#Success story of woman series

Undeterred, she decided not to postpone her MBA, giving birth two weeks into her course. Roa discovered she was expecting shortly after applying for her MBA. Undertaking an MBA in a new country is an intense experience at the best of times, even more so when youвЂ™re nine months pregnant when starting classes! One of the most inspiring articles we published on last year was our interview with Fernanda Roa, a Chilean MBA candidate at MIP Politecnico Di Milano School of Management.

TheyвЂ™re currently working on projects they hope will transform the VR market, with appealing experiences for users young and old. Their prototype is the Ogrecoaster, a hyper-reality cinematic experience where players travel through a magical world filled with ogres, balrogs, and dragons. She founded two companies during her undergraduate degree in South Africa, as well as being involved in the German Tech Entrepreneurship Centre, where she met her Virtual Lab co-founders. Luisa Rouillard is a co-founder of The Virtual Lab, a technology company that creates Virtual Reality (VR) content, incorporating it with multi-sensory, hyper-reality systems hardware to provide a completely immersive experience.Д®SMT Berlin MBA graduate Rouillard is passionate about entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship and Ogres: ESMT Alumna Pioneers Virtual Reality in Berlin

Now, sheвЂ™s bringing the benefits of yoga to the business world, with international subsidiaries in Brazil and the UK. This made her realize the strain corporate workers put on their bodies and inspired her to leave her job in March 2015 to start yoga instruction. During her rehabilitation, she discovered yoga, which she credits with helping her regain the use of her leg.ДЄfter her masters, Vuccino began working as a consultant, and then for tech company Webedia. On a volunteer trip to Benin with an NGO as an HEC student, Vuccino was severely injured in a motorcycle accident. However, it wasnвЂ™t all plain sailing from graduating business school to starting her own company. Meet the HEC Alumna Changing the Corporate World Through YogaД®ntrepreneur Anne-Charlotte Vuccino is a graduate of HEC Paris and the Copenhagen Business School, and founder of unique corporate yoga start-up, Yogist. Debruyne believes that by seeing role models like themselves, more prospective students will be inspired to pursue an MBA program.

#Success story of woman series

Vlerick have also created a series of profiles, based on the idea of dreams, which showcases a variety of (male and female) MBA students, with a вЂњspecific zoom on womenвЂќ. They have created a Female Leadership Grant for their Executive MBA and masterвЂ™s programs, which Debruyne hopes will encourage women, particularly working mothers, to pursue their ambitions. Professor Dr Marion Debruyne, Dean of Vlerick Business School is working hard to change that, advocating for diversity.Дebruyne believes gender shouldnвЂ™t be an issue at business school, and Vlerick are taking steps to address this. Happy International WomenвЂ™s Day! Meet the Female Dean Championing Diversity at VlerickД«usiness schools, and indeed the wider business world, can be seen as a bit of a вЂboys clubвЂ™. Read on to find out about these fantastic women, from business school deans to entrepreneurs, and how theyвЂ™re making a difference. Whilst women have made great strides in the world of business, only a dismal 4.8 percent of CEOs leading the companies in the 2018 Fortune 500 list are female, and women only earn US$80 for every US$100 men earn (with the figures even lower for women of color).ДЄt weвЂ™ve had the chance to speak to many inspiring women in business hoping to make major shifts towards gender equality. March 8 is International WomenвЂ™s Day, a day celebrating the achievements and power of women, as well as a day of protest to raise awareness of the battles still to fight for universal gender equality.