Ecole Supérieure De Commerce De Paris

ESCP Business School (french: École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) is a French business school and '' grande école'' founded in Paris and based across Europe with campuses in Paris, Berlin, London, Madrid, Turin, and Warsaw. It is consistently ranked among the best business schools in Europe. In France, ESCP is one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles. It is known as one of the ''trois Parisiennes'' (three Parisians), together with HEC Paris and ESSEC. Established in 1819, it is considered the world's oldest business school.

History

The school was established in Paris on 1 December 1819 by two former Napoleonic soldiers, Germain Legret and Amédée Brodart. Germain Legret had opened two business schools in Paris in 1815 and 1818, but they closed their doors rapidly. It was modeled on the first grande école, the École Polytechnique, founded by Lazare Carnot and Gaspard Monge, but was initially more modest, in large part because it had not been supported by the state. Since the 1820s, the school had gained international exposure but it was not the only business school open to international students. Its stature and importance ascended during the 19th century and it moved to its current Parisian location on the Avenue de la République in 1898.

In 1828, the project to put the school under the authority of the French Ministry of Commerce and Industry failed. The school remained independent by the intervention of Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, who took it over. Several times during the first half of the 19th century, French politics planned on grouping ESCP with elite French engineering schools such as the École Polytechnique or the École Centrale Paris, but that never occurred. It is worth mentioning that, at the time, higher engineering schools in France and in Europe taught future businessmen. From 1838, the French state began to give scholarships to ESCP's students.

Finally, in 1869 the Paris Chamber of Commerce took over the school to train future business leaders in modern methods in commerce and industry. In 1892, ESCP set up selective admissions processes which still take the form of competitive exams.

On 5 April 1973 the concept of a multi-campus business school was founded with the consecutive inaugurations of campuses in the United Kingdom (London in 1974, move to Oxford in 1975) and in Germany ( Düsseldorf in 1975, move to Berlin in 1985). In 1974 the ESCP developed courses in entrepreneurship in response to internal and external forces. Since then, the school has deepened its European presence to become an integrated pan-European business school: In 2018, ESCP became an '' École consulaire'', largely financed by the public Chambers of Commerce in Paris, Berlin, and Turin.
* In 1985, the School's campus in Germany moves from Düsseldorf to Berlin at the invitation of the Government of Berlin.
* In 1988, a fourth campus is opened in Madrid.
* In 1999, ESCP merges with its sister school EAP.
* In 2001, the Master in Management programme of ESCP is validated by City University London.
* In 2004, a fifth campus in Torino, Italy is founded. Validated by the University of Turin, Master in Management students can obtain the Italian degree Laurea Magistrale.
* In 2005, the School inaugurates its London campus having moved from Oxford.
* In 2007, the Master in Management programme is recognized by the Charles III University of Madrid and students can obtain the Spanish degree of Master Europeo en Administración y Dirección de Empresas.
* In 2015, the School establishes its sixth European campus via a strategic alliance with the Warsaw-based Kozminski University.
* In 2016, the School decides to strengthen its footprint in Paris by adding a second campus located in the Montparnasse area after buying back Novancia Business School's building. The campus is dedicated to executive programs.
*In 2019, the School removed Europe from its name going back to its original name.

Grande école degrees

ESCP Business School is a '' grande école'', a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and often connected to, the main framework of the French public university system. ''Grandes écoles'' are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process, and a significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society. Similar to Ivy League schools in the United States, Oxbridge in the UK, and the C9 League in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France.Monique de Saint-Martin, « Les recherches sociologiques sur les grandes écoles : de la reproduction à la recherche de justice », Éducation et sociétés 1/2008 (),
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The degrees are accredited by the '' Conférence des Grandes Écoles'' and awarded by the Ministry of National Education. Higher education business degrees in France are organized into three levels thus facilitating international mobility: the ''Licence'' / Bachelor's degrees, and the Master's and Doctoral degrees. The Bachelors and the Masters are organized in semesters: 6 for the Bachelors and 4 for the Masters. Those levels of study include various "parcours" or paths based on UE (Unités d'enseignement or Modules), each worth a defined number of European credits (ECTS). A student accumulates those credits, which are generally transferable between paths. A Bachelors is awarded once 180 ECTS have been obtained (bac + 3); a Masters is awarded once 120 additional credits have been obtained (bac +5). The highly coveted PGE (''Programme Grand École'') ends with the degree of Master in Management (MiM)Ben-David, Joseph and Philip G. Altbach. eds. ''Centers of Learning: Britain, France, Germany, United States'' (2nd ed. 2017). Since 2022, all students entering the 27 specialised master's programmes benefits a temper proof graduation certificate based on the blockchain with BCDiploma technology.

