ESADE
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The Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE) is a college
College
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 associated with the Ramon Llull University
Ramon Llull University
Ramon Llull University is a private university located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain founded in 1990. Currently it is formed by several different colleges specialized in different topics, most of which are located in downtown Barcelona...

 located in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Spain
Spain
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. ESADE is composed of three departments; the ESADE Business School
ESADE Business School
ESADE Business School is a business school founded in 1958 in Barcelona, Spain, which has been ranked several times the world's No. 1 international management school by the Wall Street Journal. It is part of ESADE and the Ramon Llull University...

, the ESADE Executive Language Center and the ESADE Law School. ESADE follows an applied teaching methodology, which is based on the development of professional and management skills and abilities. ESADE has campuses in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, Spain
Spain
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 and São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

.

ESADE Business School is highly renowned in the academic and the professional world, alike. It was ranked the world's foremost international business school by the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

 in 2006 and 2007. The school's MSc program was ranked 10th worldwide by the Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....

 in 2010. The ESADE Business School is one of only 48 business schools worldwide to have been awarded the prestigious triple accreditation
Triple accreditation
Triple Accreditation is the accreditation awarded to 55 business schools worldwide by the three largest and most influential business school accreditation associations:...

 through EQUIS
Equis
Equis may refer to:*European Quality Improvement System an international system of assessment and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business administration run by the European Foundation for Management Development....

, AACSB and AMBA
Association of MBAs
The Association of MBAs is a London-based international organization that accredits postgraduate business programs at business schools worldwide. The Association is one of the three main global accreditation bodies in business education and styles itself "the world's impartial authority on...

.

As of summer 2008, ESADE had over 11,000 students (University Programmes: 3,073, Business School: 5,454, Executive Language Center: 3,190) and had collaboration agreements with over 100 universities
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

 worldwide. Most notably, ESADE has formed a strategic alliance
Strategic alliance
A Strategic Alliance is a relationship between two or more parties to pursue a set of agreed upon goals or to meet a critical business need while remaining independent organizations...

 with the Ramon Llull University
Ramon Llull University
Ramon Llull University is a private university located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain founded in 1990. Currently it is formed by several different colleges specialized in different topics, most of which are located in downtown Barcelona...

 in its undergraduate programmes in Law and Business. In 2005, ESADE Creapolis, the world's first technology park based on open innovation
Open Innovation
Although the idea and discussion about some consequences date back at least to the 60s, open innovation is a term promoted by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, in his book Open Innovation: The new...

, was founded and now houses some 1200 professionals from more than 50 organisations.

History

The ESADE project was conceived in the spring of 1954 by a group of Spanish professionals and entrepreneurs who later founded the university. The school signed an agreement with the Jesuits (Societas Iesu) in October 1958 and started offering its first academic programs in a small building in the district of Sant Gervasi, Barcelona
Sarrià-Sant Gervasi
Sarrià-Sant Gervasi is one of the biggest districts of Barcelona, situated on the north-west of the city, surrounded by districts of Les Corts, Gràcia, Eixample i Horta-Guinardo, and by the villages of Sant Just, Sant Feliu, Molins de Rei and Sant Cugat...

.

Since then, ESADE has steadily grown in size and the range of courses has led to the extension of its installations to create a campus which, if the premises in both Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

 and Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

 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 has also inaugurated the ESADE Creapolis, a new campus situated in Sant Cugat del Vallès
Sant Cugat del Vallès
Sant Cugat del Vallès is a town and municipality north of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. In antiquity known as Castrum Octavianum, it is named after Saint Cucuphas, who is said to have been martyred on the spot now occupied by its medieval monastery.Sant Cugat has seen its population increase in...

.

