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¿Donde/Where? STAR CAFE
¿Qué/What? BOTW
¿Quiénes/Who? Everyone is invited / todo el mundo…
¿Cuándo/When? FRIDAY, 30 NOVIEMBRE, 2007
¿Horario/Schedule? 00:00 till 06:00
¿Precio/Price? 5€
¿ Dirección/Address? Serrano Jover 5
¿Metro? Arguelles

(Español)
¿Oferta Especial? Por favor, dile al portero que eres un estudiante de IE para que puedas comprar copas en la puerta a 5 euros. Solo es válido hasta la 1:30.
¿Indumentaria? ¡Importante! Camisa y zapatos, son muy rigurosos con la vestimenta.

(English)
Special Offer?Just tell the staff at the door that you are from IE and so you can buy drinks at € 5. The offer is valid till 1:30.
Dress Code? Important! Dress smart, no trainers, they are very strict.

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1 Million € of virtual money per team, 22 teams, competing in real time for 8 weeks, with access to invest in Global Stocks, Currencies, Commodities, Derivatives and just about everything else there is to invest in.

The Stocktrack stock market simulator competition is a mandatory game played by those students enrolled in the courses of Portfolio Management, taught by Professors Juan Pedro Gómez (in English) and Laura Nuñez (in Spanish). The game was also open to the IE Finance Club Members.

We had heard that cash is king. However, after listening to the strategies of the top 3, we found out that information is king! Gardenia Fresneda Da Silva (MBA 07), Ricardo Degollado (EXCHANGE STUDENT) and Miroslav Toshkin (IMBA 07) were the contenders presenting their teams' strategies.

Ricardo’s team had made some money on investments in stocks and then lost it all when he moved his focus to commodities and invested in gold and oil. This together with his team’s investments in T-Bills put him on a pedestal in the Sharpe ratio rankings at a whopping ratio of 1.94. Ricardo and team kept a close watch on the news throughout the 8 weeks, meticulously checking the movements of their portfolio.

Gardenia, who belonged to the group brokered by Nicolás Tobón (MBA 07), was the top performer by absolute returns until week 7, after which Miroslav made some wise and high risk high return investments, putting him in first place for absolute returns. Gardenia mentioned that they too, like Ricardo, started with investments in stocks but moved to oil. There was no looking back after week 5, during which her team was close to 15% returns, leaving the closest contender at a mere 7%. Gardenia kept watching out for oil movements, $ exchange rates and the contemporary financial crises. She then diversified and gained brownie points for her team.

Comments by Finance Club members:

Samarth Sheth: Initially the # 1 was someone whose strategy was to be highly leveraged; come week 4 and this portfolio was at a -55%. The positions were risky and unhedged. Huge leverage landed them up at the bottom of the pyramid. Learning for me – “Greed is good” (Wall Street - the movie) however a hedged one is better!

Joaquín Ruiz: The Portfolio Management Competition is another success event of the Finance Club and coordinated/sponsored by Instituto de Empresa and his Chair of Finance Prof. Juan Pedro Gómez. Students have had the chance to discover the intricacies of investing in all types of financial securities and compete among each other in real time basis.

Congratulations to the top 3 teams, and especially to Miroslav´s team!

This year, IE’s crew was sponsored by Ambilamp Association for recycling and conservation of the natural environment, and fought hard in a regatta with strong winds, rough seas and fierce competition.

At the end of September, the fourth edition of the MBA’s Cup regatta took place in Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy as in previous years. This event, which has become a classic, includes the participation of 21 of the world’s most important Business Schools and over 400 of their students.

The IE crew -formed by IMBA05 Johannes Tinsobin (Austria), Pablo Divasson (Spain), Carlos Vázquez (Spain), IMBA06 Karim Kreaa (Syria), Laura Fernández (Argentina), Wim Zwaenepoel (Belgium), Alberto Ordiales (Mexico)and IMBA07 Nicolas Dilger (Germany)- finished the first day’s sailing in an extraordinary 2nd place position, but due to an unfortunate incident with the Rotterdam BS yacht, ended up in 11th position by the event’s end.

The MBA’s Cup is a unique opportunity for business students, brought together by their passion for sailing, to make contacts and to exchange ideas amongst themselves, with business leaders and with those who push forward major changes at the international level. In today’s world, sustainability is one of the most important issues in business, and for this it is especially pertinent that our sponsor this year was AMBILAMP, a non profit-making company, whose aim is to promote the protection of the natural environment, through the creation of an integrated management system for the treatment of wastes produced by used lamp-bulbs.

IE is ranked amongst the world’s top 10 business schools and comes Europe’s 1st in the sustainability ranking published by The Aspen Institute. This ranking evaluates the integration of social and environment issues in the curricula of MBA programs. The link between Ambilamp and IE is Juan Carlos Enrique Moreno, General Manager of Ambilamp and alumnus of IE’s Executive MBA program (1990).

Reinforcing the continuous successes and high-profile business events organized by students, The IE Consulting Club organized and hosted the fourth edition of the Consulting Day on the 13th of June. At the full-day event, students and alumni had the opportunity to meet top executives from first-tier consulting firms such as Bain & Company, Oliver Wyman and Accenture.

Over 100 participants from IE joined the panel discussion and the subsequent workshops held by participating firms.

Members of the Consulting Club welcoming the speakers before the panel discussion. From left to right: Luis Ceniga, Accenture; Cesare Valenti, Consulting Club VP; Pedro Trinite, Consulting Club VP; Mathieu Frison, Consulting Club President, Lorenzo Milans Del Bosch, Oliver Wyman, Manuel Becerra, IE strategy Professor, Oksana Avdeeva, Consulting Club and Ricardo Damborenea, Bain & Company.

