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ESADE (Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas) is a Business School and began operating in 1958 at a time when Spain, then under the Francisco Franco dictatorship, was just beginning to emerge from autarky and needed a professional business class to run the economy. The Jesuits and Opus Dei seized the opportunity, founding ESADE and IESE , respectively, in Barcelona . It is currently incorporated to the Ramon Llull University ESADE currently has over 6,000 students among its various training centres. The school offers Executive Education and MBA programmes through the Business School, as well as undergraduate, post-graduate, and PhD programmes in Business Administration and in Law at ESADE University Faculties. ESADE Business School has facilities in Barcelona, Madrid and Buenos Aires and caters particularly to the Spanish-speaking world. ESADE provides a wide range of programmes catering to the needs of diverse groups and has signed collaboration agreements with over 100 universities world-wide. Several business publications consistently rank ESADE as one of the top 10 business schools in Europe. In 2005, ESADE was ranked by recognised ESADE's efforts in incorporating CSR issues into its MBA curriculum and ranked the school second in the world in this respect. However, pontificating about business ethics is one thing, putting them into practice quite another. Detractors point to ESADE's corporate trustees who - among other things - have been accused of: infanticide by UNESCO (Nestlé), ruthless and fraudulent exploitation of prison labour by the Office of the Ohio State Auditor (Aramark); environmental destruction and disregard for the rights of native peoples by the World Bank and the NIZKOR human rights group (ENDESA). Cynics argue that the veneer of respectability lent by ESADE's CSR teachings functions in much the same way as papal indulgences - a pardon for sins past and future in return for financial support (in the words of Johann Tetzel : "For every coin that in the coffer rings, a soul to heaven springs"). The school is headquartered in Barcelona and has an offshoot in Madrid. The two cities were recently ranked 44th and 45th respectively by the international consultancy firm, Mercer Human Resources Consulting , in its 2006 Quality of Living survey (rankings of other cities with business schools included: Zurich (1st); Geneva (2nd); Frankfurt (7th); Copenhagen (11th); Amsterdam (13th); Brussels (14th); Berlin (16th); Paris (33rd); London (39th)). The latest survey findings are likely to make both Spanish cities less attractive destinations for multinational executives and hence for MBA students. ESADE is accredited by the international AMBA, AACSB and EFMD organizations. EXTERNAL LINKS
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