The new academic year: our corporate partners’ business leaders and managers welcome our students!

During the competitive entrance exams, around 800 corporate representatives from almost 500 companies (some companies sent more than 10 representatives!) sat on the selection panels. Now EDHEC’s partner companies also take part in the new academic year student induction sessions where top business leaders and managers welcome the new students.

The different programmes, including the Grande Ecole programme, began on the Lille and Nice campuses on September 5, 6 and 7 with round table conferences and "master classes" organised over the course of the 3-day induction session.
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Hugo Kunetz (GE 1990), President L'Oreal PPD North America, shared his views on the challenges facing managers today and in the future with students from the M2 Business Management track.

Unilever invited Nicolas Liabeuf, Marketing VP, France to speak in the Masterclass session with students from the MSc Marketing, giving the students two hours of first-hand insights into the challenges and daily routine of an executive from a benchmark marketing company.

Michaël Boumendil (GE 1994), Chairman & Chief Creative Officer of Sixième Son shared his passion for challenge and his vision of music as a language, especially for brands, in what turned out to be a real one-man show

Many executives joined the Lille and Nice campuses to talk about their early career and discuss the concept of networking: Raphael Compagnion (2007), co-founder of Bankeez, Gautier Villaume (2005), in charge of Trade Marketing Lessive Europe at Procter & Gamble, Benoît Hennebelle (2007), responsible for real estate at Geophyle, and Stanislas Gruau (2011), Commodities Trader at Cargill were in Lille,

while Johanna Bardon (2007), Consolidation Manager at L'Oréal, David Abastado (2010), auditor at PwC, and Julien Boulenger (2010), Strategy Consultant at Oliver Wyman were in Nice.

Franck Vigo, Director of the Interactive Division at Oxylane (Decathlon), Alexandre Menais, Senior Vice President of Atos International, Stéphane Baller, Associate at Ernst & Young Law firm and Véronique Rossi, Legal Director for Redcats Group, were also among the business leaders who honoured us by coming to share their experience with our students.