EDHEC Business School

EDHEC Business School was founded in the early 20th century by industrialists in northern France. True to the humanist vision already driving the School’s founders in 1906, EDHEC’s mission is to place business at the service of society. A commitment that the School is furthering today through the implementation of an ambitious strategic plan for the 2020-2025 period, built for the benefit of future generations. Underpinned by outstanding teaching and privileged links with the business world, EDHEC ranks among the top 10 business schools in Europe. We are recognised for our internationalised outlook and approach, our high-quality teaching faculty and our ability to appropriate contemporary subjects like digital, sustainable finance and law. Operating as a higher education institution with a not-for-profit status, EDHEC is administered by various governance bodies intent on preserving our identity and ensuring our prosperity.

Strategy

" Engaging for the benefit of future generations. The mission we fulfil every day."

This role remains just as valid today in a world increasingly subject to transformations and upheavals. As a business school, we have always been fully aware of our vital responsibility to transmit knowledge and of the key role we play for our generations of graduates, year after year.

As a business school, we have always been fully aware of our vital responsibility to transmit knowledge and of the key role we play for our generations of graduates, year after year. This role remains just as valid in a world increasingly subject to transformations and upheavals, and requires us to engage with the whole of our community on an everyday basis in order:

• To make business the key to positive transformation. By instilling this value in our students, by always thinking “impact” and by training talented individuals capable of changing the world of business on an enduring basis.
• To continue to display a bold and innovative mindset in everything we do. This involves encouraging each individual to pursue their projects and not to hesitate for fear of making mistakes.
• To trace together the contours of a more open, more diverse and more inclusive society.

The whole of the EDHEC community works to overcome these challenges on an everyday basis. All the programmes we create, all student projects, all academic research projects, all new ideas and all the partnerships we sign contribute to a much broader objective, namely that of helping to positively transform the world. 

A business school devoted to future generations

EDHEC Business School is one of the top four business schools in France. Operating as a not-for-profit association, EDHEC is classified as a private higher education institution with a public interest mission.

Founded in Lille in 1906 by entrepreneurs attached to humanist values, the School maintains privileged relations with the business world and dispenses education based on innovative teaching methods and the academic excellence of its professors. Underpinned by a unique and pioneering entrepreneurship model, the School teaches managers the skills they need to best grasp the issues of business, as well as the open-mindedness and agility required to invent new models. EDHEC stands out today as an internationally-renowned higher education institution featuring among the top 10 management schools in Europe.