Important Events

  • 1958: ESADE's foundation
  • 1960: Executive Education
    Executive Education
    Executive Education refers to academic programs at leading graduate-level business schools worldwide for executives, business leaders and functional managers. These programs are non-credit and non-degree granting...

     programmes introduced
  • 1964: MBA programme established
  • 1965: Campus
    Campus
    A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...

     in Barcelona (Av. Pedralbes) opened (Building I)
  • 1965: Executive Language Centre opened
  • 1983: Campus in Barcelona (Av. Pedralbes) extended (Building II)
  • 1992: ESADE opens Building III in Barcelona (Av. d'Esplugues)
  • 1993: ESADE Law school opened
  • 2000: Campus in Madrid
    Madrid
    Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

     (Chamartin
    Chamartín
    Chamartín is an administrative district of Madrid, Spain and consists of the following neighborhoods: El Viso, Prosperidad, Ciudad Jardín, Hispanoamérica, Nueva España, and Pza...

    ) opened
  • 2003: Campus in Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

     opened.
  • 2009: ESADE officially opens new campus in Sant Cugat (Barcelona)

Mission & Values

ESADE's mission
Mission statement
A mission statement is a statement of the purpose of a company or organization. The mission statement should guide the actions of the organization, spell out its overall goal, provide a path, and guide decision-making...

 is to:

"[...] promote teaching and research in the areas of Management and Law, in order to contribute to the scientific, social and personal education of individuals who are characterised by a high level of professional competence and fully aware of their responsibility in the development of a society that promotes the dignity of individuals as part of the humanistic and Christian traditions, and in a context of intercultural dialogue."


Its core values are:
  • Acting with integrity
    Integrity
    Integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions...

     in academic and professional endeavours.
  • Respecting individuals, colleagues and oneself and being sensitive to the specific circumstances of others.
  • Valuing diversity
    Multiculturalism
    Multiculturalism is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g...

     positively and learning from differences between individuals, ideas and situations.
  • Searching, sharing and contributing to the common good
    Common good
    The common good is a term that can refer to several different concepts. In the popular meaning, the common good describes a specific "good" that is shared and beneficial for all members of a given community...

     of the ESADE community.
  • Assuming responsibilities and commitments to create a more just society.

MBA and Graduate Degree Programmes

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Name Duration (Months) Annual Intake Instruction Language Average Age Average Years of Experience Number of nationalities Cost €
Full Time MBA
| 12, 15 or 18
| 180
| English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 & Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...


| 27
| 4,5
| 47
| 52,000
One year MBA
| 10
| 35
| English
| 31
| 7,5
| 16
| 47,500
Part Time MBA
| 20
| 120
| Spanish
| 30
| 6
| n/a
| 49,500
MSc & CEMS MIM
| 18
| 35
| English
| 23 *
| n/a
| 33 *
| 27,790
MSc in International Management
| 10
| 80
| English
| 23 *
| n/a
| 33 *
| 21,790
MSc in Marketing Management
| 10
| 60
| English
| 23 *
| n/a
| 33 *
| 21,790

- * Average
Average
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 of all MSc Programmes.

Rankings

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Full-time MBA rankings          
  2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
Wall Street Journal International Programs   1 1 2 3
Business Week International Programs 6   7   4
Financial Times International Rankings 18 21 24 27 35  

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

  • Ranked as 7th in Europe and 20th Globally, by the Economist - Which MBA. Sept 2010

Executive Education

ESADE Business School offers a range of programmes aimed at executives and experienced professionals. These programs include Exectutive MBAs, Executive Master programmes and open customised programmes.

Global Executive MBA (GEMBA)

The Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) is taught in cooperation with the McDonough School of Business
McDonough School of Business
The McDonough School of Business is one of the four undergraduate and one of the five graduate schools of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C...

 and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service is a school within Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., United States. Jesuit priest Edmund A...

 at the Georgetown University
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

 in Washington D.C.. The course follows a modular structure
Structure
Structure is a fundamental, tangible or intangible notion referring to the recognition, observation, nature, and permanence of patterns and relationships of entities. This notion may itself be an object, such as a built structure, or an attribute, such as the structure of society...

, with modules taught in the USA, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 and Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

. The programme length is 16 months.

Executive Master Programmes

Executive Master degree courses are offered in the fields of finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...

