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After a baccalaureate in sciences and an attempt at engineering school, Maxime found his path in the MBS Bachelor of International Business Administration programme, which he joined as a first-year. With our specific entrance exam process for High-Level Athletes, and the flexibility it affords them for training and competitions, for the last two years Maxime has been able to proceed with his studies while continuing the sport at which he excels: horse-riding.   When did your passion for horse-riding begin ? I’ve been [...]
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Tuesday, November 21th, Mohed Altrad, President of the ALTRAD Group and Montpellier Hérault Rugby, and Didier Jourdan, Dean of Montpellier Business School, signed a partnership agreement. Montpellier Business School was proud to welcome the ALTRAD Group has its 41st Major Partner.   This partnership reflects the desire to share their values through concrete actions and benefits from their reciprocal expertise on all their activities. Montpellier Business School and the ALTRAD Group agree to work together in positively developing sustainable economic and social [...]
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At the start of this 2017-18 academic year, our subsidiary MBS Dakar is celebrating its fourth year! After arriving on campus a few weeks ago, today the sixty-some new students from Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, and Cameroon are today perfectly at home, whether in the Grande École Master’s programme, the Bachelor’s programme, or the various MSc programmes. Mr Franck Dompietrini, Dean of MBS Dakar, takes stock and looks towards the future of this campus with a humanistic mission.   Could you explain MBS [...]
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A specialist in innovation marketing and lean management, Mathieu Gabaudan helps businesses and individuals to develop. Gabaudan has been a teacher at Montpellier Business School since 2016, and this year he is offering a class on e-reputation to first-year students in the full-time master’s programme and second-year students in apprenticeship.   Why offer a course on the concept of e-reputation ? “Today everything happens on the internet. A person or organisation’s reputation is created through websites, forums, social media, blogs, etc., and it’s [...]
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Dean of the Executive MBA programme and the RNCP level 1 certification in ‘Manager of business development or operational unit’, Magdalena François-Thurin has had a very international career, working in consulting in Hong Kong, and then for EDF, first in Bangkok, then in Beijing, and finally in Houston, where she was HR Director for North and South America. After 11 years abroad, she chose to come back to France, and specifically to Montpellier, where she is originally from, to join Montpellier [...]
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On Monday, 9 October, the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to American Richard H. Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, for his work on the psychological and social mechanisms involved in consumer and investor decision-making. His work studies how certain human characteristics and social preferences limit the rationality epitomised in the concept of homo economicus. Montpellier Business School professor Laurie Balbo, who for several years has taught a course on ‘Consumer behaviour and psychology’, sheds lights [...]
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