IPADE, (PanAmerican Institute for High Business Direction) is the business school of Universidad Panamericana, or Pan-American University, a private university in Mexico. The institute, from which the university came out later, was founded in 1967 by a notable group of Mexican businessmen.
More than 22,000 graduates, many of them CEOs of Mexican and international companies, have passed through the Institute, which features primarily in the learning experience the use of cases. There is a strong philosophical insight for the businessman's chores and duties within the organization. IPADE has a Christian orientation, entrusted to the Opus Dei prelature.
Besides its campus in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey IPADE organizes alternate and itinerant MBA courses throughout the republic.
The building in which IPADE holds its Mexico City campus is the seventeenth century Hacienda de San Antonio ClaverÃa.
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IPADE is ranked by many leading business publications as one of the best MBA's in the world.[1]
The Hacienda of San Antonio ClaverÃa was formed in the last third of the seventeenth century. Its first proprietor to be known was Domingo Bustamante, a Spaniard. This Hacienda was located within the limits of the borough of Azcapotzalco (in those days the pueblo Azcapotzalco) and even the Tacuba area. When Mr. Bustamante died the Hacienda was bought by a man surnamed Otero for a ridiculous sum of money.
The Hacienda barely managed to stand the fierce wars in the Mexican nineteenth century. By the twentieth, it was converted into a wheat barn, a situation which didn't help the building's architecture. It was restored in 1951. The Institute arrived in 1967.