Franz Heukamp: "The first work of a manager is service".
In Nuestro Tiempo, director IESE's General Director highlights the keys to the school's 60th anniversary and its future challenges.
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On its 60th anniversary, the University of Navarra's IESE Business School is, for the fifth consecutive year, the best business school in the world, according to the Financial Times. Its director general, Franz Heukamp, pointed to teaching, research and impact on society as the three keys to the school' s success. "The first work of a manager is one of service," he said. "What we are interested in are our students, the people who come to learn, to improve, to transform their intellectual capacity," he said in an interview in issue 703 of Our Time magazine, which has just been published.
On the characteristics that an IESE professor should possess, he said that they should be people who have studied in depth the study of management companies, but also people with the ability to work as part of a team and, above all, "they have to love their students".
The topic cover story of the new issue of Nuestro Tiempo is an interview with Bibi Russell, a former Bengali model and designer who has coined the concept of fashion for development, a way of designing and producing clothing that empowers artisans in poor countries and is environmentally friendly. On the other hand, a photo-reportage sample showed the trip of a group of students of Environmental Sciences of the University of Navarra to Ecuador to learn sustainable models of development in one of the most biodiverse regions of the planet. In addition, some students simulated a trial in which they sued Stanley Kubrick for falsifying the moon landing. With this "little journalistic madness", as its promoter, Professor Javier Marrodán, described it, the students have been able to tell in an immersive and novel way how easy it is for people to believe conspiracy theories.
Other stories linked to the University are the successful expedition through Antarctica of Ignacio Oficialdegui, former student of Biology, in which he demonstrated the scientific usefulness of a totally ecological wind sled. And the story of the Tecnun eRacing team, a group team of engineering students from campus in San Sebastian that every summer designs and manufactures a racing car to participate in Formula Student, a competition in which quotation single-seaters created by future engineers from all over the world take part. This summer they will do it in Holland and in Montmeló.