IE Alumni News

September, 2005. The IE Sailing Team, and their yacht “Favela Chic”, won 2nd place at the MBA’s Cup Regatta held on September 23rd and 24th in Santa Margherita Ligure, near Genoa, Italy.
Its eight member crew hailed from seven different countries and was skippered expertly by Johannes Tinsobin. This year, the prestigious regatta brought together around 400 MBA students and alumni from the leading business schools in Europe and the US. Crews and spectators from the 15 participating schools shared their passion for sailing and soaked up the atmosphere in one of Italy’s most picturesque harbours.

The IE team comprised IMBAs 2005 Johannes Tinsobin (Austria), Niels Bjerregaard (Denmark), Edward Ungar (UK), Carlos Vázquez (Spain), Eiliv Bugge Fougner (Norway), Laurence van Lancker (Italy), Chris Wheatley (UK) and Manfred Hick (Germany). They delivered consistently good results throughout all four races (including two 2nd place finishes) and sailed their Jeanneau Sun Fast 37 to second position overall.

Students sampled a variety of Arabic traditional dishes, enjoyed watching performance of a belly dancer, and some experienced the sheesha pipe smoking!
Thursday 17 Nov. 2005
IE students from IMBA 2005, 2006 and other programs have enjoyed a night of the “one thousand & one nights” here in Madrid. A totally students-initiated event has taken place last week to celebrate the diversity of students.
A team of students calling themselves “The Flying Carpet Group” have organized this Arabic/MiddleEastern night, where students enjoyed a fascinating bellydancing show, Arabic cousine & dishes, and sheesha/hookah smoke (some for the first time). There was a specially-booked hall & show for IE students.
The event was a great opportunity for all students to meet their peers, have a fun time and a break from assignments & work. At the end, this is what most people remember from school times!
The Flying Carpet Group members are: Faisal Al-Kadi (IMBA06), Pinar Kavukcuoglu (IMBA05), Hanan Saeed, Shefali Jhangiani (IMBA06), Lynn Tabbara (IMBA05), and Reema Batal (IMBA05).

On October 31st, more than 300 IE students partied at a popular Madrid disco to celebrate Halloween. The IE IMBA class of 2006 sponsored the IE Halloween Party (Halloween Fiesta de Disfraces) and classmates attended from all IE programs (including IMBA 2005, EMBA, MBA and other masters programs). Until 6 am, the disco CATS was crowded with scary witches, sexy devils, bloody vampires, dancing cowgirls and escaped prisoners.
The award for the best male and female costumes were given to Spiros Milonas (IMBA 2006, Greece) and Berna Kosal (IMBA 2006), Turkey (pictured). Spiros dressed as baby Leonor, the daughter born that morning to Princess Letizia and Prince Felipe. Berna dressed as a pirate.

Built on last year’s success, on 9 June Instituto de Empresa hosted the second edition of the Strategy Consulting Day: a major opportunity for students and alumni to meet and discuss emerging industry trends and up-to-date, real-life consultancy issues with top executives from AT Kearney, Booz Allen Hamilton, Mercer Management Consulting and Monitor Group.

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“Future challenges in investment banking” was the theme of the first edition of the Investment Banking Day on 8 June. Duarte Gaia dos Santos, Franka Schäffler, Harald Wilke, Ignacio Martínez Sánchez, Jerónimo Eduardo del Villar Zamacona, Laurence Van Lancker, Marc Clapasson, Manfred Hick, Sergio Iardella, Susan Luff and Rita Valerio, all IMBA 2005 members of the Instituto de Empresa Finance Club, organised this highly successful event with the support of our Careers Management Centre.

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Dear Handballers,
The IE Handball club 2006 was especially formed to take part in the MBA tournament. Handball had been added as a new discipline, and Spain being World Champions, we felt that we couldn’t miss.
Our efforts were paid off – we came in 3rd in Paris!
Handball (or “team handball”) is a fast-paced game involving two teams of seven players who pass, throw, catch and dribble a small ball with their hands while trying to score goals. The team with the most goals wins the game. A game consists of two 30-minute halves with a 10-minute half-time break.
We practiced as a team in several different sports centres and we had a ton of fun!
There is still a ball around that you will inherit for the coming year.
Go IE Go!

Description: the swimming club is aiming to allow people that share a passion for swimming to meet and have fun. Also the club is very active in coordinating the trainings and preparing the team for the attendance of the MBAT held in Paris.
There are a surprising number of pools in Madrid and this club practices at several. We get together to enjoy the exercise and to better our performance. We train for health and also for competitions abroad. In the 2006 MBA Tournament outside of Paris, at HEC, we placed 2nd overall and had many medals for individuals for our team of 12 students and partners. The more experienced individuals help the less experienced to improve in form and times. All are welcome to come and practice.

The rollerblading club practices at Retiro, where there are miles of flat roads to have fun on. There are rental locations around Madrid, but you can also purchase your own at sporting goods stores or at Corte Ingles.
All levels, beginners and advanced are welcome to join in!
The club also participates in competitions at the MBA Tournament in Paris.

IE´s study rooms are not just for thinking about case studies!

This club organises competitions for the more reflexive students and for those with strong powers of concentration..

Once again IE’s MBA students have come back from Paris exhausted but happy with their excellent performance. This year the host school decided to change the overall point system that used to give advantage to big delegations. Schools with less than 125 sports participants now participate in a “small schools ranking” on a separate basis.

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