Interview at CentreCourt DC with Jill Landefeld, IESE MBA 2012

 

 

Interview with Mirjana Popovic, IESE MBA 2018

What year did you graduate from IESE Business School?

2018

Who is your current employer?

McKinsey & Co

Why did you choose to attend IESE?

I was looking for a truly transformational and rigorous two-year program that IESE was known for. IESE MBA offers a demanding curriculum, access to top international firms for recruitment and optional business Spanish classes / bilingual MBA - all of that in beautiful, sunny Barcelona.

Tell us about a memorable moment at IESE.

It was a two-week trip to Nairobi, where IESE has a long-standing partnership with the Strathmore Business School. We spent one week learning about doing business in Africa through interactive classes and visits to local markets, schools and businesses. In the second week, I worked pro-bono on a strategy project for a solar energy company and got to travel around Kenya and spend time with people who have lived without electricity their entire lives. The course taught us business, taught us life and taught us humanity.

Briefly describe what the culture was like at IESE?

Very international – close to 70 nationalities, with all sorts of industry and functional backgrounds. The academic curriculum and recruitment is taken seriously, but balanced out with endless travels and social events, including the famous IESE Spring Games that lots of other business schools come to participate in. Many students organize career treks and small trips to their home countries. I ran the IESE Finance Club annual trek to London and organized a road-trip around ex-Yugoslavia; one month before the graduation, we all traveled together to Japan, a trip traditionally and very thoroughly organized by our Japanese classmates.

If you could appoint a fictional character to represent student life and culture, who would it be and why?

Aladdin - a glimpse at the new world on a magical ride, accompanied by 350 exceptional people team, out of which a few dozens become life-long friends without whom life would never be the same again.

Interview with 

Mirjana Popovic IESE Business School, MBA 2018