Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración

The Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (Institute of Advanced Studies in Administration, IESA) is a private non-profit Venezuelan business school with campuses in Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia.^[1] It was founded in 1965.^[2] It has its own publisher, Ediciones IESA.

History

IESA is considered Venezuela's leading business school, and it played a key role in the liberalization economic policy of the second administration of Carlos Andrés Pérez (1989 - 1993). A number of academics from it (including Moisés Naím and Ricardo Hausmann) were appointed ministers, and the group became known as the "IESA Boys," in analogy to Chile's Chicago Boys.^[3]

IESA is accredited by two of the three leading global business school accreditation associations: AACSB and AMBA. It was formerly also accredited by EQUIS (2008–2021). In the 2009 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report^[4] the school was ranked 9th in South America.^{[failed verification]}

Notable people

• Gil Yepes, Instituto professor from 1972 to 1990^[5]

See also

• Category:Academic staff of the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración