Paymentwall is and internet company based in Berlin which has built a very interesting payment system.
The ‘online payments’ industry is very competitive. Apart from the old players like PayPal, internet giants like Amazon and Google are coming in, and so are new companies like Braintree or mobile payments companies… There are many challenges to solve.
More information about the company:
They are offering many different job opportunities, like this one:
El Tenedor is the leading restaurant booking service in France and Spain.
They are looking for French natives to deal with customer/restaurant communications.
Check the advert here (.pdf doc)
You can also check their other opportunities here, or read about the company here.
Wooga is a cool company (online gaming leader) based in a super-cool city (Berlin).
“What I thought was amazing about Wooga when I visited the company’s offices in Berlin (which, by the way, are stunning as you can probably tell from the photos embedded in this article), is just how international its workforce is – and how Wooga has managed to get this talent from all over the world interested in joining (and sticking with) them.” Read full article
So check www.wooga.com to see whether they have interesting opportunities for you.
Or better even, go to www.iagora.com and save time searching jobs at Wooga and similar companies in Europe and beyond.
This is a table I’ve pulled from the Financial Times website.
I have reorganized the MBA rankings using very iAgorical criteria of ‘International students’ (% of students who come from another country) and ‘International experience’ (it’s an FT index that is made of ’4 criteria’ to measure the international exposure throughout the MBA)
It is interesting to see that the list changes when ranked based on ‘international exposure’. It’s as if there is a trade-off, surprisingly enough. The top ‘international exposure’ seem to be specialists, not the best schools in terms of overall rankings.
The only Top10 MBAs that are also in the Top10 of ‘international exposure’ are IESE, Insead and Hong-Kong UST.
The top American MBAs like Harvard do pretty poorly in terms of international experience. The first top American MBA appears at #15 (Stanford). Harvard is in position #59.
European MBAs seem to do better to combine ‘international exposure’ and ‘overall ranking’.
| Current rank | School name | Country | Int. students | Int. course |
| 61 | Hult International Business School | U.S.A. / U.K. / U.A.E. / China | 91 | 1 |
| 80 | University of South Carolina: Moore | U.S.A. | 27 | 2 |
| 64 | Ipade | Mexico | 9 | 3 |
| 9 | Iese Business School | Spain | 80 | 4 |
| 4 | Insead | France / Singapore | 92 | 5 |
| 99 | Kaist College of Business | South Korea | 6 | 6 |
| 60 | University of Cape Town GSB | South Africa | 34 | 7 |
| 77 | Incae Business School | Costa Rica | 61 | 8 |
| 6 | Hong Kong UST Business School | China | 93 | 9 |
| 96 | Politecnico di Milano School of Management | Italy | 80 | 10 |
| 1 | London Business School | U.K. | 92 | 11 |
| 23 | National University of Singapore School of Business | Singapore | 88 | 12 |
| 18 | HEC Paris | France | 83 | 13 |
| 36 | Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University | Netherlands | 93 | 14 |
| 4 | Stanford University GSB | U.S.A. | 41 | 15 |
| 21 | Northwestern University: Kellogg | U.S.A. | 34 | 16 |
| 21 | Esade Business School | Spain | 85 | 17 |
| 35 | Australian School of Business: AGSM | Australia | 78 | 18 |
| 29 | Manchester Business School | U.K. | 93 | 19 |
| 80 | University of British Columbia: Sauder | Canada | 45 | 20 |
| 49 | York University: Schulich | Canada | 69 | 21 |
| 17 | Ceibs | China | 42 | 22 |
| 72 | Ohio State University: Fisher | U.S.A. | 27 | 23 |
| 100 | EM Lyon Business School | France | 68 | 24 |
| 9 | MIT Sloan School of Management | U.S.A. | 51 | 25 |
| 58 | Warwick Business School | U.K. | 80 | 26 |
| 57 | McGill University: Desautels | Canada | 61 | 27 |
| 20 | Duke University: Fuqua | U.S.A. | 39 | 28 |
| 32 | City University: Cass | U.K. | 77 | 29 |
| 25 | University of California at Berkeley: Haas | U.S.A. | 42 | 30 |
| 15 | New York University: Stern | U.S.A. | 35 | 31 |
