Theseus International Management Institute
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Theseus International Management Institute was founded in 1989 as a graduate business school
focussed on the high technology sector. In 2004 it merged into EDHEC.
, BNP Paribas
, Société Générale
, MIT Sloan School of Management
, Politecnico di Milano and several other major European corporations to create the future managers of the information technology age. It offered a mid-career MBA in the English language in Sophia Antipolis
, South France, in what was billed as “International City of Wisdom, Science and Technology” http://www.insme.org/documents/sophiaAntipolisStruct.pdf.
program director Mel Horwitch was professor and founding dean of management.http://www.poly.edu/user/horwitch Claudio Ciborra
, Louis Pouzin and Charles Wiseman were also in the founding faculty along with some 100 distinguished members of the information technology academe. They came from Hitotsubashi in Japan to Harvard in the US, from Cambridge in the UK to Dartmouth, Duke, Stern in the US via the Technion in Israel, from Apple to Bull to HP, IBM and Xerox and from Booz Allen to McKinsey Consulting.
Ahmed Aykac took over as director general from 1996 until the school's merger with EDHEC in 2004http://www.edhec-mba.com/servlet/com.univ.collaboratif.utils.LectureFichiergw?ID_FICHIER=8355
The pioneers who joined the charter batch of Theseus included John Fowler, Yves Patoreaux, Yves-Andre Leroux, Remi Dupuy, Philip Reynaud, Sean Phelan, Sanjay Kumar, Satish Jha
, Herve Podvin, Mark Gherardi, Jacob Op Hij, Bertrand Kornfeld, Bernard Cottrand and Marc Mesle.
.http://www.mbaworld.com/blr-archive/accreditation/16/index.pdf
programmes, the core activity at Theseus was its intensive MBA programme, run full-time over one year or, from 2002, as a part-time MBA run jointly with the Center for International Business Education and Research
at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The Theseus MBA was ranked 26th in Europe, and the school as a whole 37th, by the Financial Times
in 2004 http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/top40euroschools.pdf.
which uses a modular structure, allowing full- and part-time students to study alongside each other.
Business school
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration. It teaches topics such as accounting, administration, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, information systems, marketing, organizational behavior, public relations, strategy, human resource...
focussed on the high technology sector. In 2004 it merged into EDHEC.
The beginning
Institute Theseus was founded in 1989 with the support of France TélécomFrance Télécom
France Telecom S.A. is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europe and one of the largest in the world. It currently employs about 180,000 people and has 192.7 million customers worldwide . In 2010 the group had revenue of €45.5 billion...
, BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas S.A. is a global banking group, headquartered in Paris, with its second global headquarters in London. In October 2010 BNP Paribas was ranked by Bloomberg and Forbes as the largest bank and largest company in the world by assets with over $3.1 trillion. It was formed through the merger...
, Société Générale
Société Générale
Société Générale S.A. is a large European Bank and a major Financial Services company that has a substantial global presence. Its registered office is on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, while its head office is in the Tours Société Générale in the business district of La...
, MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
, Politecnico di Milano and several other major European corporations to create the future managers of the information technology age. It offered a mid-career MBA in the English language in Sophia Antipolis
Sophia Antipolis
Sophia Antipolis is a technology park northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice, France. Much of the park falls within the commune of Valbonne. Created in 1970-84, it houses primarily companies in the fields of computing, electronics, pharmacology and biotechnology. Several institutions of higher...
, South France, in what was billed as “International City of Wisdom, Science and Technology” http://www.insme.org/documents/sophiaAntipolisStruct.pdf.
Professors
Thierry Zylberberg was its founding director while former MIT Sloan School of ManagementMIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
program director Mel Horwitch was professor and founding dean of management.http://www.poly.edu/user/horwitch Claudio Ciborra
Claudio Ciborra
Claudio Ciborra was a professor of Information Systems and PWC Chair in Risk Management in the London School of Economics. Prior to the LSE, he was professor at the Theseus International Management Institute....
, Louis Pouzin and Charles Wiseman were also in the founding faculty along with some 100 distinguished members of the information technology academe. They came from Hitotsubashi in Japan to Harvard in the US, from Cambridge in the UK to Dartmouth, Duke, Stern in the US via the Technion in Israel, from Apple to Bull to HP, IBM and Xerox and from Booz Allen to McKinsey Consulting.
Ahmed Aykac took over as director general from 1996 until the school's merger with EDHEC in 2004http://www.edhec-mba.com/servlet/com.univ.collaboratif.utils.LectureFichiergw?ID_FICHIER=8355
The Charter Batch
Its charter batch had 18 mid career executives aged 25 years to 45 years, from entrepreneurs to CIOs of EDF/GDF, from editor/ writer to and underwriter and from telecom engineers to bankers.The pioneers who joined the charter batch of Theseus included John Fowler, Yves Patoreaux, Yves-Andre Leroux, Remi Dupuy, Philip Reynaud, Sean Phelan, Sanjay Kumar, Satish Jha
Satish Jha
Satish Jha is an Indian social entrepreneur, who is currently President and CEO of OLPC India Foundation.-Digital Divide and ICT for Development:...
, Herve Podvin, Mark Gherardi, Jacob Op Hij, Bertrand Kornfeld, Bernard Cottrand and Marc Mesle.
Innovation in Business Education
It was an innovative experiment that triggered a whole series of similar MBA programs with focus on integrating information technologies in several universities. Already in 1989, participants received an Apple computer and an email address which was the first email address for most of the students. Shortly after, a forum was set on The WELL - the birthplace of the online community movement.Executive education
Theseus International Management Institute, was ranked No 1 worldwide for Internationality in Custom Executive Programs by Financial Times Survey of Business Schools (May 2003).http://www.insead.edu/alumni/newsletter/junejuly2004/ProfTurnerBiog2004.pdf, and 37th verallhttp://specials.ft.com/spdocs/exed2.pdf. The school was accredited, and in 2005 re-accredited, by the Association of MBAsAssociation of MBAs
The Association of MBAs is a London-based international organization that accredits postgraduate business programs at business schools worldwide. The Association is one of the three main global accreditation bodies in business education and styles itself "the world's impartial authority on...
.http://www.mbaworld.com/blr-archive/accreditation/16/index.pdf
MBA programme
Alongside executive educationExecutive Education
Executive Education refers to academic programs at leading graduate-level business schools worldwide for executives, business leaders and functional managers. These programs are non-credit and non-degree granting...
programmes, the core activity at Theseus was its intensive MBA programme, run full-time over one year or, from 2002, as a part-time MBA run jointly with the Center for International Business Education and Research
Center for International Business Education and Research
The Centers for International Business Education and Research are resources for international business education in the United States funded by through the United States Department of Education...
at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The Theseus MBA was ranked 26th in Europe, and the school as a whole 37th, by the Financial Times
Financial Times
The Financial Times is an international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in London and printed in 24 cities around the world. Its primary rival is the Wall Street Journal, published in New York City....
in 2004 http://specials.ft.com/spdocs/top40euroschools.pdf.
Merger with EDHEC
Now Theseus is the English-language graduate programme independent sub-unit of the Ecole de hautes études commerciales du nord grande ecole. It offers an MBA from the EDHEC campus in NiceNice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
which uses a modular structure, allowing full- and part-time students to study alongside each other.