Full Time MBA - ESADE Business School

The ESADE MBA Full Time MBA

12-15-18 months

BECAUSE BUSINESS IS NO LONGER CHARACTERISED

BY A STABLE AND PREDICTABLE ENVIRONMENT. BECAUSE INNOVATION IS THE KEY. BECAUSE INTERACTION BETWEEN COMPANIES IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.

WE ARE...

Moving into innovation Come September 2012, ESADE is moving into a new campus - a brand new, purpose-built, modern facility - that will become home to The ESADE MBA, the natural next step in its growth.

Directly connected by public transport to central Barcelona in under 30 minutes, and adjacent to ESADE Creapolis, a hub for Open and Cross Innovation, the possibilities for synergy are endless.

The world is facing turbulent times. In a difficult global situation, we adapt and change to continue expanding and broadening our horizons. Innovation is the key, which means new ways of thinking, dynamic interaction between companies, and studying and working in a multicultural pioneering business environment.

Moving to the new Barcelona Sant Cugat campus is an opportunity for The ESADE MBA and part of our strategic plan to move with the times.

By sharing facilities with companies that have one common goal – to accelerate innovation – they, together with our MBA students and faculty face an enriching challenge and gain a great advantage. A unique opportunity not offered by any other MBA programme anywhere else the world.

Glòria Batllori

Executive Director Full Time MBA Programme

MOVING INTO INNOVATION VIDEO

ESADE Creapolis houses more than 60 companies from a wide variety of sectors, making this an optimum environment for innovation, knowledge exchange, and networking.

Moving into flexibility

Choose the length of your life-changing experience (12-15-18 months) Students arrive at ESADE with a set of objectives, which often change during the programme as new opportunities present themselves. The MBA frequently changes participants’ perspectives, the reason behind our ultimate flexible MBA format, allowing the individual to decide on the length of their MBA (12, 15 or 18 months) in May at the end of Term 3. Once students know what their options are for exchange or internship, or both, they can choose the format that best fits their professional career objectives.

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Before beginning my MBA, I already had a clear goal: to become an entrepreneur. With this in mind, I decided to take full advantage of the core courses and electives and the wide variety of projects organised throughout the MBA to build on my entrepreneurial skills. The flexible format of the programme allowed me to choose the 12-month track and return to Taiwan at the earliest opportunity to start new projects. I am currently working on a mobile application within the healthcare sector, a project stemming from the IBMNovartis NCD Challenge case competition in which my team was among the winning teams globally. The MBA has truly been a transforming experience.

I decided to do an MBA because I wanted to broaden the scope of my knowledge with a new challenge and an MBA would help me gain the skills needed to take me to the next level. The flexible format length at ESADE and the 15-month track was perfect for me because I didn’t want to be out of the job market for 2 full years, but I still wanted the chance to do an internship.

I accomplished my main goal, as I will be a part of the intern program at Apple this summer.

I am going to spend 12 weeks in California working within Operations. I am excited about this opportunity and I’m sure it wouldn’t have been possible if I hadn’t been here at ESADE.

Mengchi Chen (Taiwan)

Full Time MBA Class of 2013

Margaret Robb (US)

Full Time MBA Class of 2013 Internship with Apple

18 months

The single most important reason why I applied to ESADE is the flexibility they offer to students. When I had to choose between one of three tracks (12, 15 or 18 months), making the decision was really easy.

I already knew I was going to be doing my internship at American Express London and because I wanted to specialize in finance, I had decided to do my exchange at Chicago Booth. In 18 months I will have the chance to live in three cities, study and network at two different universities and gain valuable professional experience.

Rafael Valdez Giner (Peru)

Full Time MBA Class of 2013 Internship with American Express Exchange at Chicago Booth

Moving closer to core business needs Finance Lab

International Family Business Lab

The ESADE MBA is committed to providing students interested in a career in Finance with extensive exposure to critical and current topics in the field of finance. The goal is to provide them knowledge that is sophisticated, up-to-date and highly practical, resulting not only in intellectual enrichment and competitive advantages, but which may also open up windows into (possibly hitherto unknown) new career prospects.