Ricardo Damborenea, Lorenzo Milans Del Bosch, Luis Ceniga and Manuel Becerra (from left to right) during the panel discussion. (right) Attentive students studying from different IE masters.

Santiago Iñiguez, Dean of Instituto de Empresa, opened the event and welcomed the distinguished speakers: Ricardo Damborenea, Senior Partner at Bain & Company, Lorenzo Milans Del Bosch, Director of Oliver Wyman and Luis Ceniga, Lead for SPAI at Accenture. Professor Manuel Becerra, the IE Accenture Chair, introduced and moderated the panel discussion.

This year’s theme at the discussion panel was “Strategies for sustainable growth in the era of globalization”, which is one of the hottest topics in the industry nowadays – for both entrepreneurs and multinational companies. The discussion included both models drawn from professional consulting best-practices and real-life cases.

The theme encouraged an active debate between the students and speakers, which was indeed insightful and stimulating.

The workshops session started after a 30 minute coffee-break that was kindly sponsored by the invited firms. Students had the opportunity to discuss the specific cases presented by each firm’s manager, as well as network with the invited guests.

Eduardo Avendano and Javier Roa, of Accenture, conducted the workshop "Geographic expansion in Financial Services: How to suceed".

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The third workshop was handled by Nicolás López, of Bain & Company, and students were called to discuss issues of "Strategic consultancy in the private equity sector: learn to think like them".

This event was organized by Mathieu Frison, Pedro Trinite, Cesare Valenti, Alessio Rugeri, Oksana Avdeeva and Eduardo Martinez, all IE 2007 students, with the support and help of the Careers Management Centre. The event was sponsored by participating consulting firms.

The C-Club team thanks all IE students that gave feedback on the 4th edition of the C-Day.

Key learning of the event:
Sustainable growth is a valuable outcome that follows the implementation of an effective, and unique strategy. All speakers gave precious insights on how the consulting industry can offer companies to manage this process effectively and efficiently. Today’s clients are becoming more sophisticated and are demanding a real transfer of skills and know-how, instead of the classical one-off engagement. Strategy consulting firms are responding to this need by offering more sophisticated and integrated solutions. Different strategies in this regard were illustrated by the speakers. And while short term results are always important, the primary focus is the long term relationship aimed to provide clients’ shareholders outstanding returns on their investments. Some topics discussed were: diversification, business process analysis, competitive advantages, organic and buy-out growth strategies, and many others.

Cara a cara con el headhunter. Un caso real
Objetivos: La sesión girará en torno al análisis de dos entrevistas reales grabadas con anterioridad. Dichas entrevistas serán la base del debate entre el Director de Recursos Humanos, el Headhunter y el Director de Carreras Profesionales del IE. Nuestros expertos diseccionarán las entrevistas con el objetivo de resaltar los aspectos positivos y negativos que se producen en el desarrollo de las mismas. Es una oportunidad única de asistir como espectador y no como protagonista a uno de los momentos más decisivos en la Gestión del Cambio en la Carrera Profesional.
Ponentes : D. Francisco Cerdá, Director de Carreras Profesionales del IE Business School. Contaremos, asimismo, con directores de recursos humanos de algunas de las empresas más relevantes en nuestro país. Introducirá y moderará la sesión Dª Lucía Crespo, MBAP 2005 por el IE Business School, coordinadora del IE Women in Business (IEWIB) de la Asociación de Antiguos Alumnos del IE.

Lugar: IE Business School. Aula Magna. María de Molina, 11 Madrid
Fecha: Martes, 27 de noviembre de 2007. 19:30 horas.
Fecha límite inscripción: Martes, 27 de noviembre de 2007. Para inscribirte envía un mail a:met@ie.edu

Con esta quinta sesión el IE Women in Business (IEWIB) da continuidad al ciclo de encuentros para la reflexión y el debate sobre la Gestión del Cambio Profesional. Estos encuentros recorren todo el "ciclo de vida" del proceso de cambio desde la decisión, hasta la consecución del objetivo profesional. El ciclo de conferencias combina talleres prácticos con experiencias de primera mano de directivas y directivos del máximo nivel, profesionales de diferentes sectores.
Después de la sesión, se servirá un cocktail.

Puedes encontrar más información sobre este ciclo de conferencias en:http://alumni.ie.edu/usr/aulas/aula.asp?aula=Mujeres&seccion=ACTIVIDADES&pastilla=clubes

¿Donde/Where? MOMA
¿Qué/What? BOTW
¿Quiénes/Who? Everyone is invited / todo el mundo…
¿Cuándo/When? SATURDAY, 24 NOVIEMBRE, 2007
¿Horario/Schedule? 00:00 till 06:00
¿Precio/Price? 8€
¿ Dirección/Address? Jose Abascal, 56
¿Metro? Gregorio Marañon

(Español) >¿Oferta Especial? Por favor, dile al portero que eres un estudiante de IE para que puedas comprar copas en la puerta a 8 euros. Solo es valido hasta la 1:30.
¿Indumentaria? ¡Importante! Camisa y zapatos, son muy rigurosos con la vestimenta (no trainers).
(English)
Special Offer? Just tell the staff at the door that you are from IE and so you can buy drinks at € 8. The offer is valid till 1:30.
Dress Code? Important! Dress smart, no trainers, they are very strict.