New ESSEC MOOC “Deploying the circular economy within organisations” open to registration

The new MOOC “Deploying the circular economy within organisations” is now open to registration.

This MOOC has been developed by the Global Circular Economy Chair and its Founder & Executive Director Pierre-Emmanuel Saint-Esprit, and the K-lab’s Instructional Design Hub.

About the MOOC

How can companies act in the fight against global warming? This is an increasingly pressing question for all actors of our society.

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Lessons learned from sports

In the week of April 17th-April 20th, ESSEC is celebrating the inauguration of its new Sports and Recreation center on the Cergy campus. On this momentous occasion, ESSEC Sports Chair professor Karoline Strauss shares key lessons we can take from sport and apply to our professional and personal lives.

  • Sometimes you lose. What matters is how you bounce back. In the immediate aftermath of a loss, we can see top athletes and players at the best clubs in the world be genuinely upset. We would be, too. Years of preparation and complete dedication go into every sports performance. Part of the excitement of watching sports is in fact the raw emotion we see play out when fractions of a second or a single move make the difference between victory and defeat. Soon after, however, these sportswomen and -men seem to have put this loss behind them. While we may still be upset about our favourite team having lost the game, the players have moved on to thinking about the next game. Success in sport means not dwelling on your setbacks. Once you have analysed what went wrong, it is time to look forward.
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The Handicap & Talents certificate, an educational tool “made in ESSEC” to promote inclusive management

Launched by Elisabeth Forget ESSEC group disability référent, the Handicap & Talents Certificate aims to train the ESSEC community to face the challenges raised by disability in the workplace and to strengthen their position as an inclusive manager, by following during a month a bilingual French-English program of 12 conferences 100% online.

Sponsored by Professor Junko Takagi, Director of the Leadership and Diversity Chair (author of the article Flip or Whiteboard: What’s your choice?) and Laurent Bibard, Professor of Philosophy and Management (author of two articles on Pedagolab), the Handicap & Talents certification program is structured around 4 themes: philosophy & diversity, legal framework, company disability employment policies & innovations and testimonials.

Since 2021, the certificate has been opened to students from CY Alliance schools, thanks a new partnership agreement.

Read the article in French

On the occasion of the launch of the 2023 edition, Laurent Bibard, sponsor since 2015, answered our questions.

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‘Wednesday Night Live’: Socratic Method, Entertainment, and Deep Life Questions at room PA102

By Roman PAVLYUCHENKO, 4th year PhD Student in Marketing at ESSEC.

Roman taught for the time the course Principles of Marketing in the ESSEC Global BBA program.

How was your experience? Did you enjoy it?

Loved it!

How did you prepare?

I read the textbook, and I read the slides prepared by the course administrator. And then, reflected on how every aspect can be ‘spiced up’ from my own research experience.

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 A “poisoned chalice” or “cup of opportunity”: 5 strategies for active teaching and learning in post-pandemic world

Our experience on the way we enhanced students learning experience in times of crisis, using an Active Learning Approach.*

By Reza Kachouie, Director of Teaching and Lecture at Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics, Deakin University, Melbourne.

The third pedagogical workshop co-organised by the ESSEC Dean for Pedagogy and the K-lab took place on November 23rd. During the workshop, Reza Kachouie dealt with active learning. Pr. Kachouie is ESSEC professor Ali Shamsollahi’s co-author. Around 30 persons attended the workshop (ESSEC permanent Faculty, lecturers, professors of management practice). This article sums up Pr. Kahouie’s research which was presented and discussed on November 23rd.

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Etudiants et chargée de cours de LSF

Apprendre la langue des signes française à l’ESSEC

Sous l’impulsion d’Elisabeth Forget, référente handicap à l’ESSEC, les étudiants de l’ESSEC peuvent désormais étudier la langue des signes française (LSF). Ce nouveau cours permet de répondre à la demande croissante d’étudiants désireux d’en apprendre plus, sur cette langue et son inclusion dans notre société. Au niveau de l’école, l’offre de ce nouveau cours s’insère dans le cadre de la Mission Handi Capacités ESSEC, ainsi que dans le pilier Together de la stratégie RISE.

