| Cergy-Pontoise � 6th April 2000
- IMHI graduates MBA (class of 1999) Hospitality Management joined the
global ranks taking a variety of positions with an average salary level
15 % higher than a year ago.
The majority (50 %) found employment opportunities in the hospitality
sectors with Accor and Radisson SAS being the top employers this year.
The number entering consulting has increased (yet) again with HVS International
hiring IMHI graduates for the 5th consecutive year, and companies such
as Arthur Andersen, Tokyo and KPMG Hospitality, Paris hiring graduates
for the first time. The leisure industry, notably Disneyland Paris, also
employed several 1999 IMHI graduates.
Although Europe maintained its top position, the placement of IMHI graduates
significantly increased in North and South America (23 % of the class of
1999 are working in this region of the world). There has also been an increase
in the number working in the Asia-Pacific region, indicating that the economic
and political conditions (hindrances to employment development in hospitality
last year) have become less critical to the job market.
The average entry level salary of IMHI graduates was 33 414 EUR ranging
from 18 300 EUR to 57 874 EUR . This represents an increase of 15%
compared to 1998, which can be explained by the higher compensation levels
in Europe and the Americas, by the increasing number of graduates working
for consulting companies and increased number working in finance or audit
positions.
The significant rise in salary level may also be due to the fact that
1999 graduates were the first class to be awarded a Master in Business
Administration (MBA).
The class of 1999 were on average 25 years old and an average professional
experience of 3 years prior to IMHI. 45 % of them were international students
representing 15 different nationalities.
| IMHI was the first international hotel management
school awarding a master degree in Europe, and today the only one to deliver
an MBA in International Hospitality Management co-signed by Cornell University
School of Hotel Administration and ESSEC Business School.
IMHI goals are to prepare the future leaders of hospitality industry
through its two-year educational program which has a strong focus on the
international hospitality industry.
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The mission of the Institut de Management Hôtelier
International, which grants the MBA in International Hospitality
Management, is to educate
managers with an international outlook, capable of leading
the globalization of the hospitality industry.
IMHI was founded in 1981 with the specific objective of
responding to the need for increasing expertise and growing internationalization
of the hospitality industry.
The Cornell University - ESSEC partnership
IMHI benefits from a solid and long-standing partnership
between two prestigious international institutions: |
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The program is open to undergraduates with a bachelor�s degree or a 3 year
hotel school diploma, totally fluent in English and with a of minimum 12
months work experience in the hospitality industry.
Richard Edelstein New Director
of Institut de Management Hôtelier International
| April, 20, 2000 - Richard Edelstein is a native Californian,
born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following graduate
school at the University of California, Berkeley, he has held numerous
positions in university management and as a researcher on the politics
of higher education in the U.S. and Europe.
 For
12 years he worked at Berkeley in various positions including Program Director
in the Office of International Education, Assistant Director for Administration
at the Institute of International Studies, and Research Associate at the
Center for Studies in Higher Education.
From 1987-1990 he was a researcher at the European Institute for Education
and Social Policy (Université de Paris, Dauphine) where he completed
research for his doctoral dissertation on management education in France.
He joined the International Association for Management Education (AACSB)
in 1990 as Director of International Affairs where he developed programs
and materials to assist business schools to increase the international
dimensions of their programs and build partnerships with institutions and
companies outside the U.S. In 1997 he returned to France as Director
of International Development at the Groupe ESC Nantes-Atlantique where
he initiated a strategic plan for international development, worked on
faculty recruitment and initiated a new program on business and management
in Asia.
He is co-author, with Guy Neave, of a chapter on graduate studies in
France in The Research Foundations of Graduate Study edited by Burton
Clark (University of California Press 1993) and co-author with Joseph Johnston
of Beyond Borders: Profiles in International Education (Association
of American Colleges and Universities, 1993). In 1997 he published
a chapter entitled "The American MBA: Educational Traditions, Quality
Issues and New Directions" in Das MBA-Handbuch edited by Bärbel Schwertfeger
(Econ Verlag, Düsseldorf) and wrote "Going Abroad for your MBA" a
chapter in Peterson's Guide to MBA Programs (Peterson's, Princeton,
New Jersey).
As the new Director of IMHI, Richard plans to build upon the solid foundation
of the current program recognized for its international character, excellent
students and alumni and a close relationship with the hospitality industry.
To maintain and enhance it's reputation, Mr.Edelstein believes that IMHI
must remain vigilant in adapting its curriculum and teaching methods to
the future needs of the industry and profession. He feels it is important
to develop and strengthen the collaboration with Cornell, to continue to
build a strong and internationally recognized faculty, to utilize
appropriate new learning technologies to enhance learning and to continually
engage with IMHI's industry partners to improve the quality of educational
programs. To achieve these aims, Richard is counting on the collaboration
of students, faculty and alumni all of whom form the community and culture
which make IMHI so unique and successful. |
The ESSEC Business School is a private graduate school of management,
accredited by the AACSB - The International Association for Management
Education � Affiliated to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Versailles,
Val d�Oise, Yvelines. |
