Imperial Business Podcast

IB Careers #2: The Graduate Milkround with Rachel Tonner

The second episode of IB Careers – start your future today is all about the graduate milkround. In this episode Edina chats with Rachel Tonner about the steps and timeline of the graduate milkround and the different types of support available to Imperial College Business School students as they go through the milkround process.

For more information on Careers at Imperial College Business School, please visit our website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/programmes/career-service/

IB Careers #1: An introduction with Lisa Umenyiora

In the first episode of IB Careers - start your future today, Edina chats with Lisa Umenyiora, the Executive Director of Careers at Imperial College Business School about the IB Careers team. This introductory episode helps students understand the different functions of the Careers team and the myriad of services available to them as they start their journey at the Business School. This episode allows students to get ahead and start their career journey early, even before coming on campus in a few weeks time.

For more information on Careers at Imperial College Business School, please visit our website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/programmes/career-service/

Welcome to ’IB Careers - start your future today’

IB Careers - start your future today is a podcast hosted by Imperial College Business School alumna, Edina Molnar. The podcast that delves into the details of the different services the Careers team offers to Imperial College Business School students and the multitude of recruitment events open to them. As students progress through their master's degree at Imperial, we will also highlight other elements of their career journey such as networking, LinkedIn and student leadership - ensuring that they make the most of the Careers Services available to them in the coming year.

For more information on Careers at Imperial College Business School, please visit our website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/programmes/career-service/

#22 Professor Henning Piezunka & Dr Sarah Otner on Power, Status & Competition

Henning Piezunka is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. He is an award-winning researcher and teacher. He obtained a Diplom Kaufmann from the University of Mannheim (Germany), a Master of Science from the London School of Economics (UK), and a PhD from Stanford University (US). Henning is an accomplished researcher in the areas of crowdsourcing and competition, and publishing his work in top academic journals (e.g., PNAS, Academy of Management Journal). 
http://henningpiezunka.com/
https://twitter.com/henningpiezunka

 

Sarah Otner is part of the Strategy & Organizational Behavior Group in the Department of Management here at Imperial College Business School. She won a prestigious grant that pauses her teaching and service for three years in order to allow her to focus on conducting world-class research. Sarah’s research focuses on social evaluations – especially status and expertise – which she studies in the context of awards and competitions. Appropriate for a researcher based in a leading STEMM university such as Imperial College London, her primary research context is the Nobel Prize in Physics. Sarah’s next research project will focus on a variety of major prizes (such as the MacArthur Genius fellowship and the Breakthrough Prize) in order to examine whether and how prestige can be shared. Sarah holds an A.B. in experimental social psychology from Harvard University; an MSc. in organizational & social psychology and a Ph.D. in management (organizational behavior) from the London School of Economics (LSE).

https://www.sarahotner.com
https://twitter.com/SarahOtner

 

Hosted at Imperial College London by Amin Siala on October 2018

 

 

#21 Matoha Recycling - James Kung & Martin Holicky

Matoha is a small and low-cost plastics identification instrument which has been developed by an extraordinary team of Imperial College scientists, Martin Holicky, Hans Chan, James Kung & David Dai.

Learn more about Matoha here https://www.matoha.com

Episode was hosted by Amin Siala & recorded on 23/07/2018 at Imperial College London.

#20 Future prosthetics - Nathan Macabuag & Ben Lakey

Mitt founders Nate and Ben are two Imperial College London mechanical engineers with a passion for radically improving prosthetic products.

Mitt aims to create an alternative for the expensive and uncomfortable prosthetic limbs available today and instead provide comfortable, flexible and customizable prosthetic arms.

https://www.wearmitt.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/mitt-wearables/

#19 Cidron Ventures Partner, Magnus Gaarder

Prior to co-founding Cidron Ventures, Magnus was an Investment Manager at the transatlantic venture fund Nauta Capital.

Magnus previously worked as an investment banker at Portico Capital’s London office, focusing on M&A and private capital raising advisory within the technology, data and business services sectors. He started his career at Leerink Swann’s investment banking practice in New York.

Magnus graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Science degree, having specialized in artificial intelligence and financial engineering. He holds a Bachelor’s equivalent in Industrial Economics and Technology Management from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

In this interesting podcast with Magnus Rinnan Gaarder we cover everything from SaaS startups, the Scandanavian startup scene and the latter half is all about success, dealing with rejection, perseverance, networking and many more exciting topics.

Cidron Ventures: http://cidronventures.com

#18 Design Thinking with Ileana Stigliani

Dr. Ileana Stigliani is Assistant Professor of Design and Innovation at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department at Imperial College Business School. She received her Ph.D. in Management from Bocconi University, Milan.

In the podcast we're also joined by Michael Healy & Katharine Pelican who are Full Time MBA students at Imperial College Business School undertaking Dr Ileana's Design Thinking class.

You can watch this episode on YouTube.

The Imperial College Business Podcast is hosted by Amin Siala and can be found on Youtube, iTunes & Soundcloud.

#17 Professor Francisco Veloso, Dean, Imperial College Business School

Professor Francisco Veloso is the Dean at Imperial College Business School.

Francisco has a PhD in Technology, Management and Policy from MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as an MSc in Technology Management and an Undergraduate Degree in Physics Engineering, both from the University of Lisbon.

Francisco´s research focuses on high tech innovation and entrepreneurship. He has several dozen publications in leading academic journals and has won several awards for his contributions. He regularly contributes as a consultant and advisor to a range of start-ups, established firms, universities and government around the world.

You can watch this podcast episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/4zYfeWkemmE

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#16 Yoyo Wallet Co-founder Michael Rolph

Yoyo is the fastest growing mobile wallet in Europe. At the time of the recording Yoyo wallet has more than 2.5 million transactions every month and is currently in 500+ educational outlets, 300+ corproate outlets and 800+ high street outlets. Yoyo was first trialled at Imperial College and Michel Rolph who is the co-founder of Yoyo talks all about the journey and more!

You can listen to this episode on SoundCloud https://bit.ly/2Hv1Zem & watch it on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/khxEoNC06TU