Keep up-to-date with the IMD MBA participants and what's going on in the program through blogs, photos and videos. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/index.cfm?mbafeed=true http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:41:05 +0100 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:37:53 +0100 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.7) http://www.feedforall.com IMD MBA 2010 - Passion on Enterpreunership, Interview with Benoît F. Leleux http://www.youtube.com/imdmbanetwork?tea4=true#p/a/u/0/_Y_LMJI2HWA 551A24C7-527C-4667-8894-8DD430B34017 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:37:53 +0100 Philip Dao came to IMD and learned he had more to give. Today the 2007 IMD MBA alumnus is living a more ambitious, giving and courageous life. He credits IMD for giving him both the awareness and the tools to effectively take on that challenge. http://www.imd.ch/news/IMD-MBA-2007-alumnus-Philip-Dao.cfm EFCE0CCE-138F-4490-BAB9-725F9713CCAC Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:34:15 +0100 Newly confirmed dates are now available for on-site campus visits or for information sessions and forums around the world. Please register to join us. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm E22247AA-E5E3-4DD0-87D3-F08E2119CADB Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:33:01 +0100 Listen to Admissions Associate Director, Lisa Piguet giving tips on the IMD MBA admissions process and watch a daring new group of MBA 2010 participants take their first plunge into the icy Lac Léman. http://www.youtube.com/imdmbanetwork?tea4=true 23E602A1-559E-40EE-9591-A6F391032DBA Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:43:33 +0100 An overview of the first month through photos. http://picasaweb.google.com/IMDMBANetwork/IMDMBA2010January02#?mbafeed=true 69C143DB-DBD7-4A8C-B835-847507430A94 Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:41:37 +0100 Learn more about the IMD MBA. We are happy to welcome you to Lausanne or virtually online, so that you can meet our MBA participants, attend a Q&A session and have a short tour of the campus. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm?tab=2 8E0AB31F-4684-4B65-9A77-2D50D71A3A10 Mon, 1 Feb 2010 10:40:38 +0100 Destination Dhaka Kornelius Thimm, an MBA student at IMD, takes an elective course in Bangladesh, and learns that the country’s future lies in protecting the industry of its past It sometimes seems as if the financial crisis has touched every aspect of my time at business school. Throughout my one-year MBA at IMD in Switzerland, I have engaged in countless discussions about bail-out programmes, economic-stimulus packages and restructuring efforts across all industries. http://www.economist.com/business-education/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15268549 BBACB725-943D-4BA0-A59C-B665AADB1841 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:57:52 +0100 A group of 2010 participants have begun tweeting about their MBA experience. http://twitter.com/imdmba?tea4=true 2CC540D5-D812-4D2D-B9DA-B70DB24D2923 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:56:26 +0100 The first official day of the program, the first team building exercise faced by the 90 participants in the 2010 program: build an arch together. Materials were supplied and the work began! http://picasaweb.google.com/IMDMBANetwork/IMDMBA2010BuildingTheArch# 082E4938-19CA-45B8-8BC6-56F8B040D9E6 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:54:49 +0100 Eric Vergara landed his dream job just by being himself. The 2009 IMD MBA participant makes it sound like luck, but Eric offers his new employer the right combination of intelligence, experience and savvy. Undeniably though, he was at the right place at the right time to be noticed. That place was an IMD Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) session. http://www.imd.ch/news/MBA-2009-participant-profile-Eric-Vergara.cfm?mbafeed=true 628C2EFD-A06D-4C31-8572-8536774CE90A Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:53:11 +0100 Newly confirmed dates are now available for on-site campus visits or for information sessions and forums around the world. Please register to join us. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm D6E0048D-B9F6-41AC-A055-B4D3FC29F8B2 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:51:51 +0100 At first glance, it’s an eclectic career path. A closer look at Uziel Zontag’s course reveals a fine interweaving of threads linking past, present and future. http://www.imd.ch/news/2004-alumnus-Uziel-Zontag-takes-on-new-world-of-challenges-after-IMD-MBA.cfm?mbafeed=true 84C1766D-749D-42CB-A191-69A205BC5032 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:49:28 +0100 Learn more about the IMD MBA. We are happy to welcome you to Lausanne or virtually online, so that you can meet our MBA participants, attend a Q&A session and have a short tour of the campus. