The Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (''Institute of Advanced Studies in Administration'', IESA) is a private non-profit

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with campuses in

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and

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. It was founded in 1965. 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

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(1989 - 1993). A number of academics from it (including

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and

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) were appointed ministers, and the group became known as the "IESA Boys," in analogy to Chile's

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. IESA is accredited by two of the three leading global business school accreditation associations:

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and AMBA. It was formerly also accredited by

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(2008–2021). In the 2009

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the school was ranked 9th in South America.

Notable people

* Gil Yepes, Instituto professor from 1972 to 1990

References

External links

www.iesa.edu.ve
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History

Notable people

See also

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