YOUR SCHOOL THROUGH THE GENERATIONS
Created in 1900 to meet the needs of the wine trade and local industry, the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Dijon was initially a limited company.
In 1921, it was bought by the Dijon Chamber of Commerce and, under the direction of Léon Govin, it became the best French business school. It expanded its recruitment to include girls and students from all over Burgundy and Franche-Comté, then from the Grand Est, from all over France and from all international horizons.
Its progress was however strewn with pitfalls: the drying up of recruitment a few years after its opening, the First World War, the crisis of the 1930s, the Second World War, the general decline of the ESCs after the war, the break-up of the ESCAE network in the 1980s...
But it has always been able to question itself, bounce back, adapt, innovate and develop.
In 1986, ESC Dijon joined the Conférence des grandes écoles. In 1988, a specialised master's degree in International Wine and Spirits Trade was created and, and a master's degree in Pharmaceutical Industry Management (MIP) in 1990, a specialised master's degree in Cultural Enterprise Management. The Bachelor ACI programme (bac+3) was opened in 1992.
2004 saw the opening of a parisian campus. In 2007, the Master's degree in Food Marketing (MAS) was created.
In 2009, The Entrepreneurial Garden, the school's business incubator, was created. Historically involved in wine and spirits management, the school launched the School of Wine & Spirits Business in 2012 and, two years later, obtained the American accreditation Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The school made its appearance in the Financial Times' Best Masters in Management ranking in 2015.
In 2016, ESC Dijon-Bourgogne becomes Burgundy School of Business (BSB) and changes its status. The School is one of the first four schools - along with HEC Paris, Grenoble EM and Toulouse BS - to adopt the legal status of EESC, which grants it more autonomy. Finally, the same year, BSB obtains the EQUIS accreditation and the EFMD (EFMD Programme Accreditation System) accreditation.
In 2018, BSB (in association with LESSAC) creates the Master of Science "Data Science and Organizational Behavior" in partnership with the consulting firm PWC.
In 2021, BSB inaugurate its new campus in Lyon.
We have been able to reconstruct the history of BSB thanks to Claude Chapuis' book "Rue Sambin".
A NETWORK OF GRADUATES BUILT OVER THE YEARS
A network is enriched with time and with people passing by. The school's network of graduates therefore capitalises on 120 years of graduates. The infographic below will give you the evolution of the entity but also the names of its presidents.
René Force, BSB'40, shared his memories with us at the beginning of 2022 (article to be found in our news). He already evoked an active network of graduates: 'After the war, I saw most of my classmates again, we used to go to the School's meetings twice a year, on rue Sambin'.
In 2011, RéseauDi had 8,000 graduates, including numerous geographical club meetings and, for the first time, an online directory. Agnès Masson, Charlotte du Reau and Isabelle Lambert worked daily for this network.
In 2017, the association disappeared and the BSB Alumni network was created, which became an essential part of the BSB organisation. The school relies on a network of 15'300 graduates worldwide and today, in 2022, we are more than 17'000!
