Montpellier Business School

The MSc in Digital Management is one of Montpellier Business school’s programs in which you can foster your professional skills and find a way to stand out from the crowd. It provides the specialist tools and techniques to increase your strengths in the international arena.

It is a unique program that gives an opportunity to the students to understand the impact of digital on leadership and organization, master new models of creating and distributing value and agile methods of project management and performance. The modules include digital strategy, applied big data (a one-week case on company data), agile project management (expecting delivering, dates and estimated budget), change management, digitization of business processes and web marketing. Throughout the year, students will also foster the “entrepreneurial spirit” alongside with the open-innovation techniques adapted to large groups to spread the “start-up” spirit.... [-]

The energy and environmental finance sector is a very rapidly-developing global industry with actors of all kind and size (multinationals, public institutions, start’ ups, etc.) investing huge amount of money (i.e. trillions of USD annually) to meet current and projected energy demand and supply challenged, ensure energy transition technologies development, address evolving competitive markets and regulation changes, etc..

Our MSc will provide with a holistic vision of the energy business and also advance the understanding of finance theory, with a specific focus on the practical aspects of energy-environmental financial markets, encouraging you to develop creative, entrepreneurial and analytical approaches to frame issues in the energy-environment sphere as well as enhance your interpersonal skills.... [-]

The MSc in Finance offers both substantial theoretical knowledge and comprehensive practical applications. The program embodies both courses in corporate finance, in financial markets and international banking. It also suits students who seek to acquire international professional certificates (CFA, FRM).

In a frame definitely international and orientated to the professional world, the MSc in Finance will prepare you to act dynamically and creatively whether as a member or a leader of a team. You will acquire the necessary competencies to start a career in finance after an internship of at least 4 months. It is a life changing experience. In addition, through the master thesis, you will also have the opportunity to tailor your curriculum according to your career objectives. In a competitive and intense job market, this MSc in Finance at Montpellier Business School is certainly a way for you to make the difference.... [-]

The MSc in Global Business is one of Montpellier Business school’s programs in which you can foster your international professional skills and find a way to stand out from the crowd. It will provide you the specialist tools and techniques to increase your strengths in the international arena.

In addition to business fundamental courses, you can benefit from Chinese or French language courses. Company visits are also organized on each continent during the program.

During the entire program, you will meet professional experts and develop solid know-how which will make you ready to tackle all the challenges you will face during your future career with serenity.... [-]

The MSc in International Business is a foremost and innovative program designed to give you a specialist insight into the area of international business, a strategic global vision to accelerate your access to key positions of responsibility in companies and organizations. Whether you seek an international position with good responsibility, wish to start your own business or would like to work abroad, the MSc in I.B. will help you achieve your project, give new impetus to your professional development and boost your talent to challenge today’s globalized businesses.

Through a one-year training program, which combines the theoretical and practical course-work focused on innovative management, you will be equipped with the necessary tools to broaden your skills to face your professional challenges with confidence. By sharing your experience in a multicultural class, in contact with internationally recognized professional instructors and faculties, you will gain a great capacity for the global market and open up to new horizons of career opportunities.... [-]

The MSc in Lean Operations Management is a foremost and innovative program designed to give you a specialist insight into the area of Lean Management, a way for you to become highly competent on how to contribute both effectively and efficiently to continuous improvement and transformation initiatives that appear more and more within the industrial and service. Thus to accelerate your access to key positions of responsibility in companies and organizations.

Through a one-year training program, which combines the theoretical and practical course-work focused on innovative management, you will be equipped with the necessary tools to broaden your skills to face your professional challenges with confidence. By sharing your experience in a multicultural class, in contact with internationally recognized professional instructors and faculties, you will gain a great capacity for the global market and open up to new horizons of career opportunities.... [-]

Design for businesses is now changing from a narrow project-based to a key strategy-based function. IT becomes instrumental in forging strategies for value creation in a wide range of sectors, institutions, situations, etc.. Design Management combines innovation processes to create effective products and services or to tackle in new ways key challenges for corporations (such as sustainability and diversity, digitalization, global performance, etc.).

Our MSc in Management through Design blends the original designers’ way of thinking and creating with the management strategies and market value creation challenges to forge efficient, innovative solutions.

The design process involves observations, interviews, interactions with the users/customers to empathize with them, to define the real underlying issues and to discover unmet needs within the context and constraints of a particular situation. This approach frames the opportunity and scope of innovation, generating creative ideas, testing, and refining solutions. Design involves learning by doing and a positive approach to failures as a path to improve a particular solution.... [-]

The MSc in Marketing is one of Montpellier Business school’s programs in which you can foster your professional skills and find a way to stand out from the crowd. It provides the specialist tools and techniques to increase your strengths in the international arena.

Marketing helps a firm in creating value by better understanding the needs of its customers and providing them with innovative products and services. This value is communicated through a variety of channels as well as through the firm’s branding strategy.

Our faculty addresses a broad array of topics in all of these areas there are several new developments in marketing that offer opportunities for us to make important contributions in the future. The current economic crisis is changing consumers’ current and future purchase and consumption patterns. The program contains an ideal balance between theory and practice, and the curriculum brings knowledge to life instead to keep it to the books mainly through the practical side of Marketing within different industries like Luxury, cultural, food & wine and services.... [-]

Supply chain management is at the core of every business model and strategy of organizations. Companies like Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Toyota or Ikea have built their competitive advantage by making supply chain the main part of their business models. They have created value and innovations for their customers by orchestrating their logistics and supply in an efficient and collaborative manner.

