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The ' —generally translated as Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership but officially branded as EGADE Business School since 2010— is the graduate business school of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM); one of Latin America’s largest private universities. Founded in 1995 as a group of business schools attached to some of the Institute’s campuses, a national reorganization in 2010 merged most of them into a semi-autonomous, national graduate school divided in two sites: one serving the metropolitan area of Monterrey –where its rectorate is located– and another one serving the metropolitan area of Mexico City. The school is generally ranked among the best in Latin America by most international financial publications (see ''Rankings'') and in 2008 its Monterrey campus became the fourth in the region –and the first in Mexico〔– to achieve simultaneous accreditation by the United States' AACSB, the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and the British AMBA; which at the time only 34 business schools in the world were holding. its academic programs include executive, full-time, part-time and in-company master's degrees in Business Administration and Finance; doctorate degrees and more than a dozen double degrees with business schools from overseas〔 (see ''Joint programs and international partnerships'' below). ==History== The earliest forerunner of the school was founded on 1 September 1964 as ''Escuela de Graduados en Administración'' (Graduate School of Management), a small department attached to the Monterrey Campus of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM). The project was funded partially through a grant from the Ford Foundation,〔 which at the time was an active promoter of Alliance for Progress;〔 a United States program that attempted to counterbalance Communist influence in Latin America —particularly in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution— by sponsoring economic and social development in the region. Similar agreements, aiming to provide "advanced training for faculty members from business schools in emerging countries"〔 had previously funded the Getulio Vargas Foundation of Brazil (1954), ESAN in Peru (1962),〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/about/history/timeline/international.html )〕 and INCAE (originally in Nicaragua, 1964). In its first year, the school was offering a single master’s degree in Management ''()'' to 17 full-time and 37 part-time students. By 1968 it had 395, including several students from the United States, three from the Netherlands and 41 non-Mexican Latin Americans.〔 The short-lived institution, however, would be disbanded in the 1970s, when the Institute restructured itself, centralized most of its academic departments around academic divisions, and transferred its graduate degrees to the local campuses.〔 The Tech made no further attempt to create a graduate business school until 1995, when the (Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership) was created as an appendage of the Monterrey Campus. Commonly shortened as EGADE, it brought early successes and barely ten years after its foundation its MBA degree was ranked among the top ten in the world by the ''Wall Street Journal''.〔 Such encouraging results allowed its first director, Wharton alumnus Jaime Alonso Gómez, to become the first Latin American scholar in history to be named ''Dean of the Year'' by the Academy of International Business. It also prompted the gradual creation of homologous schools in six more campuses of the Institute; which shared the same academic curricula but, as peripheral institutions bound to local campuses, found themselves replicating organizational structures and forced to seek costly international accreditations individually. A major reorganization of postgraduate studies at ITESM in 2010 merged three out of seven into a semi-autonomous, national graduate school under a brand new name: EGADE Business School.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「EGADE Business School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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