ESADE Business School is a business school founded in 1958 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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, which has been ranked several times the world's No. 1 international management school by the Wall Street Journal. It is part of ESADE

ESADE

The Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas is a college associated with the Ramon Llull University located in Barcelona, Spain. ESADE is composed of three departments; the ESADE Business School, the ESADE Executive Language Center and the ESADE Law School...

 and 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...

. Besides the Barcelona campus, the school has centers 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...

, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, and Casablanca

Casablanca

Casablanca is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Grand Casablanca region.Casablanca is Morocco's largest city as well as its chief port. It is also the biggest city in the Maghreb. The 2004 census recorded a population of 2,949,805 in the prefecture...

.

ESADE

ESADE

The Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas is a college associated with the Ramon Llull University located in Barcelona, Spain. ESADE is composed of three departments; the ESADE Business School, the ESADE Executive Language Center and the ESADE Law School...

 has signed collaboration agreements with over 100 universities worldwide. It is one of only 35 business schools world wide which have been awarded the triple crown

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 an accreditation through the 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...

 agencies.

18-month or Full-time MBA

For professionals with minimum of two years' work experience who are looking for management training with an 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

Executive MBA

This MBA is taught 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

Ranking

	2009	2008	2007	2006	2005	2004	2003	2002		Exec. MBA (2007)	Part-time MBA
BusinessWeek International programs		6	7	7		4
QS Global 200 Business Schools Report QS Global 200 Business Schools Report The QS Global 200 Business Schools Report identifies the most popular business schools in each region of the world. It aims to serve employers seeking MBAs at a regional level. It originated in the early 1990s under the partnership Quacquarelli Symonds. The TopMBA Career Guide was made in 1990, and...  (Europe)	6
Economist				35	34
Financial Times international rankings	18	21	24	27	35	71
Wall Street Journal: International MBA Ranking			1	1	2	3
Financial Times Ranking of the Rankings				10

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

Custom programs

ESADE's Executive Education conducts customized programs that are tailored to the company's needs. ESADE has 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.

Executive masters

Professional masters cover the field of finance, operation, and sales and marketing

Master in Financial Management:

ESADE's Master in Financial Management covers finance techniques and concepts.

Master in Operations Management and Services Management:

This Master's programme provides a forum for academics and professionals working in the operations field.

Executive Master in Sales and Marketing:

The EMMS programme is designed for working executives. It has a 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.

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 worldwide for custom designed courses (Ranking: BusinessWeek
  BusinessWeek
  Bloomberg Businessweek, commonly and formerly known as BusinessWeek, is a weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. It is currently headquartered in New York City.- History :...
  
  , October 2005)
• 11th best European business school and 30th worldwide for open and custom-designed courses (Ranking: The Financial Times, May 2006)

Key figures

• more than 70% students are foreign students
• 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

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...

.

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 partnering programmes at:

• Babson College at Wellesley, Massachusetts. Focus on entrepreneurship 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. Candidates begin the course in Barcelona by focusing on the foundations of business strategy and management and on improving their Spanish and/or English. 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
  HEC School of Management
  HEC Paris or École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris is one of the foremost business schools in France and in Europe. It was created in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the model of French Grandes Ecoles and has progressively become one of the most selective graduate...
  
  , Paris

North American Partners

• Thunderbird School of Global Management
  Thunderbird School of Global Management
  Thunderbird School of Global Management is a private business school whose main campus is located in Glendale, Arizona. Founded in 1946 by retired U.S...
  
  , Glendale. Arizona
• Goizueta Business School
  Goizueta Business School
  Goizueta Business School is a private business school of Emory University located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is named after Roberto Goizueta, a former president of The Coca-Cola Company.-Academics:...
  
  , Emory University, Atlanta. Georgia
• McCombs School of Business
  McCombs School of Business
  The McCombs School of Business, also referred to as the McCombs School or simply McCombs, is a business school at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the main Austin campus, McCombs offers classes outside Central Texas in Dallas, Houston and internationally in Mexico City...
  
  , University of Texas at Austin. Texas
• Weatherhead School of Management
  Weatherhead School of Management
  The Weatherhead School of Management is a private business school of Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, Ohio. Weatherhead is considered a top-tier business school, with its strongest programs concentrated in organizational behavior, nonprofit business, information systems,...
  
