“ In an economy where innovation and globalization have forged a new landscape, managers must be not only competent, but also open-minded, watchful, visionary, and able to sidestep a host of pitfalls. These are the modern virtues that tomorrow's business leaders will need to guide our economy going forward. But before that, we need to find these managers - and educate them.

EM Strasbourg Business School - member of the prestigious Conférence des Grandes Écoles consortium and part of what will soon be France's largest university - intends to do just that.

These are the needs that must be met if the business world is to ensure employment and prosperity, if the academic world is to deepen our understanding of organisations and their development, and if students are to acquire the skills essential for a successful career. These are political needs as well - political in the highest sense of the term - in that a healthy economy is a service, and it cannot create knowledge unless it continuously improves the level of service it provides. The School's Board of Trustees represents all of these diverse issues. Our greatest challenge today is to adapt to the twenty-first century's global economy. ”