Campus Life News iKLR campaign
Love for real and for keeps
A Flying Start for
10,000 Women ness insights and access to markets. Dr. Julia Prats, Head of the IESE Department of Entrepreneurship, gave the introductory lecture on entrepreneurship last September 3. Dr. Prats’ primary area of interest is the entrepreneurial process, which includes the identification, evaluation, and implementation of opportunities in any context. Launched in 2008, Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women is a worldwide initiative that supports partnerships with universities and development organizations to provide a generation of women in under-served areas around the world with business and management education. The initiative is grounded on the belief that expanding the entrepreneurial talent and manaThe Business Training Program is a 150hour modular course that UA&P and IESE Busi- gerial pool in developing and emerging economies—especially among women—is one of the ness School co-developed. Spread out over three months, it focuses on helping the women most important means to reducing inequality and ensuring more shared economic growth. grow their existing businesses by teaching Goldman Sachs is a leading global them how to refine their business plans or investment banking, securities and concepts, improve their business set-up and operations through a deeper understanding of investment management firm that provides a wide range of services worldwide to a the basics of financial management, managsubstantial and diversified client base that ing business operations, hiring and managing employees, as well as marketing their products includes corporations, financial institutions, and services while achieving work-life balance. governments, and high net-worth individuals. Other academic partnerships that enlisted Module One of the Business Training Program support for the firm’s 10,000 Women are covered five subjects—self-mastery and perSaïd Business School, University of Oxford sonal effectiveness, accounting and control, marketing, human resource management, and in the UK and Zhejiang University in China, HEC Paris in France and Tsinghua SEM in business problem solving analysis. The members of the first class of 10,000 China, INSEAD in France and Singapore and Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) in Brazil, IE Women scholars come from Metro Manila, Business School in Spain and FGV-EAESP Laguna, Batangas, and as far as Misamis in Brazil, London Business School in the UK Oriental. They are owners and managers of and the National Entrepreneurship Network businesses ranging from manufacturing to a Wadhwani Foundation Initiative in India, butterfly breeding and culture to printing and information technology. Outside of classroom and University of Cambridge represented by training, they will receive 50 hours of mentor- Judge Business School and the Cambridge ing from established local entrepreneurs and Assessment Group in the UK and Camfed from the staff of Goldman Sachs. On-site vis- International in Zambia. These partnerships will help future generations of entrepreneurs its of their enterprises will also be conducted and managers by strengthening the throughout the duration of the program. The underlying quality and capacity of business program will allow these selected entrepreeducation through professor training and neurs the opportunity to network with industhe development of innovative curricula and try experts coming from the most diverse sectors of the economy and to gain new busi- locally relevant case studies. UA&P, in partnership with the IESE Business School, successfully rolled out the first run of the 10,000 Women Business Training Program in the Philippines last September 14-19 at the Meralco Learning and Development Center in Antipolo City with the first batch of 10,000 Women scholars. Twenty Filipino women entrepreneurs qualified to form the first class of 10,000 Women scholars in the Philippines.
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UNIVERSITAS November 2009
It’s a revolution. Over the years, love has been the talk of the town, the center of debates, and, sometimes, the cause of massive mayhem. (I know you’ve heard the cases of Paris and Helen, Romeo and Juliet, Paolo and Francesca in your literature classes.) Thus, to reduce further confusion that may lead to more chaos, a group of youth under the I Am STRONG program decided to start a campaign to educate their peers about the meaning of love, sexuality, and relationships. They called it I Keep Love Real (iKLR). What is now a worldwide endeavour began merely as a session in the whole I Am STRONG seminar for high school students. The organizers observed that 80 percent of the questions raised were regarding boy-girl relationships. Consequently, they decided to give the topic more focus by creating a whole movement based on that particular module. It seems such a trivial issue—love, I mean. I watch movies that tell me: “Hey, this is what love is all about!” But my friends show me something different. On the other hand, I see my parents and all they’ve been through that tell me otherwise. So what is the real deal? The campaign answers that. There are different kinds of love—agape, patriotic, filial, platonic, and lastly, romantic, which is the focus of the campaign. “Romance” is something commonly associated with sappy love songs, huge bouquets of roses, and sweets that come in boxes of various shapes, colors, and themes. But, according to the campaign, “romantic love is the love that a man and a woman reserve for their lifelong companion in marriage.” The iKLR campaign is focused on better appreciating romantic love. It stresses love as a personal choice that entails knowing the answer to a whole gamut of questions, and preparing for all the responsibilities that come with it. The decision to love entails living out the virtue of chastity, which goes beyond the physical aspect of the person and involves the mind, body, heart, and soul. What iKLR teaches breaks the barriers of religion and sector. For example, last year the seminar was held three times in Malaysia, a predominantly Muslim nation. Also, iKLR holds seminars for the youth in the provinces in cooperation with some government and private entities. There are, by the way, blogs and projects, such as surveys, kept alive with the help of student volunteers. (So, if you are a student and you want to help out, or maybe you no longer are but you still want to lend a hand, that’s your cue.) With so many people writing about it, talking about it, and singing about it, wouldn’t it be a good idea to explore love further—find out what it is and how to know if it’s real. And when you do, wouldn’t it be awesome to tell others about it? Join the revolution! Let’s keep love real.
Angel Yulo CAS 2nd Year