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| Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas | |
|---|---|
| Name | Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas |
| Established | 1969 |
| Type | Private |
| Location | Madrid, Spain |
Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas is a private business school located in Madrid, Spain, founded in 1969 and known for executive education, management training, and postgraduate programs. The institution has trained business leaders who have worked at Banco Santander, BBVA, Telefónica, Iberia, and Repsol, and maintains ties with multinational firms including Accenture, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PwC. The school participates in networks with universities such as Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, IE University, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and international schools like INSEAD, London Business School, Harvard Business School, and Wharton School.
Founded in 1969 during a period of institutional change in Spain, the school developed amid economic shifts associated with General Francisco Franco's late regime and the transition to the Spanish transition to democracy. Early collaborations linked the school with corporate actors such as Banco Central Hispano, Cepsa, and Mapfre. During the 1980s and 1990s the school expanded programs influenced by models from Harvard Business School, INSEAD, London School of Economics, HEC Paris, and Columbia Business School. Strategic milestones included curriculum reforms inspired by the Treaty of Maastricht's single market effects, accreditation processes paralleling standards of Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business and ties with the European Foundation for Management Development. Leadership changes overlapped with appointments of academics who had worked at IESE Business School, ESADE, Universidad de Navarra, and guest lecturers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Yale School of Management, and Sloan School of Management.
The Madrid campus includes lecture halls, executive suites, and simulation centers used for case-method teaching popularized by Harvard Business School and Darden School of Business. Facilities host events tied to firms like Telefonica, Inditex, Ferrovial, ACS Group, and Grupo Prisa and accommodate international delegations from European Commission, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank. On-site resources include a library with collections referencing works by Peter Drucker, Michael Porter, Philip Kotler, Joseph Stiglitz, and Amartya Sen, and technology labs compatible with software from SAP SE, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, IBM, and SAS Institute.
The school offers MBA, Executive MBA, Master in Finance, Master in Marketing, and specialized modules in corporate governance, entrepreneurship, and digital transformation, inspired by syllabi from INSEAD, London Business School, Columbia Business School, IESE Business School, and ESADE Business School. Programs incorporate case studies featuring Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Nestlé, Pepsico, Coca-Cola Company, Amazon, Google, Apple Inc., Facebook, Microsoft, Alibaba Group, and Tencent. Electives cover mergers and acquisitions, referenced to transactions like the Acquisition of ABN AMRO, Vodafone AirTouch acquisition, Iberdrola–Gamesa merger, and regulatory topics linked to European Central Bank policy and Banco de España oversight. Executive education collaborates with professional bodies such as Instituto de Contabilidad y Auditoría de Cuentas, Colegio de Economistas de Madrid, Asociación Española de Directivos, and Cámara de Comercio de Madrid.
Faculty research spans corporate finance, strategy, marketing, and organizational behavior, with publications in journals like Harvard Business Review, Journal of Finance, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, and Journal of Marketing. Research centers examine themes linked to European Commission initiatives, Horizon 2020, Erasmus Programme, and collaborative projects with Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Rankings have compared the school to IE Business School, ESADE, IESE Business School, SDA Bocconi School of Management, HEC Paris, and Rotterdam School of Management across metrics used by Financial Times, The Economist, and QS World University Rankings.
Admissions criteria include academic records, professional experience, GMAT or GRE equivalents, and interviews modeled after practices at INSEAD, Harvard Business School, and Stanford Graduate School of Business. The student body comprises domestic students from Comunidad de Madrid, Catalonia, Andalusia, and international cohorts from Portugal, France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, China, India, and Nigeria. Career services report hires at firms such as McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, Accenture Strategy, EY-Parthenon, and governmental placements linked to Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación and Ministerio de Hacienda.
Alumni have held executive roles at Banco Santander, BBVA, Telefónica, Inditex, Repsol, Acciona, Endesa, Iberdrola, MAPFRE, CaixaBank, Abertis, Grupo ACS, Ferrovial, SEAT, Grupo Antolin, and NH Hotel Group. Visiting faculty and lecturers have included scholars and practitioners associated with Peter Drucker, Michael Porter, Clayton Christensen, Henry Mintzberg, Milton Friedman, Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Jean Tirole, Herbert Simon, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Daniel Kahneman, Richard Thaler, Robert Shiller, and Elinor Ostrom.
The school maintains exchange agreements and dual-degree arrangements with institutions such as INSEAD, London Business School, HEC Paris, IE University, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ESADE, IESE Business School, SDA Bocconi, Rotterdam School of Management, HEC Montréal, McGill University, University of Toronto, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Columbia Business School, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Duke University, Northwestern University, and collaborative projects with European Investment Bank, Banco Mundial, UNICEF, and World Economic Forum initiatives.
Category:Business schools in Spain