IESE Business School offers learning across two state of the art campuses in Barcelona and Madrid with additional facilities in Munich, New York and Sao Paulo.
IESE prides itself in offering a multi-cultural learning environment with a people-centred approach born out of a strong belief that the aim of global business leaders should be to serve people and society. The multi-cultural learning environment is backed up by the statistic that 80% of students are international students.
According to the Financial Times Top 100 Business Schools 2011 rankings, IESE just sneaks into the top 10 at number 9 and ranks number 3 when you look specifically at Career Progress Rank*. It also boasts a healthy 138% average alumni salary increase from before the MBA to today as a % of the pre-MBA salary.
*Calculated according to changes in the level of seniority and size of company alumni are working in today vs prior to their MBA.
IESE Business School offers the following MBA programs:
- Full-time MBA
- Executive MBA
- Global Executive MBA
The Global Executive MBA program plays to IESE’s strengths offering a comprehensive and challenging curriculum aimed at providing students with the skills required to make impactful decisions from a general managemetn perspective. The MBA program is taught by an experienced faculty enhanced by the assistance of global business leaders from across the 5 continents.
IESE Global Executive MBA program class profile:
- Class size = 30
- Average age = 37
- International students = 80%
The program is offered in two different formats, monthly and bimonthly and includes a blend of on and off-campus learning, giving students’ flexibility in order to balance their professional and personal lives. The Global Executive MBA program also offers the opportunity to study in a number of diverse venues including Barcelona, Madrid, New York, Silicon Valley, Bangalore and Shanghai.
A number of innovative elective modules are available during the last part of the program, which offers students the ability to customize the program to their own preferences and needs. Students choose 3 out of 5 one-week modules available:
- The Silicon Valley Experience: Venture Capital; IT & Innovation
- Innovation Redefined: Social Entrepreneurship; Sustainability
- Trends In The New World: E-Commerce; Marketing Sales
- Advanced Finance: International Finance; Personal Finance; Valuation
- Strategies for Growth: Corporate Strategies; Corporate Governance; Managing Alliances
Most importantly, the IESE Global Executive MBA program is recognised as delivering future global business leaders by some of the largest international corporations in the world. The list of organizations that have sponsored participants in the past is very impressive and includes:
- ABN Amro
- Accenture
- Adidas
- AIRBUS
- American Express
- Apple
- Audi
- Citigroup
- Coca-Cola
- Ducati
- International Federation of Red Cross
- Hewlett-Packard
- Johnson & Johnson
- Mercedes-Benz
- Nike
- Novartis
- The World Bank
- Unilever
- UPS
For further information on IESE Business School and its Global Executive MBA program visit their website by clicking here.
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