Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa
IPADE (PanAmerican Institute for High Business Management) is the business school of Universidad Panamericana, or Pan-American University, a private university in Mexico. The institute, from which the university came out later, was founded in 1967 by a notable group of Mexican businessmen. More than 22,000 graduates, many of them CEOs of Mexican and international companies, have passed through the institute. IPADE has a Christian orientation, entrusted to the Opus Dei prelature. Besides its campus in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey and Aguascalientes IPADE organizes alternate and itinerant MBA courses throughout the republic. The  building where IPADE holds its Mexico City campus is the 17th century Hacienda de San Antonio Clavería. Rankings. IPADE is ranked by many leading business publications as one of the best MBAs in the world. History of the Hacienda of San Antonio Clavería. The Hacienda of San Antonio Clavería was formed in the last third of the 17th century. Its first proprietor to be known was Domingo Bustamante, a Spaniard. This hacienda was in the limits of the borough of Azcapotzalco (in those days the pueblo Azcapotzalco) and even the Tacuba area. When Bustamante died, the Hacienda was bought by  a man surnamed Otero for a large sum of money. The hacienda barely managed to stand the fierce wars in Mexico in the 19th century. By the 20th, it was converted into a wheat barn, which didn't help the building's architecture. It was restored in 1951. The institute arrived in 1967.