7 Highlights From Dublin’s Tech Scenario

Tweet After a week of visits in the leading tech companies in Dublin’s Silicon Docks, here are some of my personal highlights. The idea of Dublin becoming the Silicon Valley of Europe seems to be on its tracks. Hosting the European headquarters of all the main tech companies in the world, Dublin looks like an […]

DUBLIN TRIP: Vlerick is on the case at Microsoft’s Dublin Campus

Wednesday, 4 March 2020, 17:52 | Category : Company Visit, Dublin Trip, Masters, Masters in Marketing and Digital Transformation
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Tweet On the last day of our Dublin trip we had the chance to visit Microsoft at their Dublin campus located in Leopardstown, half an hour south of Dublin. This €134m state of the art building inaugurated in 2018 offers over 34,000 square metres and is the home to over 2,000 employees. The Dublin division […]

DUBLIN TRIP: MDT Masters students explore the Facebook EMEA headquarters

Tweet Did you know that 80% of Instagram users follow a brand? Neither did we, until we learned all about the importance of Facebook and Instagram for businesses around the world. Especially for medium sized companies, Facebook can really boost the growth of their business. With this in mind, it is no surprise that their […]

DUBLIN TRIP – Oracle: The most underrated revolutionary tech giant

Tweet On Tuesday the 18th of February we visited the first tech company on the Masters in Marketing & Digital Transformation Dublin trip: Oracle. Oracle is an American tech company specialized in database software, cloud engineering and enterprise software products. Oracle operates in a B2B environment and is by consequence less known to the broad […]

MGM Berlin Study Trip – Siemens visit

Tuesday, 25 June 2019, 12:47 | Category : Company Visit, International trip, Masters in General Management
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Tweet At Vlerick we had the privilege to have an amazing Berlin trip. The subject of the trip was “impossible futures”, and therefore the trip was filled with interesting lectures about the future, and visits to companies who are frontrunners on innovation and research. For every timeslot, we had the choice of a few companies. […]

The best month of our lives: Global immersion trip MIMS

Tweet With the end of March approaching, all the MIMS students were getting excited to leave for China and Japan. We had a busy schedule planned, going from Beijing to Shanghai to Hong Kong and then leaving for Japan to visit Tokyo and Kyoto. Thanks to Gaia, our program manager, for arranging all the visits […]

DUBLIN TRIP: Inspiring guest speakers at CAI

Monday, 8 April 2019, 14:03 | Category : Company Visit, International trip, Masters in Marketing Management
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Tweet During the afternoon of our second day in Dublin we were welcomed by the Chartered Accountants Ireland to attend presentations of three key note speakers. We got the opportunity to get  insights in the achievements of SalesForce and Microsoft. Next to that, we learned more about SEO migration through the knowledge sharing moment of […]

DUBLIN TRIP: How to use Inbound Marketing as a new way of advertising.

Tweet On the second of our Dublin trip, our M3 class had the honour to visit the Hubspot office in Dublin. Hubspot is a leading inbound marketing, sales and services CRM company. They are helping millions of customers to grow better. They were originally designed to help small and medium-sized businesses compete in the marketplace, […]

DUBLIN TRIP: From being like Rolls Royce to competing with Hertz. How Oracle is adapting to the shifts in the IT market.

On the first day of our International Business Trip to Dublin with the Masters in Marketing Management, we had an exclusive visit to Oracle. Read the full report on our company visit here

MFM London Study Trip 2019

Tweet On the 14th of January our entire MFM class traveled to London to visit a series of top tier companies in the financial field. Five intense days of fascinating talks, networking events, and worthwhile to mention, some time was preserved for us to explore the vibrant city in all its glory. A sincere thank […]