  , Case Western University, Cleveland. Ohio
• Queen's School of Business
  Queen's School of Business
  The Queen's School of Business is located in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Since 2006, the Queen's School of Business MBA program has been ranked by Business Week number one internationally, outside the United States. The school of business became its own faculty in 1963 with its...
  
  , Kingston, Ontario. Canada

Latin American Partners

• ESAN, Lima, Peru
• EGADE-ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico
• INCAE
  INCAE
  INCAE Business School is a business school located in Latin America. It has 2 locations, the Francisco de Sola campus in Nicaragua and the Walter Kissling Gam campus in Costa Rica...
  
  , 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. Students study at one of the 58 business schools worldwide that make up ESADE's exchange network.

Europe

• École de management de Lyon
  École de Management de Lyon
  EMLYON Business School is a French business school. It was founded in Lyon in 1872 by the local business community, and is affiliated to the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry. It has triple accreditation: EQUIS by the EFMD, AMBA, and the AACSB.-Campuses:EMLYON has three campuses...
  
  , Groupe ESC. France
• Cranfield School of Management
  Cranfield School of Management
  Cranfield School of Management is part of Cranfield University and a leading business school in the world. Cranfield University has provided management training since the late 1940s...
  
  , Cranfield University. United Kingdom
• Erasmus Graduate School of Business, Rotterdam School of Management
  Rotterdam School of Management
  Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University is the international business school of the Erasmus University Rotterdam located in Rotterdam, Netherlands...
  
  . Holland
• Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. Finland
• Institut Supérieur des Affaires (ISA), HEC School of Management
  HEC School of Management
  HEC Paris or École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris is one of the foremost business schools in France and in Europe. It was created in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry on the model of French Grandes Ecoles and has progressively become one of the most selective graduate...
  
  . Paris, France
• Manchester Business School
  Manchester Business School
  Manchester Business School is the largest department of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. According to Bloomberg Business Week's ranking of the world's best business schools the MBS MBA is ranked third in the world...
  
  , The University of Manchester. United Kingdom
• Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Bergen, Norway
• SDA Bocconi
  SDA Bocconi
  SDA Bocconi School of Management is the graduate business school of the Bocconi University at Milan, Italy. It was founded in 1971 as a school of business education featuring strong international ties...
  
  , Università Commerciale Luigi. Bocconi, Italy
• Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology
  Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology
  The Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology is an international Business School and Further Education Institute offering both full-time and part-time programs leading to the academic degree "Master of Business Administration " of the Universität Stuttgart...
  
   (SIMT). Germany
• The University of Edinburgh Management School, University of Edinburgh. United Kingdom
• Warwick Business School
  Warwick Business School
  Warwick Business School, also known as WBS, was established in 1967 as the School of Industrial and Business Studies.It offers undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD degree programmes,as well as non-degree executive education for individuals and companies....
  
  , University of Warwick. Coventry, United Kingdom

United States

• Carlson School of Management
  Carlson School of Management
  The school offers a bachelor's, MBA, and doctoral degrees, as well as executive education programs hosted domestically and abroad . Dual-degree programs include a JD/MBA, MD/MBA, MHA/MBA, and a MPP/MBA...
  
  , University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Minnesota
• UIUC College of Business
  UIUC College of Business
  The College of Business is the business school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It offers programs in accountancy, business administration, and finance....
  
  , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
  
  , Illinois
• Cox School of Business
  Cox School of Business
  The Cox School of Business is a business school at Southern Methodist University offering a full range of business education programs.Degrees include , full-time Master of Business Administration , , , Master of Science in Management , Master of Science in Accounting , and a Master of Science in...
  
  , Southern Methodist University. Dallas, Texas
• University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB), University of Chicago
  University of Chicago
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
  
  . Illinois
• John M. Olin School of Business
  John M. Olin School of Business
  -MBA Program:Admission at Olin is highly competitive. For the class of 2010, there were over 1,200 applications received for 145 seats. Olin has four main rounds and after June they have rolling admissions....
  
