IESE is the Universidad de Navarra business management school founded in 1958 with a campus in Barcelona and Madrid. It offers MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA and PhD qualifications, and also a wide range of programmes for companies and managers from all over the world in Spanish and English (Executive Education). IESE has been quoted in different prestigious media like Business Week, The Financial Times or The Times as one of the best schools in the world.

IESE is an international management school with a global scope. It currently recruits students for the MBA in approximately 40 countries, and students following the programme are from 50 countries. In addition, there are also programmes for senior managers from all over the world in Barcelona and Madrid, and in other cities, like Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Miami or Shanghai; an international exchange programme with over 20 of the best business management schools in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States; over 23,000 Ex-Alumni working in 84 countries who have helped establish thirteen associated management schools in four continents.

IESE's mission is to provide a service to society in general and the corporate world in particular. It does this by imparting quality teaching based on sound research into the problems affecting the company and by developing and transmitting knowledge. It promotes the capacities and attitudes necessary for the managerial profession in a changing and increasingly international world, and offers insightful analysis of the human and ethical values of the company.

A defining feature of IESE's personality is its close collaboration with the best management schools in the world. One of the most important IESE programmes, the MBA, was born in 1964 thanks to an academic alliance: IESE and the Harvard Business School created the joint Harvard/IESE committee, which has been meeting every year since 1963. IESE has offered the first European two-year MBA since 1964, which from 1980 became bilingual, and an Executive MBA, which from 1981 has been delivered on the Madrid campus, compatible with the normal working schedule. In 2001 the Global Executive MBA was launched, a programme which is delivered in English, divided in seven modules of twelve days' duration over a period of fifteen months, and which offers the knowledge and capacities necessary for working in a globalised and virtual world. Five of the seven modules are delivered at IESE in Barcelona; one module is at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, and another is in Silicon Valley in collaboration with Stanford University.

IESE has 135 lecturers who are bilingual (Spanish and English) and they come from 15 countries. The training process of the lecturers is long and demanding, and includes a doctorate at some international business management school or university.