, operations
Business operations
Business operations are those ongoing recurring activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders...

, and sales
Sales
A sale is the act of selling a product or service in return for money or other compensation. It is an act of completion of a commercial activity....

 and marketing
Marketing
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...

.
  • The Executive Master in Operations Management
    Operations management
    Operations management is an area of management concerned with overseeing, designing, and redesigning business operations in the production of goods and/or services. It involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient in terms of using as little resources as needed, and...

     and Service Management
    Service management
    Service management is integrated into supply chain management as the joint between the actual sales and the customer. The aim of high performance service management is to optimize the service-intensive supply chains, which are usually more complex than the typical finished-goods supply chain...

     is aimed at those working in the Operations field. The faculty members combine university training with business practice in both public and private companies, and hold positions of responsibility
    Moral responsibility
    Moral responsibility usually refers to the idea that a person has moral obligations in certain situations. Disobeying moral obligations, then, becomes grounds for justified punishment. Deciding what justifies punishment, if anything, is a principle concern of ethics.People who have moral...

     in the management and consulting fields. Students usually hold academic and professional qualifications, as well as business experience.

  • The Executive Master in Sales and Marketing is designed for working executives. It has a mix of residential modules and distance learning sessions, enabling the students to develop new skills while continuing to work.

PhD in Management Sciences

The ESADE Business School offers a PhD programme consisting of two parts:
  • A Master in Research (MRes) (duration: 1 year)
  • A supervised research period (duration: 3 – 4 years)

The instruction language of the PhD programme is English, and the annual intake was around 10 candidates in 2008.

Career services

The ESADE Career Services is a dedicated department, which provides career
Career
Career is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person's "course or progress through life ". It is usually considered to pertain to remunerative work ....

 advisory
Advice (opinion)
Advice is a form of relating personal or institutional opinions, belief systems, values, recommendations or guidance about certain situations relayed in some context to another person, group or party often offered as a guide to action and/or conduct...

 and guidance services to ESADE students and alumni and manages the worldwide employer network of ESADE. Every year the ESADE Career Services manages 2.500 job offerings from 1.200 prestigious international organisations.

The outstanding work of the ESADE Career Services is consistently recognised by internationally renowned organisations:
  • In 2006 the ESADE Full-time MBA was ranked 1st in The Wall Street Journal
    The Wall Street Journal
    The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....

    ’s Recruiter’s Scorecard.
  • In 2007, the Financial Times
    Financial Times
    The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....

     ranked the ESADE MSc in Management programme 1st in terms of placement success.

International Opportunities

The student body at ESADE is highly international. A typical 18-month MBA class consists of 30% students from Spain, 22% students from other European countries, 30% students from Latin America, 11% students from North America, and the remaining 7% from Asia and other areas.

Exchange Programmes

The Exchange Programme lets students take part of their MBA, MSc or undergraduate degree at one of the international partner institutions.

International Seminars

Subject-specific short-term international programmes are conducted in cooperation with ESADE's partner institutions. Those include entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur, which can be defined as "one who undertakes innovations, finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods". This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response...

 seminars at Babson College
Babson College
Babson College is a private business school located in Wellesley, Massachusetts near Boston.- History :Babson College was founded by Roger Babson on September 3, 1919, as the Babson Institute. It was renamed "Babson College" in 1969...

 and Chinese business seminars at Beijing University.

International accreditation and awards

  • AACSB International: ESADE is the first business school in Spain and the seventh in Europe to receive this recognition from The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business honouring the excellence of ESADE management training programs.
  • EQUIS
    Equis
    Equis may refer to:*European Quality Improvement System an international system of assessment and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business administration run by the European Foundation for Management Development....

    : ESADE is recognised by the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS), and is the first school in Spain - and one of the first in Europe - to be awarded accreditation by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).
  • Association of MBAs
    Association of MBAs
    The Association of MBAs is a London-based international organization that accredits postgraduate business programs at business schools worldwide. The Association is one of the three main global accreditation bodies in business education and styles itself "the world's impartial authority on...