Rankings

Campus

ESCP students can study on campuses in France ( Paris), the UK ( London), Spain ( Madrid), Germany ( Berlin), Italy ( Turin), and Poland ( Warsaw). They can spend either 6 months or 1 year on each campus according to their study choices. Each campus has its own specifics and develops programs with local academic institutions. For instance, in Spain, ESCP provides a Master in Business Project Management co-delivered with the Technical University of Madrid and in Italy, a double-degree program is available for engineers together with the Polytechnic University of Turin.

Since 2017, ESCP has had two campuses in Paris, one near the Place de la République (in the 11th arrondissement of Paris) and another one near the Montparnasse Tower (in the 15th arrondissement of Paris). Each campus is dedicated to a specific range of programs. The campus in the 11th arrondissement hosts all the graduate programs whereas the campus in the 15th arrondissement hosts the undergraduate education, the executive education and the school's start-up Incubator, the Blue Factory. This organization is unique to Paris. In every other school undergraduate, graduate and executive education are dispensed in the same campus.

Partnerships

ESCP has over 100 partner ''grandes'' é''coles'' and universities worldwide, several offering dual degrees.

Exchange
* University of Vienna, Austria
* Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Belgium
*Aarhus School of Business, Denmark
* Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
* Aalto University School of Business, Finland
* WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
* Reykjavík University, Iceland
* Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
* University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
* University of Navarra, Spain
* University of Gothenburg, Sweden
* University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
* Sabancı University, Turkey
* London Business School, the UK
* Imperial College London, the UK

Dual degrees
* Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina
*Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina
* HEC Montréal, Canada
* Universidad de Chile, Chile
* Tongji University, China
*Renmin University of China, School of Business, China
* Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
* École Centrale Paris, France
* ENSAE ParisTech, France
* Mines ParisTech, France
*École Grégoire-Ferrandi, France
* Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France
* Indian Institutes of Management, India
* Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
*Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy
* Waseda University, Japan
* Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico
* Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands
* Kozminski University, Poland
* Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
* Higher School of Economics, Russia
* Korea University Business School, South Korea
* National Chengchi University, Taiwan
* Aston University, UK
* Cornell University, USA
* Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
* Sotheby's Institute of Art, USA
* University of South Carolina, USA
* University of Texas at Austin, USA
*Centre Franco-Vietnamien de Formation à la Gestion, Vietnam

Notable alumni

Politics

* Michel Barnier ( Foreign Minister of France from 2004 to 2005)
* Jean-Pierre Raffarin (Prime Minister of France from 2002 to 2005)
* Frédéric Salat-Baroux (Advisor to the French president from 2005 to 2007)
* François Zocchetto (Senator of Mayenne)
* Roxana Maracineanu ( Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports)
* Claude Nougein (Senator of Corrèze)
* Stéphane Valeri ( President of the Monégasque National Council from 2018 to 2022)

Research and education

* Olivier Blanchard ( Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2008 to 2015, Robert M. Solow Professor Emeritus of Economics at the MIT)
* Agnès Bénassy-Quéré (French Economist, director of Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations internationales)
* Christine Musselin (Scientific director at Science Po)
* Michel Wieviorka (French sociologist at EHESS)
* Andreas Kaplan (Marketing Professor at ESCP in Berlin)

Business

* Christophe de Margerie (CEO of TotalEnergies from 2007 to 2014)
* Arnaud de Puyfontaine (CEO of Vivendi)
* Alexandre Ricard (CEO of Pernod Ricard)
* Edouard de Royere (CEO of Air Liquide from 1985 to 1995)
* Patricia Barbizet (CEO of Christie's, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Kering)
* Patrick Thomas (CEO of Hermès from 2003 to 2014)
* Thierry de La Tour d'Artaise (CEO of SEB)
* Stéphan Caron (French swimmer, Head of European Direct Corporate Finance at BlackRock)
* Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun (Former President of Confédération générale des entreprises du Maroc)
* Patrice Louvet (CEO of Ralph Lauren)

Entrepreneurship

* Christian Latouche (Founder of Fiducial SA)
* Gunnar Graef (Founder of Deutsche Ventures)
* François Lemarchand (Founder of Nature et Découvertes)

Media and culture

* Leïla Slimani (Writer, Prix Goncourt laureate in 2016)
* Christophe Barbier (French journalist)
* Irma (singer)
* Hervé Hubert (French television producer)
* Aude Lancelin (French journalist)
* Jean-Marc Lofficier (Writer, publisher)
* Gilles Martin-Chauffier (Writer, Prix Interallié laureate in 1998)
* Hélène Gateau (Journalist, television presenter)

Sports

* Stéphane Diagana (Track and field gold medalist)
* Érik Boisse (Fencer gold medalist)
* Valérie Barlois (Fencer gold medalist)
* Anne-Lise Touya (Fencer gold medalist)

Associations

* Roger Cukierman (Banker, businessman and president of Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France)
* Nathalie Boy de la Tour (President of Ligue de football professionnel)

See also

* Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris
* HEC Paris
* ESSEC Business School

References

External links

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