History
Thirteen years ago, the Asian Center for Entrepreneurship was established as one of the centers for excellence of the Asian Institute of Management. Since then, ACE has pioneered several course offerings in the field of entrepreneurship including its flagship program the Master in Entrepreneurship (ME). After running for nine years (1999-2008), ME has graduated close to six hundred master entrepreneurs.
July 12, 2007 marked the beginning of the new ACE Center for Entrepreneurship and Management Education, Inc. as a spin-off from its original status as one of AIM’s schools. The ACE-ME, Inc. was established by five fierce advocates of entrepreneurship and experiential education. The new ACE brings to the marketplace a new paradigm of education, one which seeks to fuse the real world of business with a learner-centered academy of management gurus and practitioners. With this in mind, the Mastering Entrepreneurship for Nation-Building Program (formerly ME program) is offered under its new home, the Ateneo Graduate School of Business.
Part of ACE-ME, Inc.’s commitment to transform the socio-economic landscape of the Philippines, ACE-ME, Inc. ushers in a new era of collaboration rather than competition among those who wish to serve the higher national interest. Partnership with the Ateneo Graduate School of Business launched in March 26, 2009 gave birth to two additional breakthrough entrepreneurial programs: the Applied Entrepreneurship Bootcamp and the Visionary Innovations for Breakthrough Entrepreneurship (VIBE).
| July 12, 2007 | The ACE Center for Entrepreneurship and Management Education, Inc. (ACE-ME, Inc.) was launched as a spin-off from one of AIM’s Schools. The launch was well attended by its ME alumni and supporters. |
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| June 10, 2008 | The ACE-ME, Inc. concluded the 2nd Module of its pilot offer of the Finance for Non-Finance Executives (Managing Costs and Profits). |
| June 23, 2008 | The Entrepreneurial and Management Series in the Real Estate Industry Course was launched with the opening of its three-day first module entitled “Highest and Best Land Use Planning”. Modules 2 and 3 followed on July 28-30, 2008 and August 28-30, 2008 respectively. |
| July 21 to August 13, 2008 | The first offering of the Applied Entrepreneurship Bootcamp was launched in collaboration with the Ateneo Graduate School of Business. |
| July 31, 2008 | The Corporate Entrepreneurship for Top Management was offered. A three-day course that aims to address the pressing need in the corporate sector to imbibe an entrepreneurial spirit among its employees. |
| November 2008 | The first Visionary Innovations for Breakthrough Entrepreneurship (VIBE) was launched in collaboration with the Ateneo Graduate School of Business. |
| December 2008 | The 15th and last batch of ME students graduated prior to moving the ME program to its new home at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business. |
| January 2009 | ACE-ME, Inc. moved to its new office along Paseo de Roxas, Avenue within the Barangay Urdaneta area. |
| February 16 to March 11, 2009 | For the second time, the Applied Entrepreneurship Bootcamp was conducted within the Rockwell campus of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business. |
| March 26, 2009 | The partnership between ACE-ME, Inc.-Ateneo Graduate School of Business was formally launched via the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement for the joint run of the Mastering Entrepreneurship for Nation-Building Program. |
