EDHEC BUSINESS SCHOOL, França
A Escola de Negócios EDHEC foi fundada em 1906 por um grupo de empreendedores do norte da França que na altura se encontravam à procura de respostas para as suas necessidades de formação em comércio internacional. EDHEC é uma escola privada e funciona como uma entidade sem fins lucrativos desde 1958. Um século mais tarde, EDHEC é reconhecida como uma das melhores escolas de negócios na Europa: classificado no Top 15 do “Financial Times European Business Schools” com o 14 º lugar, no 3º lugar entre escolas de negócios francesas e no Top 10 do “The Economist's European” para o seu MBA.
Também o seu programa em Finanças está classificado no 5º lugar pelo “Financial Times” no que diz respeito ao ranking mundial de Mestrado de Ciências em Finanças (média de 3 anos). A excelência da escola de negócios EDHEC tem também sido reconhecida através da sua tripla acreditação: AACSB, AMBA e EQUIS. A escola tem 6.500 alunos matriculados em programas académicos, com mais de 30 mil alunos em 120 países, com mais de 20 centros de investigação, disciplinas e institutos e tem parcerias com mais de 300 universidades internacionais.
A EDHEC tem principalmente cinco centros de excelência que concentram os conhecimentos da comunidade académica: EDHEC - Instituto do Risco, EDHEC Legal, Economia, Análise Financeira e Contabilidade e o Centro de Empresas Familiares. O Centro de Empresas Familiares da EDHEC é o reflexo da escola de negócios da EDHEC com ligações fortes e históricas a empresas familiares. A sua missão é apoiar o modelo empreendedor a longo prazo das empresas familiares, inspirando as comunidades de empresas familiares através da investigação e educação sobre as dimensões empresariais e socio-emocionais cruciais para a sustentabilidade.
Como tal, os principais interesses de investigação têm como foco a gestão da dinâmica emocional, administração e desempenho, empreendedorismo, sucessão, decisões financeiras e compromisso social. Assim, o Centro de Empresas Familiares beneficia da colaboração multidisciplinar com os outros Centros de Investigação da EDHEC, cujas publicações se cruzam com as áreas do direito, economia, finanças, comportamento organizacional e os temas do empreendedorismo em empresas familiares. O Centro de Empresas Familiares oferece programas educacionais sobre empresas familiares aos níveis da Licenciatura, Mestrado e Pós-Graduação que são impulsionados pela investigação e também organiza eventos que divulgam as investigações com implicações práticas, proporcionando aos académicos, especialistas, membros das empresas familiares e decisores políticos a partilha de tópicos específicos sobre o empreendedorismo e as empresas familiares.
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.
