Founded in 1872 by the Lyon Chamber of Commerce, emlyon business school welcomes 9260 students, representing 130 nationalities, and 4000 managers in its professional development programmes.
The school has four campuses in France and abroad (Lyon, Shanghai, Paris and Mumbai) and can draw on a network of 220 international academic partners. In addition, it maintains a community of 45000 alumni in 130 countries.
emlyon business school’s mission is to develop ‘ makers’, agents of transformation with a flair for teamwork, who anticipate, link worlds, handle and cultivate ideas, and see things and take action before others. This notion of ‘maker’ reflects the vision of the entrepreneur endorsed by emlyon business school: A maker tries, experiments, makes mistakes, starts again, and learns as they go.
emlyon business school strives to cultivate these skills in a next-generation approach that combines the production and dissemination of excellence in academic research with the creation of innovative curriculums.
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Notable alumni of emlyon business school include Jean-Pascal Tricoire (CEO & Chairman of Schneider Electric), Clotilde Delbos (CFO & deputy CEO of Renault), and Christian Ngan (Cameroonian entrepreneur).