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm?tab=2 7B97C58C-DFD6-4CB3-903E-57A941E98A48 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:47:51 +0100 Today the IMD MBA program was ranked #2 worldwide by The Economist. In addition, alumni rated IMD's MBA career services as "best in the world". http://www.imd.ch/news/IMD-2009-MBA-rankings.cfm?mbafeed=true C570E422-B62D-4300-956D-62B66D30AA41 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:37:40 +0200 The MBAs managed to find time to relax whilst also completing Phase II of their ICPs (International Consulting Projects) http://picasaweb.google.com/IMDMBANetwork/IMDMBAAugust2009#5391998180650024770?mbafeed=true FD622154-E849-4C36-BA70-A47C58500AEF Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:35:12 +0200 Robert Chatwin was a Chartered Accountant with several years’ experience in the world of finance in the UK and in his native Brazil before he even thought about complementing his credentials and experience with an MBA. http://www.imd.ch/news/Robert-Chatwin-MBA-2003-alumnus.cfm&mbafeed=true B9E8C7B7-896F-4516-9024-E81DB7E53FB9 Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:56:41 +0200 At 29, Valeria Pavlyukovskaya is one of the younger participants in IMD’s MBA program. But she learned early that if you set your goals high, you can achieve great things. http://www.imd.ch/news/MBA-2009-participant-profile-Valeria-Pavlyukovskaya.cfm&mbafeed=true 824D3E15-D81C-4040-AA13-D40BD6DEB3C9 Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:54:38 +0200 Learn more about the IMD MBA. We are happy to welcome you to Lausanne so that you can meet our MBA participants, attend a Q&A session and have a short tour of the campus. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm?tab=2 40B3C804-B806-4161-9489-7AFDF89E7B72 Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:53:47 +0200 In the Wall Street Journal's recent ranking of accelerated MBA programs, the IMD MBA was ranked #2 worldwide. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/whyimd/rankings.cfm&mbafeed=true AADFBD18-C856-4F80-B3D9-7664896766AA Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:07:49 +0200 For people who are unable to visit the campus in person, there is now a possibility to join a virtual campus visit. These visits will include a presentation of the program by a member of the MBA team and a Q&A session. Please register to receive the link to join us. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm?tab=2 04B920EF-0D82-4703-B859-72414384CBAB Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:00:51 +0200 Learn more about the IMD MBA. We are happy to welcome you to Lausanne so that you can meet our MBA participants, attend a Q&A session and have a short tour of the campus. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm?tab=2 0813F24C-6D2C-4130-BD2A-9AADDCA63A6A Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:54:17 +0200 Back in 1999, when Cicely Brown was managing a medium-sized printing company’s sales and commercial department, she was always questioning whether the way she was working and the decisions she was taking were really those of a professional manager. So, she mused, the best way to find out is to get an MBA. http://www.imd.ch/news/Cicely-Brown.cfm?mbafeed=true 3C244270-7A1F-44F3-AF9D-813968802963 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:52:27 +0200 MBA participants joined IMD's Orchestrating Winning Performance program (OWP) for the first time this year. A unique opportunity to share the executive learning experience. http://picasaweb.google.com/IMDMBANetwork/IMDMBAJuneOWP2009#5369733279417600146 5246C532-9802-4820-9D6A-ED93ADE9DA12 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:47:08 +0200 A selection of photos taken by the MBA participants during their vacations around the world. http://picasaweb.google.com/IMDMBANetwork/IMDMBAJulyVacations2009#5367212314200526354 E6AFCD75-8971-46BF-9F34-AA11D88FB897 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:16:37 +0200 Yang Gao - known to all as Stone - took full advantage of the three-week summer break from IMD’s MBA program. And why not? The program is known to be one of the most exacting among MBA programs, and Stone often puts in nearly 20-hour days. But most important to Stone was that the break allowed him to go home to China to meet his month-old son, Shao Yang. http://www.imd.ch/news/MBA-2009-profile-Yang-Gao.cfm?mbafeed=true AF6815B3-AB35-4C75-813B-034790FE57F8 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:12:53 +0200 Newly confirmed dates are now available for on-site campus visits or for information sessions and forums around the world. Please register to join us. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm 8A202EC6-FD2F-4F5C-B30A-5A107FC832F5 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:43:09 +0200 Jussi Vanhanen (37) knows his continents. Just one to go and he’ll have lived in all of them. A native Finn, he was raised in Tanzania and has since studied or worked in the UK, Switzerland, Spain, China and Brazil. This time, however, there would seem to be a good chance he will let his roots grow a little deeper. He has recently been appointed President Engineered Materials at UPM-Kymmene, Helsinki, a company with some 25,000 employees and annual turnover of EUR10b – a job even Jussi won’t find easy to beat. http://www.imd.ch/news/Jussi-Vanhanen.cfm&mbafeed=true 76B153C4-B910-4538-9C0D-40C5793ADA1B Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:40:00 +0200 Study groups progress, presentations are made and the IMD restaurant opens up the terrace. http://picasaweb.google.com/IMDMBANetwork/IMDMBAMay2009#5348681617937328642 20F229AB-7958-445E-B6CA-C878D3E7D898 Sat, 16 May 2009 15:29:41 +0200 It all started with a ceramics class in boarding school and an opportunity, at the age of 16, to spend eight months in Japan as a student ambassador, living with a tri-generational Japanese family. Now, with six languages under her belt, an undergraduate degree in Chinese Studies and Linguistics, and over six years in the renewable energy and non-profit sectors, American Jodie Roussell is hoping the IMD MBA will help her to move her career and the renewable energy field forwards. http://www.imd.ch/news/MBA-2009-profile-Jodie-Roussell.cfm?mbafeed=true 9127B47C-B1F8-4A21-9910-9B34B7251B90 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:52:31 +0200