New York Times, December 4, 2011
LONDON — It always pays to do your homework. And as Jeremy Bedzow, an M.B.A. student at the IE University in Madrid, can attest, in business school it often pays to volunteer — especially if you are looking for rewards that go beyond the bottom line.
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Working with a team of IE students in Madrid, Mr. Bedzow helped Microsoft to develop a model program to provide training in information technology as well as the soft skills required to function inside the corporate world.
Known as ITCAN Academy, a pun on the Arabic word for perfection, itqan, the course recruited 100 university students, all of whom had to be Saudi nationals...
“One of our objectives at IE is to educate global citizens,” Mr. Íñiguez (Dean) said. “We try to instill civic virtue through the whole curriculum. Instead of having a module on ethics, we believe every course, every subject, every professor, should address these issues.”..
“That diversity also needs to be part of the learning process,” Mr. Íñiguez said. “We need to get beyond gender, or the number of passports in the class, and make sure our graduates are genuinely comfortable with different views and different values. We need to help students get rid of their arrogance.”
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