About us

More than a business school

Our history

Porto Business School is an institution with unique features, resulting from the way the school emerged, stemming from collaboration with large Portuguese companies.

We are the result of more than 30 years’ experience in providing training for executives as ISEE – Instituto Superior de Estudos Empresariais (College of Business Studies) (1988-2000), EGP – Escola de Gestão do Porto (Porto Management School) (2000-2008), and EGP-UPBS.

Our aim is to empower people to think critically and to come up with their own solutions, to identify future challenges, to create different scenarios and to rethink strategies. That is, to make change happen. It has been that way from the outset, in 1988.

1988

1st Class of ISEE's full-time MBA programme Foundation of ISEE

1989

1st Edition of the General Management Programme

1994

Creation of ISFEP by FEP, as an interface institution for studies and applied research projects

1998

Creation of the José Valente Award

1999

ISEE becomes EGP-Escola de Gestão do Porto

2001

1st Edition of EGP's Executive MBA (in partnership with ESADE)

2003

Launch of the 1st Executive Education Portfolio

2008

Formation of EGP-UPBS, following the merger of training activities for executives of EGP and ISFEP

2009

EGP-UPBS programmes are internationally accredited by AMBA. EGP-UPBS becomes a member of EFMD.

2011

The School’s Executive Education programmes are now present on the Financial Times ranking. The MBA programmes receives EPAS accreditation (EFMD), the 2nd international accreditation.

2012

EGP-UPBS becomes Porto Business School. The Financial Times ranks Porto Business School as one of the best schools in europe.

2013

Inauguration of the new Porto Business School Campus

2014

Marta Cunha, EMBA student, receives the "Student of the Year" AMBA Award

2017

Branduplift. The School's new website is internationally recognised.

2018

Porto Business School celebrates its 30th anniversary and is honored by the President of the Republic of Portugal with the Order of Merit.

2020

Creation of the University of Porto Business & Economics (UPBE), a partnership between the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto and Porto Business School.

2022

A Porto Business School is internationally accredited by AACSB.

2023

Porto Business School celebrates its 35th anniversary.

Experience

The ties between companies and U.Porto, ensure that we are in line with organisations’ present and future needs. Find below our partners.

Associates

Statutes

Statutes of the Porto Business School (PBS) - U.Porto Association

See document

Governing Bodies

BOARD OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
(MANDATE 2023-2024)

Chairman: Banco Comercial Português, S.A., represented by Rui Manuel Teixeira
Vice-Chairman: Efacec Power Solutions, SGPS, S.A., represented by Ângelo Ramalho

SUPERVISORY BOARD
(MANDATE 2023-2024)

Chairman: Sonae, SGPS, S.A., represented by Luís Filipe Reis
Vice-Chairman: Banco BPI, S.A., represented by Manuel Ferreira da Silva

Companies

Banco BPI, S.A., represented by por Manuel Ferreira da Silva
Bial – Portela & Companhia, S.A. represented by Miguel Portela
BNP Paribas Factor, represented by Luis Augusto
Continental Mabor - Indústria de Pneus, S.A.,represented by Pedro Olavo Santos Carreira
EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A.,represented by Ana Paula Marques
Natixis, represented by Etienne Huret
NORS, represented by Tomás Jervell
Ramada, S.A., represented por João Borges Oliveira
Sonae, SGPS, S.A., represented by Luís Filipe Reis
Super Bock Group, S.A., represented by Rui Lopes Ferreira

UNIVERSITY OF PORTO

Ana Paula Africano | Faculty of Economics
Cláudia Ribeiro | Faculty of Economics
Dalila Martins Fontes | Faculty of Economics
José Fernando Oliveira | Faculty of Engineering
Maria Amélia Pina Tomás Veiga| Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences
Óscar Afonso | Faculty of Economics
Paulo Beleza de Vasconcelos | Faculty of Economics
Paulo de Tarso Domingues | Faculty of Law
Renato Manuel Natal Jorge | Faculty of Engineering
Rui Artur Bártolo Calçada | Faculty of Engineering

EXECUTIVE BOARD
(MANDATE 2023-2026)

Dean: José Esteves
Vice-Dean: Patrícia Teixeira Lopes
Vice-Dean: Luís Garrido Marques

ACADEMIC COUNCIL
(MANDATE 2023-2026)

Chairman: João Claro
Vice-Chairman: Manuel Mota Freitas

STATUTORY AUDITOR
(MANDATE 2023-2024)

Permanent: Crowe & Associados, SROC, Lda., represented by Ana Raquel Esperança
Alternate: José Carlos de Carvalho Velez

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
(MANDATE 2023-2026)

Antonio Batista da Silva Jr. | Dean, Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil
Enase Okonedo | Vice-chancellor of the Pan-Atlantic University and former Dean of Lagos Business School, Nigeria
Jean Francois Manzoni | President, IMD, Switzerland
Ramon O’Callaghan | Former Dean and Strategic Advisor for Internationalization, Porto Business School, Portugal
Soumitra Dutta | Dean, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, UK
Steef van de Velde | Former Dean of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands, and member of the International Management Board of AMBA
Valerie Hausman | Associate Vice Provost for Duke Kunshan University and Duke University Programs and Strategy
Zhou Lin | Former Dean, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Code of Ethics

Code of Ethics and Conduct

Listed within this Code are the values and principles that guide Porto Business School. The institution and all those who collaborate with it regard these not only as intrinsically their own.

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