EDHEC BUSINESS SCHOOL, Francia
EDHEC Business School è stata fondata nel 1906 da un gruppo di imprenditori provenienti dal nord della Francia, che erano alla ricerca di una risposta alle loro esigenze di formazione nel commercio internazionale. EDHEC è una scuola privata e ha operato come entità non-profit dal 1958. Un secolo più tardi, EDHEC è riconosciuta come una delle migliori scuole di business in Europa: classificata dal Financial Times al 14° posto nella classifica delle migliori Business School europee e al 3 ° posto tra le Business School francesi, e qualificata da “The Economist” tra le migliori 10 Business School Europee per il suo Full Time MBA. Il suo programma in Finanza è anche classificato dal Financial Times al quinto posto nella classifica mondiale dei Master di Scienze Finanziarie. L'eccellenza del EDHEC Business School è stata riconosciuta anche attraverso il suo triplo accreditamento: AACSB, AMBA e EQUIS. La scuola ha 6500 studenti iscritti ai corsi accademici, con più di 30 000 alumni in 120 paesi, oltre 20 centri di ricerca, cattedre e istituti, e più di 300 università partner internazionali.
EDHEC dispone di cinque Centri di Eccellenza dove si concentrano le competenze della comuntà accademica: EDHEC-Risk Institute, Legal Edhec, Economics, Financial Analysis & Accounting e Family Business Centre. Quest’ultimo riflette il forte legame storico di EDHEC Business School con le aziende familiari. La sua missione è sostenere il modello imprenditoriale a lungo termine delle aziende familiari, attraverso la ricerca e la formazione sia sulla dimensione del lavoro sia sulle dimensioni socio-emotive cruciali per la sostenibilità.
In tale ambito, i principali interessi di ricerca riguardano la gestione delle dinamiche emotive, la gestione e le performance, l'imprenditorialità, la successione, le decisioni finanziarie e l'impegno sociale. Il Family Business Centre beneficia di collaborazioni transdisciplinari con altri centri di ricerca dello stesso EDHEC realizzando pubblicazioni che intersecano aspetti e tematiche di natura legale, economica, finanziaria, organizzativa ed imprenditoriale. Offre programmi di formazione fondati sulla rucerca sulle aziende familiari nell’ambito del BBA, dei corsi Master e della Formazione. Inoltre, organizza eventi di disseminazione dei risultati della ricerca finalizzata a trarre valore dalle sue implicazioni pratiche, coinvolgendo accademici, professionisti, rappresentanti di aziende familiari e policy maker su tematiche connesse con l’imprenditorialità e con le aziende familiari.
Rania Labaki, Ph.D.
is an Associate Professor at EDHEC Business School, teaching and conducting research at the intersection of the fields of finance and family business. Her recent interests revolve around the role of the family emotions in entrepreneurial and financial decision-making. She serves also as the Director of the EDHEC Family Business Centre and the Academic Director of the Family Business Global Executive MBA. Prior to joining EDHEC, Rania was Associate Professor of management at the University of Bordeaux and Visiting Scholar at Baruch College-The City University of New York and Zeppelin University. She is an active member of editorial and reviewing boards for academic journals on family business and of advisory academic committees. She is actively involved in the main organizations dedicated to education, research, networking, and entrepreneurial initiatives on an international level such as her role as board member at IFERA, conference committee member at FFI, and scientific committee member at FBN France and FBN Levant. Along with a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Bordeaux, she is recipient of several international academic awards for her contributions to the family business field.
Lorraine M. Uhlaner, Ph.D.
is Professor of Management, specialized in Entrepreneurship and Family Business at EDHEC Business School. She received her Ph.D. in Organization Psychology from the University of Michigan. Her current research interests include responsible ownership and corporate governance in family businesses, and other privately-held firms. Within the realm of SME’s her research is wide-reaching, covering also such topics and corporate social (especially environmental) responsibility, innovation and knowledge management and business succession. A second research stream focuses on prediction of individual (social) entrepreneurial behavior, especially multi-level research which examines informal (cultural) and formal institutional influences. She is a member of both the Dutch GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) and French STEP teams. She has many publications in highly ranked academic journals in management, entrepreneurship, and family business.
Fabian Bernhard, Ph.D.
is an Associate Professor of Management and a member of the Family Business Center at EDHEC Business School in France. He earned his PhD student at the European Business School (EBS) in Germany where he developed the ideas of his book on “Psychological Ownership in Family Businesses”. He was a research professor at INSEEC Business School in Paris and an adjunct professor at the Family Enterprise
Center (FEC) at Stetson University of Florida in the US. His current topics of interest are at the intersection of organizational behavior, organizational psychology, and family business research. In particular, he is interested in the emotional dynamics in family businesses, moral emotions, the education and preparation of next generational family business leaders, attachment to family business and its influence on the decision-making process.
