Instituto de Empresa moves into Brazil to train Senior Management Madrid

 After years of offering training programmes to Brazilian executives, Instituto de Empresa has opened a permanent office in Brazil.

The main reason for this strategy is, according to IE Dean, Angel Cabrera, the highly favourable reception by Brazilian directors of our training programmes. The Brazilian director really values the international slant of Instituto de Empresa programmes, together with the school’s innovative vision and the importance it attaches to value creation through corporate initiative.

A global school that works in lockstep with the needs of senior management of business organisations Brazilian economist Dr Eliana Cardos is one of many prestigious academics and international directors that comprise Instituto de Empresa’s International Advisory Board, including Guillermo de la Dehesa (Chairman of the Instituto de Empresa International Advisory Board, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, Europe), José María Fernández Carvajal (President of Fomento Económico de México), Edward Schumacher (Editor of The Wall Street Journal Americas), Carl Hahn (President Emeritus of Volkswagen AG), Reuben Mark (President and CEO of Colgate-Palmolive), Peter Sutherland (President of Goldman Sachs International), and Valentín Díez Morodo (President of Grupo Modelo - see annex).

IE’s clients are major multinational organisations and the professionals that make up their management teams and advisory bodies. IE offers directors a selection of training programmes in international environments. Firms are offered customised programmes based on an analysis of their training needs and a co-designed training plan, thus establishing a close working relationship that goes beyond traditional client-supplier relations.

Instituto de Empresa’s in-company clients include Siemens, Morgan Stanley, Nokia, Oracle, Bayer and Pfizer, alongside Spanish multinationals like BBVA, Santander and Telefónica. With regard to directors, 82% of the International MBA students are non-Spanish, being from over 35 different countries and with work experience that averages 5 years. Only one in 9 applicants is successful in securing a place on the programme.

In Brazil, IE maintains a close links with Fundaçao Getulio Vargas-EAESP via the Sumaq Alliance, whereby it offers training programmes to firms based there. The Sumaq Alliance comprises 6 other leading business schools in Latin America.

Instituto de Empresa has offices in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and New York.

ie, 01.04.2003