ESADE Business School

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Through its two programs, the MBA and Executive Education programs, ESADE Business School fosters the development and management skills and expertise and an entrepreneurial spirit, with the emphasis on a clear global outlook, ethical principles and a sense of social responsibility.

ESADE is an institution that was founded with a clear aim: to adopt a humanistic approach in the training of critical professionals capable of coping with changing times.

ESADE Business School together with ESADE University Faculties are the two education areas of ESADE, currently incorporated to the Ramon Llull University. ESADE has over 6,000 students among its various training centres in Barcelona, Madrid, Buenos Aires and Casablanca.

ESADE provides a wide range of programs catering to the needs of diverse groups and has signed collaboration agreements with over 100 prestigious universities world-wide.

ESADE Business School
Established: 1958
Type: Business School
Dean: Xavier Mendoza [1]
Location: Barcelona/Madrid, Spain
Campus: Urban
Website: http://www.esade.edu
Image:ESADE Business School logo.jpg

Contents

[edit] Programmes

[edit] MBA Programmes

[edit] 18-month or Full-time MBA

For professionals with minimum of two years' work experience who are looking for management training with a clear international focus and the opportunity to share their experience with students from different countries. The programme is offered in English and Spanish.

  • Key figures:
    • 18-month programme
    • 80 electives subjects
    • Intake of 115 students
    • Student profile: an average age of 28 and 5 years' professional experience, 70% of the students are from overseas, from 30 different countries
  • link multimedia brochure

[edit] One-Year MBA

For professionals with an educational background in economics or business studies, with more than five years of professional experience, prrogramme in English.

  • Key figures:
    • 10-month programme
    • 80 optional subjects
    • Student profile: an average age of 32 and 7 years' professional experience, 100% of the students are from overseas

[edit] Part-Time MBA

For active professionals with a minimum of three year's experience, compatible with full-time work.

  • Key figures:
    • 20-month programme
    • 80 optional subjects
    • Intake of 120 students
    • Student profile: an average age of 29 and 5.2 years' professional experience
    • Imparted on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays and alternate Saturdays

[edit] Executive MBA

This MBA is imparted at the school campuses in Barcelona and Madrid. The program format is especially designed so that students can reconcile their management commitments.

  • Key figures:
    • 18-month programme
    • Imparted on Friday evenings Saturday mornings

[edit] Ranking

2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 Exec. MBA (2007) Part-Time MBA
BusinessWeek International programs 7 7 4
Economist 35 34
Financial Times international rankings 21 24 27 35 71
WSJ International program 1 1 2 3
Financial Times Ranking of the Rankings 10
  • 2nd: World's best business school for its social and environmental emphasis (Ranking: Beyond Grey Pinstripes [1], 2006)

[edit] Executive education

[edit] Custom programs

ESADE's Executive Education conducts customized programs that are 100% tailored to the company's needs and wants. ESADE has designed and provided such programs to executives for more than three decades for both small to mid-sized companies as well as multinationals. The Customs Program Design Team consists of ESADE faculty members and also of senior executives from the client's firm to ensure the right fit between client needs, program design,content and delivery.

[edit] Open programs

[edit] Executive masters

Like all ESADE Business School programmes, Master's degrees course provides a forum for ideas and knowledge in which academics and professionals can pool their experience and establish strong, lasting ties. Professional masters cover the field of Finance, Operation, and Sales and Marketing

Master in Financial Management:

ESADE's Master in Financial Management has been designed to help programme participants improve their professional performance in the finance field. The Programme covers cutting edge finance techniques and concepts that are imparted within a sound academic framework. The dynamic teaching approach is based on active learning and fosters participation, discussion of real-life case studies, pooling of experience, and a whole series of practical activities aimed at stimulating student creativity and teamwork.

Master in Operations Management and Services Management:

This Master's programme provides a forum for academics and professionals working in the Operations field. The faculty members combine sound university training with business practice in both public and private companies, and hold posts of responsibility in the management and consulting fields. Students usually hold academic and professional qualifications, as well as business experience.

Executive Master in Sales and Marketing:

The EMMS programme is designed for working executives. It has a balanced mix of residential modules and distance learning sessions, enabling the students to develop a career path while continuing to work. The emms programme aims at tackling key issues in marketing and sales management. Successful marketing means looking to the future, anticipating it, grasping opportunities that need to be developed, and unfurling successful strategies before and better than competitors. Successful sales management means bringing products and services to the market precisely when the market is ready to buy them.

[edit] Ranking

  • 3rd: Best International business school for open and custom-designed courses for businesses (Ranking: América Economía, October 2005)
  • 5th: Best European business school and 16th world-wide for custom designed courses (Ranking: BusinessWeek, October 2005)
  • 11th: Best European business school and 30th world-wide for open and custom-designed courses (Ranking: The Financial Times, May 2006)

[edit] International Outlook

[edit] key figures

  • more than 70% students are foreign students
  • class profile and geographic mobility:
  • over 50% of students applying for the Exchange Programme
  • 10% opt for the Double Degree

The remainder, together with the students taking the One-Year MBA, get international exposure through the Global Residency week at Georgetown University.

[edit] International Week

Students go to one of ESADE's partnering schools for one or two weeks, where they intensively study key themes in the business world under the direction of local faculty members. There are at the moment to partnering programme:

  • Babson College at Wellesley, Massachusetts. Focus on entreprenership themes.
  • BiMBA at Peking University. Focus on Chinese culture and ways of doing business, both from a Chinese and Western perspectives.

[edit] double degree

This option caters to those aspiring to an international career. The MBA experience is enriched by the intellectual rigour and excellence of two world-famed programmes. Candidates begin the course in Barcelona by focusing on the foundations of business strategy and management and on improving their Spanish and/or English. Candidates who pass this stage to take the second year will face new academic and cultural challenges. Students meeting the requirements of both institutions will receive the Double Degree conferred by ESADE and its partnering business school.

