Developing Knowledge and managing skills
The teaching from de ESE is based on the principle that business activity success only is possible if it includes the improvement of all an individual’s dimensions. Good professionals must have both technical and interpersonal skills, and an open attitude and mind. Thus, a particular characteristic of the programs organized by ESE, along with its acknowledge academic level, is the depth of their treatment of the human and ethical aspects of business decisions.
Applied and participative focus
The methodology used by the ESE in its programs is highly cooperative and requires a strong commitment on the part of the participants, in an academic environment that favors team work and exchange of experiences and knowledge. The involvement of participants in the program is assured by the use of the case method, which helps them to tackle complex and unstructured problems, such as those that typically emerge in companies, and facilitates the exchange of knowledge and experiences during the team work meetings and class sessions.
Learning with the best professors
Accessibility, interest, commitment and a high academic and teaching level are the characteristics that describe the ESE professors. All our professors have attained an international degree in schools where classes are delivered by professors who hold a Ph.D. Besides their scientific education, the ESE professors contribute their high level professional experience as board directors or business consultants, thus rendering a high quality teaching work as well as a realistic view of business management.
Learning with the best students
To the ESE come business persons and managers with extensive careers, who contribute their ideas and experience in class sessions and group meetings. This vastly favors the learning process, allowing the students to get acquainted with experiences related with different industries and business sectors. The involvement in ESE programs also generates an invaluable contact network.
Business backing
The ESE enjoys the backing of a Business Consulting Board made up of outstanding Chilean business persons and managers. They endorse the School’s seriousness and make available their experience and professional career. Through the Business Consulting Board, ESE maintains a strong link with the corporate and business world in Chile.
World class infrastructure
The ESE headquarters are placed at San Carlos de Apoquindo, Las Condes, a site thought and developed for an adequate immersion of managers. The headquarters, that in its first stage have an extension of 7.300 m2, were designed by the American architecture firm Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott, one of the most experienced studios in university infrastructure design and construction.
International high level relationships and support
ESE counts with de institutional support of the Spanish Universidad de Navarra’s IESE, the MBA of which was ranked number one by The Economist in years 2005 and 2006. It also maintains close links with other prestigious business schools that offer similar programs and with which it shares its strategic thinking. It counts as well with the academic backing of IAE, Management and Business School of the Universidad Austral de Buenos Aires. For the seventh consecutive year, the IAE was ranked among the 25 best business schools in the world and first in Latin America, according to the 2006 ranking of management education elaborated by the Financial Times.