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ESADE Madrid building

With a vision committed to personal development and social responsibility, ESADE's unique and innovative learning model, a pioneer in Europe, is based on the development of professional and management skills and abilities. The two educational areas are:

• ESADE Business School: through its two programs, the MBA and Executive Education programs, the Business School fosters the development and management.
• ESADE University Faculties: the university programs offer undergraduate, post-graduate, and PhD programs in Business Administration and Law with differentiating characteristics -- a practical, innovative focus -- and close and active ties to the business world and the legal profession.

ESADE is currently incorporated to the Ramon Llull University. ESADE has over 6,000 students among its various training centres. ESADE provides a wide range of programs catering to the needs of diverse groups and has signed collaboration agreements with over 100 universities world-wide.

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ESADE Barcelona building

History

ESADE Campus

The ESADE project was conceived in the spring of 1954 by a group of Catalan professionals and entrepreneurs dedicated to the idea of founding a university center of business research and training. The project - dreamt up at about the same time as the idea of founding the IESE business school - helped bail out the Franco regime, which was then still heavily committed to an autarchic-style command economy. The training of a business elite was one of the factors that enabled the dictatorship to survive until 1976. After signing an agreement with the Jesuits (Societas Iesu) in October 1958, ESADE was born and started offering its first academic programmes in a small building in the district of Sant Gervasi, Barcelona. Since then, ESADE has steadily grown in terms of size and the range of courses, leading to the enlargement of its intallations to create a campus which, if the premises in both Madrid and Barcelona are included, currently covers an area of 30,000m2. A new executive centre was opened in 2003 in Buenos Aires, Argentina: the Foundation for Business and Social Development. ESADE is currently engaged in one of its most ambitious projects: the creation of ESADE-Creapolis, a new campus situated in Sant Cugat del Vallès, originally a market town but now an overspill area for Barcelona. The new campus combines the concepts of "technology park" and "science park".

Mission and culture

ESADE stated mission is to: "advance education and research in business management and law; contribute to the scientific, social and humanistic training of highly skilled individuals; foster individual dignity based on Christian traditions, and on intercultural dialogue". As with most woolly mission statements, the devil lies in the details. A case in point is ESADE's guiding hand in the planning of the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures. The Financial Times dryly noted that: "The Forum spent more than €400m ($540m) organising a six-month cultural festival in Barcelona in 2004 – an event that was widely condemned as a flop and a waste of taxpayers’ money". According to the same newspaper, fallout from that event now threatens commercial relations between Spain and the US (see article).

Other strands in ESADE's culture, consonant with those above, are its defense of market economics, academic independence, and its opposition to monopolistic practices. ESADE, as a Barcelona-based institution, has historically played an important role in advancing Catalonia's economic interests. However, the recent appointment of the school's director as president of Clickair, a low-cost subsidiary of Iberia (formerly, Spain's flag carrier) appears to represent a departure from this tradition. The appointment caused Planeta - a large stakeholder in a competing low-cost carrier (Vueling) - to pull out from ESADE's Board of Trustees. Moreover, some 75 ESADE alumni have signed a petition arguing that: (1) Iberia is notorious for its monopolistic practices; (2) Iberia's stance regarding present use and future plans for Barcelona airport will seriously prejudice the Catalan economy; (3) that ESADE has effectively been muzzled in the intense public debate regarding the strategic potential of Barcelona airport (another business school - IESE - has nimbly assumed leadership on the issue). The controversy has been widely aired in the Catalan press and television (see link) and seems set to damage the links it has taken ESADE decades to forge with the region's business community.

Meanwhile, Clickair's poor performance in the low-cost market was covered in an article in the August 28 issue of Economista newspaper. Clickair's parent company - Iberia is currently fighting off a take-over bid by British Airways.

Chronology

• 1958: The year of its fundation, ESADE provisionally occupied a period detached house in Passatge de Josep Llovera in Barcelona
• 1960: Executive program created
• 1964: MBA program begun
• 1965: ESADE opened its first building in the university area of Pedralbes. The design of the building, which highlighted its functional aspects, was declared to be of outstanding social interest.
• 1965: Language school opened
• 1983: the ESADE campus in Pedralbes was extended with the construction of Building 2 to house classrooms and a library. The library was designated the repository of the documentory sources of UNESCO.
• 1992: ESADE opened Building 3, an avant-guarde construction which would house the Business School and the Executive Language Centre.
• 1993: Law school opened
• 2000: The ESADE campus in Madrid was opened in the business district of Chamartin.
• 2003: ESADE opened a new campus in Buenos Aires

ESADE Business School

ESADE Business School

Type	Business School
Established	1958
Dean	Xavier Mendoza [1]
Address	Av. Pedralbes, 60-62, Barcelona 08034 Spain , Barcelona/Madrid , Spain
Campus	Urban
Website	http://www.esade.edu
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MBA Programs

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

One-Year MBA

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

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

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

Ranking

	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002		Exec. MBA (2007)	Part-Time MBA
BusinessWeek International programs		7
Economist		35	34
Financial Times international rankings	24	27	35
WSJ International program		1	2	3

• 2nd: World's best business school for its social and environmental emphasis (Ranking: Beyond Grey Pinstripes , 2006)

Executive education

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.

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.

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)

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 falls under three main heads: Employer Relations, Advice & Guidance and the Career Resource Center (CRC).

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.

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.

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.

