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The Valparaiso Business School (Escuela de Negocios de Valparaíso), was established in 1953 under the protection of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso. It is noted for being the first educational institution in Chile to offer the business administration career, as well as one of pioneers in Latin America.
In 1995, the humanistic subjects were introduced into the career to make a little change in the students of a career like Business administration.
In the early 1970s, the alliance between the business school and the university was broken, and after a few years of autonomy, a new alliance was signed with the Federico Santa María Technical University, a new association that would remain until the late 1980s.
In 1979, it became the first business school to introduce an MBA program in Chile.
After the educational reform brought about by the military government, in the last years of the 1980 decade, Adolfo Ibáñez University was founded with the business school like central axis. In 1989 the careers of Laws and Engineering were opened, in 1996 Journalism and Pedagogy and in 2002 Psychology. During 2002 the new Peñalolen Campus was opened in Santiago.
In 2006, this organization founded the Adolfo Ibáñez School of Management, settling this school for post-graduate programs in Miami. It is the first Latin-American MBA program, to be certified by the US government.
In March 2009, this institution settled the arrangements, so the students of the Master in Finance can easily perform the CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) international exams, and so obtain their certification, due to the needs that the market has applied to the graduated students. The Economist has already exposed this problem, that the educational institutions should pay attention to.
In April 2009, it associated with Indian School of Business, for the creation of mutual post-graduate programs, specifically speaking, not only the creation of an international MBA program, but also the exchange of students and teachers between them. The Financial Times establishes this Indian institution in the 15th position among the whole globe, in matters of post-graduate programs.
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In May 2010, Adolfo Ibañez business School closes a strategic alliance for Dual Degree with UCLA (John E. Anderson School of Management), in which establishes that one fourth of the Global Executive MBA is to be done in Chile, while the rest, in the exterior. Until UCLA had his mind set up, the final competitors in consideration were three; Adolfo Ibañez Business School, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and the ITAM (Mexican's Institute). This does represent a huge achievement because no Latin American university has a Dual Degree with a Top 10 North American institution.
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