I22, 23 and 24 October 2001
MBA Career Forum attracts top recruiters

Companies remained keen on meeting qualified MBAs at the Forum, in spite of the economic downturn, said Sam Gratton (UK, IESE MBA, 2002)

 

Fifty Top US and European firms attend-ed IESE’s 11th annual MBA Career Forum. Despite a slowing international economy, many of the world’s recruiters participated in this year’s MBA Career Forum at IESE Business School. Fifty top firms sent teams of recruiters to Barcelona to meet IESE’s 420 MBA students from 55 countries. They conducted some 900 interviews for career positions among second-year students and talked to first-year students about internship opportunities.

Among those participating in the Career Forum were A.T. Kearney, Bear Stearns, Boston Consulting Group, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Eli Lilly, Enron, Ford Motor Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and McKinsey & Company.