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IE Business School
Established: 1973
Type: Private, non-profit[citation needed]
President: Diego del Alcázar
Dean: Santiago Iñiguez
Students: 1,800
Location: Madrid, Spain
Campus: Urban
Website: http://www.ie.edu/business
Main campus building

IE Business School is an independent, non-profit business school founded in 1973 by Diego del Alcázar. The School runs master's degree programs, executive master's degrees, executive education programs, and Ph.D. and DBA programs. Approximately 1,800 students from 80 countries undertake degree programs at IE each year. There are approximately 5,600 annual participants in the school's executive education programs.

In 2008, 48.5% of the professors were of non-Spanish origin, and there were 81 nationalities on campus.

Top recruiters include: Accenture, Adecco, Amadeus, Banco Santander, Banesto, BBVA, Daimler Chrysler, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Ernst & Young, Ford, Google, Heineken, Indra Sistemas, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, L'Oreal, Landwell, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, Pfizer, Siemens and Telefónica.

The School has offices in 18 countries and approximately 37,000 alumni residing in 102 countries.

The IE Business School campus is in the center of Madrid.

In January 2009 IE was ranked No. 6 in the world by Financial Times newspaper.

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[edit] Partner schools and institutions

IE Business School has MBA student exchange programs with 53 international universities. The School is one of the founding members of SUMAQ, a network comprising business schools in Spain and Latin America. IE has an agreement with Northwestern University School of Law, with whom it runs a Master of Laws, and the Fletcher School at Tufts University, with whom it runs a dual degree in the fields of business management and international relations. The school also has an agreement with University of Chicago Graduate School of Business to run the Global Senior Management Program (GSMP).

The School has an agreement with Babson College to run joint executive education programs in the field of entrepreneurship, and partners with the Wharton School in the Global Consultancy Program.

IE Business School has a dual degree option in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

IE is currently developing a wide range of research and teaching opportunities with Brown University, linking the expertise of the two institutions in a number of innovative exchanges and programs. This will be supported through exchanges of faculty and students from various programs and at different levels of each school.

[edit] Entrepreneurship

IE runs the ICEVED-International Center for Entrepreneurship and Ventures Development (http://www.iceved.com), a portal for member schools, investors and entrepreneurs.

IE is the Spanish arm of the GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) Report, which studies the relationship between levels of innovation, the creation of new businesses and economic growth worldwide.

The School's Venture-Lab (V-lab) is a support framework for students' business projects.

Business plan development is a core component of all master degree programs.

25% of IE MBA graduates set up their own companies.

[edit] Programs

[edit] MBA programs

[edit] International MBA

IE's full-time MBA runs for 13 months, from either November or April to December or May, respectively, of the following year. The IMBA 2008 intake comprised 91.5% international students and 57 nationalities.

The program is divided into five modules and a pre-program covering quantitative methods and financial accounting.

The International MBA Program has a Spanish version and an English version with electives in English or Spanish.

[edit] Global MBA

The Global MBA at IE is an online program that runs for 18 months. Participants also attend blended sessions or community integration events in Shanghai, New York, London or Madrid, among other cities. The English version of the program (September 2008 intake) has 35 students comprising 21 nationalities.

[edit] International Executive MBA

The IE International Executive MBA program is a thirteen-month program run in English. It is based on a blended format combining in-person sessions in Madrid and Shanghai with periods of online learning and team collaboration. The average age of program participants is 36 and average number of countries of origin is 26.

[edit] Master in Management Programs

IE Master in Management Programs comprise:International Management, Marketing Management, Telecom & Digital Business and Biotechnology Management. In 2007, the aggregate class profile of these programs comprised 38 nationalities, with an average age of 23 years and an average of 2 years' of professional experience. 49% of the students were women. The different Master in Management Programs include periods abroad in Shanghai, London and Silicon Valley. IE Master in Management Programs partners are Accenture (global), Grupo Telecinco (marketing), Cisco, Nokia, and Telefónica (telecom & digital).

[edit] Executive education programs

Approximately 5,600 participants attend open and in-company programs at IE Business School each year.

The English edition of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) was created in 2003, and the Global Senior Management Program (GSMP) in 2004. The GSMP is a joint venture with the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

[edit] Accreditations

IE is accredited by the three leading accreditation entities for business education: AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA.[1][2] [3]

[edit] Prominent Faculty

  • Alberto Andreu Pinillos, Expert on Corporate Social Responsibility.
  • Enrique Dans, Information Systems professor and author of leading Spanish-language technology blog[1]
  • Eric Reiss, President of the Information Architecture Institute and author of Practical Information Architecture.
  • Martín Varsavsky, Argentine Entrepreneur, author and professor.
  • Prof. Salvador Carmona, Editor, European Accounting Review (EAR).
  • Prof. David Bach 'One to watch' in the Thinkers 50 Ranking.
  • Manuel Becerra, - Editorial Board member for Academy of Management Review since 2008, Associate Editor, Journal of Management, 2005-08. Editorial Board member since 2008, Editor, Revista de Empresa, 2002-2004. Editorial Board member since 2004, Editorial Board member for Management Research since 2002, Editorial Board member for Journal of International Business Studies, 2000-02, Scientific Committee Member, Ibero-American Academy of Management, 1999-2003.

