IESE Business School

IESE Business School

Seal of IESE Business School
Type	Private business school
Established	1958
Dean	Franz Heukamp
Academic staff	166
Administrative staff	105 full-time professors, 53 part-time professors, 8 visiting professors, 62 researchers, and 380 non academic staff.
Students	MBA 560, Executive MBA 520, Global Executive MBA 60, MRM and PhD 41, Executive Education 900.
Location	Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, New York City and Sao Paulo 41°23′36″N 2°6′28″E / 41.39333°N 2.10778°E / 41.39333; 2.10778Coordinates: 41°23′36″N 2°6′28″E / 41.39333°N 2.10778°E / 41.39333; 2.10778
Campus	Urban
Affiliations	University of Navarra
Website	www.iese.edu

IESE Business School is the graduate business school of the University of Navarra. IESE offers Master of Business Administration (MBA), Executive MBA and Executive Education programs that have often ranked among the top 10 in the world. IESE has campuses in Barcelona, Madrid, and New York City and teaching facilities in Munich and Sao Paulo. IESE is an initiative of Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Catholic Church.

IESE came into prominence in 1964 by launching the first two-year MBA program in Europe under the guidance of the Harvard Business School. The Harvard-IESE Joint Advisory Committee was established in 1963 and continues to meet annually concerning matters of mutual interest. In 2007, IESE began offering academic programs in the United States with the opening of the Institute for Media and Entertainment (IME) in New York City. With the opening of its New York Center building in midtown Manhattan in April 2010, IESE became the first European business school to establish permanent operations in the U.S.

IESE is consistently ranked among the leading business schools in the world. In 2015 and 2016 Its Executive Education Programs have been ranked first globally by Financial Times. And IESE MBA Program was ranked 3rd in Europe in The Economist MBA Ranking 2015, and 1st in Europe and 5th globally in The Economist MBA Rankings 2013 and 2014.

In 2012, The Economist ranked IESE's MBA program as the top two-year MBA in Europe and ninth in the world. In 2009, the same program was ranked as the top two-year MBA program in the world. IESE had also previously ranked as the number one business school in the world based on the study of the Economist Intelligence Unit of 2005 and 2006. The criteria on which The Economist bases its ranking are (a) opening of new career opportunities (35%), (b) personal development/educational experience (35%), (c) increase in salary (20%), and (d) potential to network (10%).