December 2021
WHAT IS EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
At IUM, students can apply their academic learning outside of their day-to-day learning environment in a real business context. The experiential learning approach characterizes the entire curriculum, emphasizing applications, real-world examples, and case studies. This approach offers students the opportunity to work on concrete, topical challenges given to them by companies and be actively involved with relevant company executives in strategic decision-making and recommendations, usually during business competitions, internships, team-based projects, study trips organized within the program.
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Let’s Talk MBA
The Monaco MBA cohort comprises a richness of cultural diversity; participants from across the globe come together for the shared purpose of learning, developing, and growing. The MBA is a wonderful opportunity to cultivate a diverse, widespread, dynamic set of long-standing relationships.
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The Real Challenge facing Business Schools and MBA Programs
We see business schools, and MBA programs, in particular, as responsible for forging the kinds of leaders who will be at the cutting edge of creating a new kind of growth and inclusive prosperity: for individuals, corporations, the community, and the planet. One in which the Magic Triangle of Profit, Innovation, and Sustainability is not simply an idea, but a viable business model for our common future.
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My Journey at the COP26
Juan Y Davila, MBA 2021, participated in the COP26 in Glasgow last two weeks.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, popularly known as a COP – “Conference of Parties” – is the most important global event to evaluate and major the achievements related to the preservation of our global environment.
October 2021
Alumni Success Story
Isabel Giordano, Alumni BBA Communication and Entertainment Management 3 years prior I had just graduated from the International University of Monaco with a Bachelors Degree in Communication and Entertainment Management, slightly naive about what was ahead of me, but determined to get myself out there and gain some real hardcore experience; now I’m back in…
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MBA Orientation Week
Beyond the Profile: The MBA Class of 2021 “We are trying to enroll people that we think will grow the most from this program, not the people that were perfect coming in.” An interview with the MBA Program Director, Dr. Marika Taishoff. When you look at the class profile for the class of 2021, what…
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MBA International Week
…with Prada Spa! Luiss Business School in Rome invited some of our MBA students to participate in their annual MBA International Week in collaboration with Prada Spa, the Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1913 by Mario Prada. This MBA International Week was held in Rome, Italy, from September 13th to 17th, 2021. How to innovate the sales spaces of Prada brand stores,…
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Some IUM Finance Society News
Interviews for members recruitment will start next week! Created in September 2020, the IUM Finance Society is the International University of Monaco’s premier professional, social, and academic organization devoted to the financial services industry. After a year of operations events, lectures, courses, competitions, and opportunities to network for its members, the IUM Finance Society aims to pursue…
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Orientation 2021: a NEW beginning!
From September 1st, the International University of Monaco welcomed its new students for the orientation week. This Fall 2021 intake welcomed 320 new students coming from 66 different countries. Even though France, Italy are the top 2 countries, followed by Russia, Germany, Romania, USA, Monaco, UK, Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal, Finland, and Austria, all 5 continents are…
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Summer University: 100% Worth It!
This year’s Summer University took place from July 5 to July 17 on IUM’s premises. The Summer University “Luxury Business and Communication in Monaco” is for university students willing to live an unforgettable summer in Monaco, improving their professional skills and global network. Fifteen students from eleven different nationalities came to learn, to network but also to…
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English Immersion Program
Take your English to the next level! The English Immersion Program is for college and university students willing to broaden their international perspective by combining challenging academics with a rich array of extra-curricular programming. They improved their English and learned how to express themselves spontaneously through fun and practical English lessons. As Prof. Savage said: “For the second year running, it has been a…
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IUM’s MBA has continued to move up in international rankings
The Monaco MBA program is ranked among the 35 best MBA programs worldwide by business magazine Expansión. The full-time MBA has moved up 18 places from 53rd position last year (Full Ranking), a new international recognition for the Monaco MBA program that has already been honored by the prestigious magazine The Economist in January 2021…
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MBA Strategic Management Simulation Week
It’s such a powerful and engaging tool! Marina said. Startup Sim (an updated version of Intopia) is a management simulation focused on entrepreneurship and cooperation. Teams of participants define, set up, and manage a small business from business planning to maturity through the startup phase. Teams do not receive an ongoing company; rather, they are given a starting…
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7 Recommendations for DBA Candidates
“A DBA study is like a journey to find a different facet of yourself in the end.” A metaphor that describes very nicely that a DBA study offers quite more than “pure” intellectual satisfaction. Two of our alumni, Olivier Guillet and Elena Tikhaya, shared their personal experiences about their DBA journey with our DBA candidates. Based on…
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