EDHEC Business School
Established	1906
Type	Private
President	Olivier Oger (Dean)
Faculty	194 114 Teaching and Research 80 Visting
Staff	800
Students	5,000 4,130 Bachelor 870 Postgraduate 1500 International.
Location	Lille, France Nice. France Paris, France
Campus	Urban
Website	www.edhec.com

EDHEC or École De Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord is one of the main business schools and grande écoles in France. Founded in 1906, EDHEC has three campuses, in Lille, Nice, and Paris' La Defense business district. EDHEC's Nice campus was absorbed when it acquired the Espeme bachelor program and the Theseus International Management Institute. Its Paris campus was founded in 2006 to expand its executive eduation program. EDHEC is EQUIS accredited by the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Education), and AMBA accredited for the EDHEC MBA and Part-Time Executive MBAs programmes and by the AACSB, and the Conference Of The Grandes Ecoles.

Contents 1 Programmes 1.1 Bachelors 1.2 Grand Ecole 1.3 Masters 1.4 MBA 1.5 Doctorates 2 Ranking 3 Research 4 Societies 4.1 Welcoming foreign students 4.2 Culture 4.3 Events 4.4 Social Life 4.5 Social and humanitarian 4.6 City guides 4.7 Corporate 4.8 Media 5 Notable alumni 6 External links 6.1 EDHEC Official websites 6.2 External Sources

[edit] Programmes

EDHEC offers bachelor, Master of Science, and doctorate degrees in a variety of disciplines including finance, marketing, 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 a four year bachelor degree program attended by mostly French students. It is taught in both Lille and Nice.

[edit] Grand Ecole

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).

[edit] Masters

The school offers ten Master of Science (MSc) programmes designed especially to for international students.

Five focus on finance and are based in Nice:

• MSc Risk and Asset Management
• MSc Finance
• MSc Corporate Finance
• MSc Capital Markets
• MSc Management Control

And the other five focus on management and are based in Lille:

• MSc Marketing Management
• MSc Legal and Tax Management
• MSc Arts & NGOs Management
• MSc Entrepreneurship
• MSc Strategy & Organisation Consultancy

[edit] MBA

• EDHEC MBA - is a ten-month, full-time programme taught completely in English. It is the ideal programme for:professionals who wish to give a stagnating career a boost, those with a specialised background who want to develop general management know-how,professionals who move to another field,those thinking of starting up their own company. Campus : Nice

• Executive MBA - Part-time. Campus: Lille
  

[edit] Doctorates

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 in the top 5 business schools in France, along with HEC, ESSEC, ESCP Europe, and EM Lyon. (INSEAD ranks first in the MBA category). SIGEM, the state institution responsible for grande ecole testing, has consistently rated it 5th among French "classe preparatoire" business schools. In 2008 The Financial Times ranked its Masters in Management program 5th in France, and 7th in Europe. In 2007, The Economist magazine ranked its MBA program 4th. More importantly, according to the Financial Times, the school generally ranks in the top 10 in Europe in the Master in Management category.

In 2009 the leading economic newsweekly Le Point ranked EDHEC Business School Np.1 in France for Finance, with a perfect score of 100. Ranked second is the prestigious HEC with a score of 72. Third in the ranking is ESSEC with a total score of 39.

The EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Center is ranked No.1 in Europe.

[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 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 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. 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, and North Spain at very affordable prices.

[edit] Culture

• Ad Lib, concerts and music magazines
• L'Agora du Nord, conference and debates organisation
• Bureau des Arts
• Dionysos (wine degustations)
• La Clef des Planches, theater company

[edit] Events

• Course Croisière EDHEC [3], the biggest sailing event for students in Europe
• Citepub-Citecom (http://www.lesetoilesdelapub.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 start-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
• Music'All, a musical comedy which aim is to collect funds in order to help humanitarian associations (for example Arc-en-ciel association in 2008).Let's have a look on www.ilovemusicall.fr
• 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
• MHIGE (humanitarian help to schools, hospitals, orphanages etc. of the countries victims of the Chernobyl catastrophe).

[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

• ETNA, video society
• Radio ED/ EDHEC Webradio
• Fotomas, Photo society

[edit] Notable alumni

• Delphine Arnault (EDHEC 1998) - 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
• Laurent Frexie [EDHEC 1985] Director of European Operations, Nestle
• Eric Legros [EDHEC 1981] CEO of Carrefour China
• Jean-Jacques Goldman, (EDHEC 1973) composer and singer.(did not graduate)

[edit] External links

[edit] EDHEC Official websites

• EDHEC Official Website
• EDHEC MBA Website
• EDHEC Risk & Asset Management Research Centre
• L'Agora

[edit] External Sources

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