Institutions Founded with Foreign Assistance*

IAE was founded as the graduate business school of the Universidad Austral, with funding from the Asociación Civil de Estudios Superiores (ACES) and academic support from IESE.

A group of MSU faculty aided in the foundation of FGV-EAESP with a grant from the predecessor organization of USAID.

ESE Business School was founded as the Centro de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa, with the academic support of IESE and IAE Business Schools.

Colombian business and political leaders called upon the expertise of IESE and IPADE to develop the first management education provider in the country.

INCAE was founded (originally only in Nicaragua until the Costa Rica campus opened in 1984) with technical supervision of the HBS, and the support of USAID and the business communities and governments of several Latin American nations.

IDE was founded in Guayaquil by the Ecuadorian Association for Educational and Social Development (SEDES), in association with the listed partner schools.

Originally Tayasal Business School, UNIS Business School was founded by Guatemalan business leaders with strategic support from IPADE and IESE.

IESE worked with Mexican business leaders to found IPADE, the business school of the Universidad Panamericana.

Initial development of ESAN was entrusted to the (then) Stanford Business School under a U.S. State department initiative.

Peruvian business leaders, working with faculty from the Universidad de Piura, sought the aid of IESE and IPADE to develop a business program for the Universidad de Piura. PAD was the result of these efforts.

IEEM was the first graduate-level business school in Uruguay. The Universidad grew out of IEEM after the Uruguayan government permitted the establishment of private universities.