Another bunch of crazy knowledgeable profs. 2nd Season 2014/15
Here’s another bunch of crazy knowledgeable IE Business School professors who don’t think twice about revealing what makes them tick and how their passions in life often serve to illustrate key points about the subjects they teach.
This video features just some of the professors who have given us insights into their lives and specializations over the course of the last academic year. I hope you’ll enjoy this reminder of Jeffrey Char’s fondness for chocolate, Felipe Quintana’s passion for frontenis, Eduardo Morcillo’s China, Joe Haslam´s love of mountains, Dean Iniguez’s homage to exec ed from China, Erik Hiep’s walk around Amsterdam, Kevin Dubin’s hike through Silicon Fen, Newton Campos’s challenging analysis of what it really means to be an entrepreneur, Susana Campuzano’s penchant for luxury, and the circus Felix Muñoz chose as the setting for his video.
I’d just like to add a very big thank you to all the professors who have been the subject of Other Side videos with such enthusiasm and good grace, and don’t mind admitting that I’m looking forward to discovering the other side of many more IE professors this coming year!
Geopolitical Alpha
There is nothing this man has not already done. Originally from Manhattan, he has lived in Europe since 1996, first in the UK, then Belgium, then Italy, and now in Poland. IE Business School Intelligence & Geopolitics Prof. Milo Jones has worked for Morgan Stanley in NYC and for Accenture in London, and also served as an officer in the US Marine Corps… Could this be why he wrote the book Constructing Cassandra: Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001…?
Here Prof. Jones talks about geopolitical alpha which, he says, is basically intelligence analysis structured in in such a way that it provides a useful tool for financiers and the corporate world in general. If that sounds boring, he adds, it’s not, not to him at least. It enables him to spend his days pondering wars, terrorism, pandemics, elections, and all the huge changes that happen daily across the full spectrum of economics, and to focus on their impact on the business world around us. Put simply it lets him explore current events in depth and think hard about thinking. Believe me when I say you don’t want to miss this.
IE University Professors – 2nd Season 2014/15
IE University professors are a crazy and knowledgeable bunch who don’t think twice about revealing what makes them tick and how their passions in life often serve to illustrate key points about the subjects they teach.
This video features just some of the professors who gave us insights into their lives and specializations over the course of the last academic year. I hope you’ll enjoy this reminder of Waya Quiviger telling us that “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”, Mira Milosevic talking about the importance of having a secret life secret, and Marcos Eguillor driving an ambulance while talking about entrepreneurship.
I’d just like to add a very big thank you to all the professors who have been the subject of Other Side videos with such enthusiasm and good grace, and don’t mind admitting that I’m looking forward to discovering the other side of many more IE professors this coming year!
Not Knowing
In this video Steven d’Souza, Professor of Leadership, Diversity and Social Capital at FT-IE Corporate Alliance (FT-IE CLA), throws out the thought-provoking idea that we place too much emphasis on what we know rather than on what we don’t know…And maybe that’s what brought about the current economic crisis. Prof. D’Souza says that we have to look at the unknown as if it were a source of all kinds of possibilities, because that’s precisely what it is.
Steven is the author of three international bestselling books on diversity and networking published by Prentice Hall. His first book, “Made in Britain,” featured role models from diverse communities in the UK and was available free for schools through sponsors. He presented it in person to HRH Prince Charles. His second book, “Brilliant Networking,” has been translated into several languages and was featured by The Independent in their “Success at Work” series. This video takes its title from his third book, “Not Knowing”, which he co- authored with Diana Renner. Steven D’Souza and Diana Renner scooped the top award with the book at the CMI Management Book of the Year Awards, and I can tell you it was well deserved. In fact, skip the video and read the book 😉
A Chocoholic’s Problem
A disease is considered rare if it affects a small percentage of the population. Ironically, there are many examples of such diseases. The Rare List, for instance, is comprised of approximately 7,000 different rare diseases and disorders affecting more than 300 million people worldwide. However, there’s one affliction that is missing from the list: chocoholism.
IE Business School Prof. Jeffrey Char is not only a serial entrepreneur with experience in social and technology ventures, but also a renowned chocoholic, who just can’t stop eating chocolate!!!
In this video “A chocoholic’s problem” he says that what he likes doing more than anything else is finding a way to solve companies’ problems worldwide, while trying local chocolate wherever his penchant for problem solving takes him.
P.S. Originally from Hawaii, Prof. Char is CEO of J-Seed Ventures and Chief Mentor at Venture Generation, a Tokyo-based venture community.
