N°29DECEMBER 2018

ESSENTIALS

After several years in industry, Dr. CHARROIN joined the world of the French Grandes Ecoles management schools as professor of management control at Audencia Nantes. He took over the ESSEC Group’s management in their specialized MBA in International Agrifood Management in 2002. In 2006, he became programme director of Audencia Nantes’ Grande Ecole programme, and then became Dean in 2011, while at the same time becoming General Manager of the entire Audencia Group. During this period and in parallel he took over the chairmanship of SIGEM, the association in charge of dividing up the candidates of preparatory schools amongst the Grandes Ecoles. Jean CHARROIN went on to manage IDRAC from 2015 to 2017, before starting up the first transition management consultancy dedicated to higher education.

This rich managerial path, in tandem with an in-depth knowledge of management schools, has made him a well-known and recognized personality among all players of higher management education.

At ESSCA, his mission is to pursue the development driven by the school these past several years and brought to fruition in the new Bachelor’s and Master’s of Science programmes, the opening of three new campuses in France, and crowned by three prestigious international accreditations (AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS).

He brings his strategic vision and demanding operational nature, by relying on the competencies and commitment of his teams to profit from the immense potential that represent new technologies and the changes they bring to education, both in France and abroad.

For Jean CHARROIN, the essential consists in conjugating ESSCA’s many assets to serve students, the firms that hire them, and society as a whole. All this while respecting the humanistic values that have guided the school for 110 years.

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EditorialJean CHARROIN, ESSCA’s New DeanJean CHARROIN, ESSCA’s New Dean

Over the past three years, ESSCA has obtained 3 prestigious international accreditations while at the same time opening three new campuses. It’s one of the rare European management schools, perhaps the only one, having chalked up both qualitatively and quantitatively in such a short time. This success reveals the school’s entrepreneurial spirit and its ability to adapt.

I now have the immense pleasure and privilege to become a part of this magnificent institution to accompany it in its development. I will thus refer to a quotation from Henri Bergson, “act as a man of thought and think as a man of action.”

I will be the man of thought so that the school can transmit its ambitious pedagogical project favoring its students’ intellectual fulfillment, as well as its alumni’s sense of responsibility.

I will be the man of action so that the school can fully meet the expectations of firms and its institutional partners both in France and abroad.

But success can only happen as a collective body, and together – collaborators, students and alumni – we will achieve our goals.

Jean CHARROINDean

Since December 1, Dr. Jean CHARROIN, 51, Unilasalle engineer and PhD in management sciences from the Ecole Polytechnique has been the ESSCA Group’s new dean.

ESSCA TODAY4 international accreditations: AACSB, EQUIS, EPAS et AMBA

6 campuses in France and 2 abroad

4,000 students in full- and part-time education

279 partner universities in the world

354 collaborators

132 permanent professors

370 adjunct professors and international experts

14,000 alumni

Forums to Connect Students and Professionals

InspiringEncounters

Digiprize #6 on its way!Digiprize, the digital innovation and entrepreneurial initiative competition started up by ESSCA for young people aged 17 to 25, is back in January for its 6th edition. With more than 300 projects supported since it was launched in 2013, this challenge often is a springboard for budding start-up-ers!

Candidates can participate by filing their project on the digiprize.essca.fr platform.

And now for your ideas!

ESSCA will, next fall, open three new work-study majors earned over two years in the master’s programme:

- Management in Customer Experience and Retailing, in Lyon- Company Finance, in Aix-en-Provence- Innovation Management and Fintech, in Bordeaux

Now a total of nine, these work-study specializations encounter a frank success among students. This type of study, which combines class time at ESSCA and a hands-on assignment in a firm, provides students with solid, rewarding experience. It leads in many cases to a first job for young alumni.

FOR MORE INFO: alternance@essca.fr

Since the beginning of the school year, ESSCA has offered students an eclectic choice of lectures on its different campuses with first-rate personalities. Here is a return on four main events.

November 6, 2018

Dominique SCHELCHERDominique SCHELCHERCEO, Système U

An ESSCA alumnus as well (1983), Dominique SCHELCHER was invited by the School and ESSCA Alumni to sponsor the Retail Innovation Show on the Paris campus.

November 22, 2018

Pascal PASQUIERCEO, Brioche Pasquier Group

In his presentation of the family and international group that he manages, Pascal PASQUIER insisted on his attachment to the values of responsibility, autonomy, and solidarity that he puts into practice in his own management and organization.

