EDHEC Business School (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord)
| 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 (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.
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[edit] Programmes
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.
[edit] Bachelors
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.
[edit] Grand Ecole
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).
[edit] Masters
The school offers several 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.
The MBA program is a ten-month, full-time programme taught completely in English on the campus in Nice. It was recently ranked as a top 50 program by The Economist and Financial Times. Students can focus on Finance, Entrepreneurship, or Global Management.
[edit] EDHEC Management Institute
- EDHEC Management Institute - focuses on programmes designed for experienced managers and company executives. It includes part time diploma programmes like the Executive MBA (EMBA), and Custom Programmes.
[edit] Doctorates
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.[citation needed]
[edit] Ranking
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.[citation needed]
[edit] Research
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.
[edit] Societies
EDHEC is also famous for the dynamism of its student societies, around 60 on the two campuses. Below is a nonexhaustive list:
[edit] Welcoming foreign students
- Open Up (Lille and Nice) - Welcomes incoming foreign students in Edhec. Open Up Group consists of French business students who are eager to help all incoming exchange students. Open Up members organize trips to nearby European destinations such as Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Barcelona, Milan and Corsica at very affordable prices.[citation needed] The society plans parties and local day trips for incoming exchange students in Erasmus or MSc/MBA students.
[edit] Culture
- Ad Lib (Lille) - concerts and music magazines
- L'Agora (Conférences et Débats Edhec) (Lille) - Lectures and debates society. Since its creation in 2001, it had welcomed on the Lille campus various personalities. French politicians, European commissioners, Presidents, Ministers, athletes and journalists all came to chat with Edhec students.
- Bureau des Arts (Lille & Nice)
- Dionysos (Lille) / La Grappe (Nice) - Wine degustations
- La Clef des Planches (Lille) - Theater company.
[edit] Social and humanitarian
- Aide Edhec (Nice) - Humanitarian association helping disadvantaged children after school, helping children in Madagascar...
- Nice 4L (Nice) - Humanitarian association which took part of the 4L Trophy in Morocco. "A garden for the children" is their motto
- MHIGE - Humanitarian help to schools, hospitals, orphanages etc. of the countries victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe).
- Un Des Sens - Social association organizing events about the five senses with literacy tuition as the "sixth sense".
[edit] Corporate
- CANDEO Investments (Nice) - EDHEC in-house hedge fund entirely run by students. The fund was created in January 2009 by MSc students and after several months of student recruitment and trial running, CANDEO Investments consequently subdivided into 3 subfunds - Forex/Fixed Income, Equity/ETF and Commodities & Derivatives Group. Commodities & Derivatives Group's main activities include: event-driven trading (US labour figures, inflation, retail sales, etc.), spread trading (mainly long/short Platinum-Palladium spread), momentum strategy (Wheat, soybeans, palladium, cotton, oats) and some speculative bets.
[edit] EDHEC alumni
Edhec Alumni Association[8] is committed to developing activities that will enhance the reputation of EDHEC.
Its aim is to:
- ensure that its members are represented on EDHEC’s Board of Governors and the Association’s Executive Committee,
- ensure there is a permanent link between the different Edhec communities and generations at regional, national and international level,
- foster valuable personal and professional networking and exchange via the coordination of the alumni association network,
- contribute to enhancing the School’s image, its teaching input, its promotion and its funding.
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.
[edit] References
- ^ "Challenges Classement Grande Ecoles de Commerce". Challenges.fr. Challenges.fr. http://www.challenges.fr/classements/ecoles_de_commerce/. Retrieved 2010-01-09.
- ^ Financial Times 2011 Ranking : Master in Management
- ^ Classement Le Point 2011 EDHEC
- ^ Challenges 2010 Ranking
- ^ Classement Le Point 2011 ESPEME
- ^ Financial Times Ranking 2011: Executive Education
- ^ Financial Times 2011 Ranking
- ^ EDHEC Alumni
