IESE is the focal point of an international network of associated business schools around the world. It all began in 1967 with the establishment of the business school IPADE in Mexico City. IPADE was created when Mexican academics and business leaders turned to IESE for guidance on the establishment of a school of management for Mexico. IPADE is now one of Mexico's premier graduate schools of management.
An Active Network
This was the beginning of an overseas network that now includes 17 schools on four continents. In each case, IESE has worked with local academics and business leaders in order to establish the new schools, and many times in cooperation with other schools such as Harvard Business School.
Current associated business schools are:
AESE Associaçao de Estudos Superiores de Empresa, Lisbon, Portugal. Founded in 1980
CEIBS China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, China. Founded in 1994
ESE Escuela de Negocios. Universidad de Los Andes, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Founded in 1999
IAE Escuela de Dirección y Negocios, Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Founded in 1978
IDE Instituto de Desarrollo Empresarial, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Founded in 1992
IEEM Instituto de Estudios Empresariales de Montevideo, Universidad de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay. Founded in 1986
IME Institute for Media Entertainment, New York, U.S., 2004
INALDE Instituto de Alta Dirección Empresarial, Universidad de la Sabana, Bogota, Colombia. Founded in 1985
IPADE Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa, Universidad Pan-Americana, Mexico City, Mexico. Founded in 1967
ISE Instituto Superior da Empresa, Brazil. Founded in 1996
LBS Lagos Business School, Pan-African University, Lagos, Nigeria. Founded in 1991
NU Nile University, School of Business, Cairo, Egypt, 2003
PAD Escuela de Dirección de la Universidad de Piura, Peru. Founded in 1979
SBS Strathmore Business School, Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya, 2005
UNIS Business School, Universidad del Istmo, Guatemala. Founded in 1977
