By combining lessons and professional experience, the International Business (MIB) program aims to provide students with international management, project management, new technologies and digital innovations knowledge and skills, allowing them to do business in an increasingly global and digital environment.
Skills acquired:
The International Business (MIB) is a unique, 2-year, 120 ECTS PSL Master’s program (Grade Master) in international business management, with a concentration on digital projects. The program trains brilliant, open minded students, future managers who want to pursue a distinguished international career and to make a difference.
A Corporate-Oriented Program
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Description du contenu de l'enseignement :
Nowadays, organizations increasingly develop, offer and rely on digital services. In many sectors, traditional organizations have been dramatically challenged by new platform business models – illustrated by the widely acknowledged and controversed Uber, AirBnB - driven by increasing reliance on WebServices (API), as well as data analytics. This course will train the students to identify digital platforms economic and business opportunities in data, as well as frame a whole project of a platform business, its services and its governance.
The course aims at :
The course comprises the completion of the APIaRTISt project (API and ReThinking Information and Strategy). In a nutshell, the objective of this assignment is to learn how to support an organization transform its strategy and information system thanks to APIs. This project is completed by teams.
Each team chooses an organization, analyzes its digital strategy and its information system. The team thinks creatively to conceive how the organization can either pursue or reinvent its digital strategy, settle new and alternate ways to process data, and propose a new service to the organization’s stakeholders. The students explore existing APIs provided by the company or detail new APIs that the organization could rely on to pursue its digital strategy and/or renovate its information system. Please note that a thorough explanation of the students’ rationale for proposing a specific API is much appreciated. The students should also explain how the company can practically integrate the proposed services and APIs in the digital strategy of the company.
Compétence à acquérir :
Upon completion of this course, the students should be capable to:
Mode de contrôle des connaissances :
Group work (30%): team work during the sessions and quality of feedback on peergrade
Individual contribution to the course (25%): questions asked, comments and insights shared with the whole class, contribution to the wiki
APIArtist project (45%): Team presentation and report
Bibliographie, lectures recommandées :
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Description du contenu de l'enseignement :
This course consists of 9 sessions.
The first session will introduce a comprehensive conceptual framework to think about organizational wrongdoing. They will be led by the teacher in charge of the course.
Over the following eight sessions, leaders from various sectors will share their experiences and reflections as invited speakers.
Friday, January 12 (8h30-11h45) – Normal organizational wrongdoing – Hortense de la Boutetière
Friday, January 19 (13h45-15h45) – Ethics and leadership – Speaker: Hélène Reltgen, Senior Partner, Egon Zehnder
Thursday, January 25 (17h15-18h45) – To be defined
Friday, February 2nd (13h45-15h45) – Sustainability and societal responsibility in the luxury sector – Speaker: Maria Solimene, VP Luxury, Invent CapGemini
Friday, February 9 (13h45-15h45) - Corporations' journey to inclusive business – Speaker: Simon Bossard, Partner, Hystra
Friday, February 16 (13h45-15h45) – Ethical questions in energy transition – Speaker: Xavier Barbaro, CEO, Neoen
Friday, February 23 (13h45-15h45) - Human Resources and Compliance in the financial sector - Speaker: Florence Lecoutre, Member of the Board of Management, in charge of Digital Transformation, Human Resources, Communication, Compliance and Sustainability, Allianz Trade
Friday, March 1st (13h45-15h45) - Ethical leadership in hypergrowing digital commerce start-ups – Speaker: Fanny Ponce, CEO, Smartbox
Thursday, March 7 (17h15-18h45) - Artificial intelligence and ethics – Speaker: Marie David, co-founder, Carbometrix; author of Intelligence artificielle, La nouvelle barbarie (Editions du Rocher, 2019)
Compétence à acquérir :
How and why do ethical questions arise in the daily lives of people working in organizations? What can we learn from real-life examples of organizational ethical failures? How do contemporary leaders deal with ethical questions, in practice, across sectors?
These are some of the questions this course will explore.
The course aims at equipping students with concepts and references allowing them to identify ethical questions they will face in the context of their future professional lives, to apply critical thinking, and to determine their own behavior in a responsible way.
Mode de contrôle des connaissances :
Presence at each session is required. Participation will be taken into account for 20% of the final grading.
An individual homework will account for the remaining 80% of the grading. Each student will be asked to choose one of the sessions and write a short essay (i) summarizing key ideas developed by the speaker and (ii) exposing the student's own reflections based on these ideas.
Bibliographie, lectures recommandées :
Palmer, Donald (2013). Normal Organizational Wrongdoing: A Critical Analysis of Theories of Misconduct in and by Organizations. Oxford University Press
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