Curriculum "Business Transformation for Sustainability"

FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGEMENT

• Innovative strategies for sustainable entrepreneurship
• Financial performance management
• Business & sustainability: transition & durability
• Public speaking, visual communication & design
• Data management
• Marketing reconsidered
• Team management & inclusivity
• Ecological challenges & organisational management

EXPERT SKILLS

• 2 pre-specialisation courses in international business

LEARNING BY DOING

• Impact project: Transition, sustainability or inclusivity

REAL-WORLD SCENARIOS

• Case studies: Decarbonation & business methodology
• Corporate Project:
  A consultancy mission on a real and current issue of a company. Corporate projects enable participants to gain valuable hands-on experience of business conduct and strategy and deal with the practical complexities. Students are guided by their KEDGE tutor throughout the project. The assignment is done in groups of 4 to 5 students. A combination of collective and individual work. Final presentation in front of the corporate and KEDGE tutors.

ADDITIONAL COURSES

• Languages:
  -English / FLE (French as a Foreign Language)
• Hard Skills:
  -TOSA Excel & coding skills
  -TOEIC preparation
  -Orthodidacte
  -Option to spend a semester abroad at a partner university
• Choose your experience:
  -Internship in the UK or abroad
  -Undertake another corporate project

→ March-June

•  MODULE 4  

CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABILITY

This module prepares students to handle change in transforming business models for sustainability on a societal, organisational and individual level. It includes topics such as:

• Sustainable leadership: develop both knowledge and awareness in terms of individual sustainable leadership and organisational leadership for sustainability
• Sustainable change in organisations: issues and challenges inherent to organisational change, in general, and sustainable organisational change in particular
• Social change : explore changes in society through technology, social movement, pandemic, and informal economy and examine whether businesses can contribute to positive social change and sustainable development during these changes

•  MODULE 5

SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT & TOOLS

The Dos and Don’ts of a sustainable business transformation, fundamental knowledge and techniques related to sustainability:

• Sustainable finance: understanding the role of finance in anthropocene issues and the emergency for sustainable investment needs, defining the sustainable finance ecosystem and managing the sustainable investing methodologies
• Tools and techniques for sustainable management: take a bird’s-eye-view on corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability practices and critically reflect on the effectiveness of contemporary tools and techniques in the transition to sustainable development

• Transformation for sustainability dissertation
• 4- to 6-month sustainability internship in France or abroad
• 2-month NGO mission
• Managing biodiversity
• United nations simulation
• Science fiction journey
• Pro-bono sustainability skills lab
• Company challenges pitches
• Climate change impact on logistics roundtable
• Circular economy mural
• Cross sector business modelling workshop
• Sustainable cities workshop
• Permaentreprise project
• Engagement in the "Fondation Edgar Morin"

• Bilan Carbone