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A pioneer of business-related learning since 1907, ESSEC’s mission is to respond to future challenges. In an interconnected, technological, and uncertain world, where the tasks are increasingly complex, ESSEC offers a unique pedagogical approach. Since its creation in 1907, ESSEC Business School has built a reputation on high standards, a quest for excellence, and a belief in intellectual freedom. A research driven academic institution, ESSEC has always tried to incarnate and transmit its five fundamental values of humanism, innovation, responsibility, excellence, and diversity. Founded in 1907 in Paris, ESSEC Business School is a center of academic excellence underpinned by its faculty’s research. The School’s reputation is built on a pioneering spirit that shapes both its scientific ambitions and its pedagogical approach and is reflected in its extensive alumni community. The mission of ESSEC Business School is to create and disseminate cutting-edge knowledge, to train and develop bold pioneers and influential leaders for both the business world and society as a whole. ESSEC Business School encourages students and participants in its programs to anticipate – and meet – the economic, managerial, social, environmental, and ethical challenges of an increasingly uncertain world. The School helps them achieve more and more complicated goals by leveraging technology with a human touch. Through its undergraduate, graduate, executive education, and Ph.D. programs in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and beyond, ESSEC Business School trains agile, creative, and open-minded professionals and fosters a spirit of lifelong learning. Our students learn to reconcile academic knowledge and cultural heritage with their own experience to develop individual and collective freedom and success. ESSEC’s leadership is founded on its capacity to create new, relevant, and high-impact knowledge that feeds into the School’s activities across the board: the Bachelor’s, Master’s, and executive education programs activities of businesses. Striving to propose ever-rich experiences to its students, ESSEC is developing academic partnerships and continuously strengthening its links with companies and organizations. (source, brochure instant p. 18) Inviting students to use their imagination and get into the start-up mindset is central to ESSEC’s teaching philosophy. We have implemented a comprehensive program to encourage entrepreneurial creativity, including training and support networks and financing programs for those projects with the highest economic and social potential. Students will master functional area concepts and integrate cutting-edge theories in order to guide business practice successfully. They will be able to push knowledge and practice further. Students will demonstrate strong adaptative and anticipative abilities to understand and solve complex business situations in an uncertain and increasingly digitized environment. They will do so by applying analytical, creative, and implementation skills to consider the organization’s social context. Students will be able to take the lead by mastering practical communication skills, promoting empowerment, and inspiring cooperative behavior within diverse, multi-competencies, and intercultural teams. They will be able to learn from failure and seize opportunities with an entrepreneurial mindset. For participants in ESSEC’s Executive Education program, studying at ESSEC provides them with an undeniable career boost. The singularity of ESSEC’s learning model is based on the constant concern to blend academic learning with in-the-field experience and a tradition of continuous innovation, enabling individuals to design their tracks. In January 2015, ESSEC gave students the opportunity, for the first time, to imagine the course of their dreams. “Build your course” was an exchange session with professors that identified six courses, developed in dialogue with the students, and approved as of summer 2015 as Small Private Online Courses (SPOC). In Singapore, in partnership with Cap Gemini, ESSEC Grande Ecole students can carry out consulting assignments over three months with companies based in various countries around the Asia-Pacific region. Today, innovation in learning and research is embodied in a single place: the Knowledge-Lab or K-Lab, inaugurated in December 2014 on ESSEC’s Cergy campus. A space for creativity and high-density technological learning, the K-Lab offers the opportunity to interact with experts, test, develop, and model new ideas. Extensions of the K-Lab will open soon on the Singapore and La Défense campuses. View full university