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] Rankings

[edit] Program Rankings

  • Financial Times, January 2009, MBA Ranking, 6th worldwide, 3rd in Europe, 1st in Spain[2]
  • Financial Times, May 2008, Top Executive Education Open Programmes 2008, 6th in Europe, 16th worldwide[3]
  • Financial Times, October 2008, Executive MBA Ranking, 5th worldwide, 3rd in Europe[4]
  • Financial Times, November 2008, European Business Schools Ranking, 4th in Europe, 1st in Spain
  • BusinessWeek, November 2008, Non-U.S. MBA Programs, 2nd worldwide
  • Forbes, August 2007, Top Non-U.S. One-Year Business Schools, 4th worldwide[5]
  • The Economist, September 2007, MBA Ranking, 9th worldwide, 4th in Europe[7]
  • The Economist, December 2006, Executive Education Ranking, 5th worldwide
  • The Economist, October 2006, MBA Ranking, 16th worldwide, 5th in Europe
  • Wall Street Journal, September 2006, MBA Ranking, 12th worldwide, 4th in Europe
  • América Economía, August 2007, MBA Ranking, 12th worldwide
  • América Economía, October 2006, Executive Education Ranking, 7th worldwide, 3rd in Europe
  • BusinessWeek, November 2007, Executive MBA, 15th worldwide, 1st in Europe
  • Quacquarelli Symonds, 2006, QS Top MBA, Global Recruiters' Top 100 Business Schools, 3rd in Europe

[edit] Rankings by Specialization

  • Financial Times, January 2008, Top Ten Schools in Selected Categories:[11]
    • Organizational Behavior, 1st worldwide
    • Corporate Social Responsibility, 2nd worldwide, 1st in Europe
    • Entrepreneurship, 5th worldwide, 1st in Europe
    • International Business, 6th worldwide, 2nd in Europe
    • Economics, 7th worldwide, 1st in Europe
    • Information Technology, 8th worldwide, 1st in Europe
    • Marketing, 9th worldwide, 2nd in Europe
    • Corporate Strategy, 9th worldwide, 3rd in Europe
  • Quacquarelli Symonds, 2007, QS Top MBA, Top Business Schools by Specialization:[12]
    • Entrepreneurship, 1st worldwide
    • Operations Management, 4th worldwide, 1st in Europe
    • International Management, 5th worldwide, 2nd in Europe
    • Information Management, 7th worldwide, 2nd in Europe
    • Corporate Governance, 8th worldwide, 1st in Europe
    • E-Business, 8th worldwide, 3rd in Europe
    • Leadership, 8th worldwide, 2nd in Europe
    • Marketing, 9th worldwide, 2nd in Europe
    • Strategy, 9th worldwide, 3rd in Europe
    • Finance, 12th worldwide, 3rd in Europe

[edit] Other Rankings

  • Financial Times, October 2007, Executive MBA Ranking, 1st in Salary increase, 2nd in Aims achieved, and 3rd in Career progress.
  • Financial Times, January 2008, MBA Ranking, 2nd in Salary increase, 2nd in Career progress.
  • Economist, 2007, 4th in Open new career opportunities, 6th in Student diversity.
  • Economist, January 2008, Top ten distance learning programmes, 2007, 2nd worldwide, 1st in Programme content category.
  • Aspen Institute, October 2007, 5th worldwide in Coursework ("schools that best integrate social, environmental and ethical issues into the classroom experience")[13]

[edit] Campus

IE Business School is situated in Madrid's financial district. The IE campus currently occupies a total surface area of some 23,700m2 (including garage space). This includes 43 lecture halls with an average capacity of 50 students each, 5 computer rooms, 73 breakout rooms (with an average capacity of 10 students per room), a main auditorium ("Aula Magna"), and the IE library. The lecture halls and breakout rooms are not all centralized in one building. They are mostly spread across different parts of Calle Maria de Molina (between metro stations Gregorio Marañón and Avenida de America). The main building lies at the junction of Calle Serrano and Calle Maria de Molina.

[edit] IE Media Campus

The Media Campus is IE Higher Education's tube site, where media items are uploaded for viewing by members of the IE community.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "AACSB, Schools Accredited in Business"
  2. ^ "EQUIS, Accredited Members"
  3. ^ "Association of MBAs (AMBA), Accredited MBA Programmes"

[edit] External links

[edit] Institutional Websites

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