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Montpellier Business School, unique Management Grande Ecole in the Languedoc-Roussillon region, is entering a key stage in its history. We have built our programmes, established our quality standards, obtained the major recognition of academic excellence with the AACSB accreditation, climbed up the rankings of the Grandes Ecoles for the Bachelor and the Master.

It is time today to put to good use our achievements and to highlight the role of our staff, our partners and our students. Our wish is that each newsletter be conceived and received as was Ariane's thread, uniting all those who are by our sides, working each day to infuse life into the Grande Ecole that is the Montpellier Business School.

To our graduates, with the graduation ceremony for the Bachelor of the prestigious University of La Trobe awarded to our Master Grande Ecole and Bachelor students, or that of the MBA diplomas, at the end of January, with its clip on the home page of the internet site.
To our partner universities and enterprises. You are joining us in larger and larger numbers. The section "partners" is totally dedicated to you. In this edition, we address again the signing of the important partnership with the SNCF Group and the agreement between the Montpellier Business School, the Montpellier University Institute of Business Administration and the Thai University of Burapha which will make it possible to launch an innovative triple diploma in South-East Asia.
To our students. With the deep involvement in the "Sup de Cœur" operation for the fight against cancer, with the first place won by one of our students, Montpellier Business School's ambassador in l'Oréal's Reveal competition, we honour your professional qualities, your group cohesion and your personal involvement in the citizen actions. We address the subject in "Student Life", dedicated to your actions and your successes.
To our staff. We have chosen, this month, to honour Lionel Rivière, Director of the Bachelor Programme, recently awarded the distinguished grade of Knight of the Order of Academic Decorations. Find it in the subject "Managerial Innovation" which lets you share the news of the teaching and administrative teams.

Finally, in the section "Managerial Innovation", we append our signature, our "trademark" of education and research.

Graduates, enterprises, universities, students, administrative and teaching teams, associations, you are this Grande Ecole Business School, each one of you is a stone in the edifice we are building together, based on values that we are proud to share.

Please accept our gratitude for all the work you have done, for your confidence and your support.

Long live this newsletter !

Didier Jourdan, Dean Montpellier Business School

The SNCF and the Montpellier Business School signed a partnership agreement, Thursday 24th March. "Our partnership agreements enable us to put our commitments into execution by confronting them with reality", developed Didier Jourdan, Dean of the Montpellier Business School. He expressed his delight at the entry of the SNCF as a major actor in the quality circle of Montpellier Business School's privileged partners.

Jean Christophe Arguillère, President of the Education and Training Centre of the CCIT, insisted on the "interest for both parties to make this a vigorous partnership, to achieve concrete results". The agreement plans notably to facilitate access to the enterprise for trainees, apprentices and future graduates, the participation of the SNCF to present its various professions or work on research themes such as the experimentation of regional express train journeys for one euro.

"The SNCF has evolved a lot. We exchange ideas, we accept criticism and we need the contribution of grey matter. For all these reasons, I believe we can do great things together", declared Jean Ghedira, Regional Director of the SNCF.

The rest on the internet site - Photos on Facebook

The Executive Boards of the Montpellier Business School, of the Institute of Business of the University of Montpellier 2 and of the University of Burapha (Chonburi campus, Thailand), signed, Tuesday 29th March in Thailand, a partnership agreement. The creation of this consortium of a Master in European Management (COMEM) will enable the Asian students of the University of Burapha to graduate with a "triple" diploma from the three institutions.

The rest on the internet site

The Montpellier Business School, along with the Montpellier CCIT, took advantage of the concert tour of Carmina Burana, of which we are partners, performing in Montpellier, to invite a hundred of its partners : the Executive Comittee of the Foundation of the Montpellier Business School, the Regional Council, le local education authority, the universities of Montpellier, the Joffre and La Merci high schools, Adecco, BNP Paribas, the Crédit Agricole du Languedoc, Decathlon, Dell, FACE Hérault, IBM, La Poste, SNCF, Société Générale…
The evening began with a conference-debate on the theme "Culture, an opportunity for the enterprise", developed by Frank Dompietrini, the producer of the show, and introduced by the President of the Montpellier CCIT, Ms Gabrielle Deloncle.
By its choice of where to perform, large concert halls and not opera houses, by its educational approach (45-minute conference by Eve Ruggieri to present and explain the work to the public), by its involvement of enterprises as patrons, and finally, by its policy of offering prices for everybody (a policy of diversity and equal opportunity), the choice of Carmina Burana was obvious for the Montpellier Business School which shares these same values.

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Friday 18th March, on our premises, the Australian University of La Trobe issued its Bachelor of Business diploma to 177 students from the Bachelor and Grande Ecole Master programmes of the Montpellier Business School. The prestigious Australian university, present in the Shangaï classification, ranking the best 500 universities in the world, paid tribute to its sixth French year of the Bachelor of Business.
More than 400 people attended the ceremony, parents and friends gathered together : "We have come from Rabat [Morocco] with eight members of the family to witness my son receiving his diploma", declares with emotion Adib Bargach, "I am impressed and very proud of him."

The rest on the internet site - Photos on Facebook

The Director of the Bachelor Programme, Lionel Rivière was recently awarded the distinguished grade of Knight of the Order of Academic Decorations, in recognition of his distinguished involvement in teaching. We offer him our most sincere congratulations and take the opportunity to "present" this teaching fanatic and… army officer!

