Esade (Escola Superior d'Administració i Direcció d'Empreses) is an international private educational institution based in Barcelona, Spain.

[2] The school has also formed a strategic alliance with Ramon Llull University in its undergraduate programmes in Law and Business.

The Esade project was conceived in the spring of 1954 by a group of Spanish professionals and entrepreneurs who later founded the university.

The school signed an agreement with the Jesuits (Societas Iesu) in October 1958 and started offering its first academic programs in a small building in the district of Sant Gervasi, Barcelona.

The organisation manages a technology and innovation park on the Esade campus in Sant Cugat, Barcelona.