Esade (Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses) is an international private educational institution based in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

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. Esade runs two schools of the university,

Esade Business School ESADE Business School is a private Postgraduate education, graduate-level business school located in Barcelona, Spain. It is part of ESADE (Catalan language, Catalan: ''Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses'', Spanish: ''Escuela ...

and

Esade Law School Esade Law School is the law school of Ramon Llull University. It is run by ESADE. It was created in 1992 in order to train legal professionals capable of coping with the challenges posed by globalisation. The law school is situated on the Esade ca ...

, as well as a language centre, the Esade Executive Language Center. The school has also formed a

strategic alliance A strategic alliance is an agreement between two or more Legal party, parties to pursue a set of agreed upon objectives needed while remaining independent organizations. The alliance is a cooperation or collaboration which aims for a synergy wh ...

with

Ramon Llull University University Ramon Llull (, URL; ) is a private university located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain established in 1990. Currently it is made up of several different colleges specializing in different subjects; most of which are located in downtown Ba ...

in its

undergraduate Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education, usually in a college or university. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, ...

programmes in Law and Business.

History

The Esade project was conceived in the spring of 1954 by a group of Spanish professionals and entrepreneurs who later founded the university. The school signed an agreement with the

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( Societas Iesu) in October 1958 and started offering its first academic programs in a small building in the district of Sant Gervasi, Barcelona. In 1958, Esade was ultimately founded. Two years later, in 1960, executive education programmes were introduced. In 1964 the college's

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a professional degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration; elective courses may allow further study in a particular a ...

programme was established. A year later, in 1965, ESADE's Barcelona campus (Av. Pedralbes) opened (Building I), as well as the Executive Language Centre. In 1993, Esade Law School opened. In 2001, the school inaugurated its campus in

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( Chamartín). In 2009 Esade opened a new campus in Sant Cugat (Barcelona) as well as Esade Creapolis, a technology park based on

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and situated on the new Sant Cugat campus. Today Esade's campuses, if the premises in both

and

are included, cover an area of 30,000m².

Esade Creapolis

Esade Creapolis is a

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acce ...

between Esade, a consortium of Spanish

financial Finance refers to monetary resources and to the study and Academic discipline, discipline of money, currency, assets and Liability (financial accounting), liabilities. As a subject of study, is a field of Business administration, Business Admin ...

institutions, local

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institutions and business associations. The organisation manages a

technology Technology is the application of Conceptual model, conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word ''technology'' can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible too ...

and

innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or service (economics), services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a n ...

park on the Esade campus in Sant Cugat, Barcelona. It is an

centre promoted by Esade business school, where companies, students, the academic community and scientists come together intending to promote both creativity and innovation. Between 2005 and 2008 Esade Creapolis invested €70 Million in its facilities in Sant Cugat and has since become home to various

startups A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an Entrepreneurship, entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses including self-employment and businesses tha ...

International rankings

Notable alumni

Enrique Lores Enrique José Lores Obradors (born 1965) is a Spanish business executive, and the CEO of HP Inc. since November 2019. Lores was born in Madrid. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valen ...

(born 1964/65), CEO of HP Inc. *

Ramon Laguarta Ramon Laguarta (born 1963) is a Spanish businessman who is the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo. He became CEO on 3 October 2018 after Indra Nooyi stepped down. He is the sixth CEO in the company's history and the first Spanish ...

(born 1964), CEO of

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* Ferran Soriano (born 1967), CEO of

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* Joaquin Duato (born 1962), CEO of

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical technologies corporation headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Its common stock is a c ...

* Gabriel Escarrer Jaume (born 1971), Founder and CEO of Meliá Hotels International *

Xavier Espot Zamora Xavier Espot Zamora (born 30 October 1979) is an Andorran judge and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Andorra and President of the Democrats for Andorra since 2019. He previously served as Minister of Social Affairs, Justice, and ...

(born 1979), Current Prime Minister of

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* Jaume Guardiola Romojaro (born 1957), CEO of Banco Sabadell * Javier Ferrán (born 1956), Chairman of

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* Albert Rivera (born 1979), a Spanish politician *

Josep Maria Bartomeu Josep Maria Bartomeu Floreta (born 6 February 1963) is a Spanish entrepreneur and former president of FC Barcelona. He started his presidency in 2014, following the resignation of Sandro Rosell; he held the post until his resignation in 2020. He ...

(born 1963), Former President of

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* Joan Rigol (born 1943), Former President of the

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* Iñaki Urdangarin (born 1968), Retired Spanish handball player * Assumpta Escarp i Gibert (born 1957), Member of the

for the

Province of Barcelona Barcelona (; ) is a province of eastern Spain, in the center of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The province is bordered by the provinces of Tarragona, Lleida, and Girona, and by the Mediterranean Sea. Its area is .Javier Faus (born 1964), Chairman and CEO of Meridian Capital Partners * Eva Granados (born 1975), Deputy of the

for the

Socialists' Party of Catalonia The Socialists' Party of Catalonia (, PSC–PSOE) is a social democratic political party in Catalonia, Spain, resulting from the merger of three parties: the Socialist Party of Catalonia–Regrouping, led by Josep Pallach i Carolà, the Socia ...

* Sabina Fluxà (born 1980), Vice-Chairman and CEO of Iberostar Hotels & Resorts * Patricia Gras (born 1960), American journalist, television anchor, reporter and producer * Jordi Hereu (born 1965), 117th

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* Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi (born 1968), Italian economist * Irene Rigau (born 1951), Former Counselor of Education of Catalonia *

Sandro Rosell Alexandre "Sandro" Rosell i Feliu (; born 6 March 1964) is a Spanish businessman. He earned an MBA degree from ESADE. Rosell ran as senior adviser of Joan Laporta during the 2003 Barcelona elections and was the vice-president of sports until J ...

(born 1964), Former President of

* Josep Maria Vallès (born 1940), a Spanish academic and politician *

Risto Mejide Risto Mejide Roldán (born 29 November 1974 in Barcelona; born Ricardo Mejide Roldán), is a Spanish publicist, author, music producer, talent show judge, TV presenter and songwriter, best known as a judge on the television talent shows ''Operaci ...

(born 1974), Publicist, author, music producer, songwriter, talent show judge and TV presenter

References

External links

Official website
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