Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School

Montpellier Business School is a French business school located in Montpellier. Founded in 1897 by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Montpellier, the Grande école is one of the oldest of the prestigious French Écoles Supérieures de Commerce.

Montpellier Business School offers of 3 programs: Bachelor, Master (programme Grande Ecole) and Executive MBA. The business school is accredited by AACSB, AMBA and EPAS.

Montpellier Business School is heir to a long tradition of teaching based on the needs of businesses and markets. The school has succeeded in continually refining its specialized instruction in management sciences over the years in order to adapt its programs to constant changes in local and global economic environments.

The institution’s aim is “to be a leading European business school in the Languedoc-Roussillon Region that is internationally recognized for its values, its academic excellence in management innovation and entrepreneurship and its concern for global responsibility and performance, which characterizes its operations, stakeholders and results.”

To achieve this strategic goal of global and sustainable performance, Montpellier Business School has adopted the core values of diversity, openness, and global responsibility, all of which inspired by the school’s mission “to train diverse managers through higher education programs who are aware of their global responsibility, who tackle their professional activities with an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit and who are able to adapt to the constant changes in local, national and international environments.”

The quality of the school’s research and teaching is internationally recognized. The following distinctions attest to the school’s excellent international reputation: its triple accreditation (AACSB, AMBA, EFMD/EPAS); its rank among the TOP 50 best Master in Management programs in the world; its 65th rank in the European Business Schools Financial Times ranking of 2014;^[1] and its ranks in the national French rankings.

Identity and status

Montpellier Business School, established in 1897, is one of the oldest management schools in Europe.

Founded by the Chamber of Commerce of Montpellier, the École Supérieure de Commerce de Montpellier (the Montpellier Graduate School of Business) was initially created to train economic leaders who would help develop activities and businesses in the region.

On January 1, 2013, Montpellier Business School changed its legal status, becoming a non-profit association according to the French association law of 1901 (Loi 1901). The goal of this modification was to give the institution greater management autonomy in order to meet international standards and to make operations more flexible to facilitate management innovations and allow for the changes necessary in national and international markets.

Values

The aim of the Group’s values is to anchor all of its actions and activities in a global environment that shows responsibility towards societies, territories and individuals.

Three major families of values guide the Group in all of its endeavors:

Ethics: Individual or group capacity to engage in critical thinking concerning the rules and values of human behavior; An attempt to define the “right thing to do” based on honesty, fairness and integrity.

Openness and diversity: individual and/or collective capacity of dealing intelligently with diversity in all its forms, either voluntarily or involuntarily (without demagogic intentions), through positive openness and outreach.

Responsibility and overall performance: the constant search for economic, social and environmental efficient actions, bearing in mind acute awareness of their impacts on all stakeholders along with the willingness to report them in a transparent manner.

These institutional values can be seen in the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School’s actions and commitments to fight against discrimination and to train all talented individuals, regardless of their backgrounds and social situations.

As a result of all the measures implemented and the integration of issues of diversity into its teaching and research, the school obtained the Diversity Label in France in October 2009 and in October 2011 created a “Diversity and Social and Environmental Responsibility” department.

Research

Montpellier Business School is well-established in the fields of management innovation and entrepreneurship research. Further high-impact research groups focus on organisation theory, work, and leisure; regional development; sustainable accounting; and wine business research.^[2]

References

See also

• Education in France
• Grandes écoles

Coordinates: 43°37′17″N 3°50′01″E / 43.62139°N 3.83361°E / 43.62139; 3.83361