  , Washington University in St. Louis. Missouri
• Kelley School of Business
  Kelley School of Business
  The Kelley School of Business is a top-ranked American business school operated by Indiana University. As of 2009, approximately 5,500 full-time students are enrolled on its Bloomington campus, as well as 1,750 students at the Indianapolis campus...
  
  , Indiana University. Bloomington, Indiana
• Kenan-Flagler Business School
  Kenan-Flagler Business School
  The Kenan-Flagler Business School is the undergraduate and graduate business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The school offers a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Master of Business Administration , MBA for Executives, Master of Accounting, Ph.D., a business...
  
  , University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill. North Carolina
• Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. New York
• Marshall School of Business
  Marshall School of Business
  The USC Marshall School of Business is a private research and academic institution at the University of Southern California. It is the largest of USC's 17 professional schools. The current Dean is James G. Ellis. In 1997 the school was renamed following a US$35 million donation from alumnus Gordon S...
  
  , University of Southern California. Los Angeles, California
• McCombs School of Business
  McCombs School of Business
  The McCombs School of Business, also referred to as the McCombs School or simply McCombs, is a business school at The University of Texas at Austin. In addition to the main Austin campus, McCombs offers classes outside Central Texas in Dallas, Houston and internationally in Mexico City...
  
  , The University of Texas at Austin. Texas
• Owen Graduate School of Management
  Owen Graduate School of Management
  The Owen Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1969, Owen awards six degrees: a standard 2-year Master of Business Administration , an Executive MBA, a master's of finance, a master's of accountancy, a HealthCare...
  
  , Vanderbilt University. Nashville, Tennessee
• Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. New York
• Robert H. Smith School of Business
  Robert H. Smith School of Business
  The Robert H. Smith School of Business is a school of business management within the University of Maryland, College Park. The school was named after alumnus Robert H. Smith...
  
  , University of Maryland. Maryland
• Goizueta Business School
  Goizueta Business School
  Goizueta Business School is a private business school of Emory University located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It is named after Roberto Goizueta, a former president of The Coca-Cola Company.-Academics:...
  
  , Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia
• Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
  Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
  The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. It was founded in 1946 and renamed in 1984 after Samuel Curtis Johnson, founder of S.C...
  
  , Cornell University. Ithaca, New York
• UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of California. Los Angeles (UCLA)
• The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
  Duke University
  Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
  
  . Durham, North Carolina
• 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...
  
   (MSB), 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...
  
  . Washington DC
• University of Michigan Business School, University of Michigan. Michigan
• Warrington College of Business
  Warrington College of Business
  The Warrington College of Business Administration is the business school at the University of Florida. About 6300 students are enrolled in classes, including undergraduates and graduate students, including Master of Business Administration and Ph.D.-seeking students.Undergraduate programs include...
  
  , University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida
• Weatherhead School of Management
  Weatherhead School of Management
  The Weatherhead School of Management is a private business school of Case Western Reserve University located in Cleveland, Ohio. Weatherhead is considered a top-tier business school, with its strongest programs concentrated in organizational behavior, nonprofit business, information systems,...
  
  , Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, Ohio

Canada

• Queen's School of Business
  Queen's School of Business
  The Queen's School of Business is located in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Since 2006, the Queen's School of Business MBA program has been ranked by Business Week number one internationally, outside the United States. The school of business became its own faculty in 1963 with its...
  
  , Queen's University
  Queen's University
  Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England...
  
   Kingston, Ontario
• HEC Montréal
  HEC Montréal
  HEC Montréal , is the independent affiliated business school of the Université de Montréal, and the oldest management School in Canada. It holds accreditations from AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA, one of three schools in North America to hold triple accreditation in management education...
  
   (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
  Schulich School of Business
  The Schulich School of Business is York University's business school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is an internationally-ranked business school. Schulich offers undergraduate and graduate programs in business administration, finance, public administration and international business as...
  
  , York University
  York University
  York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....
  
  . Ontario
• Desautels Faculty of Management
  Desautels Faculty of Management
  The Desautels Faculty of Management is one of the constituent faculties of McGill University. The Faculty has been host to the McGill Management International Case Competition since 2001...
  
  , McGill University
  McGill University
  Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the 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
  Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración
  The Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración is a private non-profit Venezuelan business school with campuses in Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia. It was founded in 1965...
  
