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In the last weeks IE Business School finalized an agreement that will provide the students of the Master in Finance and the Master in Advanced Finance additional tools.

The CFA Institute, the global association for investment professionals that awards the prestigious Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) designation, is pleased to announce a CFA Program Partnership with IE Business School (Instituto de Empresa) in Spain.

The partnership aligns IE’s Master in Finance programme with the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge® syllabus, allowing candidates to complete a Master in Finance and prepare for the CFA Program® at the same time. This combination places successful students in an advantageous position when seeking to enter the finance industry or enhance their careers.

Dennis McLeavey, CFA, Head of Education, CFA Institute (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) said, “Instituto de Empresa is an ideal CFA Program Partner due to its status as one of the top 10 business schools in the world. By incorporating the CFA Program curriculum, our Code of Ethics, and our Standards of Practice Handbook, IE Business School is preparing its students to earn the ‘global passport’ to a career in the investment industry.”

Ignacio de la Torre, Academic Director and Associate Professor at Instituto de Empresa, said, “It is an honour to become the first CFA Program Partner in Spain. Here at IE Business School we strive to offer our students the best opportunities for their future, and, through our partnership with CFA Institute, we can now offer them even more.”

You can read more about the CFA Institute and the CFA designation HERE.

Madrid/Boston- IE Business School and Brown University are delighted to announce the formalization of a multifaceted relationship, bringing together one of Europe’s leading business schools and a leading North American research university.

Brown and IE share a commitment to academic excellence and to innovation in research and teaching.  Both are committed to the importance of the entrepreneurial spirit in the academic world no less than in the worlds of management and technological innovation.

We anticipate developing a wide range of research and teaching opportunities together over the coming years as we explore synergies between our interdisciplinary approaches to graduate and undergraduate training for leadership in our increasingly global world.

“This initiative comes at a particularly propitious time, as the global economic situation calls for a systematic rethinking of financial systems and management paradigms. There needs to be a much wider approach to understanding the role of corporations and managers within our global society. Managers need to be exposed to broader philosophies and schools of thought, building a wider vision of value creation and sustainability. This alliance is a major step forward in developing a higher education model which is focused on developing students who are global citizens as well as well rounded professionals” says Santiago Iñiguez, Dean of IE Business School.  Read MORE

Madrid, May 11 2009. IE Business School holds the no. 10 position worldwide in executive education programs in the 2009 Financial Times ranking.  The FT report, which analyzes the quality of executive education programs around the world, ranked IE no. 4 in open programs.

These results further consolidate IE Business School as an international reference in the field of executive education programs, given that the School has risen several positions since last year’s ranking. In customized programs IE has climbed 13 places to become no. 28 in the world. In the open programs category, the School has risen to the no. 4 position worldwide. The joint result of these rises is that IE is now no. 10 worldwide, up from no. 16 in the 2008 ranking.

Open programs at IE Business School include the Advanced Management Program (AMP), the Senior Management Program (SMP) and the Global Senior Management Program (GSMP), run jointly in Madrid and London with University of Chicago Booth School of Business. The FT Executive Education ranking uses different parameters to analyze the quality of executive education programs. Criteria include the degree of satisfaction of participants with regard to the preparation and design of the courses, the quality of faculty, student profiles, development of management skills, and fulfilment of expectations. The authors of the ranking contrasted the opinion of participants and client firms for both open and customized programs.

The conclusions of the FT ranking follow on the success achieved by IE in international rankings over the last year. The Economist placed the School’s MBA program fifth in Europe and tenth worldwide, leading Latin American journal América Economía ranked IE fourth worldwide in MBA programs, and BusinessWeek placed IE first in Europe and fifteenth worldwide.

Here is the link for an article published recently in the Wall Street Journal…

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123731998568560603.html?mod=article-outset-box