2015 DONATIONS REPORT 2016 ESADE Foundation
DONATIONS REPORT 3
Content
1. Introduction 4
2. Private contributions 8
3. The ESADE Challenge For Talent 22
4. Highlights of the 2015-2016 Academic Year 30
5. How to collaborate 36
6. ESADE’s commitment to donors 40
7. In perspective 46
8. Thank you 50 1. Introduction
6 INTRODUCTION
Introduction
As for every academic year, The Scholarship Programme: The results of ESADE’s research go beyond a vital tool for attracting top talent classrooms and academic output. ESADE’s this letter of welcome is the research creates new, ground-breaking best place to thank the host The ESADE Challenge for Talent campaign was knowledge that helps meet the current launched in April 2012 to provide funds for challenges in the Management and Law of companies, organisations the Scholarship Programme. The 2015-2016 fields. In keeping with ESADE’s founding and people who have helped Academic Year marked its fourth anniversary. mission, we strive to create knowledge that We began the project with great enthusiasm will meet companies’ real needs. ESADE. Thanks to their and it proved a great success. The campaign support, we continue to grow helps and rewards talented young people who In the 2015-2016 Academic Year, ESADE would otherwise lack the money needed to researchers boosted their research output by and meet the main challenges train at ESADE. 20% over the previous year. This academic facing the School: attracting year has set an ESADE research record both Now is a good time to take stock of the in terms of the number of journals in which top talent; creating new initiative. The results could not be more papers were published and their quality. positive. We have achieved the goal we set at knowledge through research; the beginning — namely, to reach €1 million Over a hundred ESADE faculty members have contributing to social debate. in private donations per annum in Year 4. contributed to research activities through 17 This sterling performance reveals the trust centres, with their research groups and think in and affection for ESADE felt by alumni, tanks. Research topics include: leadership students and collaborating firms and entities. development; social innovation; public The support received during this period came governance; public-private management; from over 1,500 people and 26 companies the global economy; geopolitics; and was supplemented by ESADE’s own entrepreneurship. funds. The joint resources made it possible All these activities are underpinned by to grant 1,061 scholarships covering various both ESADE’s commitment to research programmes. These students will swell the and the unwavering support of companies, ranks of tomorrow’s top professionals and foundations and entities. Here, ESADE’s help change the world we live in. research is seen as an excellent way to meet present and future business and social Creating knowledge challenges.
ESADE’s mission is to prepare students so that they can cope successfully with future global challenges. We can carry it out thanks to our superb teachers and professionals. They are at learning’s cutting edge, and keen to innovate and create new knowledge. DONATIONS REPORT 7
Fostering social debate Thanks
ESADE willingness to share its research by May we once again thank the companies, fostering social debate goes hand-in-hand foundations and alumni that have supported with knowledge creation. The School remains ESADE by investing in its strategic projects, faithful to one of its founding principles, which greatly help us in fulfilling our namely creating value for society by spreading mission to train top-flight professionals in Manel Raventós its knowledge far and wide. Management and Law. This support also President of the ESADE Foundation plays a key role in fostering social debate and The 2015-2016 Academic Year has seen creating new knowledge. intense social debate. On this score, ESADE provides a forum for academics and Your support is vital for ESADE’s companies seeking ways of meeting the present and future. challenges of our changing society. ESADE disseminates its knowledge to the public through The Economic and Financial Report and The Social Confidence Index — both publications generously supported by various companies and organisations. In addition, the Big Challenges sessions, which address the global social and political challenges have had a great impact.
New challenges
ESADE is well aware that the convergence of digitalisation and globalisation are driving a paradigm shift in higher education. That is Eugenia Bieto why the School has already implemented the Director-General of the ESADE first stage of the ‘Student First’ initiative, Business & Law School which provides a new model of teaching innovation that focuses on the student’s experience. This is a new methodological approach that draws on the digitalisation of content and new spaces. This makes for a more dynamic, adaptable methodology that gives students a much more active role in learning. In short, it is based on more technology, new spaces and innovation in teaching methods. ‘Students First’ will serve the leaders who will shape 21st society.
Germán Castejón
Trustee and President of the ESADE Challenge Board 2. Private contributions
A guarantee of sustainability
10 PRIVATE CONTRIBUTIONS
Private contributions
A guarantee of sustainability
The sources of private contributions Allocation of private donations
ESADE received €3.9 million in donations in the 2015-2016 Academic Research and faculty. To foster synergies between university world Year as a result of the close link between the School and donors, and professional spheres, ESADE needs to pool knowledge and individuals, companies and entities. These donations are vital for discuss issues on the present and future of Management and Law with ESADE because they: (1) give a strong impetus to strategic projects, collaborating companies and entities. Hence the importance of recruiting such as creating new knowledge in Law and Management; (2) attract internationally-renowned leading faculty. internationally-renowned scholars to teach and experiment in our classrooms; (3) ensure that talented but poor youngsters can study at The Scholarship Programme. The people and organisations supporting ESADE in the 2015-2016 Academic Year. the Scholarship Programme mean the sum earmarked is growing year by year, raising the average coverage and range of the scholarships offered. Their donations, through the The ESADE Challenge for Talent campaign, means talented, cash-starved students can make their dreams of studying at ESADE come true.
Endowment. The Endowment Fund comprises assets whose returns are invested in ESADE’s strategic priorities or are ploughed back into the fund. ESADE’s endowment currently stands at €7.2 million.
Sources of private donations Allocation of private donations
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