Spain’s ESADE Business School and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business have extended an existing alliance to provide for faculty research, student exchange and new academic programs at both schools, the schools announced last week.
The planned new initiatives build on a partnership established between the schools as part of the Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA, which has been in place for three years.
“Georgetown and ESADE are well matched partners. We are both Jesuit institutions dedicated to developing leaders to face today’s global business challenges,” George Daly, dean of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, said in a statement. “With this alliance, we will further research in the field of global management and continue to create new educational programs.”
The new agreement calls for creation of a new ESADE-Georgetown Global Management Research Initiative, with centers in Washington, DC, and Barcelona. A collaborative research agenda will form the backbone of the initiative, which will focus on creating and sharing knowledge and exploring the practical applications of global management. The initiative will be governed by faculty at both schools and will include opportunities for student research and seminars and other programs for global managers at each location.
“We have achieved a complementary strategic alliance, allowing us to combine Georgetown’s global, interdisciplinary training with ESADE’s entrepreneurial spirit and expertise in social innovation, meeting the needs of international managers of today and tomorrow,” ESADE Director General Eugenia Bieto said in a statement.
ESADE and McDonough also will work together on a range of new executive education programs in the vein of the Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA. That program immerses students into the culture of global business through six sessions offered on four continents.
A new Global Advanced Management Program (GAMP) will offer three, six-day sessions over the course of two months starting this fall in Madrid, São Paulo, Dubai and Washington, D.C. Together the schools are also considering executive degree programs that would be offered throughout the world and the development of custom programs for global clients.
Other perks of the enhanced collaboration between the two schools will include an exchange program for undergraduates at both institutions, early admission of McDonough students into the ESADE M.Sc. in Innovation and Entrepreneurship program, international weeks abroad for graduate students at both schools and the sharing of visiting professors between the instutitions.
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