Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas

INCAE Business School
founding	1964
Sponsorship	Private
place	Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Website	http://www.incae.edu

INCAE Business School is a business school in Latin America . It currently has two facilities: the Francisco de Sola campus in Nicaragua and the Walter Kissling Gam campus in Costa Rica . INCAE is known as one of the best business schools in Latin America and has already achieved respectable places in global rankings.

INCAE Business School

Library of the INCAE Business School in Costa Rica

View of the student accommodation on campus in Costa Rica

INCAE was founded in 1964 with the support of the American government and the governments of the individual Central American countries. The business school works closely with the American Harvard Business School . This was also involved in the establishment.

First, the Campus Francisco de Sola facility in Managua was founded in 1964 and then, in 1984, the Walter Kissling Gam campus in Alajuela, Costa Rica. This campus is located on a former country club, where all students usually live during their studies.

The current Dean of INCAE Business School is Arturo Condo, who did his doctorate at Michael Porter's Institute at Harvard Business School. Arturo Condo is also a Senior Institute Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, headed by Michael Porter. Michael Porter also holds an honorary doctorate from INCAE Business School. The INCAE School is still very well known and renowned for its focus on sustainable management.

Recognized students and professors

Numerous personalities from political and economic life in Latin America have close ties to INCAE. For example the Minister of Culture of Costa Rica, María Elena Carballo , the former Vice Minister of Culture of Costa Rica, Amalia Chaverri, the former Minister of the Environment and current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, René Castro Salazar , the former Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica, Alberto Trejos , the Chairman of the Central Bank of Costa Rica, Francisco de Paula Gutiérrez, and the Chairman of the Central Bank of Nicaragua, Noel Ramírez .

the faculty

In 2009, INCAE's teaching staff consisted of forty-two professors with teaching assignments in the MBA program and the advanced training program for managers. 92% of the teaching staff has a doctorate. Most of these titles were obtained at universities in the so-called Ivy League in the USA. About 35% of all professors received their PhD from Harvard Business School, where many of these professors had previously obtained their Masters. The ratio between students and professors in INCAE is 6: 1.

In addition, INCAE requires its faculty members to have constant, direct contact with business circles and in this way guarantees that the material given in the classroom is always kept up to date. The professors are always in direct contact with the individual companies through advisory services. They also take on research assignments for them, which are then published in scientific journals.

Dine INCAE Business School works closely with many companies. The relationship with the company Nespresso, with which the INCAE Business School works in the context of a summer school and various studies in the context of sustainable coffee management, serves as a representative.

Study programs offered

The main INCAE program is its MBA program, which is offered in Spanish and English and lasts 21 months. In this program, the university maintains various double diploma agreements, for example with the renowned German universities EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht , WHU and Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL) in Germany or the Thunderbird School of Global Management and Case Western Reserve University in the United States States or the ESADE Business School in Spain. Exchange agreements exist with a number of other universities.

INCAE also offers a master’s program in Agribusiness Management together with the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica, which lasts 18 months. Together with the Wisconsin School of Business in the United States, a master’s program in Global Real Estate Management is offered, which also lasts about 21 months. In this program, there is a cooperation with HEC Paris and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST). Finally, INCAE offers an Executive MBA program that lasts 16 months. Finally, there is a whole range of executive education courses on offer.

Accreditation and Membership

Masters degrees from INCAE Business School are recognized by the SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) of the United States of America. The organizations EQUIS (European Quality Improvement Systems) and AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) recognize this title.

INCAE is also a member of the following business school associations: AACSB Internacional (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), NASPAA (National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration), and BALAS (Business Association of Latin American Studies). Finally, INCAE is a member of the Consejo Latinoamericano de Escuelas de Administración ( CLADEA ).

Rankings

According to the ranking of the business magazine AméricaEconomía, INCAE Business School was seen as the leading university in Latin America, where it was mostly seen as number one, but at least number two in the region. This makes INCAE Business School the only university in Latin America that was consistently ranked either # 1 or # 2 in this journal. In particular, the exceptionally high quality of the professors was repeatedly emphasized.

In the 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report , the business school was ranked 5th in Latin America.

In addition, INCAE was ranked 10th among the most international business schools in the Wall Street Journal ranking in 2005. The Financial Times listed INCAE several times as one of the world's top 100 MBA programs and in the top 50 executive education programs. In 2011, INCAE Business School was ranked 77th in the influential Financial Times ranking of the world's best 100 MBA programs. In 2008, INCAE was recognized by Eduniversal as one of the three most influential business schools in Latin America and was awarded 5 palms (maximum number). Finally, in 2010, it was named one of the top 3 business schools in Latin America and the top 29 business schools in the world.

Web links

• INCAE Official Website
• Current ranking of America Economia
• Brochure about the INCAE Business School and the MBA program
• Presentation of INCAE Business School's commitment in the field of sustainable development (PDF; 2.6 MB)
• News Paper La Nación Costa Rica: INCAE international recognition in the Financial Times

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AméricaEconomía (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) http://www.americaeconomia.com
2. ↑ ^{a b} EducAméricas archive link ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Financial Times (2004, 2006, 2009, 2010) http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/incae
4. ^ The Wall Street Journal (2005) http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/MB_05_Scoreboard.pdf
5. ↑ Eduniversal (2008) Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Information on the Harvard Business School homepage. http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/2009/december/ib_incae.html
7. ↑ Information on the Harvard Business School homepage. http://www.hbs.edu/global/timeline.html
8. ↑ Biography of Michael Porter. Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Biography of Michael Porter. http://www.hbs.edu/global/timeline.html
10. ↑ ^{a b} Brochure of the INCAE Business School. http://www.incae.edu/images/descargables/Maestrias/MBA-Folleto.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Nespresso. http://www.nespresso.com/precom/nmag/9/pdfs/de/nm9i_0068_0074_de.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ↑ Nespresso. http://www.nespresso.com/mediacenter/index.php?page=international-press-detail&id=8
13. ^ Brochure of the INCAE Business School. http://www.incae.edu/images/descargables/Maestrias/MBA-Folleto.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ^ Homepage of the INCAE Business School. Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ^ SACS. http://www.sacscoc.org/pdf/webmemlist.pdf
16. ↑ The European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) http://www.efmd.org/index.php/component/efmd/?cmsid=040929rpku
17. ↑ AACSB International https://www.aacsb.net/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=AACSB&WebKey=7DBEF580-E72C-49B5-91BB-6C589B24CC77
18. ↑ AméricaEconomía (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010). http://www.americaeconomia.com
19. ↑ QS Global 200 Business Schools Report 2010 Central and Latin America . Retrieved February 1, 2011.
20. ^ The Wall Street Journal (2005) http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/MB_05_Scoreboard.pdf
21. ↑ Financial Times (2004, 2006, 2009, 2010) http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/incae
22. ↑ Financial Times (2011) http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings-2011
23. ↑ Eduniversal (2008) Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
24. ↑ Eduniversal (2010) http://convention.eduniversal.info/awards.php?PHPSESSID=805aa97f747a6547236661c0fd82ccd3  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.