and it is an amazing feeling. I am just working a little more to finish my second last assignment due tomorrow (Business Plan) and one more essay to go after graduation and I am done!!!! Finally!!!
This is the agenda for tomorrow in case you have missed the emails and notices.
Graduation Day on Friday 26th March .
Please find below the order of the day:
Location: Garden of ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL, floor A next to Career Services.
Av. d’Esplugues 92-96
The Cleantech and Environment Club is setting up a registration table today, March 4th, starting at 10:30 outside the cafeteria on the 2nd Floor to sign up participants for next Tuesday, March 9th’s, BiCE event.
Even if your primary interest is Banking or Consulting and not necessarily in Cleantech, this is a perfect opportunity to network with Consultants, Politicians, Investors and Business Angels, Academics, Industry groups and Multinational Companies.
It’s a full day event packed with more than 30 speakers from different companies, plenty of food and drinks, and tons of dedicated interaction time between the audience and speakers.
BiCE has been featured in the Wall Street Journal Europe (March 3rd issue) under the Future Leadership Institute section. For full details or to register online, kindly log on to www.bicesummit.com
Business in Cleantech & Environment Summit 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Time: 11:00 – 19:45
ESADE FORUM
Av. Pedralbes 60-62
E-08034
Barcelona, Spain
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.
Please join us on Tuesday, February the 2nd at 18.30 in Room A018.
The Operations and Entrepreneurship Clubs would like to invite you to attend “Operations in a Family Business” presented by Ignasi Cusido, CEO of LAMP Lighting and member of ESADE alumni society. LAMP Lighting, which is based out of Barcelona, has been one of the leading light innovators within the industry since its inception in 1972.
Ignasi’s presentation will focus on LAMP’s Operational Strategy as it expands its international presence. LAMP is a family business that offers a personalised service to clients and is totally involved in the projects it participates in by providing a comprehensive, innovative and aesthetic service.
A message from MBASA for the first cultural event of the year:
Dear ESADE MBAS
Don’t miss out on getting your ticket TODAY, for our first cultural event of the year… happening next week!
Event: Flamenco show and 3 course dinner (price all inclusive)
To clarify the questions that many of you asked me yesterday: You will not be asked to dance or dress up in traditional flamenco outfits :)
Date: Saturday, 6th of February, 21.00 – late
Venue: El Tablao de Carmen in Pueblo Español (close to Montjuic).
Deemed the most authentic show in Barcelona !!! http://www.tablaodecarmen.com/
Special Esade offer: € 38 including show and three course dinner
(the regular price is € 69 !!)
Tickets will be sold outside the cafeteria on level 2 from 13.00 – 15.00.
We need to collect the money in advance to take advantage of our special offer, so please let us know asap if you would like to attend put cannot make it tomorrow at those times!
Today being the 27th of January 2010 means that today in 2 months will be the first day after graduation. What an amazing experience it has been and still is however the speed with which the end is approaching is quite terrifying. Let’s finish strongly and pocket a job before we finish or raise the funds in time if you start your entrepreneurial future!!!
The online discussion with e-learning experts about the use of social media in higher education takes place today at 12.30pm (GMT+1). This virtual “discussion aims to share best practices, experiences and interest in the use of social software technologies in Higher Education”, as explained by Margarida Romero (Twitter).
The dicussion will take place on Facebook, Twitter (#09CD10001) for external experts and on Nexusfor Esade’s experts.
On Nexus, some ESADE IT staff joins (Raquel Boza, Manuela Calatayud, etc.) and ESADE’s DIPA members (Learning Innovation Department, Albert March, Cristina Martin).
In Facebook the participants will be the Esade PhD Students in Management and worldwide researchers and experts in elearning such:
Pirkko T Hyvönen (Uni. Oulu) – CSCL Researcher, Finland
Esteve Almirall – IS Researcher, Spain/Taiwan/Finland…
Niki Lambropoulos – CSCL Researcher, UK & Greece
Damien Clauzel (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) – IS Researcher, France
Today the ESADE Winter Career Week begins and will take place as well on Monday (25.01.10) and Tuesday (26.01.10) on the ESADE Campus Building 3. This will be great recruiment opportunity for all MBA students graduating in March 2010 and the first year students looking for summer internships.
There is a great line-up of companies presenting on campus as well as video presentations and workshops. Today the Career Week was kicked off by LVMH followed by PepsiCo LatAm this afternoon. Other companies coming are the following:
ALFA CONSULTING
ALTAIR MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
AXIS CORPORATE S.L.
