Host: Brian from Gurufi.com for GMAT Club

Guest: Andrea Flores from IE university

Andrea Flores is a professional in the higher-education sector with over 10 years of experience, currently Head of Global Recruitment at IE University in Madrid, Spain. Her passion is to see education shape the future of society and how, through sharing IE University’s values of humanities, entrepreneurship, social responsibility, and innovation, she can have an impact on the leaders of tomorrow. She currently manages the Global Recruitment department for both graduate and undergraduate degrees at IE University across the five schools, including IE Business School and the MBA programs. Her purpose is to provide candidates an experience in line with IE’s vision of the future, to recruit the best talent globally.

Episode Summary:

0:00 Introduction to the podcast

2:10 Introduction to Andrea Flores from IE Business school

2:50 Entrepreneurship at IE Business school

5:20 Area 31 and VentureLab at IE Business school

7:40 The type of students that can thrive at IE Business school

12:50 Startup lab at IE business school

13:50 Return on Investment of an MBA

16:35 Why is ROI important?

19:10 what do you mean by “purpose”? The purpose of doing an MBA or a life purpose?

20:50 best ways to calculate the ROI of an MBA

29:50 What is good vs a bad ROI?

32:00 Can a business school experience really help me find my purpose?

35:10 Consultants corner: Sam and Nina from Gurufi.com answer the question "How to talk about failure in the context of a business school application?”

45:40 Closing