| 88 | University of Edinburgh Business School | U.K. | 96 | 32 |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania: Wharton | U.S.A. | 34 | 33 |
| 8 | IE Business School | Spain | 87 | 34 |
| 15 | Yale School of Management | U.S.A. | 33 | 35 |
| 68 | Thunderbird School of Global Management | U.S.A. | 55 | 36 |
| 53 | Melbourne Business School | Australia | 90 | 37 |
| 18 | Dartmouth College: Tuck | U.S.A. | 40 | 38 |
| 68 | SP Jain Center of Management | Dubai / Singapore | 100 | 39 |
| 80 | University of Notre Dame: Mendoza | U.S.A. | 18 | 40 |
| 86 | University of Washington Business School: Foster | U.S.A. | 18 | 41 |
| 30 | Cornell University: Johnson | U.S.A. | 31 | 42 |
| 28 | SDA Bocconi | Italy | 67 | 43 |
| 24 | University of Michigan: Ross | U.S.A. | 29 | 44 |
| 31 | UCLA: Anderson | U.S.A. | 37 | 45 |
| 14 | IMD | Switzerland | 100 | 46 |
| 62 | University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler | U.S.A. | 27 | 47 |
| 78 | University College Dublin: Smurfit | Ireland | 47 | 48 |
| 55 | Durham Business School | U.K. | 85 | 49 |
| 12 | University of Chicago: Booth | U.S.A | 44 | 50 |
| 84 | Eada | Spain | 93 | 51 |
| 92 | Pepperdine University: Graziadio | U.S.A. | 24 | 52 |
| 41 | Carnegie Mellon: Tepper | U.S.A. | 37 | 53 |
| 98 | IAE Business School | Argentina | 57 | 54 |
| 68 | Boston University School of Management | U.S.A. | 37 | 55 |
| 27 | University of Oxford: Saïd | U.K. | 95 | 56 |
| 7 | Columbia Business School | U.S.A. | 46 | 57 |
| 41 | University of Virginia: Darden | U.S.A. | 33 | 58 |
| 3 | Harvard Business School | U.S.A. | 34 | 59 |
| 74 | University of Strathclyde Business School | U.K. | 97 | 60 |
| 33 | Nanyang Business School | Singapore | 87 | 61 |
| 38 | Georgetown University: McDonough | U.S.A. | 28 | 62 |
| 63 | Wisconsin School of Business | U.S.A. | 16 | 63 |
| 49 | University of Texas at Austin: McCombs | U.S.A. | 27 | 64 |
| 46 | University of Toronto: Rotman | Canada | 42 | 65 |
| 46 | University of Western Ontario: Ivey | Canada | 23 | 66 |
| 73 | Indiana University: Kelley | U.S.A. | 28 | 67 |
| 34 | Cranfield School of Management | U.K. | 82 | 68 |
| 41 | Lancaster University Management School | U.K. | 94 | 69 |
| 26 | University of Cambridge: Judge | U.K. | 94 | 70 |
| 88 | SMU: Cox | U.S.A. | 23 | 71 |
| 44 | Texas A & M University: Mays | U.S.A. | 19 | 72 |
| 84 | Babson College: Olin | U.S.A. | 49 | 73 |
| 90 | Bradford School of Management/TiasNimbas Business School | U.K. / Netherlands / Germany | 94 | 74 |
| 37 | Imperial College Business School | U.K. | 70 | 75 |
| 38 | Emory University: Goizueta | U.S.A. | 36 | 76 |
| 13 | Indian School of Business | India | 5 | 77 |
| 91 | Brigham Young University: Marriott | U.S.A. | 13 | 78 |
| 51 | Vanderbilt University: Owen | U.S.A. | 23 | 79 |
| 64 | University of Southern California: Marshall | U.S.A. | 22 | 80 |
| 11 | Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) | India | 8 | 81 |
| 74 | Boston College: Carroll | U.S.A. | 34 | 82 |
| 78 | Wake Forest University: Babcock | U.S.A. | 30 | 83 |
| 68 | Birmingham Business School | U.K. | 93 | 84 |
| 53 | University of California at Irvine: Merage | U.S.A. | 30 | 85 |
| 44 | Rice University: Jones | U.S.A. | 31 | 86 |
| 46 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | U.S.A. | 37 | 87 |
| 86 | College of William and Mary: Mason | U.S.A. | 33 | 88 |
| 59 | Pennsylvania State University: Smeal | U.S.A. | 39 | 89 |
| 83 | University of California: Davis | U.S.A. | 25 | 90 |
| 55 | Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School | Belgium | 86 | 91 |
| 97 | Georgia Institute of Technology | U.S.A. | 13 | 92 |
| 52 | University of Rochester: Simon | U.S.A. | 55 | 93 |
| 64 | University of Iowa: Tippie | U.S.A. | 19 | 94 |
| 74 | Purdue University: Krannert | U.S.A. | 50 | 95 |
| 94 | Leeds University Business School | U.K. | 79 | 96 |
| 40 | University of Maryland: Smith | U.S.A. | 46 | 97 |
| 94 | University of Florida: Hough | U.S.A. | 20 | 98 |
| 93 | University of Georgia: Terry | U.S.A. | 18 | 99 |
| 64 | Arizona State University: Carey | U.S.A. | 24 | 100 |
I did my MBA at INSEAD and I believe there are a few important things to take into account that we don’t talk too much about.
