IESE seeks to transmit a spirit of service, placing a special emphasis on human, ethical and social aspects of business management ?business school to open headquarters for US market in New York
Forgive me but this column is going to be a bit different ?I am going to brag a bit about a project I believe is helping foment a truly global and ethical approach to business.
IESE Business School of the University of Navarra announced today it will open a center in downtown New York. How big of news is this? Well, let’s put it this way ?The Economist magazine has ranked IESE as the leading MBA program in the world, two years in a row. IESE is also the only business school in the world that enjoys a collaborative agreement with Harvard.
The news that IESE is opening offices in New York is part of the school’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, said Dean Jordi Canals to press Wednesday.
Canals added that throughout the year the school will be launching various programs. In particular, he highlighted the school’s “African Initiative,” which includes plans to launch a fourth associate business school in Africa. Other elements of the African Initiative include providing scholarships for 15 African students, the launching of an Inside South Africa program, and the promotions of a hospital in Lagos and a school in Kenya.
Behind IESE’s decision to open a U.S. center is its desire to increase the promotion of its programs for executives, set up a research center on global business and at the same time promote activities for its alumni and corporate sponsors in the world’s principal economy. The director of the new offices will be Professor Eric Weber, who will continue as Associate Dean of IESE.
“The opening of the offices in the United States is an important step for IESE. A global school has to work with global businesses, and where those businesses are,” said Canals. “If we want to be a global school, then we have to be there in the United States in an important and intensive way.”
While the IESE USA offices will initially be rented, Canals said that the school is looking for a larger place to house classes and offices. “We want in 2009 to have our own property,” Canals said.
“We want to offer U.S. businesses and students the possibility of working with a global school,” Canals said, and added that IESE is also interested in opening offices in the United States because “we want to learn,” referring to the plans to launch a research center for Global Business.
What Is IESE
Still never heard of IESE?
Here are a few more interesting facts: IESE was the first business school in Continental Europe to offer Executive Education programs (1958) and MBAs (1962) and the first school in the world to offer a bi-lingual MBA (1980). IESE has around 100 fulltime professors and 34 part-time, with faculty coming from 26 countries.
Despite having two campuses in Spain (Barcelona and Madrid), IESE is not a Spanish business school ?over 80 percent of its MBA students are non-Spanish, while over 10 percent are Americans. “There is a real possibility of growth,” Dean Jordi Canals said, adding that IESE has around 30,000 alumni from 97 countries.
The internationality of IESE is something that I can personally attest too ?besides working at IESE (1), I am also attending a Management course that has 25 students from 18 countries.
Canals said that IESE’s new offices in New York should be viewed within the framework of the school’s international activities, where its programs are taught on four continents: Europe (Munich and Warsaw) Asia (India, and China, together with CEIBS in Shanghai), Latin America (Brazil) and in Africa (Kenya). IESE also teaches programs in collaboration with other associate business schools in nine other countries in Latin America, Portugal, Nigeria and the Philippines. IESE has helped found 15 associate schools which are spread throughout the world. In addition, Canals said that IESE’s General Management Courses are taught in 10 countries, including the United States, Brazil, India, China, Germany, Poland and Kenya.
If you haven’t noticed yet, one of the things that makes IESE unique is its belief that business and ethics mustn’t be separated, and where a spirit of service is transmitted, placing a special emphasis on human, ethical and social aspects of business management.
Business and ethics, now that’s a novel idea …
(1) Robert Duncan is Director of International Communications at IESE Business School.
amp,Novel,novel idea
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