CENTRE DE RECHERCHE PUBLIC HENRI TUDOR – TECHNOPORT
COCA – COLA FEMSA
DISNEYLAND PARIS (Business Case)
DISNEYLAND PARIS (Presentation)
DSM
EVERIS
GE LATAM
INFOSYS
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
LOEWE
L’ORÉAL ESPAÑA S.A.
LUXOTTICA
LVMH
NESTLÉ
PEPSICO LATAM
ROCHE FARMA SPAIN
SK GROUP
TECH DATA ESPAÑA SLU
TECHNOPAK
TRADEBE
WERFEN GROUP
WILLIAM J. CLINTON FOUNDATION
WIPRO
ZURICH FINANCIAL SERVICES
This is a great line up offered to us with plenty of networking chances so we have to take advantage of it. I wish everybody a successful recruiment process!!!
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?
After there has been a lot of confusion and different dates floating around concerning the graduation I verified today. The date of the graduation for the Full-Time MBA and the One Year MBA Class 2010 is:
Friday, the 26th of March, 2010
Note down this date and forget all other tentative or rumour dates. I hope that all your families and friends can make it on this date.
What a great evening it has been. First of all I would like to thank the Jury and the Entrepreneurship Club for organising this event. Secondly I would like to thank my team mates and colleagues Quique de la Mata and Shinsuke Ogawa for working on this project together. We won the 2nd price for the business idea of mobile payments and now we are even more convinced that therre is a lot opportunity in this market. This event was a great opportunity to get feedback on the business idea, the exposure, criticism and experience.
Special mention also has to go the project Cell Tag which won the competition, presented by Eric King. The concept evolves around putting barcodes and tags on cells during the embryo fertilization process for humans. Excellent idea and I am looking forward to watching this project grow.
The third price went to Pedro Martinho whose business idea evolves around air plane maintenance. It is a company of aviation engineers and mechanics whose job it is to reduce the “on the ground time” of airplanes that have been experiencing technical difficulties or damages.
All the other projects were great too and it was great seeing all the presentations. May the entrepreneurial spirit continue!!! Hopefully we get to see the videos soon!!
Last night the jury for the ESADE Entrepreneurship Club Elevator Pitch Contest, comprising of professors and VCs, has chosen the following ten projects from 26 applicants. These ten projects will give a 3min pitch on Monday, 31st of November 2009, at 6.30pm at the ESADE Forum.
1. Ad deliverers – Eduard Cansado
2. AFADS – AbdelAziz
3. Aircraft on Ground – Pedro Martinho
4. Jet A Suits – Marc Winter
5. Cell Tag – Eric King
6. Houseactioneer – Alfredo Paul
7. Microfinance for Profit – Chinmoy
8. New in Town – Ivaylo Vasilev
9. Park IT – Joan Muni
10. Mobile Payment System – Tobias Caldeweyher (myself)
We will be closely watched by students, alumnis, VC’s, professors, IESE and local entrepreneurs. If things turn out well a project might be picked up by an investor and the business takes off. This provides a great opportunity and it will definitely be a great event. The event will be followed by a networking cocktail for all the participants. The event costs 12€.
The ESADE Entrepreneurship Club invites to the presentation of Mr. Heiko Rauch,the CFO/COO of Zanox, a global market leader for performance-based online marketing and affiliation platform. I used to work with Zanox on a daily basis when I was working for LetsBuyIt.com and therefore have a particular interest in this presentation.
Venue: Room 0014
Date and Time: 25th Nov 6 PM – 7PM
Profile (Source: Entpreneurship Club)
Heiko Rauch is co-founder and CFO/COO of zanox, a global market leader for performance-based online marketing. At zanox, he is responsible of finance, business development, organisation and operations.
Before joining the zanox executive team, Heiko served as a project manager for Bankgesellschaft in Berlin, managing a team of ten employees. His experience in controlling and budgeting have proved invaluable for the zanox’ Finance and Accounting department. His strengths in developing and maintaining lean, efficient organisational structures coupled with his strong financial competencies have proved a driving force in the success of zanox’ European and international expansion. It was also Heiko who established zanox’ subsidiary in the US – a strategic move to realise the vision of a globally spanning network covering Europe, Asia and the Northern American markets.
He holds a degree in Information Technology from the University of Applied Sciences, FHTW, Berlin.
For any questions: mbaentrepreneurshipclub@alumni.esade.edu or, speak to a club Board member in your class: Ahmad Al Alami, Christian Behn, Zorina Dimitrova, Rahul Trivedi, Saurabh Mishra, William Busch, Carles Costa
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