IESE Business School
What It Amounts To
The model's other pole: the center that counts the world's search funds with Stanford.
At a Glance
- Courses
- Nothing published.
- Club
- The Search Funds & EtA Group, whose stated mission includes accelerating the launch of a formal search fund for students who have committed to the career.
- Money
- Nothing published.
- Conference
- The biennial International Search Fund Conference, hosted since 2015; the seventh edition is scheduled for 2026 in Barcelona.
What Else It Runs
- The International Search Fund Center itself, run with Stanford GSB since 2011: Stanford counts the US and Canada, IESE everywhere else.
- An intensive search-fund elective, which the center's own page calls one of the most popular at IESE.
Open to readers outside the school
- The biennial International Search Funds study, which tracks every search fund outside the US and Canada; the 2024 edition is public.
- The Search Fund and Entrepreneurial Acquisitions Bootcamp: four days in Barcelona, open to anyone at a published price (4,500 euros; June 2026 edition).
Where to Look
Other Schools
The Intern & Job Board carries the programmes that pay a salary to search, and Investor Match the firms that fund one. What a student group runs on is in the club kit.