International Outlook

key figures

• 18-month MBA
  • class profile:
    • Spain 30%
    • Latin america 30%
    • Europe 22%
    • North America 11%
    • Asia & others 7%
  • 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.

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.

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

• HEC School of Management, Paris

U.S. Partners

• Thunderbird School of Global Management, Glendale. Arizona
• Goizueta Business School, Emory University, Atlanta. Georgia
• McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Texas
• Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western University, Cleveland. Ohio

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

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

• École de management de Lyon, Groupe ESC. France
• Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University. United Kingdom
• Erasmus Graduate School of Business, Rotterdam School of Management. Holland
• Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. Finland
• Institut Supérieur des Affaires (ISA), HEC School of Management. Paris, France
• Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester. United Kingdom
• Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Bergen, Norway
• SDA Bocconi, Università Commerciale Luigi. Bocconi, Italy
• Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology (SIMT). Germany
• The University of Edinburgh Management School, University of Edinburgh. United Kingdom
• Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. Coventry, United Kingdom

United States

• Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota
• UIUC College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
• Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University. Dallas, Texas
• University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB), University of Chicago. Illinois
• John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis. Missouri
• Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Bloomington, Indiana
• Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill. North Carolina
• Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. New York
• Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Los Angeles, California
• McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin. Texas
• Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. Nashville, Tennessee
• Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. New York
• Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Maryland
• Goizueta Business School, Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia
• Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. Ithaca, New York
• UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California. Los Angeles (UCLA)
• The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Durham, North Carolina
• McDonough School of Business (MSB), Georgetown University. Washington DC
• University of Michigan Business School, University of Michigan. Michigan
• Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida
• Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, Ohio

Canada

• HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales). Montréal, Québec
• Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration, The University of British Columbia. Vancouver, British Columbia
• Schulich School of Business, York University. Ontario
• Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. Montreal

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

• Asian Institute of Management (AIM). Manila, Philippines
• China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). Shanghai, China
• Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan. Niigata, Japan
• Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA). India
• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). India
• Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIML). India
• NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. Singapore
• The Faculty of Business Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong. China
• School of Business Management, Nanyang Polytechnic. Singapore
• The School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Kowloon, China

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

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.

ESADE Faculty Universities

ESADE Law School

The Law School was created in 1992 in order to meet the demands of the professional world: to train lawyers capable of coping with the challenges set by the modern legal profession. The school is headquartered in Barcelona and has offshoots in Madrid, Buenos Aires and Casablanca.

Along with some of the best European universities, the Law School created the European Joint Degree in Business Law and is the only faculty in Spain to offer students the opportunity to obtain this degree, furthermore, it is the only Law School in Spain to have a Professional Council made up of representatives from all legal professions and over 30 internationally renowned Law firms.

Ranking

ESADE Law School enjoys high standing Law firms and scholars in Spain and its programs have been ranked number one in Spain by the Spanish legal media for the past years (2004, 2005 and 2006)

([3]) and ([4]) for rankings.

ESADE undergraduate programs

the ESADE Undergraduate Programmes offers various university programs:

• Combined Undergraduate & Master in Management Programme, which includes the CEMS Masters
• MSc Programmes in Management, initiated during the academic year 2006-2007 and given entirely in English
• PhD in Management Sciences, also given in English.

There are currently 1,350 students enrolled at ESADE. One thousand, two hundred and fifty are undergraduate students, sixty are attending the MSc Programmes in Management, and forty are Doctoral students.

ESADE alumni association

History

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.

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

Governing body

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.

Association figures

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

International chapters

• Austria Chapter contact
• Argentina Chapter contact
• Benelux countries Chapter contact
• Brazil Chapter contact
• Chile Chapter contact
• Colombia Chapter contact
• France Chapter contact
• Germany Chapter contact
• India Chapter contact
• Mexico Chapter contact
• UK Chapter contact
• The US Chapter contact
• Venezuela Chapter contact
• Switzerland Chapter
• Peru Chapter
• China Chapter
• Italy Chapter
• Portugal Chapter

Regional chapters

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

Business clubs

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

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 this respect. However, pontificating about business ethics is one thing, putting them into practice quite another. Detractors point to ESADE's corporate trustees who - among other things - have been accused of: infanticide by UNESCO (Nestlé), ruthless and fraudulent exploitation of prison labour by the Office of the Ohio State Auditor (Aramark); environmental destruction and disregard for the rights of native peoples by the World Bank and the NIZKOR human rights group (ENDESA). In this context, it should be noted that the ESADE Law School's vision of the future is one in which multi-stakeholder dialogues and responsible self-regulation by business will usurp government functions and the welfare state - a nightmarish prospect for many. Espousing such a policy in Spain could be seen as particularly unfortunate given that the country's welfare provision and benefits compare poorly with more advanced EU countries (notwithstanding the fact that Spain's economy has grown spectacularly over the last two decades). Critics argue that the veneer of respectability lent by ESADE's CSR teachings functions in much the same way as papal indulgences - a pardon for sins past and future in return for financial support (in the words of Johann Tetzel: "For every coin that in the coffer rings, a soul to heaven springs") (or, in the Old German original text: Sobald der Gülden im Becken klingt im huy die Seel im Himmel springt ).

External links

• Official ESADE website
• ESADE's Business School website
• ESADE's University Faculties website
• ESADE's Alumni Association website
• HRMS Research at the Institute of Labor Studies(IEL)
• European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS)