Leadership experience for university students

The challenges of today require greater professional agility than ever before, so we have the need to advance and our goal must be to prepare our self to be competitive in today’s economy. We can develop our skills in different ways: working at the same time than study, apply for business programs in summer out site our country or whatever.

Personally I think that summer courses based on analyzing real case studies in universities allowed students to develop a practical view on the subjects that they are currently doing in the university. Additionally, they have been able to get a professional experience that will help them in their future carriers’ opportunities.   So we can define these programs as the first step to build up an international carrier in our near future. If we have the chance of join in some of these types of summer programs, we must take advantage of the opportunity.

For students of Spain that we want to apply for these programs give us the chance of find out what it takes to run a business, practice oral and writing English that will rein fuse our current study and we can meet students from all around the world which ensures an international atmosphere.

In these video American students explain their experience of a course that they apply in summer called Ivy Summer Management program. Instead of that this program is predominantly designate to students of the states; there exist lots of programs for international students that we can apply and get into. All of them have a common challenge: achieve the goal of develop our self in different atmospheres to grow up as future entrepreneurs. 

Portfolios millionaires in the stock exchange

Warrent Buffet and Bill Gates are the richest men in the states. This entrepenurs achieve their consecutive exit deducing the atractives business and investing in it based in a diversificate portfolio.

Bill Gates is an American business magnate and chairman of Microsoft. He possesses a fortune of 56.000 Million dollars. He recruits the highest part of the earnings from his company but surprisingly little by little he is selling the shares of the company that at the moment aren’t in the better moment to get profits of it. If we analyze his portfolio, only 1’6% of it is invest on the technological sector, concretely he invests 233 millions of dollars in Crown Castle Intl. And the 47,6% of his portfolio is in Berkshire Hathaway, an American conglomerate holding company whose chairman and CEO is Warrent Buffet. This one is attractiveness for more than one investor because the firm stock produced a total return of 76% from 2000 to 2010 versus a negative 11,3% return for the S&P500.

On the other hand we have one of the most successful investors in the world, often called the "legendary investor, Warren Buffett”. The exit of his success is based on the diversification of his portfolio. As a rule the investor search profits margin in long term investments, principally focus in blue-chips. The "Oracle of Omaha" has these investments: the 8,6% of Coca-Cola; the 18% of The Washington Post; 2,6% of Procter &Gamble; and the 2% of Sanofi-Aventis among the most prominent values.

Both investors coincide in these values: Coca-Cola; M&T Bank; Costco Wholesale; Berkshire Hathaway and Exxon.

But instead their fortunes, the richest man in the world continues being Carlos Slim. The Mexican business magnate raises his fortune up to 20.500 million dollars this year. The reason is that he broke the boundary of the economic crisis and invests in sectors of industry, mining industry, tobacco and finance. 

The most value brands in the world

As all of us know, nowadays Apple is one of the most valuable brands in the world.

The value of Apple has grow 859% since 2006, according to WPP (is a world leader in advertising and marketing services), and the two most success new products has been Apple’s iPhone Smartphone’s and iPad tablet computers. WPP include in their list of the top ten most value brands companies such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, AT&T and China Mobile. All of them technology or telecommunications companies.

But it’s impossible to talk about technology without stand out Facebook, the social network’s brand that is worth $19,1 billion and have more than 600 million active users.  Is the most used social networking service worldwide followed by MySpace. The company ownership is principal divided in different venture capital and the co-founders of the company.  But according to the information that The Wall Street Journal published a few months ago, Goldman Sachs will invest $500 million in Facebook and manage the entrance of new investors to the firm to enter in the near future to the stock exchange. Why all this interest in the company? Because is valuated as the most brilliantly innovative technology company in the history and also for the tremendous profits that gives annually.  We are not totally sure if this types of business will continually be as success as in today’s economy in 20 years; but what is true is that exist a huge interest in the power media by companies such as Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan that are working to create investment funds to caught up clients that want to invest in it. So, will be social networking companies the new competitors of technology companies on the stock exchange? We need to wait to know the answer.  

Portugal

Portugal’s budget deficit is lower than in most other euro-zone economies. Since the start of the euro in 1999 it has been among the slower-growing economies in the club, despite being its poorest member. The result of this effect is that Portugal’s bond yields have soared higher than at any time since they join the euro.

Portugal will be the third peripheral euro-zone country to need a bail-out. It need and ambitious reform to result the deep-seated structure problems that have at the moment.   The country need to issue debt is only €2 billion or so a month. Although that is small by most measures, and the government may have enough cash to meet redemptions in April, Portugal could struggle to last until June. The markets are expecting action long before then. In mid-March Moody’s, a rating agency, downgraded Portuguese debt.

Portugal’s political turmoil and its urgent need for a rescue will now loom large at an EU summit this week, which may put off a deal to expand the bail-out fund and fail to sign a new “pact for the euro”. If EU leaders have to bail out Portugal, they may find they have already used quite a big chunk of their fund. The markets will swiftly move on to attack the Spanish. The bail-out fund can quite easily finance Portugal. It is not clear that it could deal with Spain.

Moody's view in Spain

The Spanish banking sector was qualified by Moody's Investors Service Inc. The result was not good enough and in addition the pressures exist in Iberian banks following the collapse of Portugal’s minority government overnight.

The crisis in Portugal, which is widely seen on the brink of requesting a European Union bailout, may also have a limited effect on Spanish banks. According to estimates from the Bank of International Settlements, Spanish banks are the most exposed to possible losses in Portugal, as they account for $109 billion out of $322 billion in total exposure of foreign banks in the country.

In relation with the result, the downgrade comes for the Spain’s sovereign debt and all the weak banks. It also reflects the expectation of a weaker support environment for banks across Europe.

The report has further added 30 banks, to make a thorough decision on their ratings. Moody’s downgraded Spain’s sovereign rating one level on March 10 to Aa2 while warning of further downgrades on the likelihood the country’s bank restructuring efforts will cost double its 20-billion euro forecast. The ratings of the country’s three largest banks - Banco Santander, BBVA and La Caixa - were not affected by the action.

European stocks closed higher the day that the report was published. Britain's FTSE 100 added 1.5%, the DAX in Germany gained 1.9% and France's CAC 40 rose 1.4%.