Grenoble School of Management
Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) is a French graduate business school renowned for its teaching in innovation and management. The consular institution was founded in 1984 in Grenoble, in the Auvergne-Rhone Alpes region, by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) of Grenoble. GEM is part of the Conférence des Grandes écoles, and one of the only 1% of business schools in the world which holds the "Triple Crown" of international business school accreditations: EQUIS by the EFMD, AMBA, and the AACSB. The school offers undergraduate and graduate programs: Master in Management, MSc, MBA, EMBA , DBA and PhD in management, and bachelor's degrees as well as executive education for managers and leaders in its two French campuses: Grenoble and Paris, and its twelve international campuses. At the end of March, Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) and EMLYON Business School announce their alliance, the Alliance Lyon Grenoble Business School, centered on innovation, entrepreneurship, growth and new business. Grande école degrees. GEM 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 C9 League in China, graduation from a grande école is considered the prerequisite credential for any top government, administrative and corporate position in France. The degrees are accredited by the "Conférence des Grandes Écoles" and awarded by the Ministry of National Education (France). 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 Doctorat 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 (Grand Ecole Program) ends with the degree of Master 's in Management (MiM) Since 2004, Grenoble Ecole de Management is one of the few (1%) management schools worldwide awarded with the prestigious "Triple crown" accreditations Its accreditations are regularly renewed, and each one for the maximum period of five years. The school's DBA program is one of only eleven doctoral programs in the World to be also accredited by AMBA. Programs. The Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) covers all fields of management by offering an academic program with: the Master in Management (Grande Ecole) taught in the most selective French business schools "écoles supérieures de commerce"; the Bachelor  of International Business (BIB) ranked first in France ("Le Parisien") and various undergraduate certificates and graduates including : the MBA, EMBA, MIB, and the 13+ Master's level programs MSc. All are delivered in English or French - emphasize innovation, technology and intercultural management. The PhD program has been launched in 2009 and is offered in four majors : marketing, finance, strategy and innovation management, and organisational sciences. Worldwide rankings. GEM is consistently rated by the Financial Times, The Economist, Shanghai ranking and QS World University rankings as one of the top business schools in continental Europe ("Business administration", "Management", "Economics") and  one of the leading business schools worldwide. The school has been ranked second after HEC for sustainable & ecology development by Le Figaro, FT and Davos's Forum. Grenoble École de Management is recognized as one of the observers of COP26. Grenoble's city wins the European Green Capital 2022 award delivered by the European Commission. Pedagogy and departments. GEM is member of the Management School Chapter of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles and associated with Mines-Telecom, the number ONE group of Engineering and Management graduate schools in France. Pedagogy at the Grenoble School of Management is organized by the  academic research departments: Management and Technology, Marketing, Accounting, Law and Finance, Computer Science, Management and Behavior, Modern Languages and Foreign Cultures and Applied Learning and is delivered through a mix of face-to-face lectures, excursions, projects, and e-learning, in either English or French. GEM also delivers courses entirely in English with : "100% English Track", "trilingual course", and :"transcontinental course" in agreement with Cambridge (UK), Beihang University (China), McGill (Canada), and Columbia University (USA). There are many international exchanges of staff and students including a longstanding partnership with Trinity College Dublin, and Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland (ranked in  Times Higher Education's top 100 university-level institutions globally) and with other partners on five continents. GEM collaborates each year in "Serious Games" with the MIT Sloan School of Management, us. and with MIT GSW for Startup conferences. The school is involved in the Global Compact program delivered by United Nations initiative (UN) that brings together firms, the business world and the civil society united on ten universal principles relative to human rights, working conditions and the environment. GEM hosts the student association Altigliss which organizes the World cup Ski and Snowboard competition for students in the Alps. Research . Grenoble Ecole de Management has over 90 research-active scholars, the school and its research are regularly ranked among top European and French business schools. Grenoble Ecole de Management conducts research in the following themes: Besides hosting a number of academic and applied research centers GEM is part of various important national and international research initiatives such as: MEDFORIST, GIANT (CNRS), and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. Student life. GEM Alumni is the association of former students (40,500+) and is represented in several countries (London, Dubai, Hong Kong, San Francisco ...) with local branches, and animates meetings (webinars , business clubs, afterworks ...). The student association GEM Altigliss Challenge organizes (21st edition) each year the student world cup of skiing and snowboarding in Alpin mountains. The school's location (HQ) is multicultural with 130 nationalities and with the nearest foreign cities : Geneva, Switzerland; or with Turin, Italy, and several offices in the World. Since 2009 GEM has also hosted the annual "Grenoble Geopolitics Festival" to illustrate Geopolitic impacts and alliances on economics and financial markets.