Awards
BackIE Business School awards an MBA Honoris Causa to key figures from the business world who contribute toward the progress of global society.
Moreover, students, alumni and professors of IE Business School receive recognition for their talent and efforts from international institutions like AMBA or EFMD.
Honoris Causa MBA
The IE Alumni Association presents an Honoris Causa MBA to key figures from the business and institutional world who contribute to the progress of global society, and who foster the development of effective relations between professional theory and practice.
Past recipients of this award include Luciano Benetton, President of the Benetton Group; William Gates, President of Microsoft; Reuben Mark, President of Colgate Palmolive; Michael Treschow, President of Atlas Copco; Jacques Santer, Former President of the European Commission; Romano Prodi, Former President of the European Commission; Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Founders of Google; Craig R. Barret, CEO of Intel; and Emilio Azcárraga, Chairman of Televisa.
Awards
IE Business School and Lease Plan present the annual Lease Plan Award for the Best Entrepreneurship Project developed by MBA students.
Jean Monnet Chair
January 2008. IE Business School is the first business school in Spain to receive the Jean Monnet chair that will be held by Professor José María de Areilza. The Chair forms part of the European Commission's Jean Monnet Programme, a tribute to the memory of the promoter of the European Communities and the first President of the Commission.
NETI Project
In collaboration with Orange and Fundación Cultural Banesto, IE Business School coordinates NETI project
, an initiative designed to promote the creation of technology-based businesses. To date, NETI has generated 900 jobs in direct and indirect terms and has received over €5,000,000 from private investors.
Juan Lladó Award
Together with the Ortega y Gasset Foundation, IE Business School presents the Juan Lladó Award for Cultural Patronage and Research, in recognition of work by figures like Isidoro Álvarez, Plácido Arango, Carlos Ferrer Salat, Jesús de Polanco, Emilio de Ybarra, Juan Abelló, José Ferrer Sala, Germán Sánchez Ruipérez, Jordi Clos and Enrique Iglesias.
International awards received by IE students and professors include:
Cerebration
In May 2005 a team of students from IE's International MBA received the second prize in the International Business Plan Competition Cerebration 2005, held by the National University of Singapore (NUS). The IE team, which received a prize of $10,000, comprised Martin Paley, Sami Shiro, Tesia Hostetler and Chris Kozup. In 2006, another team of IE International MBA students won first prize in this competition. The winning team on that occasion comprised Michael Cole from the US, Mohammed Al-Menifi from Kuwait, and Deepanjan Mukerjee and Kapil Jhindal from India. Cerebration is a business plan competition aimed at helping enterprises in Singapore to intensify their plans for international expansion.
Be yourself, Be a Star
In 2006 IE Business School and Procter & Gamble organized the competition Be Yourself, Be a Star, aimed at young Russian women in the early stages of their careers. The winner of the competition was Ekaterina Kororkova, who received a scholarship to study an International MBA at IE Business School. Svetlana Lenivkina, Marina Semenikhina and Ekaterina Stolyarova were awarded 2nd, 3rd and 4th prizes respectively. This competition forms part of IE initiatives aimed at supporting diversity in enterprise and promoting the professional development of female executives.
Innovation Challenge
A team of students from IE's International MBA comprised of Alessandro Cappelletti, Claude Heinis, Federico Tonetti, Nicolás Rodríguez and its captain, Richard Caelius received in November 2004 the title of The Most Innovative MBA Team in the World in the Innovation Challenge organised by Thunderbird - Garvin School of International Management and Idea Crossing, LLC.
Imagination at work
IE Business School and General Electric have created the Imagination at Work Award, for the business plan by IE MBA students that best promotes the development of innovative projects at GE.
Best MBA Student
Jack Barnes, International MBA 2000, won the MBA Student of the Year award, organised each year by the prestigious Association of MBAs (AMBA). For the following three years the five finalists for the award included IE students: Nadia Ammar (2001), Rodney Cannon (2002) and Estela Ye-Ping (2003).
Freshfields, Best European Lawyer
Eva Ferrada, Máster en Asesoría Jurídica 1998, obtuvo el Premio Freshfields al mejor estudiante jurídico europeo.
Beta Gamma Sigma
IE Business School was the first European institution to form part of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, an organisation that recognises top business students enrolled in programmes accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. During 2003 some 40 IE students with outstanding academic records were accepted as lifelong members of this prestigious organisation.
EFMD, Europan Case Writing Competition
The interactive case study The X-box: Now it's time to play by professors David Allen and Arnaud Gorgeon, with Teresa Martínez as project head and the support of IE's online training unit, was named the best practical case study in the multimedia category of the 2003 European Case Writing Competition, held by EFMD.
Excellence in E-learning Awards
IE Business School received 3rd prize in the 2003 Excellence in E-Learning Awards, in the Custom Content Category, for an online sales-purchase simulation programme.
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