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Executive Education International Programs
IE is the best Business School in Spain, second-best in
Europe and fourth worldwide in Executive Education Open-
Enrollment Programs according to the May 2009 Executive
Education Ranking released by Financial Times.
We train Executives from all industries and
functional areas
INDUSTRY Percentage
Automobile 2,73%
Bank / Insurance 14,10%
Consultancy 3,82%
Law & Fiscal / Auditing 3,85%
Manufacturing / Energy / Raw Materials 11,21%
Media / Advertising 3,13%
Other 27,11%
Pharmaceutical / Bio-Tech / Health 5,25%
Public Administration 2,87%
Real State / Architecture 2,63%
Telecommunications / High Tech / IT-IS 9,26%
Trading & Retailing 8,21%
Transportation / Tourism, Leisure & Hotels 5,83%
TOTAL 100,00%
Corporate Partnerships
An increasingly fast-changing business environment requires
corporations and individuals to have a breathtaking capacity
for decision-making, innovation, creativity, motivation and
leadership, and management skills. In short, it requires the ability
not only to keep pace with the rest, but rather to keep ahead.
Training is an ongoing process throughout any professional’s
career. Working with an educational partner is therefore
essential in order to assess and provide flexible and
customized solutions adapted to the needs of each manager
and/or organization.
Our approach to corporate partnerships is built on trust and
confidence coupled with our ethical standards. For IE Business
School, corporate partnerships are open relationships with a
strong commitment. They are long-term initiatives that make
for continuous improvement and a mutual learning process.
Long-term, because the better you know your partner, the more
finely tuned solutions you can provide. Mutual, because IE and
its Faculty learn from its partners as our partners learn from IE.
Program Formats
IE Business School provides corporations and their managers
with solutions that meet their training needs through a broad
range of program formats. Each year IE’s Executive Education
In order to develop this ranking, the following parameters
have been evaluated: programs’ quality, courses’ degree of
internationalization, participants’ level, Faculty excellence,
programs’ impact on participants when returning to their
professional responsibilities, their later follow-up by the institution,
the programs’ portfolio width, Business School flexibility to design
programs most tailored to each customer company needs, and
several others.
FUNTIONAL AREA Percentage
Control Management 7,25%
Finance 17,26%
General Management 15,11%
Human Resources 3,55%
IT/IS 4,06%
Law/Fiscal 4,55%
Marketing & Sales 17,41%
Operations 6,75%
Others 21,36%
Procurement 2,70%
TOTAL 100,00%
designs and develops a large number of courses, seminars
and programs in order to offer cutting-edge knowledge to
its corporate clients and participants at all stages of their
professional development.
IE’s Executive Education provides:
> An opportunity to update and enhance the skills demanded
by the growing and changing global environment.
> A forum to share and debate ideas and perspectives and
exchange experiences with top executives and experts from
different industries and cultures.
> Managerial capacities that serve as a catalyst for personal
and professional development.
IE-Executive Education: Program Portfolio
Over 3,500 managers undertake our 150 Executive Education
programs, both open and customized, each year. Guest
speakers from industry and experts in innovation from sector
leaders equip participants with up-to-the-minute knowledge of
new trends in both industry and service companies.