- Alumni: It’s not just the size and quality of the alumni network (what positions in which companies) but also the distribution of the alumni base. If you know in which country you want to work it’s important to take this into account. For instance if you know you want to work in Spain then IESE or ESADE would be top choices, even if INSEAD’s alumni base worldwide is much bigger.
- Large Vs small intakes: Harvard and INSEAD have huge promotions of about 900 MBAs/year. Other prestigious institutions like Stanford or IMD have intakes of about 100 MBAs/year. Although there are great strengths of having large numbers of graduates (alumni network, diversity in the classroom) small MBAs are more tight knit and the tuition/careers services is much more personalised.
- Life as an international student: Try getting the feel about how international a school is, how students live, is there also a social life etc… You can find out about this on iAgora’s study section, which gathers 90.000 experiences of international students :http://www.iagora.com/studies/uni/ESADE_Business_School
- Quality of students: You are supposed to learn in an MBA and a lot of the interesting part comes from having interesting discussions in the classroom. I believe there are a few indicators about the quality of students: selectivity (% of applicants that are accepted, average GMAT scores), quality of recruiters (where do the most demanding recruiters like McKinsey and Goldman Sachs recruit?), rankings are also an indicator but remember that many top schools decide not to cooperate with some of them.
- Diversity of students: Here is where size matters, but also does the selection criteria and their objectives in terms of diversity. Personally I thought that diversity in terms of cultures, social backgrounds, professional backgrounds, academic backgrounds, languages etc… made the experience truly unique.
So think of where you want to work, what kind of environment you want to live in, whether you want a truly personalised service or a more detached one.
I’m not talking about that delicious tropical fruit but about Spain’s second largest fashion brand. Mango is a fancy, rapidly expanding fashion company for ‘young urban woman’. Even though they are not as ubiquitous as Zara, it’s a huge success story in Catalunya, Spain. They have 1500 stores in 92 countries and their advertising features Scarlett Johnasson or Penelope Cruz.
They are looking for people with international skills for their ‘expansion department’. The job is about monitoring results in new markets, dealing with franchisees, assessing new growth opportunities.
They want people who speak French and English, not quite sure if that comes on top of Spanish or not. The job is based in Barcelona, which is not a bad place to live if you like good weather, good food, easy access to the sea & the mountains, a good international airport, beautiful architecture and probably the best soccer team in the world…
Check out the full job description and apply here
Enjoy!
Art.sy is a startup based in New York and founded by a programmer and a Christie’s executive with loads of contacts in NYC galleries, collectors etc… Their approach is to combine they knowledge, contacts and technology to be able to make art recommendations.
Although the internship is unpaid it is pretty high profile as you’ll be in the epicenter of the art world in New York City. This means galleries, exhibitions, museums, artists, collectors, technology etc… A nice opportunity to live in NYC and get some exposure to both the art and technology industries.
They are looking for techies for full-time positions and for an intern.
The internship mentions “responsibilities including inventory management, research, and special projects. The intern will also be involved in gallery relationship management, working directly with Art.sy’s gallery partners. Interns who demonstrate their capacity will be given opportunities for increased responsibilities, including a role in the development of our Art Genome Project.” Read more and apply.
Good luck!
Ph.
Are you addicted to Angry Birds, like just about anyone who’s tried it?
If yes and you fancy moving to Finland, you might want to check the openings at Rovio, the company that brought Angry Birds to the world. They launched the game in early 2010 and it has been downloaded about 10 million times for iPhone/iPod… and the it seems to be just the beginning of the Angry Birds craze. The game is basically the #1 paid application in virtually all countries.
Perhaps it’s the right time to join the company and discover the scandinavian way-of-life. N
Game tester: imagine getting paid to play Angry Birds.
If you want more info about Angry Birds and Rovio, or check their website.
OK, time to go back to smash some green piggies, level 3 is pretty hard…
Philippe
