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20-10-2020
Webinar Alex Edmans: Taking a look beyond the Numbers
Professor Alex Edmans has had an interesting and varied career path, having worked in both the private and public sectors. From investment banker at Morgan Stanley’s to UK government advisor in partnership with PwC on share buybacks, Alex’s career... 
16-10-2020
EDHEC re-accredited by EQUIS for the maximum five-year period
EDHEC Business School is pleased to announce the renewal of its EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) accreditation, once again for the maximum period of five years, thus extending its unbroken recognition to over 20 years. It comes in the... 
16-10-2020
Yijia Zhang, Student Prize Best Thesis: Simply the Best
First of all, congratulations! You must be very pleased. How do you feel about winning this prize?
I am very excited. I know, however, it is not just my work that got me there. I am here thanks also to all my professors. Without their support... 
12-10-2020
“I chose EDHEC for its innovative and international aspects”
What is your background prior to EDHEC?
My academic and professional career began in the early 2000s in social work. I chose to accompany people in their personal and professional accomplishments. Quite quickly in my training, it became obvious to... 
05-10-2020
Video game industry: I found my dream job
Why France?
My interest in France and French culture can be traced back to my high school days. From Napoleon to Louis XIV, I’m deeply touched by this great nation and her history. Encouraged by this feeling, I chose French as my major in University... 
30-09-2020
Michel Philippart named Programme Director of EDHEC’s MSc in Strategy Consulting & Digital Transformation
What kind of student were you?
Before starting my MBA, I wasn’t a very good student at all. I did sufficiently well to pass and get ahead. I wasn’t aiming to be No. 1 and was always in the top 5 or 6 ‒ and that was perfectly fine with me. Then I... 
28-09-2020
FT Master in Management 2020 ranking : EDHEC’s MIM continues its progression in the world’s Top 20 to be ranked 16th worldwide
In its newly-published annual ranking of the world’s top Masters in Management, the Financial Times (FT) positioned EDHEC 16th worldwide, a rise of 3 places from 2019. And for the 7th year running, EDHEC ranked 4th among French business schools for... 
23-09-2020
QS 2021 ranks EDHEC’s MSc in Marketing Management No. 7 worldwide
“I’m extremely proud to witness the progress of our QS worldwide ranking each year,” said Programme Director Professor Guergana Guintcheva. “In just three years, EDHEC’s MSc in Marketing Management ranking has gone from No.11 to No.7. This is the... 
23-09-2020
Making it to the Top 10 student list
WHAT WAS YOUR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND PRIOR TO ATTENDING EDHEC?
I hold an engineering degree from Universidad EIA - Escuela de Ingeniería de Antioquia (Colombia). After graduating, I worked for almost three years in a strategy department before... 
22-09-2020
Welcome back to Lille
Although they all wore masks and kept an appropriate distance, you could feel the joy of the professors and programme directors at welcoming students back to the classroom and lecture theatre. In 2020, EDHEC MiM and MSc courses are going hybrid. One... 
18-09-2020
EDHEC Career Fairs go virtual
“Three years ago, I finished my Bachelor of Administration in Vietnam and got involved in several international volunteer experiences for non-governmental organisations. These academic and voluntary experiences gave me a solid background to start my... 
16-09-2020
EDHEC Financial Economics students back on track
The FE track welcomed a total of well over 730 students online from all corners of the world. First and foremost on the FE Track’s priorities for this event was to establish a sense of cohesion amongst EDHEC students right from the beginning... 
09-09-2020
Entrepreneurial DNA
What kind of student were you?
I was a nerd, an avid reader and a doer, always striving to find new solutions to the world’s problems. I was constantly active, engaged in one entrepreneurial project or another, the student council, or some other... 
03-09-2020
How case studies shape our learning experience
Can you tell us about the project you worked on?
It was a hackathon in partnership with Burger King and Sutter Mills (now, Accenture): Activating a Multinational’s Data to Prevent Churn. They challenged the MSc in Data Analytics & Artificial... 
27-08-2020
GETT: innovative curriculums with a mixture of business, technology, and entrepreneurship
WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN EDHEC? WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN GETT? COULD YOU TELL US ABOUT YOUR TRANSITION FROM ENGINEERING TO BUSINESS?
For years, I deemed the term Formula-1 as synonymous with Michael Schumacher. As a child, when I religiously followed F1 races... 
19-08-2020
How the GETT track fits my career plans
Why did you choose to join the GETT?
Franco-Lebanese born and raised up in Senegal, I’ve always wanted to participate in the development of West African countries. After graduating from high school, I decided to join a preparatory school in Paris to... 
17-08-2020
Burger King challenged EDHEC MSc in Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence students
How was the Burger King hackathon organised?
In the Business Data Management course, we learned many things relating to data treatment analysis for business purposes, such as a churn prediction for the company Burger King. Our two professors from... 
13-08-2020
Why I joined the MSc in Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence
What is your education prior to the MSc?
After a baccalaureate specialised in Economics, I earned a business management bachelor’s degree at La Sorbonne Paris 1 where I discovered many topics such as Information Systems, Finance, Marketing, etc. I... 
06-08-2020
EDHEC professors further fuelled my interest for Finance
WHAT IS YOUR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND PRIOR TO EDHEC?
I did my undergraduate degree in Banking and Finance under the University of London International Programme. After graduation, I worked in global markets on the institutional fixed income sales... 
31-07-2020
Data modelling: testing is rule number one
That is quite funny because two years ago, I had barely touched Excel and I had no idea what a database was! And now? I know how to code with R, I acquired the knowledge to build my own website from scratch and have the tools to build a predictive... Pages
About EDHEC
Operating from campuses in Lille, Nice, Paris, London and Singapore, EDHEC is one of the world’s top 15 European business schools. Fully international and directly connected to the business world, EDHEC is a school for business, rather than a business school, where excellence in teaching and research focuses on innovation to stimulate entrepreneurship and creativity. For business from birth and dedicated to business, EDHEC makes entrepreneurs for life, able to remodel or create successful businesses wherever they work.
EDHEC functions as a genuine laboratory of ideas and produces innovative solutions valued by businesses. The School’s teaching philosophy, inspired by its award-winning research activities, focuses on “learning by doing”.
