IESE Business School's campus in Barcelona will be the backdrop for the European Entrepreneurs Summit Roundtable, organized by Europe's 500 on Friday. The theme for this year's event is "Re-Thinking Growth: Need is the Mother of Invention."

Pharmaceutical companies should revisit their current business models and gear up to capitalize on the world's "pharmemerging" markets as they surge, particularly China, said experts at IESE's 3rd Annual Pharmaceutical Industry Meeting.

Prof. Juan José Toribio and Vicente Cuñat, lecturer at the London School of Economics, provided opening remarks at the 17th Annual Finance Forum, organized by IESE and AEFIN (Spanish Finance Association), held Nov. 5-6 at IESE's Madrid campus.

IESE has recently launched the Africa Initiative, a new project which aims to bring together the school's various Africa-related activities under one umbrella. The initiative will be directed by Prof. Lluís G. Renart.

Adopting the central theme "Embracing the Future," this year's MBA Career Forum 2009 drew representatives from 44 of the world's leading companies on the lookout for their executives of the future.

IESE Prof. Javier Estrada considers the impact of outliers in emerging markets and finds that they can have a massive impact on the long-term performance of investors' portfolios.

Widely-noted health care expert Regina E. Herzlinger of Harvard Business School was one of the speakers on hand for IESE Business School's 16th Annual Health Technology Industry Meeting on the Madrid campus recently.

Leading HR expert Dave Ulrich was on IESE's campus recently to participate in the 8th Annual IRCO-IESE Managing People Symposium, organized in collaboration with Adecco.

The economic crisis is having a negative impact on the reputations of businesses in general, but it will have a particularly dire effect on companies that have weak reputations, said Fernando Prado at the inaugural edition of the Corporate Reputation Conference.

IESE earned the top spot, ranking 1st in the world in this year's Economist MBA ranking. This is the third time the school achieves the highest position in this publication's ranking, previously published under the <i>Economist Intelligence Unit</i> brand.

More than ever, the economy is in need of "entrepreneurship, free markets and investment," said IESE's Dean Jordi Canals, at the school's 48th annual Global Alumni Reunion, held in New York City on Oct. 10.