Departments
Introduction
Accounting & Control
The Accounting and Control Department prepares future managers to take successful operative and strategic business decisions based on the effective measurement and communication of business activities.
Business Ethics
The commitment of the Department of Business Ethics is founded within the framework of IESE's mission to offer a service to society, and especially to the business world, through teaching, research and consulting.
Economics
The Economics department focuses on the analysis of critical socio-economic factors which affect the business environment. Paramount among the department's areas of study is the macroeconomic context of a free market economy.
Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurship Department focuses on new venture creation, as well as entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial management within existing organizations. Entrepreneurial skills development is central to IESE’s MBA program. Reflecting this, more than a third of IESE’s alumni have participated in the creation of a company sometime during their careers.
Financial Management
The Financial Management Department is dedicated to research, teaching and consulting focused on finance and related business areas. The department emphasizes financial theory (concepts, methodology, and the latest research), as well as the problems and challenges that managers face in the rapidly-changing and highly competitive business world.
Information Systems
The Information Systems Department focuses on IS as an integral part of the company's management infrastructure, like other management systems such as control or incentive systems. The department seeks to help future managers develop decision-making skills as they relate to IS and information technology by emphasizing the key roles these areas play in attaining the firm's objectives.
Managerial Decision Sciences
IESE’s department of Managerial Decision Sciences provides managers with state of the art tools to help them integrate analytical results with intuition in an effective way.
Managing People in Organizations
IESE´s Department of Managing People in Organizations is focused on the dynamics of management action, as well as the role of human resource management and labor relations in business strategy.
Marketing
The Marketing Department is focused on providing future managers a comprehensive understanding of the development and implementation of successful strategic marketing practices.
Production, Technology and Operations Management
The Production, Technology and Operations Management Department is focused on the strategic optimization of competitivity through the design, implementation and continuous improvement of operations.
Strategic Management
The Strategic Management Department focuses its teaching and research activities on the main tasks of senior management in the development and practice of strategy in organizations. In a broad sense, strategic management is the key distinctive task of a general manager.