EDHEC Business School

Established	1906
Type	Private
President	Olivier Oger (Dean)
Location	Lille and Nice, France
Website	www.edhec.com

EDHEC (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord) is a French business school founded in 1906. It has three campuses, one in Lille, one in Nice, where it absorbed the 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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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 a 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.
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It also offers executive education courses in management and finance.

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. EDHEC is the only private school within these five schools. HEC could mean any one of the following: Hampden Engineering Corporation of East Longmeadow, MA, USA École des Hautes Études Commerciales of Paris, France École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal, Quebec, Canada Header Error Correction, a field of an ATM cell The High Education Commission of Pakistan The... The ESSEC (École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales) is one of the leading business schools in France. ... ESCP-EAP, originally founded in 1819, is the oldest business school in the world. ... EM LYON (Ecole de Management de Lyon) was founded in 1872 by the local business community, and is affiliated to the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry. ...

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Research

EDHEC Business School is involved into academic research and has launched its Research For Business (link in french) policy, that states objectives for EDHEC research.

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

Research Centers have been, and are being set up in EDHEC "Academic Excellence Areas" :

- EDHEC main project is the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre. It's a research centre in Finance whose prime specialization was asset allocation in both traditional (indexed allocation) and alternative investment universes (hedge funds); it is currently expanding its research towards Asset-Liability Management and Operational Risk Management.

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 [1]). The EDHEC-RAM is sponsored by financial organizations such as Euronext, Lyxor AM and Eurex.
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Societies

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

Welcoming foreign students

• Open'up, welcomes incoming foreign students in Lille

Culture

• L'Agora du Nord, conference and debates organisation
• Ad Lib, concerts and music magazines
• Bureau des Arts
• La Clef des Planches [2], theatre and drama association

Events

• Course Croisière EDHEC [3], the biggest sailing event for students in Europe
• 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
• Cité Pub, organization of the night of advertising

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

Social and humanitarian

• VLV, (Vive les Vacances), holidays for disadvantaged children
• Frères de Sève, promotion of sustainable development
• Schola Africa, building schools in Burkina Faso

City guides

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

Corporate

• Transaction EDHEC, nicknamed "Transac'". Financial 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

Media

• ETNA, video association of Lille
• Radio ED/ EDHEC Official webradio
• Fotomas, Photo association

Notable Alumni

• Delphine Arnault (EDHEC 1989) - Director, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy
• Christian Polge (EDHEC 1989) - CEO The Coca-Cola Company France
• Laurence Antoine (EDHEC 1989), CEO, Caterpillar France
• Mike Burke (EDHEC 1980), CEO, Fendi
• Jean-Pierre de Montalivet (EDHEC 1966), VP EMEA, Henkel
• Bruno de Pampelonne (EDHEC 1981 ), CEO, Merrill Lynch France
• Bernard Fournier (EDHEC 1962), Chairman N.E.D, Xerox Limited
• Gérard Guillemot (EDHEC 1980), CEO, Gameloft (Creator of Ubisoft)
• Geoffroy Sardin, CEO, Ubisoft
• Regis Larose (EDHEC 1981), CEO, Yves Rocher
• Thierry Maraud (EDHEC 1966), Director, Bolloré
• Jean-Jacques Goldman, (EDHEC 1973) composer and singer.

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External links

EDHEC Official websites

• EDHEC Official Website
• Theseus Edhec MBA Website
• EDHEC Risk & Asset Management Research Centre Official Website

EDHEC student societies websites

• EDHEC Junior Etudes Official Website
• Radio ED/ EDHEC student webradio

External Sources

• Presentation of EDHEC by the Chapter of "Grandes Ecoles"
• Information on EDHEC by magazine "L'Express"