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Mobilising the expertise of the EMBA participants to address the concrete problems of local organizations Every year, the Capstone project recruits businesses to challenge the participants of the Executive MBA Program with concrete issues that appeal to all areas of the training (strategy, marketing, innovation, finance, etc.). This year, Cécile, Isabelle, Catherine and Myriam have combined their skills to become the auditors of "Le GRAPh", a popular education association dedicated to photography in Carcassonne, which is becoming a Contemporary Art Center of [...]
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Hugues will officially graduate from the Grande Ecole Program in a few weeks, but his start-up Foodr is already part of nearly a hundred projects that the MBS incubator supports each year. With his friend and partner Florian, an IT developer, they are designing a new takeaway sales channel to help the region's restaurant owners during this health crisis. From an academic project to a Montpellier-based start-up company During the summer of 2019, Hugues and Florian set up together the strategic positioning [...]
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MBS aims to actively participate in building an open, responsible and sustainable economy and society, and thus train precursors to sustainable business transformation. In order to provide students with new educational resources and to guide companies towards sustainable financial management, the Chair of Social & Sustainable Finance was created by the Research Professors Dr. Anastasia Cozarenco and Dr. Thi Hong Van Hoang.   The Chair of Microfinance in Developed Countries evolves Created in 2018 by Dr. Anastasia Cozarenco and committed alongside the Yunus [...]
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Can we teach leadership to students? MBS trains future decision-makers, aware of the social and environmental impacts of their decisions, to engage in the responsible and sustainable transformation of the world. In order to achieve this ambition, the final year work-study students of the MBS Grande Ecole Program take part in an atypical pedagogical module to develop their leadership, i.e. their ability to guide and mobilize a group of individuals towards the achievement of a specific goal in a sustainable manner. What [...]
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PhD graduate from Lyon 2 University, Dr. Oussama AMMAR comes from SKEMA where he has held several positions since 2011. He was most recently Director of Bachelor Programs on all of Skema's international campuses after having been for 4 years Academic Dean and Campus Director in Raleigh (USA) and Global Scientific Director of Msc International Business.Previously, he held faculty management responsibilities as Associate Chair of the Strategy and Entrepreneurship department. He started his career as a Lecturer at EDHEC for 3 [...]
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Our partner Campus France keeps you updated about the changes that can occur in the reglementations while traveling during the health crisis. "Decree No. 2020-1310 of October 29, 2020 modified the categories of countries of origin. Only European Union Member States are now included in the list of countries allowing exemption from testing. International students and researchers coming from outside the European Union must first be tested before their departure; otherwise, they can be tested upon arrival, where systematic testing will be offered. [...]
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The Entrepreneurship Center nurtures the link between entrepreneurs, students and alumni at MBS to combat self-censorship and promote new business start-ups. The Incubator has been able to share its experience with François Delporte and Boris Duda, 2016 alumni of the Grande Ecole Program, co-founders of Rocambole with literature experts, the Netflix of reading. From school benches to Station F: the adventure of liberation Incubated within the famous Station F in Paris, the start-up Rocambole offers a catalog of about fifty series to [...]
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Addressing an increasingly shortened attention span The digital revolution and the ever-changing professions and skills have profoundly transformed the needs and behaviours of new learners. "The first issue facing the teacher is the duration of attention, which is becoming shorter and shorter for the learner. The average attention span is now estimated to be 12 minutes. We therefore need to develop a greater variety of teaching approaches and activities to stimulate curiosity at a more sustained pace", explains Agnès Le Bellac, [...]
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Montpellier Business School's 2025 strategic plan reflects the school's ambition to actively participate in building an open, responsible and sustainable economy and society. With events, a sustainability lab, welcome packs and the mobilization of all employees, the start of the 2020 academic year at MBS is a concrete expression of this ambition and places sustainable development at the heart of its actions. MBS is co-organizing Les Rencontres du Développement Durable (Sustainable Development Meetings) on September 22nd to "transform capitalism" The Sustainable Development [...]
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An increasingly selective ranking   The Financial Times has just published its 2020 world rankings of the best Masters in Management, which is the international reference for Business Schools. This year again, the selection has been strengthened. Only the 90 best schools in the world managed to be ranked, compared to 100 in 2019. The French market is no exception to this increased selection. Only 21 French schools and universities appear in the ranking this year, compared to 25 last year. "The methodology [...]
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In line with the announcement of its new strategic plan, Montpellier Business School is renewing its visual identity in order to embody the broad outlines of the ambitions that will carry it through to 2025.   Training to transform. We prepare future decision-makers committed to a responsible world, driven by an ethic of global performance, aware of the social, societal and environmental impacts of their decisions on the world.   To embody the power of inclusion. Because we are convinced that inclusion is a [...]
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MBS has set up an exceptional protocol for the care of students to deal with the health crisis: 1. You are symptomatic MBS student: Symptomatic means: fever and/or cough, difficulty breathing, talking or swallowing, loss of taste and/or smell - Report his/her status immediately to its Study Program (generic Email address) - Ask medical attention as soon as possible (teleconsultation recommended) - Get tested as soon as possible (PCR test) - Isolate immediately himself/herself at home while waiting for the results - Transmission [...]
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