Our MSc in Supply Chain Management is a 10-month program preparing students to understand the complexity and importance of logistics and supply chain management in a globalized context. Students will acquire core concepts, processes and strategies for managing global supply chains. They will learn how to organize, monitor and synchronize intra and inter-organizational processes and how to create value from the logistic and supply chain.... [-]

Big Data refers to the large volume of data that business encounters every day. The origins of big data can be trailed back to the mid 1990′s when John Mashey, working at Silicon Graphics, USA was involved in processing and analysis of large datasets. Analysis of data by humans can be a time-consuming activity and thus use of sophisticated information systems can be utilized to crunch this enormous amount of data. This data is not only voluminous, but they are from various sources, the system can analyze the data with varied processing time, and it is important to verify the uncertainty and trustworthiness of the data. Modern intelligent computing can process voluminous data at superfast speed. Intelligent computing is influenced by several factors such as (i) changing technologies, smart devices, sensors; (ii) increasing technological complexity that can process data faster; (iii) human-machine interaction and its abilities. What an organization does with these data-sets is of tremendous importance.... [-]

Occitanie is renowned overseas for producing and trading wine, food, and delicatessen of excellence. It benefits from both the most favorable climate, the close influence of the Mediterranean Sea and the ability of its food and wine ecosystem to disrupt the industry through agile and fast innovation.

The winemakers of Occitanie grow sparkling wines, sweet wines, red wines, white wines, and a range of rosé wines with unique colors, aromas, and tastes. Food actors have developed a tuned sense of global responsibility by providing a wide range of organic and sustainable products.

Our MSc in Food and Wine Management is a 10-month program preparing students for an international management career in the industry of Food and Wine. It offers students a truly local and global experience on our campus-based in Montpellier, South of France.... [-]

France has developed excellence centers widely recognized around powerful actors in the marketing, luxury and fashion industries. One of the key drivers for this continuous success has been the ability to build efficient marketing of excellence through advanced techniques and methods.

Our MSc allows graduates to better understand and master this unique savoir-faire, the so-called French Excellence, which attracts corporations around the globe looking for talented young managers. Our graduate will be equipped with a strong sense of innovation, a creative mindset coupled with hands-on knowledge of luxury products. This will allow our graduates to shine in contributing to the creation and launch of high quality and original products or services, and then in their efficient branding, marketing, and selling.... [-]

Technological innovation applied to financial services is reshaping the global financial system and is expected to disrupt it very strongly over the next decade. This revolution creates a recent but strong demand from graduates and employees have gained the skills required for a changing financial services industry. Our MSc in Innovative Finance is a 10-month program preparing students to become agents of this revolution in the banking and financial markets industry and/or participate in financial entrepreneurial ventures. M.B.S. offers students a true multi-cultural and international experience on our campus-based in Montpellier, South of France.

Fintech (i.e Financial Technology) is strongly taking over the finance industry (+75% annual growth, more than 50bn USD annual investments in the sector). Blockchains and digital approaches are revolutions across an increasingly wider range of sectors. Digital money and cryptocurrencies (including bitcoins) are changing the way money and networks are though, organized and valued.... [-]

Limited access to financial services, or financial exclusion, is a challenging reality for an important share of the world’s population in both developing and developed countries. Financial exclusion is highly linked with poverty and it exacerbates situations of social exclusion. Public and international aid institutions have shown their limits in alleviating poverty. On the contrary, social innovations, such as the microfinance movement, provide market-based solutions to fight poverty and social exclusion by improving access to financial services. These social innovations are one of the main focus of this MSc.

Our MSc course is designed to teach responsible finance concepts, principles and framework in the context of the traditional component of MSc in Finance such as financial markets, corporate governance, risk management, etc.. Our MSc is also built at the same time to provide with the fundamental economic and financial skills required to strengthen participants’ skills in banking and financial activities. Knowledge is applied to different financial products and is aimed at aligning investors´ financial objectives with the social responsibility concern and challenge.... [-]

Montpellier is the most seductive, elegant and cultured town in the South of France. It attracts more than 5 million tourists each year. Quite naturally, Montpellier has developed a complex and diverse ecosystem in the industry of tourism and hospitality.

Our MSc in Tourism and Hospitality Management is a 10-month program preparing students for an international management career in the industry of Tourism and Hospitality. It offers students a true multi-cultural and international experience on our campus-based in Montpellier, South of France.

Students will develop their general management skills and explore the different way to transpose this knowledge and expertise to the tourism and hospitality industry. They will discover the inner functioning and specificities of tourism and hospitality markets, the new trends, the design and organization of the main actors. The curriculum put a special focus on the digital transformation of the industry and on the importance of a multi-cultural approach. Business projects, fields trips and visits throughout the year will pace the academic experience and give students the opportunity to gain valuable work and real-life experience.... [-]

AACSB and EFMD accredited, the Grande Ecole Program (Master in Management) of Montpellier Business School enables graduating with a Master’s grade degree. It is regularly ranked among the World Top 50 and the French Top 15.

To be part of the Grande Ecole Program of Montpellier Business School means choosing to develop your talents and expertise to become a stakeholder in a changing world.

An institution on a human scale composed of tutors and students from all over the world, Montpellier Business School and its Grande Ecole Program have marked themselves out as being outstanding by their ability to defend strong humanist values combined with an educational system based on academic excellence for 120 years. Our ambition is based on the belief that innovative methods and different paths in terms of training and education are essential to the progress of our society.... [-]