Top 10 Reasons a Mandarin Speaking Student Chooses ESADE Business School MBA

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Hello, every XDJM here.  I'm a student from Taiwan currently doing my MBA at ESADE Business School.  Since the first exciting year is almost over, I'll just share my observation and experience here.  Please do not hesitate to give me feedback if any of you have a question.


1. ESADE Innovates
    Reaching for excellence means more than saving costs and quantitative performance of financial leveraging.  ESADE has been positioning itself as an engine of innovation through a dynamic learning experience, embedding the essence of innovative thoughts and actions of continuous breakthrough in the curriculum.  Your business sensitivity after MBA will thus be polished in Barcelona; you and your business' relentless growth will be explosive when you walk out of Barcelona.

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2. A Future Without Barrier
    Yes we know the Spanish course is demanding and rigorous, but the perspiration of these 18 months could prevent you from bleeding in a cruel battle field of international business.  Based on a fact that the three most-spoken business languages are Chinese, English, and Spanish, ESADE is serious in eliminating your geographical barrier to conduct business.  If you have excellent command of English and fluent Chinese, try to take one step forward and ESADE can guarantee you a future globetrot without barrier.  You are well aware that Spanish is a business language before MBA, but ESADE is the only European MBA that makes Spanish your language of business.

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3. The West Point of Culture Blender
    You're looking at a well diversified pool of small classes consisting of only 120 people but of 36 nationalities.  It's not hard to picture the frequency of communications.  ESADE designs a real international battlefield in its curriculum.  You'll have opportunities every week discovering business difficulties through fierce dispute in class on multinational titans' operations strategy.  Indeed it's painful, but that's also why recuiters rank ESADE as the world's best international business school.  Your training on multicultural working skills creates a hunger for achievement that encourages you to go out and take any challenging project offered.

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4. Free your mind
    Before wrapping yourself with strategic thinking behavior, ESADE helps you and your team members search within your mindsets.  A well-developed 360 degree LEAD program goes parallel to a quickly immersing mock-interview before the school begins.  This praparation helps you position yourself on the career track.  After the group action-based classes, your assigned tutor will guide you through the barrier of plans to monitor the actions taken.  A behavioral apprentice relations nurtures the entrepreneurship spirit.

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5. Fundamental Business Methodology
    Surrounded by an environment of confident crisis and relentless greed, You will be brought back to the business earth and taught to think on your feet.  At ESADE, people believe that innovative growth of business stems from structual change of different layers.  Business ethics issue is not re-classified as a single side dish subject but is totally enbedded in the context of syllabus.  That's why consequently you will have a mindset to exclude magical myth in business and still believe that your decision is driving an enterprise from good to great.

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6. An Aquarium of Beauty; A City That Gaudi Built
    The trend of beauty creation ability has become an ubiquitous element of a competitive personal profile.  If you used to have IT background, Barcelona is the city that enhances your value by it's breathtaking designs from top to bottom.  If you are a marketing star, Barcelona will surprise you with a enterpreneurship dynamics and stimulate your sensitivity experience.  The pearl of Mediterranean redefines your soft skills after your MBA.

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7. The Most Under-valued Networking Haven in Europe
    You are looking at a city that attracts most visitors to a country with top three tourists around the world.  It deserves more than this fact.  Never can anyone find an European city with accesibility to both mountains and the sea at this level and with this unbelievable average sunny days.  Booming business exhibition halls make this place a favorite spot for global-scale events, such as the recent World 3GSM Mobile Show.  The variety of bars, clubs, and restaurants reach to a level of United Nations member seats.  This is the place where you see not only beer, Cava, and malt, but also your favorite Oolong, Macha, and Sake.

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8. 50 Years Accumulation of Doing The Right Thing
    With campuses in both shining cities of Spain, ESADE is exposed to grand international communities.  In Barcelona, business professionals embrace the value of exceptional growth.  However, ESADE has been committed to the adoption of a balanced educations approach of a responsible business attitude with humanitarianism.  When other business schools are still taking going green as a fad, ESADE's 50 years accumulation in CSR mind-set already develops a package of implementation know-how.  If you believe in the potential of emerging realms such as green economy, emissions offset, and responsible enterprise branding, you will be amazed by the maturity of them at ESADE.

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9. Poles of leadership: Self Awareness, Ingenuity, Love, and Heroism
    ESADE's leadership guidance helps you keep a static state of mind under changing environment, an acknowledgement of core potential that truly realizes your career plans.  A steady self-development keeps you elastic towards different challenges and courageous to unhealthy attachments.  A practical collaborative working attitude between colleagues strengthens the bond in between and turns the invisible spirit into deeds.  Besides a response to crisis, ESADE goes along with you to improve the quality of the response to the opportunity at hand, thus approaching heroism.

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10. Best International MBA Worldwide - Wall Street Journal
      In 2006 and 2007, ESADE has been consecutively named the top international business school. In the ranking published by The Wall Street Journal, based on the opinions of nearly 4,500 companies from around the world that recruit MBA graduates, ESADE holds on to the coveted number one spot, an accurate reflection of market opinion. The ranking was based on three parameters: the companies' overall satisfaction with the graduates, the schools' ability to attract international recruiters and each company's willingness to hire more graduates from a particular school.

*Extra Reason - Mary Granger
Let's be honest.  You don't see everyday an associate director of admissions at any MBA Program with such a deep understanding of Chinese culture and language.  Not only does she speak this language, but also talks to you in "your" language!


If any of you likes to know more about this program, please send your queries to:
mary.granger@esade.edu