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://www.imd.ch/rss Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:40:47 +0200 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:38:57 +0200 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com IMD MBA 2010 participant Jerome Briggs shrugs and gives an apologetic smile. “I guess it’s just part of me,” he says, unable to pinpoint what inspires his drive. But there’s no denying that that drive is strong. http://www.imd.org/news/It-is-about-the-challenge-for-Jerome-Briggs-an-IMD-MBA-candidate.cfm?mbafeed=true 1A44616F-2D0E-48A5-A42D-EFCDE513FE72 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:38:57 +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, or watch the videos of our Live Chat sessions. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm?mbafeed=true F0E86675-FEC8-4B0D-9482-0793FA1ECE60 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:37:13 +0200 The IMD community, including MBA participants, alumni, staff and Faculty, joined in the Paddling for Cancer Dragon Boat race on the Lac de Joux in l'Abbaye on Sunday September 5th. http://picasaweb.google.com/IMDMBANetwork/IMDMBA2010SeptemberPaddlingForCancer#?mbafeed=true 746BDE19-8E02-43C7-A1C9-7989A115B08E Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:35:52 +0200 The MBAs spent 10 days in South Africa working with small to medium sized companies to help them develop their sustainability. http://picasaweb.google.com/IMDMBANetwork/IMDMBA2010JulyDiscoveryTrip#?mbafeed=true E8AD3CD6-06C5-4CAF-869F-8AC65B6EEBD1 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:32:06 +0200 "Management toolbox." It’s one of the buzz-words in the business management world, and it’s what IMD MBA 2006 alumnus Rafael Altavini thought he was looking for. http://www.imd.ch/news/Career-self-confidence-is-true-value-of-IMD-MBA-for-2006-alumnus-Rafael-Altavini.cfm?mbafeed=true F7AF1934-7559-4BAD-A488-CC31D6FCE814 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:29:47 +0200 In the view of many, sitting on a sofa watching reruns of Seinfeld is being a 'couch potato'. Gunjan Kumar has another word for it: 'research.' The IMD MBA 2006 Alumnus will do whatever it takes to get the job done well. In an international career, sometimes that means catching up on Seinfeld. http://www.imd.ch/news/IMD-MBA-2006-Gunjan-Kumars-forte.cfm?mbafeed=true 4FE20B8C-D546-498E-90EC-2E705CD62AC7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:54:37 +0200 "Real global leaders are needed in businesses focused on sustainable development," says experienced agribusiness manager and IMD MBA 2010 participant, Anang Singh. "I came to IMD to further build on my leadership experiences, so I can fulfill that need." http://www.imd.ch/news/Anang-Singh-is-committed-to-sustainable-development-through-global-leadership.cfm?mbafeed=true D8A2F61E-5E7C-4F26-B01F-1184B473BF00 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:52:09 +0200 MBA alumni from around the world joined our participants for a networking party. See the photos. http://picasaweb.google.com/IMDMBANetwork/IMDMBA2010JuneNetworkingParty#?mbafeed=true 93538CCC-D3A3-47D0-A6C4-36DCEF050A26 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:49:58 +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, or watch the videos of our Live Chat sessions. http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm 11C45501-6D0F-42E3-9ADF-268AAD269434 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:47:37 +0200 See the latest news, videos, photos, blog entries, tweets... http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/mbalive/index.cfm CB136501-3169-448F-ADC2-60A4EEE24C2A Tue, 11 May 2010 17:03:59 +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, or watch the video of our latest Live Chat with Program Director, Martha Maznevski http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm 978E93FE-AFF7-43F3-92B5-B02E50CFA84F Tue, 11 May 2010 17:02:03 +0200 At the age of 17, Omar Molato, a native of Morocco who also holds French citizenship, looked at two paths before him: medicine and business. He had to choose one. Twelve years later, he sees those two paths closer each day to merging together: he is almost a third of the way through his year as an IMD MBA 2010 participant. http://www.imd.ch/news/IMD-MBA-2010-Omar-Molato.cfm 092DAF31-7C88-4FB7-88EB-5E209B5F8406 Tue, 11 May 2010 16:58:39 +0200 To state the obvious, the first step in forging a successful collaboration is to meet the person with whom you’ll collaborate. Marnix Ettema and Christian Priess, from the Netherlands and Denmark respectively, met in their first study group when they came to IMD in 2003 as MBA participants. Today, the success of their budding jewelry company, SENCE Copenhagen, is a testament to the solid business and leadership skills they learned at IMD. http://www.imd.ch/news/IMD-alumni-story.cfm?mbafeed=true 3C1F048E-EFB4-417E-AD5D-B962333E497A Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:52:45 +0200 "This is the way I like it," says IMD MBA 2010 participant Kurt Rote, an American, a few weeks into the program. "Waste no time getting down to the real work and meet a lot of smart, unique people who are all here to learn from and connect with each other." http://www.imd.ch/news/IMD-MBA-participant-profile-Kurt-Rote.cfm?mbafeed=true 165A3137-06B2-4240-B2E5-6A4D630F377F Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:49:25 +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 C9A21360-AEB3-4BC7-BAEE-350246F60BB6 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:48:33 +0200 Learn more about the IMD MBA. We are happy to welcome you to Lausanne or virtually online. This month we also have a Live Chat with Program Director, Martha Maznevski http://www.imd.ch/programs/mba/infosessions/index.cfm?tab=2 0DC5D0A9-0723-4C21-A7EB-935764436DB7 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:47:14 +0200 See what the MBAs got up to in March. http://picasaweb.google.ch/IMDMBANetwork/IMDMBA2010RedBullCaseDiscussion#?mbafeed=true 50E0EFB9-DDF1-49C1-B9D6-1790CBB5C5A7 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:44:46 +0200 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 "This is the way I like it," says IMD MBA 2010 participant Kurt Rote, an American, a few weeks into the program. "Waste no time getting down to the real work and meet a lot of smart, unique people who are all here to learn from and connect with each other." http://www.imd.ch/news/IMD-MBA-participant-profile-Kurt-Rote.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