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Carolina and Atik arrived in Montpellier in early September. They are the the MBS Foundation for Equal Opportunities’ new international excellence scholarship recipients. They have joined the M1 (2nd year) English curriculum of the Grande Ecole programme and are already well integrated after a fast period of adaptation, including 3 weeks of intensive French classes. A native of Venezuela, Carolina completed her Bachelor's degree at Simon Bolivar University in Caracas. She is passionate about management and already has a business creation [...] Read more

On Tuesday 25 September 2018, Pierre Chauvis, Executive Director of Banque Populaire du Sud, Didier Grino, Secretary General of Montpellier Business School, and Matthias Bauland, Deputy Dean in charge of development at MBS, signed a partnership agreement marking the start of a joint collaboration between the two institutions around a managerial training programme. Banque Populaire du Sud thus becomes the 48th Major Partner of the Grande Ecole of Management The signing of this major partnership, at Montpellier Business School Campus, preceded the [...] Read more

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the reference body for its world university rankings, has just published its 2019 ranking of the best business Masters in Management and Finance in the world. Montpellier Business School has recorded several very good results, starting with a national top 10 and an increase of 5 places worldwide! The MBS Grande Ecole Programme thus takes 10th place in France among the top business schools and 66th in the world. This new good ranking follows that of the Financial [...] Read more

The Financial Times' new ranking of the world's best Masters in Management was published on Monday 10 September and the MBS Grande Ecole Programme posted a very good result, ranking 52nd. Despite the context of ever-increasing international competition and the entry into the ranking of 5 new schools, MBS has moved up one place compared to 2017, while remaining the 13th best Grande Ecole programme in France. The 2018 Financial Times Ranking, which is considered as a global benchmark, includes the [...] Read more

At the end of 2017, Montpellier Business School renewed the Business School independent audit “Business School Impact Survey” (BSIS) to measure the school's economic impact at local and regional level. The results were presented on Wednesday 27 June by Professor Michel Kalika, auditor and co-Director of BSIS, and are up 60% from 2014. Launched in 2012 by the National Foundation for the Teaching of Business Management (FNEGE), the BSIS system enables to assess the impact of a Business School on its [...] Read more

For this 11th edition, the Innovative and Responsible Business prize of the MBS Foundation for Equal Opportunities was won by Jason Moses, a recent graduate of the Master of Science International Business programme, for his project of creating an application comparing the impact of international solidarity projects : PEOPLE TAPP. Under the aegis of the Foundation of France, the Montpellier Business School Foundation for Equal Opportunities, which follows on form the MBS social policy, intervenes every year in the financing of [...] Read more

On Monday 2 July, MAN Truck & Bus France became Montpellier Business School's 47th Major Corporate Partner and launched its vocational training programme with MBS as part of the development of the skills of its management teams. For the occasion, Marie-Anne Baeza, MAN Truck & Bus France HRD, Jean-Yves Kerbrat, MAN Truck & Bus France CEO, Didier Grino, Secretary General of MBS and Matthias Bauland, Deputy Dean in charge of development at MBS, were gathered in front of the 1st [...] Read more

A library project in Vietnam, actively supported this year by MBS and its students, was implemented a few months ago in the village of Hieu Thuan, allowing disadvantaged children to access reading. Bearing the name "Library Montpellier Business School", it was inaugurated last March in the presence of the association behind the project Une Ecole pour Xich Tho and a highly committed MBS professor. Contributing to equal opportunities In order to help solidarity actions to see the light of day, the Human [...] Read more

Jointly organised by the Career Centre and the Montpellier Business School Alumni Association, the 1st MBS Employment Forum took place on Thursday 14 June at the heart of the Pavillon Wagram in Paris. The aim of this exclusive meeting was to put MBS graduates and future graduates in privileged contact with recruiters from the 33 businesses that came to offer more than 500 job opportunities. Business developer, business engineer, human resources manager, buyer, digital project manager, bank branch manager, marketing [...] Read more

On Friday 1st June, Boris Derichebourg, President of DERICHEBOURG Multiservices and Didier Grino, Secretary General of Montpellier Business School, signed a partnership agreement marking the merger of DERICHEBOURG Multiservices and Montpellier Business School around a managerial training programme. DERICHEBOURG Multiservices has become Montpellier Business School's 46th Major Corporate Partner. A major employer with nearly 29,500 employees, DERICHEBOURG Multiservices is committed to an ambitious training policy that meets, as closely as possible, the needs of its employees. Through this partn [...] Read more

4 days, 10 themes, 40 teams, 760 participating students... and 3 winning teams. This is the concept of the Start-up Week organised once again this year at Montpellier Business School. From 15 to 18 May, this event was held in the form of a team "business game", a common challenge to all of the Grande Ecole Programme final-year students completing their specialisation pathways. The Start-Up Week results from MBS willingness to provide each student with a methodology to business creation and [...] Read more

After Orchestra, Dell, Eminence and Decathlon, it was the turn of our Major Partner Caisse d'Epargne Languedoc-Roussillon to take part in the 5th edition of the Mark’Up project. The aim was to submit a concrete case to more than 650 students in the 1st year of the MBS Grande Ecole Programme (M1). Launched in 2013, this real simulation educational project aims at stimulating thoughts within the scope of the BtoB or BtoC marketing function based on a real issue. And this [...] Read more