The Instituto de Empresa is an international business school for training executives and experts in legal and tax consultancy. With a wide range of Master programmes and Postgraduate Courses, the Instituto de Empresa provides the management tools and skills necessary for successfully managing a company. The Instituto de Empresa provides support to the manager throughout his professional career. With its clearly entrepreneurial character and international spirit, close contact with the new technologies and applied research projects, it aims to meet the needs of the corporate world.

INTERNATIONALISATION. The Instituto de Empresa has gone all out for internationalisation. It is a strategic decision in which we are all involved: our International MBA programme has 82% of foreign students; our ex-alumni are in 85 countries; we work with multinational corporate clients like Siemens, Bayer or Morgan Stanley; we are present in 10 countries via our network of offices; we are part of the Alianza Sumaq along with another seven leading business schools in Latin America; we are recognised by the principal business school rankings published in the Financial Times, Business Week or The Economist, among others; we have an International Advisory Board steering our development, etc.

COMPANY CREATION. The work of the Instituto de Empresa obviously has an impact on the corporate community. The IE has managed to stimulate and channel the entrepreneurial spirit of over 16% of its students, who after completing the programme have decided to set up their own companies. Aware of the importance of business creation as a driving force of the economy to generate jobs and wealth, the IE offers a sound programme of Entrepreneurship contents, and backs projects like Iceved.com, Proyecto Neti, the Cátedra Najeti Chair on Entrepreneurship and Family Business, or the Annual Prize to the Best Business Project Lease Plan.

INNOVATION. From the design of the Masters to the infrastructure of the centres, IE's teaching methodology, services and contents exploit the advantages of the new technologies, which speed up the learning process, encourage interaction and familiarise the student with the use of the latest technological tools.

CORPORATE COMMUNITY. The Instituto de Empresa forms part of the corporate network and has a narrow network at institutional level and the upper managerial echelons of the main Spanish and Latin American corporations. The IE accompanies senior managers throughout their professional career and meets their demands by bringing them into contact with internationally renowned economists, consultants and business figures. The IE's emphasis on discussion and the comparison of ideas further enriches their vision of corporate management.

RIGOROUS RESEARCH. The Instituto de Empresa generates knowledge with academic rigour. It fosters research applied to the needs of the corporate world in chairs and centres of excellence. Many of the centres are financed and backed by companies, whose specific knowledge of different sectors of activity completes the knowledge of IE's faculty.