KEDGE Business School

n 2013, KEDGE was founded from the merger of two renowned business schools, well-established in their respective regions and already benefiting from international outreach: BEM and Euromed Management.

KEDGE is a non-profit association created in July 2013 by the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Marseille-Provence and Bordeaux.

Globalisation transforms the world, complicates interactions, increases uncertainty and challenges people with unprecedented dilemmas whose scope and speed hinder decision-making and action. Tackling these changes requires knowledge economy organisations to guide people through a now volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world (VUCA World).

The invitation is extended to the School, its teaching body and employees, alongside students and partners, both academic and corporate. The growth plan is ambitious yet realistic. In addition to consolidating the business model, it gambles on an annual self-funding capacity of an average €12 M over five years to sustain the investments outlined in the Strategic Plan: expanding the teaching body, establishing digital technology as a teaching aid, extending and renovating the campuses, going international and improving student services.

The Strategic Plan is overseen by Director General, José Milano. It was jointly drafted with the teaching body, employees, student representatives and graduates.

As KEDGE Business School crosses the symbolic threshold of a 100 million euro budget, the school outlines its ambition with the launch of its 2016–2020 Strategic Plan.

The School's success is a result of the profound changes it triggered at its inception in July 2013 which mean it now calls itself an 'academic company'.

The new Bordeaux campus has been designed to be a living space. Spread over 35,000 m2, it has dedicated work and chat rooms, and sports and relaxation areas.