IESE Business School

IESE Business School is committed to the development of leaders who aspire to have a positive, deep and lasting impact on people, firms and society through their professionalism, integrity and spirit of service.  

IESE aspires to be a world-class and truly global business school, seeking teaching excellence and research impact. IESE has two campuses in Barcelona and Madrid and facilities in Munich, New York and Sao Paulo, offering executive programs in key countries around the world.

Core Values

The school’s core values are articulated in its programs and materials. They are based on the belief that firms are, above all, communities of people who work better in an atmosphere of trust. Those values highlight the aspiration to excellence that any professional in the business world should aim at. They include:

• Respect for others
• Professionalism
• Spirit of service
• Integrity
• Commitment to the common good of companies and society
• Humility
• Learning and listening
• Teamwork

In its programs, IESE also takes a view of leadership development that is based on the following pillars:

• General management perspective
• Human and ethical values
• International character
• Transformational impact
• Knowledge development

These key values are shared among IESE faculty and staff and are instilled in IESE students through the curricula. IESE faculty members believe in the value of leading by example.

IESE is an initiative of Opus Dei, a Personal Prelature of the Roman Catholic Church with activities on every continent. IESE believes that companies are communities of people and management should be centered around  people: how to deal with people, how to create a context for professional and personal development, how to create powerful teams, and how to develop and sustain trust in personal relationships. The ethical and moral values the School draws from are based on the Christian tradition, a perspective  that  has been at the roots of social and human progress in Europe and in many other countries around the world. These values emphasize the intrinsic rights and dignity of every person, and constitute the linchpin of any successful organization and society at large.