The Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE) is a college associated with the Ramon Llull University located in Barcelona, Spain. ESADE is composed of three departments; the ESADE Business School, the ESADE Executive Language Center and the ESADE Law School. ESADE follows an applied teaching methodology, which is based on the development of professional and management skills and abilities. ESADE has campuses in Barcelona Pedralbes, Barcelona Sant Cugat, Madrid, and Buenos Aires.

As of summer 2008, ESADE had over 11,000 students (University Programmes: 3,073, Business School: 5,454, Executive Language Center: 3,190) and had collaboration agreements with over 100 universities worldwide. Most notably, ESADE has formed a strategic alliance with the Ramon Llull University in its undergraduate programmes in Law and Business. In 2005, ESADE Creapolis, the world's first technology park based on open innovation,^{[citation needed]} was founded and now houses some 1200 professionals from more than 50 organisations.

Ricardo Mejide (born November 29, 1974 in Barcelona) -usually known as Risto Mejide- is a Spanish publicist, author, music producer and songwriter, best known as a judge on the television show Operación Triunfo.

Risto Mejide holds a degree and MBA from the ESADE business school (1997) where he also worked as a teacher.

Mejide joined the jury of the show on its fifth series and became known for his comments, which often offended the contestants. He has been compared to Simon Cowell. In 2008 Mejide published his first book, El Pensamiento Negativo ("The Negative Thinking"). In 2009 he began to work as a songwriter and music producer, associating himself with Labuat.