| EDHEC Business School | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1906 |
| Type | Private |
| President | Olivier Oger (Dean) |
| Academic staff | 146 permanent faculty members and 87 visiting |
| Students | 6,000 students and 5,500 Executive Education participants |
| Location | Lille, France Nice, France Paris, France London, England Singapore |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.edhec.com |
EDHEC for Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord is one of the main business schools and grandes écoles of France and Europe. It is a highly selective and top-ranking business school, among only 50 institutions worldwide (i.e. less than 1% of business schools globally) to be granted Triple accreditation: EQUIS by the EFMD, AMBA and the AACSB.
Founded in 1906 in the Université Catholique de Lille, EDHEC Business School is furthering its openly international strategy by expanding activities on five sites. The two 'academic' campuses are in Lille and Nice. There are a further three part-time campuses, principally for executive training, in Paris, London and now Singapore, which are focused on links with the local environment. These three 'executive' campuses are small-scale and designed to foster interaction with businesses, both in terms of teaching and research.
EDHEC Business School is EQUIS accredited by the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Education), and AMBA accredited for the EDHEC MBA and Part-Time Executive MBAs programmes. It is also accredited by the AACSB and the French Conférence des grandes écoles.
Contents |
EDHEC offers bachelor, Master in Management, Master of Science, and doctorate degrees in a variety of disciplines including finance, marketing, legal and management. The school also has two Masters in Business Administration (MBA) programs, one is full time and another is a part time executive MBA. Advanced degrees are taught either wholly English or in a mixture French and English, while the ESPEME bachelor degree which is taught entirely in French.
ESPEME is the undergraduate program of the Edhec Business School in Lille and Nice. It is a four-year program leading to a Bachelor in Business.
The Master in Management (Grande Ecole Programme), mainly targeted at students in the competitive French "classes préparatoires" system but also open to French & international students with a Bachelor's degree. The program includes two years of study, and a gap year spent interning at a company. International students can follow either a financial economics track (based in Nice) or a management track (based in Lille), both taught entirely in English. French-speaking students have the additional option of taking the first year in French, and of studying in Paris as part of the apprenticeship program. (European Apprenticeship Programme).
The school offers Master of Science (MSc) programmes designed especially for international students, all of which are one-year programs taught exclusively in English. All Msc programs include 9 months of courses and a mandatory 3 month internship.
In September 2010 Edhec has launched its first executive MSc:
The PhD in Finance offered by EDHEC-Risk Institute is a research-oriented programme which trains participants to serve as the architects of the asset management and investment banking industries. The programme is designed to prepare talented and hard-working individuals for challenges requiring an integrated view of the inner-workings of financial markets and institutions, a thorough understanding of financial decision-making and its modelling (in the context of corporate finance, investment management, and asset pricing problems), and the ability to autonomously identify, analyse, and research questions to propose and implement creative solutions.
EDHEC is usually ranked 5th business schools in France. SIGEM, the state institution responsible for Grande Ecole testing, has consistently rated it 5th among French "classe preparatoire" business schools.
| EDHEC Program | Location | Ranking In | Le Point 2011 | Financial Times 2011 | The Financial Times 2010 | Challenges 2010 [1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master of Management | Lille / Nice | World | 14th[2] | |||
| Grande Ecole | Lille / Nice / Paris | France | 1st (in Finance)[3] | 1st[4] | ||
| ESPEME Bachelors | Lille / Nice | France | 4th[5] | 3rd | ||
| Executive Education | World | 40th [6] | ||||
| All Programs | Lille / Nice / Paris / London | Europe | 25th[7] |
Although usually ranked fifth overall, EDHEC has recently been rated as France's best school for finance. In 2011 the leading economic newsweekly Le Point ranked EDHEC Business School No.1 in France for Finance. The prestigious HEC ranked second. This ranking largely reflects the strength of EDHEC's financial research program, the EDHEC Risk Institute.
The EDHEC Risk Institute is ranked No.1 in Europe in terms of how often its research is cited in international newspapers.
EDHEC Business School is involved in academic research and has launched its Research For Business 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. 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 and ranked No.1 in Europe, 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.
EDHEC is also famous for the dynamism of its student societies, around 60 on the two campuses. Below is a nonexhaustive list:
Edhec Alumni Association[8] is committed to developing activities that will enhance the reputation of EDHEC.
Its aim is to:
Some alumni include:
Laurence Antoine (Promo 1989), CEO, Caterpillar.
Mike Burke (Promo 1980), CEO, Fendi.
Jean-Pierre de Montalivet (Promo 1966), Chairman and CEO, Henkel.
Bruno de Pampelonne (Promo 1981), DG France, Merrill Lynch.
Bernard Fournier (Promo 1962), Chairman N.E.D, Xerox Limited.
Jérome Guillemard (Promo 1972), Chairman, Banque Accord.
Regis Larose (Promo 1981), CEO, Yves Rocher.
Thierry Marraud (Promo 1966), Directeur Financier, Bolloré Group.
Gérard Guillemot (EDHEC 1980), CEO, Gameloft (Creator of Ubisoft).
Geoffroy Sardin, CEO, Ubi Soft.
Richard Simonin (Promo 1976), CEO, Etam.
Christian Polge (Promo 1989) - Président Coca-Cola France.
Christophe Bonduelle (Promo 1982), Président and Fondator Bonduelle Group.
Laurent Freixe (Promo 1985), CEO Nestlé Spain.
Bruno de Saint-Florent (Promo 1988) - Vice Président, The Boston Consulting Group.
Franck Moison (Promo 1975), CEO, Colgate Palmolive Europe.
Hugo Kunetz (Promo 1990), CEO, L'Oreal Spain.
Benoît Testard (Promo 1980), CEO, United Biscuits Europe.
Philippe Fortunato (Promo 1989), CEO, Christian Dior Asia/Pacific.
Philippe Durand (Promo 1979), Vice Chairman, Texas Instruments.
Étienne Aubourg (Promo 1981), Group Executive Vice Président, AXA.
Delphine Arnault (EDHEC 1998) - Director, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy.
Jean-Jacques Goldman, (EDHEC 1973) composer and singer, has not graduated.