Based on our research, experience and schools ranking, we present in this directory a selection of carefully chosen programmes from the following international Business Schools:
in Europe, excluding Spain: London Business School, Insead, IMD and Cranfield;
in Spain: Iese and IE;
in the U.S.A.: Harvard Business School, Stanford and Kellogg.
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FINANCIAL TIMES – 2010 ranking for Executive Education – open enrolment
1 . University of Virginia: Darden | USA (+1)
2 . Iese Business School | Spain (+3)
3 . IMD | Switzerland (+1)
4 . Harvard Business School | USA (-3)
5 . Thunderbird School of Global Management | USA (+6)
6 . London Business School | UK (=)
7 . Center for Creative Leadership | USA / Belgium / Singapore (=)
8 . MIT Sloan School of Management | USA (+2)
9 . Fundação Dom Cabral | Brazil (+4)
10 . University of Western Ontario: Ivey | Canada / China (-1)
10 . Essec Business School | France / Singapore (+6)
12 . Stanford University GSB | USA (-4)
13 . Northwestern University: Kellogg | USA (+2)
13 . HEC Paris | France (+4)
15 . IE Business School | Spain (-11)
15 . University of Oxford: Said | UK (+13)
17 . Insead | France / Singapore (+2)
18 . Columbia Business School | USA (-7)
19 . University of Pennsylvania: Wharton | USA (-6)
20 . University of Chicago: Booth | USA / UK / Singapore (+2)
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28 . Cranfield School of Management | UK (+3)
Notes: in the ranking of the top 60 open-enrolment programme providers, Spain is represented with 4 schools while Portugal has only one and Brazil has 3; The Financial Times considers that the top 17 schools form the elite group of providers of open enrolment programmes; Esade is the third Spanish school and is ranked 23th; the Catholic University of Portugal is ranked 52th.
Source: Financial Times, Business Education, May 10, 2010.
http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/executive-education—open
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IN THE EURO ZONE:
currency: euro;
In France
Insead http://www.insead.fr
Fontainebleau (near Paris), France; ranking FT: 17; most programmes in English, some programmes in French
in Spain:
IESE Business School http://www.iese.edu/
Barcelona & Madrid, Spain; ranking FT: 2; programmes in English and Spanish
IE Business School http://www.ie.edu/business/
Madrid, Spain; ranking FT: 15; programmes in English and Spanish
OUTSIDE THE EURO ZONE
In Switzerland:
currency: Swiss franc, estimated exchange rate: 1 EUR = 1.33 CHF | 1 CHF = 0.75 EUR;
IMD – International Institute for Management Development http://www.imd.ch/
Lausanne (near Geneva), Switzerland; ranking FT: 3;
In the United Kingdom
currency: British pound, estimated exchange rate: 1 EUR = 0.85 GBP | 1 GPB = 1.18 EUR;
London Business School http://www.london.edu/programmes/executiveeducation.html
London; United Kingdom; ranking FT: 6;
Cranfield School of Management http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/
Cranfield; United Kingdom; ranking FT: 28;
IN THE USA:
currency: U.S. dollar, estimated exchange rate: 1 EUR = 1.33 USD | 1 USD = 0.75 EUR;
Harvard Business School http://www.hbs.edu/; Boston, Massachusetts; ranking FT: 4
Stanford http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/exed/ ; Stanford, California; ranking FT: 12
Kellog http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/execed/ ; Evanston (near Chicago), Illinois; ranking FT: 13
Note: all exchange rates estimated for the year 2011 as at 31 December 2010
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