Testimonials
Advance wine product knowledge
"The programme gave me advanced wine product knowledge through its challenging and extremely fun WSET 3, Business Field Trip, and related components. I also learned fundamentals about the wine business including marketing and positioning for wine, and staying up-to-date with market research. These skills are integral to my current job as Buying Coordinator at 67 Pall Mall Singapore, one of the world’s best places for wine. The course’s intensity prepared me for work life, helped me prioritise well-being and good practices at work, and taught me invaluable soft skills such as time management, efficiency, and effectiveness, through its numerous challenging assignments and research projects. The most interesting thing about projects in this course was that all of them had potential real-life applications and their focus on sustainability, which I try to put in practice wherever possible. "
High employability
Since August 2022, I have been a sommelier trainee at Jean Imbert's gastronomic restaurant. I immediately fell under the charm of this prestigious hotel.
By combining the learning of the MSc Wine & Hospitality Management programme with my skills acquired at the Plaza Athénée, I was able to implement the necessary opportunities to satisfy our customers.
A vision of the whole business
“The role of purchasing has completely changed… purchasing managers today must have a vision of the whole business. The importance is on design-to-cost, optimising costs whilst capturing innovation and ideas… finding suppliers who are a force of proposition. The MAI is at the forefront of training highlevel people for this strategic change”
A fastmoving and multicultural environment
“As an undergraduate I wasn’t sure what I wanted, but one thing was sure…I didn’t want to be stuck in an office all day long ! The MAI helped me realize my dream. I am currently working in packaging purchasing in Amsterdam in a fastmoving and multicultural environment. What I love is that I never have two days the same…and every day brings a new challenge !”
The leading edge of creativity
«In the top-of-the-range luxury goods sector the emphasis is put not only on quality but very much on innovation and speed. The role of purchasing today is to be the active interface between the artistic and marketing directors who are at the leading edge of creativity, and our strategic suppliers. The MAI focusses very much on the human qualities required to operate in this very demanding and fast-moving context.»
The excellence
“At a time when most companies are concentrating on their core business, and where value creation and innovation are the keys to success, the strategic role of purchasing has become enormous. To my mind the MAI represents excellence in this field and it is not surprising that there is a huge demand for their students.”
"The ITE Master's degree prepares future actors of change"
"Soft skills are essential to entrepreneurial success in order to effectively manage teams, develop creativity, share a vision and lead the digital and ecological transformations that are essential to the 21st century economy. With its highly innovative inductive pedagogy, the ITE Master's degree prepares future actors of change to make the most of these intrinsic skills, which will support their business models and enable them to imagine disruptive solutions and competitive advantages that are decisive for the success of their business or intrapreneurship project. To say that the world belongs to this new generation is a common sense. Providing the means of collective intelligence to prepare them for this is a challenge that this ITE master's programme takes up.
Hybrid talents who handle both the challenges of finance
Being in touch with many professionals, we can see the rising demand for hybrid talents who handle both the challenges of finance and those of sustainability and responsibility.
Train managers able to drive innovative projects
This programme aims to train managers able to drive innovative projects within companies with an intrapreneurial spirit, but also to create new businesses. We are convinced that mastering these skills will be an asset throughout their careers in order to promote the emergence of start-ups and the outreach of SMEs, ISEs and major companies at the national and international levels.
Think about GAFA!
At the beginning of the 21st century, intangible assets represent the majority of investments and of the financial value of companies. Think about GAFA! Not measuring them and not including their impact into financial valuation models mean accepting to be largely blinded with regards to the durability of the future cash flows of the companies in which we invest.