IESE Business School (Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa, English: "Institute of Higher Business Studies" or "International Graduate School of Management") is the graduate business school of the University of Navarra. IESE has campuses in Barcelona, Madrid, and New York City and teaching facilities in Munich and Sao Paulo. IESE offers Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Executive MBA programs that are consistently ranked among the best in the world. IESE is an initiative of Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Catholic Church. IESE's endowment in December 2006 stood at an all-time high of US$32.64 million.
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 state-of-the-art New York Center campus in midtown Manhattan in April 2010, IESE became the first European business school to establish permanent operations in the U.S.
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