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2nd MBA Program Worldwide in Corporate Social Responsibility

IE’s MBA program among the top 10 worldwide in Aspen Institute’s sustainability ranking

2007 Global Champions of Sustainable Innovation

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Net Impact Chapter

Net Impact’s mission is to improve the world by growing and strengthening a network of new leaders who are using the power of business to make a positive net social, environmental, and economic impact. With more than 125 student and professional chapters on 4 continents in 75 cities and 80 graduate schools, a central office in San Francisco, and partnerships with leading for profit and nonprofit organizations, Net Impact enables members to use business for social good in their graduate education, careers, and communities.

Student Clubs

DiversitIE Club. The importance of women’s role in business is increasing by the year. Over the last few years IE has been on of the leading business schools in that it has attracted the highest percentages of women students to its programmes. This club serves as a platform for women studying at IE by pursuing two main objectives. First, to tackle issues that are of common interest, and secondly to make them known to other IE students, alumni, prospective students and recruiters. This club enjoys the support of the Centre for Diversity in Global Management, which promotes diversity in top-level management.

Entrepreneurship Club. The mission of the IE entrepreneurship club is to continuously provide its members with access to knowledge and experiences from professors, alumni, students and other professionals. The main objective of the entrepreneurship club is to foster the creation and development of new businesses by IE students and alumni. Some objectives include: • Promotion and organization of the "Speakers' Series" in which successful entrepreneurs share their business experiences and knowledge with IE students • Bringing awareness and promotion of social entrepreneurship and corporate responsibility • Development of permanent relationships between members and IE alumni, the school, other entrepreneurs and investors

Social Entrepreneurship Track

Students may also opt for the Social Entrepreneurship Track, a specialization whereby MBA students pursue a career as a Social Entrepreneur. From the first day of the MBA experience, these students are immersed in the process through entrepreneurship courses, electives, and support from an academic tutor and a social entrepreneur who help them envision and realize the social enterprise endeavour.

Social Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition

The Social Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition has been created to foster projects that have social impact as a central component of the enterprise, while being both economically and socially sustainable, as well as for having high potential to be implemented in other countries. The competition is open to students from IE Business School and partner schools of the Sumaq Alliance. The award consists of €3,000 plus one year consulting. In this first edition, the winners were HelpArgentina from the University of San Andrés (Argentina) and OpcionVenezuela, from IESA (Venezuela).

NETI Project
Orange, Banesto & IE Business School, on their continuous bet for innovation, for the 5th straight year, have supported the creation of technologically innovative enterprises in Spain. This year, the Best Social Project was awarded to EDA (Scale of Harmonious Development), which employs new technologies so that parents can access information that enables them to follow the development of their children, and offers them guidance to create greater understanding between parent and child. For a period of 8 months, the winners of the NETI project will receive all they need to turn their business ideas into future projects.

Career Support

It is Careers Management Centre mission to increase employment opportunities for IE students and alumni.

IE Business School’s efforts along these lines focus on three areas:

• Relations with companies: We provide students with access to recruiting companies through corporate presentations and the careers fair. NGO’s and International Bodies such as the World Bank and the International Committee of the Red Cross take part yearly on the career fair, with corporate presentations, on-campus interviews and others.

• Education and advisory service for present and former IE students: We educate our students to develop the skills required for success on the job market. In order to reach this goal, we organise seminars and round tables with CMC personnel, expert external consultants in selection matters, former students who are experts in various functional areas and sectors, recruiting companies and head hunters. We also provide a personal advisory service for all IE alumni throughout their career, covering all matters related to their professional life (change of employment, salary, conditions, etc.).

• Resources for improving the search for employment: We compile databases on companies, employment search guides, books on careers guidance, etc. We are also members of international on-line recruitment websites.

Mentor Program

The IE Mentor programme provides a link between prestigious professionals and recipients of LiderA programme scholarships, young women with high potential from the Madrid region who are currently following different programmes at IE Business School. The initiative arose because young professionals often feel that education and experience are not enough to help them grow in the higher echelons of business management. Women find it particularly difficult to balance their private and professional lives, and need support which, from experience, reinforces their capacity for decision and professional focus.

Internships and Pro-Bono Consulting

- Internship - Koinonia Community – Kenya
Koinonia is a community where its members live as one family, sharing dreams, successes and failures. Founded in 1988, it is an organization committed to implement social and educational projects and self-help groups in Kenya, Zambia and Sudan. Some projects of Koinonia include:

- Shalom House: Documentation centre on peace and reconciliation in Africa
- Anita Home: Project targeted to rehabilitate the girl child from the streets.
- Kivuli Center: Street children project.
- News From Africa: www.newsfromafrica.org
- Shalom College: Project which will enrich the koinonia community with its own university structure

IE students spend their summer internship working as volunteers at any of the Koinonia centers.

- Internship - Fundación Bip-Bip
Bip Bip is an NGO which focuses on integrating people through technology. It offers spaces equipped with computers with connection to Internet, from which people without resources or in risk of exclusion receive education for their social integration and labor insertion.

IE students spend a year long internship working as volunteers at Bip-Bip in Spain.

- Internship – Fundeso
The Foundation for Sustainable Development is a non-religious, non-political and independent non-governmental organization (NGO) for development, founded in 1995.

FUNDESO works to build a fair and more humane world through integral and sustainable development projects in Latin America, Africa and Asia, as well as awareness projects within Spanish society to fight against inequalities.

IE students spend their internship working as volunteers on projects such as:

• Update project of Fundeso’s Strategic Plan
• Entrepreneurship Workshop at the Hispanic-African Centre

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