IESE LGBTQ & Allies - Out for Business

26/04/2022

Today we kicked off our 2nd annual Pride Week celebration with our campus Rainbow Day! The strong participation and support from the student body was overwhelming :)

Thank you to our friends and allies for showing up in support of your LGBTQ+ friends, colleagues, and loved ones!

The celebration continues, Happy Pride! More to come!

21/04/2021

Pride week at IESE campus ! A proud week full of diverse events !

08/04/2021

Slightly late for the international transgender day of visibility (it was March 31st), but worth the read

This week, the Supreme Court ruled LGBTQ workers are protected from job discrimination. So how can your workplace be truly equitable to transgender people? Gender Reveal host Tuck Woodstock answers questions about making the workplace safer and more inclusive for trans people and provides simple ide...

31/03/2021

Thanks everybody for attending last March 26th the 2nd D&I Conference, organized by IESE’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee

“Together we are stronger, together we thrive”

Agenda:
1-2 PM - Thriving in a Diverse Workplace Panel. Our Panelists:
• Carlos Sainz, Head of Global Trust Marketing at eBay
• Mercedes Mantecon, Consultant at Spenser Stuart
• Charlie Pearmund, CEO of Virtual Bodyworks

2-3 PM - Interactive Interview with Mita Mallick (Head of Inclusion, Equity and Impact at Carta and Former Head of Diversity and Cross Cultural Marketing at Unilever)

3-4:30 PM - Allyship Training by McKinsey & Company

30/01/2018

A big THANK YOU to all 529 IESEans that signed up to support OutIESE. The response was incredible!! We have closed the form now, and are preparing a final club proposal (along with the list of supporters*) for the School to consider. THANK YOU again!

*NOTE: this list will not be shared beyond the MBA Committee

30/11/2016

Examples in politics... the mayor of Luxembourg ..in academia... LBS supporting their LGBT club and organizing EurOut (Europe’s leading LGBT conference for MBAs)..and in business: consulting firms, banks and large corporations openly supporting LGBT rights in the work place

Where is IESE in all this? When will it openly support the LGBT community on campus and beyond?

Be judged for your work but don’t hide who you are, Luxembourg’s PM Xavier Bettel tells LBS crowd

09/06/2016

We'd like to introduce REDI! It stands for: Red Empresarial por la Diversidad y la Inclusión LGBTI, or Business Network for Diversity and LGBTI Inclusion.

This organization went live just a few weeks ago and is the first network of its kind in Spain. It aims to become a central platform for Spanish businesses to share knowledge about diversity and incusion of their LGBTI employees.

It is an initiative of a diverse group of entities in Spain, including academic organizations such as IE Business School.

Visit their webpage if you'd like to hear more, or just drop us a line.

Happy Thursday!

REDI - Red Empresarial por la Diversidad y la Inclusión LGBTI

12/05/2016

A step forward in Italy, finally! Congratulations to the Italian community!

Here are 2 interesting details of the successful vote, which prove that many more steps are still needed:

1) Words from Nunzio Galantino, Secretary-General of the Italian Episcopal Conference: “The government probably has its reasons. But the vote… represents a defeat for all”.

2) A provision that would have granted non biological parents in same s*x unions some parental rights, including adoption, was deleted and a requirement that couples be faithful to each other – which critics believed made it too similar to traditional marriage – was also struck from the legislation.

Italy will allow same-s*x couples to enter into civil unions for the first time after its parliament gave final approval to legislation supported by centre-left prime minister Matteo Renzi that aimed to bring the country’s laws on gay unions into line with those of other major western European count...

27/04/2016

More than a half-million people have signed on to boycott Target for its transgender-friendly bathroom policy. But why stop there?

16/04/2016

"On a sector adjusted basis, our LGBT 270 index has outperformed MSCI ACWI by an excess 3% per annum over the past six years returning, 6.4% on average each year," Credit Suisse writes.

This is pretty simple: companies that have LGBT diversity beat the market.

28/03/2016

It's a little sad that it takes prominent businesses to enforce equal rights in communities, but it goes to show that companies have an opportunity to use their economic influence to make society a better place for all.

The bill gives religious organizations the right to discriminate

15/02/2016

An interesting article on how inequality in salary translates to LGBT members in the workforce.
"While gay men suffer an earnings penalty, gay women seem to earn more than straight women...an average earnings premium of 9% for le****ns over heteros*xual women, compared to a penalty of 11% for gay men."

EVERYONE knows that labour markets are not fair. Whether it is skin colour, gender, or some other characteristic, minority groups tend to fare worse than the one...