    : ESADE MBA programs have received worldwide recognition from the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
  • Executive MBA Council http://www.emba.org/: member of the Executive MBA Council, an international association whose aim is to foster excellence in Executive MBA programmes.
  • Accredited member of the Responsible Business Partnership and winner of the prestigious Negotium Perfututum prize awarded by the same body.

ESADE Law School

The Law School
Law school
A law school is an institution specializing in legal education.- Law degrees :- Canada :...

 was created in 1992 in order to train legal professionals capable of coping with the challenges posed by globalisation. The law school is situated on the ESADE campus in Barcelona and has offshoots in Madrid, Buenos Aires and Casablanca.

Along with some of the best European universities, the ESADE Law School created the European Joint Degree in Business Law (THEMIS
Themis
Themis is an ancient Greek Titaness. She is described as "of good counsel", and is the embodiment of divine order, law, and custom. Themis means "divine law" rather than human ordinance, literally "that which is put in place", from the verb τίθημι, títhēmi, "to put"...

 Programme) 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 firm
Law firm
A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law. The primary service rendered by a law firm is to advise clients about their legal rights and responsibilities, and to represent clients in civil or criminal cases, business transactions, and other...

s.

The law school has high standing among law firms and scholars in Spain and its programs have been ranked 1st in Spain by the Spanish media in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

ESADE Executive Language Center

The ESADE Executive Language Centre offers a selection of part-time, full-time and custom language programmes in Spanish, English, French and German. The ESADE Executive Language Centre is located on the ESADE Campus in Barcelona and has currently 3,190 students enrolled.

ESADE Alumni association

A community of 42,000 alumni of 105 different nationalities have studied at ESADE as of 2010. They live in 114 different countries, with many of them holding posts of responsibility in an array of companies and organizations. Many alumni work in fields such as investment banking, marketing, operations, finance, and general management. Up to 15 countries around the world are home to over 100 ESADE alumni. The list is headed by Spain and followed by the US, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Chile, Norway, Mexico, Switzerland, Belgium, the UK, Andorra, the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden and Argentina.

ESADE has had an official alumni association since 1989. It's objectives include contributing to the improvement of alumni professional skills, favouring social relationships and cooperation among members, and orienting members' career development. The ESADE alumni association is self-governing and has 15,400 members as of 2010, with 32 international chapters and more than 20 business/industry clubs.
  • See also: :Category:ESADE alumni
  • See also: :Category:ESADE faculty

ESADE Creapolis

ESADE Creapolis is a joint venture
Joint venture
A joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets...

 between ESADE, a consortium of Spanish financial
FINANCIAL
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 institutions, local government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...

 institutions and business associations. The organisation manages a technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

 and innovation
Innovation
Innovation is the creation of better or more effective products, processes, technologies, or ideas that are accepted by markets, governments, and society...

 park on the ESADE campus in Barcelona. Between 2005 and 2008 ESADE Creapolis invested €70 Million in its facilities in Sant Cugat. As of 2009, the park houses more than 50 organisations with more than 1200 professionals.
ESADE Creapolis acts as a knowledge broker
Knowledge broker
A Knowledge broker is an intermediary , that aims to develop relationships and networks with, among, and between producers and users of knowledge by providing linkages, knowledge sources, and in some cases knowledge itself, A Knowledge broker is an intermediary (an organization or a person), that...

, bringing together the ideas of the participating organisations and the ESADE research community. The methodology
Methodology
Methodology is generally a guideline for solving a problem, with specificcomponents such as phases, tasks, methods, techniques and tools . It can be defined also as follows:...

 for knowledge creation and transfer is based on the principles of Open Innovation
Open Innovation
Although the idea and discussion about some consequences date back at least to the 60s, open innovation is a term promoted by Henry Chesbrough, a professor and executive director at the Center for Open Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley, in his book Open Innovation: The new...

.

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