Family businesses were seen in the past as organisations that should evolve to be “modern” and successful. Now we know that the majority of companies around the world, including many quoted companies, are family businesses.

Family businesses are different in the way they understand management, culture, and values and how they apply it in their decisionmaking processes, their strategy scope, human relationships, entrepreneurial behaviour, measuring success, and many other domains.

The Finance Lab is a mixture of credit and non-credit activities Credit activities

Family Business Lab activities include

• Finance Lab Lectures • Finance Lab Workshops • Finance Lab Project

•General Course on Family Business Management •Specific Courses such as Managing the Boards, Family Strategy, Family Business Transformation, etc.

•Seminars and Roundtables with prominent family business members, from different industries, roles and regions around the world, to understand the importance of forging their own paths using the Labs methodologies •Family Business Project

Non-credit activities • Finance Lab Historical Episodes • World Markets Updates • Derivatives Seminars • Guest Speakers • Treks 2012

August Welcome Week and Intensive Language Course

2013

September

October-December

January-March

April-May

PRE-TERM

TERM 1

TERM 2

TERM 3

• Intro. to Economics • Accounting I • Statistics • Project Management Fund.

• LEAD

• Economics • Marketing • Business Analysis to Valuation • Accounting II • Career Impact Cycle

• Finance • Global Context of Management • Leading Organisations • Operations I • Strategy I

• Global Marketing • Operations II • Strategy II • MIS • Entrepreneurship • Managing People

MANDATORY SPANISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMME

OPTIONAL LANGUAGE PROGRAMME (SPANISH, FRENCH OR GERMAN)

Entrepreneurship Programme

With new businesses being launched by graduates annually, ESADE Business School is proud of its long heritage in Entrepreneurship. Given our strength in this area, the Entrepreneurship programme is a mandatory course that runs parallel to the core curriculum. The learning experience is applicable to entrepreneurs intent on launching their own business upon graduation, managers responsible for developing innovative projects for their companies as well as Venture Capitalists or Financial Analysts.

The course consists of two parts

A conceptual introduction to Entrepreneurship and the key tools to be applied

Once Business Plans have been presented, a board of specialists will select 5 outstanding projects with great developmental potential that will have access to ESADE Creapolis facilities and services after Graduation to help get the initial business phases off the ground.

Development of the Business Plan

MBA Track Decision

2014

June-July

September

October-December

January-March

SUMMER TERM

TERM 4

TERM 4

TERM 5

12 15

+ 8 ELECTIVES

CORPORATE TRACK (CORPORATE INTERNSHIP + 8 ELECTIVES) ACADEMIC TRACK

(4 ELECTIVES + EXCHANGE PROGRAMME OR 8 ELECTIVES )

18

CORPORATE INTERNSHIP + 4 ELECTIVES AND EXCHANGE PROGRAMME OR + 8 ELECTIVES MINIMUM 3 TERM 4 AND 3 TERM 5

Moving forward

Career Services: control your career evolution Career reorientation and acceleration are key motivators behind deciding to pursue an MBA. Choosing which career direction to steer towards is one of the most important decisions participants will have to make during The ESADE MBA, which is why Career Services assists participants throughout the entire decision-making process.

Strategic Advising

Corporate Internships

Each student has access to Career Advisors that provide strategic advice on all aspects of the job search process.

Full Time MBA candidates choosing to pursue the programme in 15 or 18 months are strongly encouraged to undertake corporate internships which are of utmost importance for career changers.

Career Training and Skills Development One of Career Services’ main focuses is to help our Full Time MBA students develop a successful career, maximising their knowledge acquisition and skills development.

This process is structured as follows: • CIC (Career Impact Cycle): one of the programme’s core subjects involving mandatory sessions pooling knowledge and skills.

