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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 YunusFounder 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

As a final year student in the Grande Ecole Programme of Montpellier Business School, Rémi Pfrunner has made international openness one of his leitmotivs, as evidenced by his mission as ambassador for European careers which he has chosen to pursue this year. Rémi wants to help MBS students discover and seize the professional opportunities (internships, jobs, mobility...) offered by a supranational entity as big as the European Union. Rémi, can you summarize your academic background? After a scientific High School Diploma and [...] Read more

A few days before Christmas, Montpellier Business School’s students and associations showed a great generosity by launching the "Solidarity Week" on their own initiative. They wanted to collect as much money as possible to provide toys for hospitalized children. The initiator of this project, Alexandre Lechat, who studies for a Master of Science in International Business at MBS, discusses this beautiful story! How did you get the idea for this Solidarity Week at MBS? This idea came to me quite naturally during [...] Read more

On Wednesday 9 January, Samih Khalef, ASICS France Country Leader, and Didier Grino, Secretary General of Montpellier Business School, signed a major partnership agreement bringing the famous sports equipment manufacturer closer to the Grande Ecole of Management, both strongly anchored in the regional territory. MBS students and graduates' recruitment at the heart of this rapprochement Synonymous with a new Major Partner company for Montpellier Business School, this signature with ASICS marks a formalisation of relations between the two entities that have already [...] Read more