Europe Partners

U.S. Partners

Latin American Partners

  • ESAN, Lima, Peru
  • EGADE-ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico
  • INCAE, Alajuela City, Costa Rica
  • ITAM, Mexico City. Mexico
  • Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar / Santiago de Chile, Chile

[edit] Exchange programme

The Exchange Programme offers students the opportunity of taking a stage of their MBA at one of the partnering schools, and paves the way for an international career. Students study at one of the 58 business schools worldwide that make up ESADE's exchange network.

Europe

United States

Canada

Latin America

  • Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial (DII), Universidad de Chile. Santiago de Chile, Chile
  • Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo, Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Brasil
  • Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados (ESAN). Lima, Perú
  • Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA). Venezuela
  • Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). México
  • Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). México

Australia/New Zealand

  • Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), University of New South Wales. Sydney, Australia
  • Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne. Australia
  • The University of Otago School of Business, The University of Otago. Dunedin, New Zealand

Asia

The Middle East/Africa

  • The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University. Israel
  • The Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. South Africa
  • Wits Business School, The University of the Witwatersrand. Johannesburg, South Africa

[edit] International accreditation

  • AACSB International: ESADE is the first business school in Spain and the seventh in Europe to receive this prestigious recognition from The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business honoring the excellence of ESADE management training programs.
  • EQUIS: ESADE is recognized by the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and is the first school in Spain - and one of the very first in Europe - to be awarded accreditation by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
  • Association of MBAs: ESADE MBA programs have received world-wide recognition from the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
  • Executive MBA Council [2]: member of the Executive MBA Council, an international association whose aim is to foster excellence in Executive MBA programmes.

[edit] Career services

One of the most important decisions candidates will have to make during the MBA programme is choosing a future career. At ESADE Business School, this decision is as important to the student as it is to the Career Services team. Given the relatively small programme size, Career Services is able to provide a high degree of individual attention. Partners in helping candidates achieve their professional objectives, Career Services works closely with students to identify goals and design action plans to meet them. The team's aim is to provide lasting skills that will help students effectively manage their careers over both the short and long terms. Although working as an integrated service, support to candidates refalls under three main heads: Employer Relations, Advice & Guidance and the Career Resource Center (CRC).

[edit] Employer Relations

The Career Services Employer Relations team is in constant contact with the international business community and frequently travels to develop and nurture relationships as well as to promote candidate profiles. In 2005, Career Services managed over 4,000 internship and job advertisements from 1,500 organizations around the world. These companies count on ESADE to provide management-minded professionals through multiple channels, which include on-campus Talent Recruitment Events and publishing vacancies on the student employment portal.

[edit] Advice & Guidance

An effective career search has clear goals and objectives that are implemented early following a precise action plan. Readily available to provide students with personalised attention, the Advice & Guidance team helps candidates develop and meet their professional objectives and has developed the Career Management Programme to do just that.

[edit] The Career Resource Centre (CRC)

The CRC houses the following resources:

  • Databases to perform industry research
  • Trade directories to find specific company information including Bloomberg
  • Company archives including annual reports and company brochures
  • An extensive library covering all career development aspects
  • Business-specific and job market-related press and magazines
  • Vault and WetFeet Guides
  • Resources for working abroad including work permit information

In addition, the CRC is available on-line through the MBA student portal, which enables students to efficiently manage their internship/job search and applications. Through the portal, students can access internship/job offers as well as many of the CRC's career development resources.

[edit] ESADE alumni association

The Association's creation was finalised with the ESADE collaboration agreement protocol, and its official recording in the Registry of Associations on October 9, 1989.

The Association is governed by the General Assembly and the Executive Board. The General Assembly meets at least once a year. One of its functions is to appoint the Executive Board, the Association's executive body.

[edit] Objectives

  • Contributing to the improvement of alumni professional skills
  • Favouring social relationships and cooperation among members
  • Orienting members in the development of their careers
  • Establishing relations with similar associations
  • Fomenting close collaboration with ESADE, and endowing its degrees and diplomas with prestige

[edit] Association figures

  • Spain's most important voluntary membership professional group
  • Europe's second in the business school sector
  • 9100 active members

[edit] ESADE Network

International chapters:

Austria Colombia Peru
Argentina France Portugal
Benelux Germany Switzerland
Brazil India UK
Chile Italy US
China Mexico Venezuela

Regional chapters:

There are clubs in Andorra, the Balearic Islands, Lleida, Valencia, Aragon, Asturias and Girona Information.

[edit] Business clubs

Business & Information Technology Family Business Real Estate Insurance
Communications Health & Pharma Human Resources Operations
Sports Management Espai Vicens Vives Business & Social Responsibility China
Law Marketing Finance and Management Control Innovative Management
Business Angels Innovative Management Tourism Management Cultural Industry
Public Management

[edit] ESADE and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Recently, the Aspen Institute recognised ESADE's efforts in incorporating CSR issues into its MBA curriculum and ranked the school second in the world in its biennal survey "Beyond Grey Pinstripes" [1]. This ranking celebrates the top 30 schools among the 600 full-time MBA programs across six continents invited to participate in the survey.

The ranking assesses schools across four criteria:

  • Student Opportunity: measures the number of courses with social and environmental content
  • Student Exposure: indicates the percentage of course time dedicated to considering social and

environmental issues

  • Content: reflects the degree to which courses illustrate the value of integrating social and environmental considerations into business decisions
  • Research: is indicative of the number of relevant articles published in leading peer-reviewed management journals

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Beyond Grey Pinstripes - CSR ranking.

[edit] External links

[edit] Institutional websites

[edit] Programme brochure

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