• Career Thursdays: dedicated afternoons, from January to March, where voluntary Sessions give additional and relevant knowledge focused on personal interests and needs.

Career Treks Business Clubs are actively involved in the preparation, together with Career Services, of the Career Treks.

Some examples of treks carried out by our MBA students: Saudi Trek. Twenty-eight students from The ESADE MBA class of 2013 travelled to Saudi Arabia to meet and network with representatives of the country’s leading companies and educational institutions.

Tech Trek to Dublin, Ireland. The members of the Technology and the Media Business Clubs, along with Career Services, visited the offices of Facebook, Google, Oracle, Symantec and Yahoo!.

London Banking Trek Talent Recruitment Events Companies from around the world representing all main sectors use on-campus events to create brand presence, communicate career opportunities and begin interview processes.

The ESADE MBA Career Forums. Aligned with sector recruiting timelines, the MBA Career Forum is a bi-annual event held in October and February which consist of corporate presentations and interactive networking events, attracting leading consulting firms, renowned financial services institutions and top companies in industry.

Corporate Presentations. Held throughout the year corporate presentations are an effective way of communicating career opportunities to our students.

Networking Events. Companies also host networking activities such as breakfasts, lunches, cocktails or dinners as well as other events such as case study practices or sector trend overviews.

Visits to Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, FSA, Bradesco, Barclays Capital.

London Trek. Visiting LBS for their Media and Technology Summit, co-organised with the Marketing Club, Microsoft and Google.

Keep moving Admissions

Our graduates possess the skills and competencies recruiters value for the success of their companies and take on leadership positions all over the world.

Staged Application Deadlines Process

Basic Admissions Requirements • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent • Minimum of 2 years full time professional experience post-graduation • Fluency in English

Application Completion Date*:

ESADE Feedback by:

Stage 1: 28 September, 2012

19 October, 2012

Stage 2: 5 November, 2012

30 November, 2012

Stage 3: 3 December, 2012

4 January, 2013

Stage 4: 7 January, 2013

1 February, 2013

Stage 5: 4 February, 2013

1 March, 2013

Stage 6: 4 March, 2013

5 April, 2013

Stage 7: 8 April, 2013

3 May, 2013

Stage 8: 6 May, 2013

31 May, 2013

Stage 9: 3 June, 2013

28 June, 2013

* Applications should be submitted by 11:59 p.m. CET (Central European Time) on the date in question.

Applications are considered complete once the Online Application and all supporting documents have been received.

The ESADE MBA Scholarship Programme

Financial Aid

Merit Scholarships ESADE Business School provides merit-based scholarships for outstanding candidates directly on admission to the programme. There are more than 20 Scholarships available according to geographical area, sector of activity, etc.

ESADE Business School is committed to helping you finance your MBA and offers various financial aid options to support you when Need-Based Scholarships planning associated costs. Like many people ESADE offers the need-based scholarships, which not only around the world who invest in their futures grant scholarships on an academic basis, but take individual’s through education, the majority of our students financial needs into careful consideration. finance the MBA programme through a mix of Scholarships for Excellence loan agreements and/or personal savings.

The Scholarships for Excellence are offered by the ESADE Student Loan Programmes The majority of MBA candidates finance their tuition fees through student loans from lending institutions around the globe. Spanish banking institutions show their commitment to ESADE Business School by providing optimal lending terms to all The ESADE MBA candidates (regardless of nationality).

Our partner banks cover up to 100% of the tuition fees less reservation fee. Bank guarantees will be required depending on the amount of the student loan requested. You will receive detailed information on conditions, requirements and procedures in the Admitted Students Website. The ESADE MBA Loan Agreements are for candidates admitted to the programme.

deanship to Full Time MBA exceptional candidates who are academically and professionally outstanding.

Impact Scholarships These scholarships will be awarded taking into consideration outstanding academic progress, student contribution to the class and the ESADE community.

Fellowships ESADE Business School provides the possibility to participate in the MBA Project Fellowships during the ESADE MBA.

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