Learning by travelling

ESCP as a Business School has an educational vocation beyond the boundaries of the classroom. Learning expeditions are an amazing powerful learning booster... fostering awareness and inspirations but also broadening horizons. Each year, we bring students to San Francisco to expose them to its outstanding Entrepreneurship ecosysteme.

Silicon Valley. San Francisco. These are names that immediately provide images of dynamic start-ups and disruptive companies that have revolutionised the way we work, relax, travel, communicate and so much more.

Focus sur le travail de recherche de Livia Pivanti sur l’impact potentiel des applications mobiles sur la réduction de l'écart entre l'attitude et le comportement écologique des consommateurs, récompensé d’un Prix du meilleur mémoire ESCP en commerce 4.0 par la Chaire Prospective du commerce dans la société 4.0.

PhD candidate Anna Souakri and her supervisor, Professor Régis Coeurderoy, were granted a best paper award for their research work, which provides a more accurate understanding of which specific entrepreneur characteristics really matter in the screening decisions made by Venture Capitalists (VCs).

Professor Olivier Delbard’s new book offers a fresh view on today’s CSR from both a historical and geographical perspective.

The Jean-Baptiste Say Institute had the chance to welcome Scott Hartley, author of the best-seller “The Fuzzy And The Techie”, at the Centre Pompidou, to explain his vision of the future of human skills, more and more surrounded by artificial intelligence (AI).

Three doctoral students from the school have been granted various prizes for their research work.

Antoine Souchaud, whose research has given rise to several publications, received the solemn thesis prize from the Chancellery of the Universities of Paris, for his work about the regulation of crowdlending written under the direction of Professor Christophe Moussu. He will receive his prize at the Sorbonne on 3 December.

The result was an overview of eighty years of student life, as described by five individuals from diverse backgrounds, all of whom share an experience at ESCP: Léon Cligman (Class of 1938), Robert Clergerie (Class of 1958), Annick Devillard (Class of 1978), Carine de Boissezon (Class of 1998) and Christian Koller