October 4, 2018

Frank CADORETCanal+ Group General Manager

Sponsor of the class of 2019 and himself an ESSCA alumnus (1980), Franck CADORET shared with students his experience and advice.

November 6, 2018

Michel CAMDESSUSMichel Camdessus - Honorary Governor of the Banque de France and former IMF Director

Taking up the thesis of his latest book, Towards the World of 2050, Michel CAMDESSUS shared with students his vision of the future and the action that still needs to be taken to build a better world.

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Angers Audit-Expertise Forum

New Work-Study Majors

Anchored for several years firmly within ESSCA’s curricula, the Corporate Forums are “must-attend” appointments for all students seeking an internship or their first job. The principle remains easy: organizing encounters between students and recruiters and in professional conditions rewarding to all.

Last November 22 the Audit-Expertise Forum took place on the Angers campus with the presence of consultancies such as Deloitte, EY France and Luxembourg, Grant Thornton, KPMG, Mazars, PwC and RSM.

In October, the Consulting Forum welcomed 25 consultancies to ESSCA. This led to nearly 250 interviews over the course of an afternoon, enabling students majoring in Consulting to clinch their end-of-study internship.

Other forums welcomed companies from all sectors of activity seeking good candidates in management, as those that will attend the forum next January 31.

And finally, in its second year, ESSCA also offers a virtual forum in the fall for 4th and 5th year internships. In an online platform, firms can create their own recruitment space where students can post their profiles. This system has already allowed for 63 companies and 651 students to meet up quickly and efficiently.

Her determination and efforts paid off. The Sri Lankan student Charitha GAMAGE this year received the prestigious Eiffel scholarship to finance her studies at ESSCA in the International Finance MSc in Paris.

Awarded by the Ministry for Europe and the Foreign Office, the Eiffel scholarships’ goal is to attract the best international students to France. Each year, a group of experts select candidates based on their application files and Charitha’s charmed the jury: “I earned my bachelor’s in management with honors from the Lochlann Quinn School of Business in Ireland. I thus obtained my professional qualifi-cation from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the UK. In addition to my solid academics, I also have five years’ professional experience.”

So why ESSCA? For the young woman, “the MSc in International Finance enables me to acquire all of

the competencies that a financier has to have. The School offers a wide selection of quality lectures

as well as a large alumni network. My decision was strongly influ-enced by my visit to the Paris campus in Boulogne-Billancourt.”

Charitha GAMAGE

An ESSCA Student Wins the Eiffel Scholarship

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ESSCA continues to develop its exchanges with prestigious universities throughout the world. This fall, the School signed two new double diploma agreements, one with Kozminski University in Warsaw, and the other with the High-er School of Economics (HSE) in St. Petersburg, Russia. These two institutions are among the top 5 best BSchools in their respective countries.

From their 4th year, students in the Grande Ecole programme will thus have the possibility of an academic stay for one year in Poland or Russia to obtain, in addition to their ESSCA master’s in Management, a master’s in finance delivered by Kozminski University or HSE.

These new accords now bring a total of 23 double diplomas that ESSCA offers students in nearly as many destina-tions (China, the U.S., Mexico, Australia, etc.). Recruiters find these accords very attractive and alumni find them-selves hot items on the job market.

…is the number of kilometers covered by students and staff at ESSCA’s six campuses on connected stationary bicycles between No-vember 19 and 23. The equivalent of a Paris-Shanghai by bicycle! The pedaling was for a good cause, since the collective challenge, organized in a partnership with Harmonie Mutuelle and Queeny, a start-up tech firm, enabled ESSCA to raise E7,500 for six charitable organizations.

Ophélie CHEREL, Alexandre THIBAULT de la CARTE and Adrien TERLIER, students in the Consulting major, clinched the first prize in the 2nd Hackathon, “36 Consulting Hours” offered by the Concepteurs d’Avenir website and Con-sult’in France.

In the friendly atmosphere of Schoolab Paris, this competition challenged around 100 students from engineering, business, design and communication schools. Their mission: imagine artificial intelligence (AI) application solutions in the sectors of the environment, health, security or transportation. Our three students, along with two engineers from the Ecole des Mines, chose the theme of healthcare and proposed using AI to predict emergency room rushes and thus optimize hospitals’ human resources.

Winners of the Consulting Hackathon 2018!

Kozminski University in Warsaw

Alexandre, Ophélie and Adrien awarded for their UrgencIA project.

Double Diplomas-in Russia and Poland as Well