To read on our internet site

Communication is one of the activities being particularly developed within the Montpellier Business School. Didier Jourdan has announced this in the Editorial of this newsletter, and this medium illustrates the changes already made or in process. A department has been created, a team put in place, a strategy adopted and implemented.

Nevertheless, "The quality of the communication system, currently being created, is highly dependent on the news. We need you all to participate and we strongly encourage you to send us all the information you have, to share it with us", insists Catherine Pech, Communication Director of the Montpellier Business School.

Hence the organisation once per month of the Communication Breakfasts. Gathered round the table, the communication correspondents pass on the news concerning their sector and the key events to come, and exchange ideas on good communication practices. "A wealth of information which we can use as a springboard to highlight the dynamism of the Montpellier Business School activities", continues the Communication Director.

The communication correspondents for other activities : Alexandra Malarthe, Marguerite Rodriguez, Sylvia Razakatsara, Valérie Charmette, Laurence Bourgois, Christine Pascal, Katerin Kontor, Karine Perrin, Sandie Burgniard, Hélène May, Maud Bouvard, Virginie Inglebert, Olivia Smewing.

Photo caption : In March, the Montpellier Business School Facebook page was at the centre of the debates at the Communication Breakfast.

The alumni associations of the Montpellier Business School, of Euromed and the Grenoble Management School joined forces to organise a conference on the theme :
"How to trigger employee commitment", Tuesday 15th March, in the historical buildings of the Crédit Lyonnais, in Lyon.
Daniel Herrero, ex-rugby union player and trainer, explained how to use rugby coaching techniques to manage a team in a business. A two-hour shock talk which left none of the hundred attendees, among them 25 Montpellier Business School graduates, indifferent.

Photos on Facebook

The Montpellier Business School finished well ahead of the ten most reputed French Management Grandes Ecoles (Montpellier Business School, IESEG, EM Normandy, ESC Toulouse, ESC Bordeaux, Rouen BS, ESC Grenoble, Euromed, SKEMA and ESC Dijon) participating in the Reveal competition, organised by l'Oréal. Reveal, an online business game, nominated an ambassador within each school responsible for "recruiting" his or her classmates to get them to register and participate. Our ambassador, Alexia Chareyre, student in the Grande Ecole Master programme, made a "fantastic achievement", according to the terms used by l'Oréal, by recruiting a total of 320 students to register for the Montpellier Business School, compared to 253 for the school arriving second.

L'Oréal uses Reveal as a recruitment aid for its future trainees according to the results obtained by the participants. Among the selected profiles, Julien Polidori, final year student in the Grande Ecole Master programme, has been selected in the industry category. Both Alexia and Julien were invited to the closing day of the competition to meet the Chief Executive Officer and the managers of l'Oréal, Friday 25th March, at Clichy. Two students worth following !

On the occasion of the MBA prize-giving and graduation ceremony, the Montpellier Business School pulled out all the stops in making a video clip dedicated to the programme. Don't hesitate to have a quick look at it, or even more. It's well worth it !

The video on our site

This is the "record" sum collected by the Montpellier Business School students, during their action day to fight against cancer, "Sup de Cœur". "A professional job", according to the local newspaper Direct Montpellier Plus, which also published the other amounts collected for the Cancer League : 10 000 € by the Société Générale and 1565 € by the Sports and Cultural Association of Gallargues… Our sincere congratulations to them all !

On Studyramagrandesecoles.com : Didier Jourdan : "The Montpellier Business School obtains AACSB accreditation" (interview in French)

On lavoixdesports.com, an interview (in French) with Edouard Rowlandson, a former student in the Master programme, also a high level volleyball player : "The international Edouard Rowlandson returns this weekend to Le Touquet"

Dr Wilkinson, Associate Dean of La Trobe University: « We are delighted by the AACSB accreditation obtained by the Montpellier Business School, it is a great mark of prestige and distinction. In certain cases, collaboration only takes place between schools having the AACSB label. As a partner, we too will benefit from the importance of this prestigious label at the international level. »

From March to the end of May : Registration of the Montpellier Business School students at our foreign partner universities for the academic year 2011/2012 with the "outgoing" coordinators of the International Programmes Department.

Tuesday 5th April at 7:30 pm : Conference on the best financial investments (Paris antenna of the Montpellier Business School alumni). Paris VIII^th.

From Tuesday 5th to Thursday 7th April : Global Responsibility Week with sustainable development and its applications driven by the students and the professors of the School. The programme can be accessed in French via this link.

From Saturday 9th to Friday 15th April : Edhec long-distance yacht race and Earth, Sea and Sand competition at Lorient. Sup d'Eole Association.

Wednesday 13th April : Passerelle Competitive Entrance Exam at Montpellier and Aix-en-Provence The deadline for registration was the 31/03/2011 on the site: www.passerelle-esc.com.

20th April 2011 : Hosting by the School of 200 students for the written section of our competitive exams.

Thursday 21st April : Race against cancer on the Malbosc site. Open to all. Cheer Up Association. Contact:

Friday 22nd April : Signing of the agreement with Oracle and creation of the LR Odissee Executive Comittee.