EDHEC Business School-Roubaix

EDHEC Business School is a leading French business school. As a private Grandes écoles in France, it specializes in business and management. EDHEC Business School has 5 campuses: Lille, Nice, Paris, London, and Singapore.EDHEC Business School offers undergraduate (BBA), graduate (MSc and MiM) and executive education (Global MBA, EMBA, PhD in Finance, as well as a variety of open and customized programmes).

EDHEC Business School is involved in academic research.

EDHEC counts with six research centres in financial analysis and accounting, economics, risk and asset management, law, family business and infrastructure. The common goal of research centres is to meet international academic standards while also making the results useful to business and to policymakers.[citation needed] EDHEC conducts applied research in the following fields:

• Finance: Created in 2001, EDHEC-Risk Institute conducts research in asset management, most particularly in the organisation and improvement of risk management for industry players. The research efforts on investment solutions are supported by institutional investors and asset managers, including Amundi, CalPERS, PIMCO and Merril Lynch Bank of America, with the collaboration of academic partners such as Princeton University and Yale SOM. Research and educational outputs involve the production of indices and academic publications (both openly available on EDHEC website), conferences and executive education programmes.
• Accounting and financial analysis: Created in 2006, the EDHEC Financial Analysis and Accounting Research Centre work on the choice of discount rate in company valuation and in particular on the integration of systemic accounting risk.
• Economics: Since February 2006, EDHEC has had an economics research team focused on public policy and state reform. This team works on four broad themes: financing and reform of the welfare state, labour policies and competition, evaluation of sovereign risk and optimal management of the public debt and European budgetary governance.
• Legal: The Legal EDHEC Research Centre has Legal Performance and Company Competitiveness as a subtitle. At the heart of the Centre is the notion of legal performance and its variations.