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EDHEC for Business, an International Ambition

In the belief that research in management sciences is meaningful only if it is useful to business and to society, EDHEC has had in place since 2005 an ambitious policy of having its research and its executive education offerings influence business practices.

As companies' markets, teams, and tools grow, as regional or global approaches take the place of domestic outlooks, EDHEC believes that its Research for Business strategy is meaningful only if it takes concrete form around the world.

It is in this context that EDHEC is organising its growth and setting its objectives.

This international ambition is demonstrated not only by the opening of campuses abroad but also by major projects meant to increase cooperation with companies in the global economy. In 2009-2010, for instance, EDHEC will have held executive education and research seminars in twenty-eight international financial capitals.

Five Campuses for a Single International Ambition

For EDHEC, having a campus abroad is justified only if doing so is part of a genuine strategy of educating local elites. It must not be a mere extension of exchange programmes or of other stays abroad for French students.

A campus abroad should enable EDHEC students, professors, and researchers to interact with local companies. It should also take in local students who choose EDHEC not only because it is a major European business school but also because it has a wealth of expertise that sets it apart from all other schools.

In 2010 EDHEC is opening two executive campuses, one in London and one in Singapore. These two campuses, together with the Paris campus, are springboards for interaction with companies. They offer EDHEC students part-time programmes set up to enable them to pursue their studies and work in local companies at the same time. They also house researchers whose work meets the needs of these companies. The London, Singapore, and Paris campuses are thus at the heart of an ambitious array of executive education offerings that, in 2009, enabled EDHEC to train more than four hundred senior executives of twenty-nine nationalities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States.

In addition to the three executive campuses, EDHEC has international residential campuses. The expansion in Nice and the creation of a new campus in the Lille metropolitan area will make it possible to enrol fourteen hundred foreigners in 2010.