# ESADE Business School

ESADE Business School is a private graduate-level business school located in Barcelona, Spain. It is part of ESADE (Catalan: Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses, Spanish: Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas) and is associated with Ramon Llull University. ESADE has been awarded the triple accreditation by EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA, and is ranked among the world's top business schools and law school programs by the Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes, QS World University Rankings and more.

## History

The ESADE project was conceived in the spring of 1954 by a group of Spanish professionals and entrepreneurs during the period of isolation or autarchy initiated by the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Linked from the beginning to the Society of Jesus, they saw the need to professionalize the training of businessmen.
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. In 1958, ESADE was ultimately founded. Two years later, in 1960, executive education programmes were introduced as the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. In 1964 the college's MBA programme was established. A year later, in 1965, ESADE's Barcelona campus (Av. Pedralbes) opened (Building I). In 2001, the school inaugurated its campus in Madrid (Chamartín), and two years later its campus in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Both are primarily used for Executive Education. In 2009 ESADE opened a new campus in Sant Cugat (Barcelona) as well as ESADE Creapolis, a technology park based on open innovation and situated on the new Sant Cugat campus. In 2014, it ranked fourth in the international business school ranking compiled by the Financial Times.

## Programmes

ESADE Business School offers a range of undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as a doctoral program.

### MSc Programmes in Management

* Master in International Management
* Master in Global Strategic Management
* Master in Finance
* Master in Marketing Management,
* Master in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
* Master in Business Analytics

### Full-Time MBA

The ESADE Business School offers an accelerated, customizable full-time MBA programme. Students can choose among a 12, 15 and 18-month track. The 12-month program is completed with classes from September to September, while the 15- and 18-month programs allow for either summer internships, exchanges with other MBA programmes worldwide, or both. In the first eight months students are divided into three sections, with whom they complete a significant portion of their studies in a team format. In the remaining terms, classes are completed on an elective basis. The student body is highly international, with 95% international students who represent 48 nationalities.

### Executive Education

ESADE Business School offers a range of programmes aimed at executives and experienced professionals. These programs include Executive MBAs, Executive Master Programmes, Open Programmes, and Custom Programmes. The Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) is taught in cooperation with the McDonough School of Business and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. The course follows a modular structure, with modules taught in the United States, Spain, Brazil, Argentina, India, and Russia. ESADE also offers an International Executive Master in Marketing & Sales (emms) in partnership with SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan (Italy).

### PhD in Management Sciences

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

## International Rankings

| | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| QS - World University Ranking for Master's in Management | - | 3rd | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 6th | 6th |
| QS - World University Ranking for Master's in Finance | - | 6th | 7th | 10th | 11th | 14th | 15th |
| QS - World University Ranking for Master's in Business Analytics | - | - | 5th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 12th |
| QS - World University Ranking for Master's in Marketing | - | - | 4th | 7th | 4th | 6th | 6th |
| Financial Times - World University Ranking for Master's in Management | 8th | 11th | 11th | 14th | 16th | 16th | 8th |
| Financial Times - Master's in Finance | 13th | 14th | N.A. | 18th | 15th | 18th | N.A. |

## Notable alumni

* Albert Rivera (born 1979), Spanish politician
* Enrique Lores (born 1964/65), CEO of HP Inc.
* Ramon Laguarta (born 1964), CEO of PepsiCo
* Josep Maria Bartomeu (born 1963), Former President of FC Barcelona
* Ferran Soriano (born 1967), CEO of Manchester City F.C.
* Gabriel Escarrer Jaume (born 1971), Billionaire founder and CEO of Meliá Hotels International
* Joan Rigol (born 1943), Former President of the Parliament of Catalonia
* Iñaki Urdangarin (born 1968), Retired Spanish handball player
* Albert Ollé Bartolomé (born 1964), Pioneer of the Call and Contact Center industry in Spain
* Assumpta Escarp i Gibert (born 1957), Member of the Parliament of Catalonia for the Province of Barcelona
* Javier Faus (born 1964), Chairman and CEO of Meridian Capital Partners
* Javier Ferrán (born 1956), Chairman of Diageo
* Eva Granados (born 1975), Deputy of the Parliament of Catalonia for the Socialists' Party of Catalonia
* Sabina Fluxà (born 1980), Vice-Chairman and CEO of Iberostar Hotels & Resorts
* Patricia Gras (born 1960), American journalist, television anchor, reporter and producer
* Jordi Hereu (born 1965), 117th Mayor of Barcelona
* Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi (born 1968), Italian economist
* Irene Rigau (born 1951), Former Counselor of Education of Catalonia
* Sandro Rosell (born 1964), Former President of FC Barcelona
* Josep Maria Vallès (born 1940), Spanish academic and politician
* Risto Mejide (born 1974), Publicist, author, music producer, songwriter, talent show judge and TV presenter
* Ernesto Lucena, Minister of Sports of Colombia
* Xavier Espot Zamora (born 1979), Current Prime Minister of Andorra
* Jaume Guardiola Romojaro (born 1957), CEO of Banco Sabadell
* Joaquin Duato (born 1962), CEO of Johnson & Johnson