February 15, 2006   

Some of you asked about the housing conditions in these schools - Tsinghua places exchange students in a new building (2 years old) and it is nice. In HKUST, exchange students live with the undergraduate where each room houses 2 students. Some dorms have terrific sea view of the Pacific Ocean.

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Some of you asked about the housing conditions in these schools - Tsinghua places exchange students in a new building (2 years old) and it is nice. In HKUST, exchange students live with the undergraduate where each room houses 2 students. Some dorms have terrific sea view of the Pacific Ocean.

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   January 30, 2006   

Today Finanical Time realeased a new ranking of global MBA. There is no big surprise for the first ten, campared with the last time ranking. USA schools took 8 out of the best 10 seats. And LBS and Insead lead other European schools.
During the first-tier schools (No.17), IE registered a biggest progress from No. 19 to No. 12 glabally. And IE is No.1 in Spain and No. 3 in Europe. Here is the <u>ranking.
A good job!

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   January 25, 2006   

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Front row: Du, Renguo
Back row: Taowen, Justine, Cheryl, Benny, Jiong & Mingcan

Many classmates are interested in the exchange program in China and let's hear the feedback of Sandra Wang, an an alumni of IMBA2005 and had a wonderful semester at Tsinghua. Sandra also did a part-time internship at HR department of Lenovo Beijing, here's what she says about Tsinghua:

"Tsinghua is a great place to get to know quality students. Big campus. Lots of people. Big city, in fact.
Lenovo recruits regularly on Tsinghua. Also, the career services at Tsinghua forwards resumes to the Recruiting team at Lenovo. Check out Lenovo's websites for postings, and submit accordingly, as there are different contact names for different posts. Also, for expatriates, they post on That's Beijing.com under "careers". Hope that helps."

Renguo was an exchange student at IE from Tsinghua, he studied both undergraduate and MBA in Tsinghua and this is what he says:

"I don't know what is the best way to describe Tsinghua, because I have too many feelings blended with Tsinghua. Just tell those people, if they want to come to China for exchange, Tsinghua is the best choice."


For more information on TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY:
http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/eng/
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Hong Kong Univesity of Science & Technology (HKUST) MBA currently ranks #44 in the world, #1 in Asia. It has a very strong faculty with some professors from the Ivy League schools (eg. Havard, Upenn, MIT, Princeton, etc.) Conveniently located 45mins from downtown, HKUST is highly accessible from every corner in Hong Kong and you can go sailing in the nearby Clear Water Bay. Many exchange students take advantage of its proximity to other Asian countries and travel to Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, etc for a long weekend or simply indulge in a 1-month tour across Asia. Employers rate HKUST favorably as one of their first choices (together with my motherschool "The Chinese University of Hong Kong") to hire business graduates.

If you have further questions about these two schools, please post it in the COMMENTS section under this entry,
I will then compile and post the Q&A and on this BLOG by Feb 1 as soon as I get feedback from our contacts there.

Last but not least, many classmates have asked us how long it takes to learn Mandarin. Well, if you practise it on a daily basis (+ physically live in China for some months), I would say you can pick up it within 1 or 2 years, but learning to write Chinese would definitely takes much longer time! And please remember, mother tongue in Hong Kong and South China is Cantonese, which is very different in pronounication from Mandarin.

Good luck!!


For more information on HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
http://www.bm.ust.hk/


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   January 17, 2006   

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Tomas Gutierrez Perez (the smiling guy wearing tie at the back) is our favourite professor in Term 1. He teaches Quantity Analysis and was named "Solver" when he plays football with the students. I have never seen such a dedicated teacher who has a full-time job but goes so much of his way to help students. He gave review session before every exam (twice on Sat. evenings) and he spent time to talk to us individually after the 1st exam if we wanted to review marks.

On Christmas Eve, we received this email from him:


TOMAS GUTIERREZ PEREZ wrote:
Subject: Feliz Navidad desde Tenerife
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:06:31 +0100
From: "TOMAS GUTIERREZ PEREZ"
To: imba-2005-s3@ie.edu, imba-2005-s4@ie.edu

Hello everybody.

After sleeping more than 10 hours, and not having to teach on a Saturday evening :) I was about to sit with the family to have dinner when I realized I had forgotten something.

Using the expression my mother has used during the more than 30 years she has been a teacher, I forgot to wish Merry Christmas to "My Kids".

So here I am in front of the computer, sending just a few lines to wish you a great night and a great dinner with your families and enjoy these days of relax and peace with your loved ones.

It was a pleasure to have you "in front" in class and sure it will be a pleasure to have you "beside" in the BOTW during a 2006 that I'm sure, for most of you is going to be a year that will change your life's in a way you are not able to realize right now.

Best wishes to all of you and your families, from the "Forget about Excel" teacher.

Tomás Gutiérrez

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   January 16, 2006   

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It is delightful to see everybody coming back with great smiles and more energies after the holidays. Yes, more energy is indeed called for to survive the heavy loading of Term 2. We have about 180 pages to read each day, let alone numerous cases and group projects. Basically our daily activities are studying, doing teamwork in workgroup, eating, reading and sleeping (hopefully for 5 hours a day!) nothing else. Some of us manage to do some sports like swimming and playing basketball every Friday after school. It is cool!

What's the strategy of surviving this term? Division of labor. As no one can finish all the assignments, it really matters how well your workgroup works together to get things done in an efficient manner. Most groups divide 8 people into 2 subgroups with different combinations of functional experience and industry focus. Then one subgroup comes up with a draft and have the other subgroup comments on it.

I really love my workgroup. It is the most culturally-diversed team I have ever worked with. Our team members come from (see photo, from top left to right) Russia, America, Lithuania, Hong Kong, Italy, Argentina, Columbia and Portugal. We had a fanstatic team building workshop in mid-Nov in basketball games. There is an on-going, structured assessment program we give 360 degrees comments to each other from term to term. This provides invaluable insights into our Personal Development Plan for two main areas of leverage: 1. Analytical skills, decision making skills, 2. Interpersonal & practical skills: persuasion, cooperation & communication.

I am really looking forward to enhance a great deal of both core business skills & soft skills in this term.

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