Dans cet article, nous interviewons Maylis Balyan, chargée de cours à l’ESSEC. Elle enseigne ce nouveau cours depuis janvier 2022. Elle partage avec nous son expérience pédagogique. 

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Beekast : outil d’interactivité testé et recommandé à l’ESSEC !

Par Valérie Chazalon, ingénieure pédagogique au K-lab.

Le passage massif des cours en ligne lors du confinement a renforcé la demande d’outils d’interactivité et a accéléré le choix et la mise à disposition d’une plateforme dédiée à cet effet. 

Pourquoi Beekast ?

Après une première étude sur les différentes plateformes possibles, notre choix s’est porté sur cette solution. Des tests avec des enseignants et des chargés de cours ont été menés pour vérifier que cela répondait bien aux besoins pédagogiques. Leurs conclusions ont mis en lumière les points suivants : 

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Ashok Som ranked 22nd in the Case Centre BestSelling Authors Top50 of 2021-2022

ESSEC Management Professor Ashok Som ranked 22nd in the Case Centre BestSelling Authors Top50 of 2021-2022. This ranking of authors whose cases sell the most was issued first in 2015. This year, 21 Schools from 9 countries (Europe, US and Asia) are represented amongst the case authors best sellers. 

See the Bestselling Authors list

Ashok Som, has been featured in the Top50 list since 2016, he was previously ranked at the 11th place. Latest cases from Ashok Som were published in 2020 at the Case Centre and the CCMP :

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Participants to the "teaching with cases seminar"

Teaching with cases: learning by doing at its best

How can we, through case studies, ignite in-class participation?

By Dorothée Sidokpohou – Professor of Management Practice, Marketing Department at ESSEC Business School. After 15 years of marketing experience in the corporate world, Dorothée favors teaching interactive methods, such as case studies and project groups, in partnership with companies.

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to take a two-day course offered by Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), the “Teaching with Cases Seminar”, led by Bill Schiano, professor of Computing Information Systems at Bentley University, Massachusetts (USA). This seminar, organized on the Audencia campus in Paris, gathered a large crowd of professors of diverse nationalities and departments, working in French business schools. 

Bill Schiano delivered a smooth demonstration of how to teach with cases using a mise en abyme, as we all had to read cases in advance, exactly the same way students would do, and learnt from each other through the in-class discussion of the various cases. This participant-centered learning is very consistent with the learning by doing approach promoted at ESSEC, and more relevant than ever in a context where knowledge is available everywhere, from MOOC and Coursera to Youtube tutorials, and where classrooms are more a space for discussion than for lectures.

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Un blog comme support de cours

Un blog sur l’Europe comme support de cours et d’activités pédagogiques individuelles et collectives

Par Viviane de Beaufort, professeure de Droit et Environnement de l’Entreprise.
Professeure senior par engagement après avoir été lobbyiste à Bruxelles, l’acte de transmission de savoir mais surtout le partage lui semble vital. Elle a le souci de faire participer ses étudiants à des travaux concrets sur la réalité européenne dans ses multiples dimensions et à cet effet a notamment créé un blog qui lui permet d’animer plusieurs cours ESSEC.

La mondialisation se caractérise par l’émergence de grandes puissances économiques et le développement « de tensions identitaires et géopolitiques » (L.C. Tanuji) qui interpellent le projet d’Europe. Le Covid a fondamentalement bouleversé la logique de mondialisation entrainant une fermeture des frontières et un certain chaos dont l’Union Européenne s’est bien sortie ; depuis, la guerre en Ukraine oblige en « stress test » à repenser le projet d’Europe comme zone porteuse de valeurs communes et garante de l’état de droit : « L’Europe est un modèle de civilisation à préserver coûte que coûte pour la génération d’après » – Revue de l’Union européenne N°639 – juin 2020.

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