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Created by and for entrepreneurs, EDHEC has embodied the fundamental values of business for over a century.
By working closely with the world of business, forming partnerships with prestigious academic institutions, and encouraging multiculturalism amongst its students, teachers and graduates, EDHEC provides a unique experience in tune with the globalized challenges involved with doing business worldwide.
We have a long-standing commitment to a culture that fosters creativity, risk-taking, continuous improvement, leadership and entrepreneurial spirit, both in our pedagogy and in our research.
We educate people and carry out research that aim to develop both scientific and human competencies, preparing accomplished business leaders with excellent soft skills, whose commitment to the good of society and respect for our planet will qualify them as world citizens.
Through our unusual model, the content of our programmes and the value of our research, at EDHEC we nurture our differences, encouraging students and teachers to think outside the box and foster their leadership qualities.
In five years from now, who will be the next game-changer, ushering in a new age of business by disrupting economic models?
In an ever-changing world, managers must become true entrepreneurs who are prepared to rip the rulebook apart. Giving tomorrow’s leaders the knowledge, the mind-set and the agility to invent new paths are at the heart of our vision. And we believe this litheness starts by developing students’ soft skills. More than a school that trains in business, EDHEC is an ecosystem that innovates by stimulating an entrepreneurial spirit, a springboard towards a better future that prioritizes people.
Thought leadership: knowledge creation fueled by applied research, and the constantly-updated full-range academic programmes are the brain that drives our vision. In a learning-by-doing approach, these programmes aim to develop inventiveness and quick thinking by bringing our students face to face with the realities of global business. They are supported within ultra-modern, multicultural campuses, designed for living and interaction, where 100 nationalities work together and can exchange viewpoints and practices. We favor exchanges with the world’s foremost academic institutions and reinforce our global footprint through a committed team of Country Managers and a strong Alumni network worldwide: 160 local Ambassadors, 80 international clubs and more than 500 events yearly.
And so we look ahead: because our aim is to make the EDHEC experience even more unique, we work to prepare EDHEC to the digital revolution that is set to disrupt our economies and shape the future of learning in the emerging landscape of EdTech and AI. The spirit of enterprise and the passion for innovation are extended to our behaviors towards the future of learning: the challenge of education in a digital world commands us to open education as widely as possible to include all, through flexible pathways and innovative thinking in order to enable all to adapt to yet unknown developments.
A century ago, a bunch of entrepreneurs from Northern France were at the origin of this marvelous adventure which is EDHEC Business School. We proudly look back today and salute their impulsion, their passion, and their assertiveness. And we recognize ourselves in their need to still go further, push forward, and make an impact.
EDHEC Business School was founded in 1906 by entrepreneurs from the North of France. "EDHEC" is originally an acronym for the French "École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord" or “School of Higher Education in Business Administration from the North”. Motte Duthoit, leading textile manufacturer and mayor of Roubaix, France, purchased the land known as “La campagne” on which EDHEC headquarters currently stand. Following Motte Duthoit’s requirements, famous architect Gréber built a Manor house in the Anglo-Norman style at La Campagne. Formerly home of the Motte family, the Manor now serves as a training centre for EDHEC Executive Education.
Today, EDHEC Business School is a leading French business school specializing in business, entrepreneurship, management and innovation. EDHEC Business School has five campuses open to the world: Lille (main campus), Nice, London, Paris and Singapore. EDHEC Business School offers undergraduate (International BBA), graduate (MiM and MSc) programmes and has an extensive portfolio of executive education (Global MBA, Executive MBA, PhD in Finance as well as a variety of open and custom and open programmes).
In 2019, EDHEC has 8,600 students enrolled in traditional graduate and undergraduate programmes, 245 exchange and double-degree agreements with the world’s foremost academic institutions and a network of more than 40,000 alumni in over 125 countries.
EDHEC first worked with French sculptor Nathalie Decoster at the beginning of the 2000s. Originally, from the Lille region but living and working in Paris, her works are exhibited all around the world, from Los Angeles to Shanghai, from New York to São Paulo.
For EDHEC, Nathalie Decoster created a bronze sculpture of a man walking next to a circle, representing both the student's journey within the School and humankind’s relationship with the world. It was the obvious choice for the EDHEC emblem and the starting point for its logo.
Since 2016, Make an Impact has embodied the ambition that EDHEC’s business-focused strategy of 2005 sought to achieve.
Make an Impact is an affirmative position that powerfully asserts the School's intentions and benefit. It conveys a strong message, a call to action and an invitation to rewrite the rules.
Deliberately positive and engaging, the original composition reflects the School’s desire to be a driver of responsible change and to make an enduring impact on the economy and broader society. It consequently expresses the ambitions enshrined in the School’s new strategic plan, Impact Future Generations 2025, and its goal of training talented young people capable of making the world of business serve future generations.
As France’s first Grande Ecole to adopt a sound identity, EDHEC was eager to add new depth to its brand, via a sound signature created with the engagement and enthusiasm of Michaël Boumendil, Chairman and Founder of Sixième Son, EDHEC 1994.