The Esade Experience

Innovation forms part of Esade’s DNA. Esade Business School is in contact with the leading international institutions in innovation and the most outstanding think tanks. Furthermore, we have a space dedicated to home-grown business innovation, and we have created innovative educational formats such as the in·on programs, in which training is conducted 40% in class and 60% online.

We also offer specific programs in innovation and digital transformation of professionals and companies (Digital Business, Business Analytics, Digital Transformation Open Program, etc.)

Big data, design thinking, blockchain, neuromarketing, fintech… the information and technology age has transformed markets and the business world. Today it is indispensible to be familiar with subjects that two years ago did not even exist. At Esade we keep close track of business reality and we strive to introduce this content strategically into our programs. This is the Be Futurity philosophy, a concept on which our Executive Masters hinge, and which defines our objective of turning participants and firms into future-oriented leaders and companies, prepared for things to come. Be Futurity: “The quality of being future-oriented”

Our programs invite students to develop their own capability to create and innovate. Innovation that goes far beyond using new technologies, applying big data to a marketing plan or creating a startup: being disruptive and applying different thinking is an attitude that can also lead you to reformulate internal processes, rethink customer contact channels or seek new non-traditional forms of finance for your company.

At Esade we pursue a leadership style that matches new business models and new realities. Our programs are designed for the participants to become disruptive leaders with the ability to foster cross-cutting and cooperative work processes and generate environments in which teams are motivated and capable of re-inventing themselves. Decision making is based on listening and is boosted by integrating different views, strong social awareness and critical thinking.

The impact of our executive programs is plain to see, right from the first sessions. Both the content and the experiences included in the various programs are conceived in such a way that the participants can make a direct connection with their professional reality and apply what they have learnt right from square one. One key factor to achieve this is a high degree of customization: each individual and each company has different needs, so our programs are designed so that they can be personalized as far as possible to match the goals set previously by each participant or organization.

A globalized world demands leaders with international vision. All our programs offer their content from a global perspective and many of them include multiple international experiences. Esade is an institution with a huge network of contacts worldwide: over the years we have created a global network of partners, both academic and corporate.

We also have links with international innovation hubs such as MIT Media Lab, Cambridge Innovation Center (Boston), Harvard I-Lab, Singularity University and CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research).

In addition to these partnerships, Esade Executive Education has developed an extensive network of corporate partners all over the world.