École des hautes études commerciales du nord

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EDHEC Business School
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Established: 1906
Type: Private
President: Olivier Oger (Dean)
Location: Lille, Nice, Paris, France
Website: www.edhec.com

EDHEC or École De Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord is a French business school and grande école founded in 1906. It has three campuses, one in Lille, one in Nice, where it absorbed the bachelor program Espeme and Theseus International Management Institute, and the latest was founded in 2006 in Paris' business district, La Défense. EDHEC is EQUIS accredited by the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Education), and AMBA accredited for the Theseus and Part-Time Executive MBAs programmes and by the AACSB, and the Conference Of The Grandes Ecoles.

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[edit] Programmes

Every programme is taught either in English or in French, the only exception being ESPEME bachelor's degree which is taught in French.

The Master in Management (Programme Grande Ecole), mainly targeted at students in the French "classes préparatoires" system but also open to French & international students with a Bachelor degree. Campuses : Lille, Nice, Paris (European Apprenticeship Programme).

The Master of Science programmes in European Business, Finance, Marketing, Risk and Asset Management, and Strategic Management has enrolled students from 75 nationalities (for 2006/2007). Campus : Nice.

ESPEME is the EDHEC bachelor unit. Campuses : Lille, Nice.

Theseus EDHEC MBA - is an MBA that specializes in IT and innovation management. Campus : Nice

Executive MBA - Part-time. Campus: Lille

PhD in Business Administration & MSc in Research - majors : finance or accounting.

It also offers executive education courses in management and finance.

[edit] Ranking

The school is usually ranked fifth among business schools in France, after HEC, ESSEC, ESCP-EAP, and EM Lyon. It is worth noting that these French rankings have been very stable over the past 20 years. Their source is the French state organization called SIGEM which is in charge of tests for admissions for "classe préparatoire" students.


In 2006, the EDHEC Grande Ecole Programme ranked 7th in the Financial Times ranking of European Masters in Management. It was previously 12th in 2005 for the same ranking.

[edit] Research

EDHEC Business School is involved in academic research and has launched its Research For Business [1] policy, that states objectives for EDHEC research.

The EDHEC RAM center produces hedge funds style indexes, which are similar in purpose to CSFB/Tremont indexes on its website.

It is publishing a return based style analysis ranking of European mutual funds with Europerformance (see [2]). The EDHEC-RAM is sponsored by financial organizations such as Euronext, Lyxor AM and Eurex.

As a business school, EDHEC has chosen to conduct applied research in the fields of finance, business law, marketing and management.

- Finance, with the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre

Created in 2001, this centre does research in asset management, most particularly in the organisation and improvement of risk management.

- Accounting and financial analysis with the EDHEC Financial Analysis and Accounting Research Centre

Created in 2006, the EDHEC Financial Analysis and Accounting Research Centre works on the choice of discount rate in company valuation and in particular on the integration of systemic accounting risk.

- Marketing, with InteraCT

Created in 2006, Interact is a research centre dedicated to research about cultural approaches to consumption and related marketing strategies

- Economics, with the EDHEC Economics Research Centre on Evaluation of Public Policy and State Reform.
Since February 2006 EDHEC has had an economics research team focused on public policy and state reform. This team works on four broad themes: financing and reform of the welfare state, labor policies and competition, evaluation of sovereign risk and optimal management of the public debt and European budgetary governance.

- Legal, with LegalEdhec Research Centre.

The LegalEDHEC Research Centre has Legal Performance and Company Competitiveness as a subtitle.At the heart of the Centre then is the notion of legal performance and its variations.

- Leadership, with ICODe Research Centre

ICODe's mission is to support management in its work on the new leadership/legitimacy practices and in its exercise of managerial responsibilities/activities in the field of corporate governance.


[edit] Societies

EDHEC has around 60 student societies on the two campuses. Below is a nonexhaustive list:

[edit] Welcoming foreign students

  • Open'up, welcomes incoming foreign students in Lille

[edit] Culture

[edit] Events

  • Course Croisière EDHEC [3], the biggest sailing event for students in Europe
  • Citepub-Citecom (http://www.citepub.fr), organization of the 'Etoiles de la Pub', an event dedicated to the creation of a real commercial by students. The members of CitéPub also work on a Communication Consulting Agency, created to give access to a real communication budget to SMEs and young star-ups (communication plan, media plan, communication medium)
  • Prix de Court, short film competition
  • Le Père Noël est-il un rocker ? (Is Santa Klaus a rocker ?) music festival organised to help disadvantaged children
  • Star ec, organise 'La croisée des talents' a junior manager competition

[edit] Social Life

  • Bureau des etudiants (Nice and Lille Campus), in charge of major nightlife events and introduction week ends
  • Ed'MyCible (Lille) and Admissiblement Vôtre (Nice) are welcoming students for the time of their admission tests

[edit] Social and humanitarian

  • VLV, (Vive les Vacances), holidays for disadvantaged children
  • Frères de Sève, promotion of sustainable development (http://www.freresdeseve.com)
  • Schola Africa, building schools in Burkina Faso
  • Aide Edhec (Humanitarian association in Nice helping disadvantaged children after school, helping children in Madagascar...)
  • Nice 4L, humanitarian association which took part of the 4L Trophy in Morocco. "A garden for the children" is their motto

[edit] City guides

  • Le Ch'ti, city guide to Lille
  • Le Pitchoun, city guide to Nice

[edit] Corporate

  • Transaction EDHEC, Society that organises a Business Game and manages several investment clubs.
  • EJE, EDHEC Junior Etudes. Lille Junior Enterprise association [4]
  • EJM, EDHEC Career and job Management

[edit] Media

[edit] Notable Alumni

[edit] External links

[edit] EDHEC Official websites

[edit] External Sources

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