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IE Business School professor David Bach recently spoke at the Joint Alumni Conference (JAC) in Zurich on  “Taking management beyond the market”.

Professor David Bach

The JAC hosts the world’s leading business schools to explore the strategies and skills that will define and shape the future of world business. JAC fuses the practical real-world experience of the alumni with the forward-looking ideas and insights of the faculty to explore the key issues affecting global business in the years and decades to come. The JAC conference is the most significant global event facilitating the cross-fertilization of business thinking.

During his talk, Professor Bach explained how business is increasingly affected by what he terms “non-market actors” such as governments and supranational institutions like the European Union. The most successful companies therefore, are increasingly the ones who are able to make these non-market challenges the basis for competitive advantage.

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IE Business School’s Dean of Programs, David Bach, has posted an article on the Harvard Business Review blog on the three things he thinks Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt should say when he testifies to the US Senate today.

For the uninitiated, the US senate has set-up an anti-trust sub-committee to see whether Google illegally leverages its position in the market by displaying Google services above competitors’ offerings in internet search results. Competitors, unsurprisingly, say “yes” whereas Google disagrees. Bach draws various similarities between Google and the position Microsoft found themselves in 10 years ago, although he says that Google will be looking for different outcomes than the ones Microsoft achieved last decade.

Click here to read the rest of the article and Professor Bach’s three tips for Eric Schmidt.

Segovia Campus

The Master in International Management Open Ceremony took place today on IE’s campus in Segovia (pictured left). Students were greeted with a breakfast before listening to some talks from David Bach, Dean of Programs, Martin Boehm, Associate Dean of Master in Management Program, Margarita Alonso, General Director Alumni & Careers and Lisa Bevill, Director of Admissions for Full-Time programs.

The ceremony’s key note speaker was Gonzalo Castellano, a recent IE International MBA Graduate and one of the founders of City Deal, which was acquired by Groupon, called the fasted-growing company in history by Forbes Magazine. Gonzalo shared his experience as an IE student and spoke about the thrills and challenges of founding a start-up company in Madrid during the economic crisis. He expounded on the resources made available to him through fellow classmates, former professors and the career and alumni offices at IE. The new Master in International Management students had the opportunity to jump into the business fray in the first hours of their program by participating in a question and answer session with Gonzalo and interacting with him over lunch. Students were then treated to a walking tour of Segovia’s historic district before heading back to Madrid.

A big welcome to our class from 48 different countries. The year promises to be one of huge challenges, but also huge rewards. Good luck!