Grandes écoles for management and the education of the élite

• Michel CROZIER
  Emeritus research director, CNRS
  
• Jean-Claude THOENIG
  Research director, CNRS ; Groupe d'Analyse des Politiques Publiques, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cachan
  
• Jean-Claude de SCHIETERE
  Managing director, École supérieure de Commerce, Rouen
  
• Bertrand COLLOMB
  Chairman and Managing Director Lafarge
  

Summary

Both the élite and the methods by which they are educated have been plunged into a legitimacy crisis and called into question. Management schools have suffered the same fate. Is our management school model seizing up ? Is it capable of meeting the needs of companies and French society ? Is its uniqueness not a handicap to the integration of our training system into the sphere of international competition ? Such questions generated a lively discussion.

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Éric GODELIER.

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