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The 5th edition of Start-Up Week was held from May 13th to the 17th on the Montpellier Business School (MBS) campus. This team business game challenges all of the 800 final year students in the Grande Ecole Program to create a business. This year, the 100 projects developed aim the revitalization of the wine sector: digital distribution, original packaging, wine tourism, immersion games...in this edition, the entrepreneurial creativity of future graduates has hugely impressed the jury. A challenge based on the [...] Read more

Published on May 14th, 2019 by Le Parisien Etudiant, the list of the grandes Ecoles de Commerce awarding the Master's Degree has placed Montpellier Business School 12th in the general ranking. This annual ranking is based on an analysis of 16 major characteristics of the Grandes Ecoles de Commerce, amongst which are labels, attractiveness, research, international dimension, entrepreneurship..... Maintaining its place in the national Top 12 according to Le Parisien, Montpellier Business School stands out with a maximum rating for its research [...] Read more

Soft skills are the personal and social skills that showcase the unique and singular value of an individual. During an interview, they are generally unspoken (and generally unannounced in the job ad) but are nevertheless the most sought-after features today by recruiters. Long-term oriented, these skills will allow the manager to evaluate the ease of integration and fulfilment of the candidate within his team and the company. Establishing methods to identify and value soft skills in a job interview The rise of [...] Read more

On January 9th, ASICS joined the MBS Advisory Board after many years of collaboration. Today, the brand is once again committing to student training by partnering with the 6th edition of the Mark Up project. The objective is to share a concrete business issue with the MBS Grande Ecole M1 students and collect their recommendations. Launched in 2013, this educational project is a challenge that aims to confront students with a company’s global strategic marketing issue, thus drawing on all the [...] Read more

Friday, March 15th, Montpellier Business School organized its MSc graduation ceremony 2019, an event that gathered more than two hundred people in the main amphitheater of the school. This year, Montpellier Business School was proud to congratulates 110 graduates from all over the world, who are now part of the MBS Alumni family. Accompanied by their families, friends, teachers and the programme team, all the graduates came up on stage wearing their gowns and caps to receive their diploma from the [...] Read more

Monday, March 4, Montpellier Business School had the great pleasure of receiving Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize 2006, pioneer of microcredit, for a day of sharing with our students through workshops and a conference. MBS also officially presented its Chair Microfinance in developed countries, one of whose ambitions is the opening of a Yunus Center, in order to contribute to the visibility of social business.   Raising awareness on social business with Professor Yunus Founder of the Grameen Bank, Professor Yunus has [...] Read more

A 1999 graduate of the MBS Grande Ecole programme, Muriel Avinens is now Director of the Montpellier site of our Grand Partner Dell EMC. Muriel remains close to her former school: she has agreed to volunteer as President of the MBS Social Council, which studies and decides on scholarships and financial aid granted to students in accordance with the strong policy of equal opportunities set up by the MBS. What has been your career path since graduating from MBS in 1999? I [...] Read more

Released this Wednesday 20th of February, the new Business Schools Ranking 2019 by Le Point ranks Montpellier Business School 13th out of 38 diplomas with a Master’s grade degree from French Business Schools. This general ranking was established according to 8 criteria such as Research and Entrepreneurship, on which the Grande Ecole Programme of MBS respectively ranks 8th and 7th. This is the recognition of the quality of MBS faculty members - over 70 teachers researchers - and the performance of the different measures [...] Read more

On Friday, February 1st, the solemn, moving, and festive Executive MBA graduation ceremony rewarded and honoured the Class of 2018. The MBS Executive MBA is an ACCSB and AMBA accredited programme that also provides the RNCP 1st Level Certification "Manager of Business Development or Business Unit". The entire Class of 2018 graduated under the applause of students’ families, friends, professors, professors and programme managers.  André Deljarry, President of CCI Hérault and 1st Vice-President of CCI Occitania, attended the event to congratulate the [...] Read more

Dedicated to entrepreneurship coaching, training and research, the MBS Entrepreneurship Center (EC) aims to contribute to the development of entrepreneurship in all its diversity. Thus, its services are aimed at MBS students and graduates carrying a project, but also at companies, researchers, experts and institutions. Dr. Katherine Gundolf, a professor and researcher specialising in entrepreneurship and Director of the MBS EC, answered our questions! Among the 3 hubs of the MBS Entrepreneurship Center, the incubator is undoubtedly the best known. How [...] Read more

The Career Center of Montpellier Business School proposed for the first time a thematic week called “Work Me Up” from the 21st to the 24th of January 2019.  The objective was to introduce businesses environment and the wide range of professions to first-year students of the Grande Ecole Programme in order to give them a broad vision of the possible choices in terms of professional orientation. This 1st edition of MBS’ Work Me Up Challenges had several highlights that allowed students [...] Read more

In December 2018, an article written by Dr Meena Andiappan and Dr Lucas Dufour from Montpellier Business School has been accepted in the very prestigious Academy of Management Review. This journal belongs to the very selective Financial Times 50 ranking system. A simplified version of this article for Managers has been developed by the journal. The main results of this research are available from here. Meena and Lucas are both Associate Professors at Montpellier Business School. Their research deals with Human Ressources [...] Read more