Prof. Marion Festing’s serious game and Prof. Sylvain Bureau’s Art Thinking method have been selected as two of the ten most innovative pedagogical approaches worldwide.
Faced with ecological change and growing uncertainty due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is an urgent need to move away from utilitarian education, focused on financial profitability. To understand what lies ahead, it is necessary that students have more than just recipes and ready-to-think methods.
To meet these challenges, ESCP chooses a detour through art. The history of artists of the past century testifies to their ability to overturn certainties and reinvent normality.
As some of you may still know, our entrepreneurship institute was developed in Paris back in 2007 as the ChairEEEE. Today, we are spread across ESCP’s unique European network, with representations in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris and Turin. Our mission is to facilitate the development of entrepreneurial mindsets and uncertainty competence in current and future leaders around the world.
In this interview Prof. Dr. Christoph Seckler and Prof. Peter Borchers, academic directors of ESCP Business School’s innovative entrepreneurial acceleration programme U-SCHOOL answer questions on the topic of entrepreneurship and its increasingly important role in the way we will conduct business in the years to come.
Is it still possible to teach with the same teaching materials, management models and case studies?
Faced with ecological change, and the growing uncertainty due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is an urgent need to move away from utilitarian education, which is focused on financial profitability. More than just recipes and ready-to-think method, students seek to understand. They criticize, question themselves and question us.
In this interview, Prof. Dr. Christoph Seckler, Assistant Professor, Chair of Entrepreneurial Strategy, analyses the ties between the corporate world and the entrepreneurial one. He explains how corporate managers could benefit from entrepreneurial skills and why an MBA could be the right choice for aspiring entrepreneurs.
Professor Christian Linder and his co-author’s configurational analysis shows that females and males experience the support provided by the entrepreneurial ecosystem for their start-up activities differently, which in turn affects the way the new ventures are managed and has important theoretical and practical implications.