Jose Pires

AESE Business School

Since 1980, the AESE Business School, the first Business and Management School in Portugal, has been dedicated to the training and improvement of business leaders. The School's reputation in the business world is the result of four essential principles that guide the AESE: A Learning Culture; Knowledge rooted in real business practice from a Management and Leadership perspective; Comprehensive presence in the world; and Strong, ethical and humanistic values. The transformative impact on its more than 6200 Alumni spread across 5 continents makes AESE a unique business school, a school of Leaders who want to learn, leave their mark and transform the world. Participants in Long Programs such as the Executive MBA AESE gain contacts that endure and evolve beyond the program and the school. The close collaboration between the AESE and IESE Business School and the more than 20 other international schools in the network is reflected in the exchange of teachers, in the development of joint research cases and programs and in the Executive training programs. For more than 60 years, the IESE, the University of Navarra's graduate school of business management, has been at the forefront of executive training, developing and inspiring business leaders who strive to have a profound, positive and lasting impact on the people, the companies and the society they serve.