Put your knowledge into practice
Learn the power of co-creation and work with companies to provide solutions to real business challenges, earning your stripes as a consultant before graduating. Work with world-leading faculty, distinguished business leaders and entrepreneurs, and build leadership skills through teamwork with classmates.
In-Company Project (Final Master Project)
Take on the role of a consultant to a participating company, addressing a real business challenge in strategy, marketing, innovation, operations, organizational behavior or finance. The new Final Master Project is an integral part of the Esade MBA program. It’s an opportunity to get hands-on, put your knowledge to the test, and prove to top companies that you can add value.
CBI: Challenged-Based Innovation Project (Elective)
A project in collaboration with CERN
Esade, IED [Barcelona Design School] and ETSETB [Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering] (UPC) have been chosen to take part in the international CBI (Challenge-Based Innovation) project in collaboration with CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), a world leader in the field of particle physics.
After two weeks of learning with scientists at CERN’s facilities in Geneva, 18 students from the three centres will work together with students from Italian, Norwegian, Finnish, and Australian universities. The participants aim to create products and services for solving the problems faced by society and to present them in February to the CERN community in Switzerland.
Designing innovative solutions for great challenges facing humankind
The students, in collaboration with CERN researchers, use sophisticated technology to develop new products and services that support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Five students from Esade Business School, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), and the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) of Barcelona have participated, for the fourth consecutive year, in Challenge Based Innovation (CBI), an initiative of @Ideasquare and the Department of Innovation at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). In this project course, multidisciplinary teams of students and their instructors collaborate with researchers to discover novel solutions for the future of humankind. The projects focus on the fields of education, public health, pollution, and emergency assistance.
Other case competitions
- Rotterdam School Management PE Case Competition
- HULT Global Case Challenge
- SICC-Sofaer International Case Competition
- Global Prize - AT Kearney Global Case Competition
- Copenhagen Business School Case Competition
- ICC@M – International Case Competition @ Maastricht University
- Solvay Business Game
- IESE / Roland Berger Case Competition
- Harvard Business Club Case Competition
- MMICC - McGill Management International Case Competition
- Aspen Institute Case Competition
- University of Washington Global Business Case Competition
- CIMA Global Business Challenge
- National Real Estate Challenge
- L’Oreal Brandstorm
- Google Online Marketing Challenge
- Unilever Future Leader’s League
- Alfa Case Competition
- Minsait Case Competition
- Adidas Case Competition
- Nespresso Case Competition
Guests Speakers
Prestigious academics and executives to strengthen your talent.
The FTMBA teaching staff are well-known and respected academics in their field, with extensive professional experience, and market knowledge, thanks to their years at top management level in international companies. Their knowledge and real industry knowledge will help you detect opportunities throughout the program and find solutions that generate positive impact within your organization.
Investigators & academics with vast teaching experience offer the educational basis and frameworks, offering insight into market trends and new perspective of sectorial innovation, thanks to their extensive research.
CEOs, business people and entrepreneurs, consultants, and first-class opinion leaders will bring you a practical and global perspective and will provide the vital connection with the realities of the current business world.
The balance between classes imparted by active business practitioners in companies and institutions of repute and research professionals offers participants a rich double perspective.
Guess Speakers brought in class 2024
Daniel Naranjo - VP at Beway Latinoamerica (+)
Evas Matos - Associate Managing Director at ideas42 (+)
Francesco Cerigioni - Data Scientist at Buynomics (+)
Christopher Rauh - Principal Investigator at Conflict Forecast and EconAI, Professor at University of Cambridge (+)
Ana García Hernández - Senior Policy and Research Manager J-PAL Europe (+)
Pau Agullo - CEO at Shoptimus AI (+)
Ariadna Maso - HealthTech | Founder @SANNO | Forbes 30 under 30 (+)
Carolina Decastri - Platform @Atlantic Labs & FoodLabs | START Network |Global Shaper | Nova Talent (+)
Maria Alegre - Co-Founder Chartboost & Flori Ventures (+)
Xavier Sanchez - CEO Sandwichez (+)
Ju Yie - Senior Research Fellow on China at Chatham House and Associate Research Fellow at LSE IDEAS (+)
Xavier Virgili - General Manager Spain, Glovo (+)
Roy Gunter - Founder | Innovator | Company Builder | CEO | Investor | Future and Storyteller (+)
Fabio Tentori CEO at Geoside, Italgas Group | ex-Enel | ex-McKinsey | INSEAD MBA (+)
Joan Perez Pericot - VP of Industrial Print Strategy and Sustainability at HP. Advisory board member at EUROFRED. Mentor & Coach. (+)
Antonio Capella - Partner Ernst & Young, Responsable de Sostenibilidad y ESG en Cataluña (+)
Jean-Charles Dwelshauvers - CFO at CEGID (+)
Matthias Vennemann - Head of Business Consulting at Bayer (+)
Ferran Soriano - CEO of City Football Group (+)
Jordi Bertomeu - Former CEO EuroLeague Basketball (+)
Jose Marcilla - Senior Vice President Head Southern, Eastern, Russia & Central Europe (SERCE) at Novartis (+)
Monica Solis - Chef and Business Owner of Foodie Solutions (+)
Nacho Mas-Bagà - CEO en Girona Futbol Club (+)
Judith Aldabó - Partnership Director at NYYC American Magic, America's Cup (+)
Jaume Alcover - Marketing Director at BAXI (+)
Alex Arroyo - Head of Media Rights at MotoGP and WorldSBK (+)
Ewan MacLeod - Founder of New Era Digital Partners (+)
Andrea Baccenetti - VP of Strategic Initiatives at Boostlingo (+)