   (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

• Lee Kong Chian School of Business
  Lee Kong Chian School of Business
  The Lee Kong Chian School of Business is Singapore Management University's business school. Started in 2000, the school was the first to be established under the Singapore Management University's charter. It is a research-driven school, with a blend of education that focuses on academic research...
  
  , Singapore Management University. Singapore
• Asian Institute of Management
  Asian Institute of Management
  The Asian Institute of Management, or simply AIM, is a graduate school of business and a center of business and management research. It is one of the few business schools in Asia to be internationally accredited with the AACSB. It was established in partnership with Harvard Business School and uses...
  
   (AIM). Manila, Philippines
• China Europe International Business School
  China Europe International Business School
  China Europe International Business School is one of the three international business schools affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University located in Shanghai, China. The school was established in 1994 in Beijing as a joint venture between the European Commission, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign...
  
   (CEIBS). Shanghai, China
• Graduate School of International Management, International University of Japan
  International University of Japan
  The is a private university located in Minami-Uonuma city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan.IUJ is the first, and one of the few Japanese universities which run their courses entirely in English. It was founded in 1982, primarily with the aim of providing a platform for delegates from all over the...
  
  . Niigata, Japan
• Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
  Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
  The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad , better known as IIM Ahmedabad or simply IIM-A, is a business school located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. It is the second Indian Institute of Management to be established, in 1961.-History:...
  
   (IIMA). India
• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
  Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
  The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is a business school located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It was established in 1973 by the Government of India, and is the third Indian Institute of Management to be established .It offers several Post Graduate and Doctoral programmes, as well as...
  
   (IIMB). India
• Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
  Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
  The Indian Institute of Management Lucknow is a business school located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was established in 1984 by the Government of India, and is the fourth Indian Institute of Management to be established.-History:...
  
   (IIML). India
• NUS Business School
  NUS Business School
  Established in 1965, National University of Singapore Business School is known for providing management thought leadership from an Asian perspective, enabling its students and corporate partners to leverage global knowledge and Asian insights. This combination of global expertise and Asian acumen...
  
  , National University of Singapore. Singapore
• The Faculty of Business Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Chinese University of Hong Kong
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong is a research-led university in Hong Kong.CUHK is the only tertiary education institution in Hong Kong with Nobel Prize winners on its faculty, including Chen Ning Yang, James Mirrlees, Robert Alexander Mundell and Charles K. Kao...
  
  . China
• School of Business Management, Nanyang Polytechnic
  School of Business Management, Nanyang Polytechnic
  The Nanyang Polytechnic School of Business Management ' in Singapore simulate a modern "Teaching Enterprise" environment that is both web-centric and in tune with the latest developments in the real business world....
  
  . 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 recognition from The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business honoring ESADE's 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 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
  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 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.

Career services

One of the most important decisions candidates will have to make during the MBA programme is choosing a future career.
Support to candidates falls under three main heads: employer relations, advice and gGuidance and the Career Resource Center (CRC).

Employer relations

The Career Services Employer Relations team is in contact with the international business community. In 2005, Career Services managed over 4,000 internship and job advertisements from 1,500 organizations around the world. ESADE publicises vacancies via on-campus Talent Recruitment Events and the student employment portal.

Advice and guidance

The Advice and Guidance team helps candidates develop and meet their professional objectives and has developed the Career Management Programme for that purpose.

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
• a 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 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.

Founders of the ESADE business school

• Ignasi Vidal Gironella
• Joan Vidal Gironella
• Antonio Jover Lamaña
• Leandro Jover Lamaña
• Ramon Mas-Bagà Cros
• Esteve Negra Valls
• Fernando del Pozo i de Querol
• Albert Folch Rusiñol
• Fernando Maristany Pomar
• Francesc Torras Ferrer
• Antoni Pérez Portabella
• Francesc J. Pérez Portabella
• Josep I. de Anzizu Borrell

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.

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
• close collaboration with ESADE, and endowing its degrees and diplomas with prestige

Association figures

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

ESADE and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

The Aspen Institute

Aspen Institute

The Aspen Institute is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1950 as the Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies. The organization is dedicated to "fostering enlightened leadership, the appreciation of timeless ideas and values, and open-minded dialogue on contemporary issues." The...

has 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". 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

External links

• 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)