ESADE students kicking ass and taking names

While I waste my time blogging about random stuff, my classmates are going out and accomplishing things for ESADE. I have others news to release too but I've been put on hold until the official press release goes out on Friday. *Update: ESADE has been chosen as the 2nd European host of the Graduate Business Conference. Graduate Business Conference brings together top business leaders, political leaders and selected student government presidents and vice-presidents from the top 50 MBA Business Schools*

MBASA President and Vice President accepting the GBC hosting gig.





First, the ESADE team comprised of 1st Years Paul Fattinger, Paul Pick-Aluas, Andreas Boy Andresen and Hans A. Clement was awarded the $10,000 grand prize for their presentation on EuropaBio in this year’s Strategy World Cup.

The Strategy World Cup is an annual international case competition for graduate students organized by the Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and Graduate Student Consulting Group. The McDonough School, as one of the leading institutions in public policy, focused the competition on strategic business decisions in the light of current public policy issues.

This year, 29 teams from top business schools such as Columbia University and Dartmouth University, competed in the first round and submitted a case dealing with Daimler's strategic options given Opel’s bailout by the government of Germany. An independent jury evaluated the submissions and invited the top 5 teams for the final round held in Washington DC.

In the final round, the finalists from ESADE, Georgetown University, University of Maryland, Duke University and New York University had to prepare a case prompt on how EuropaBio, an institution representing international biotech companies, should react to new rules regarding the authorization of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) within the EU.

The results were presented to an international jury on Friday April 9th, 2010, who selected the ESADE team as the winner. Congrats to the four! *Now with pictures*

2) ESADE MBA Students Bas Van Ulden, Louise Ralston and Tanvi Salva made it to the final round of the Societe General Citizen Act competition based on designing a 'bank of tomorrow'. Down to the last 6 teams out of an original 181 teams from 27 countries! The last stage will be held in Paris on April 14th and 15th. Well done guys and best of luck!
Update 4/15: Just got word that the ESADE team won!! Congrats to Bas, Louise and Tanvi.














Update: 3) the ESADE team of Matthew Smith and Andreas Andresen were selected as the winners of the ESADE-IESE Adidas Case Competition. 6 teams from each school competed in the competition and the final presentations took place on April 14th. Congratulations to the both of them.














Seriously, this school is on a roll lately.