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Curriculum "Business Transformation for Sustainability"

Admission level

Degree

Short Track

Admission level:

Bachelor's degree - 4 years
Validation of Personal and Professional Experience (VAPP)

 
Master of Science (MSc)

16,900€ - 1 year

Degree:

MSc, Master of Science

Long Track

Admission level:

Bachelor's degree
Validation of Personal and Professional Experience (VAPP)

Regular Pathway

8,900€ - 1 year

Master of Science (MSc)

16,900€ - 1 year

Degree:

MSc, Master of Science

CONDENSED TRACK

Admission level:

Bachelor's degree
Validation of Personal and Professional Experience (VAPP)

Fast Pathway

8,900€ - 4 months

Master of Science (MSc)

16,900€ - 1 year

Degree:

MSc, Master of Science

Short Track

Admission level :
Bachelor's degree - 4 years Validation of Personal and Professional Experience (VAPP)
Duration :
1 year
Degree :
MSc, Master of Science
Campus :
Paris
Format :
Full Time
Language :
English

Master of Science (MSc)

Duration :
1 year

The course includes 5 different modules, starting with SUSTAINABILITY FACTORIES, followed by INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABILITY, COLLABORATION FOR TRANSFORMATION, CHANGE FOR TRANSFORMATION and MANAGEMENT & TOOLS. This highly comprehensive learning empowers graduates to orchestrate resources across corporate boundaries, and to successfully manage organisations in dynamic and changing social environments. The programme also provides them with the mindset that makes the difference between the past and the future: a mindset of sustainable collaboration for sustainable business transformation.

Semester 1

→ September-December

  • MODULE 1

SUSTAINABILITY FACTORIES

« The sustainability factories run along the whole programme, from the beginning to the end of the academic year.”

The aim of the sustainability factories is triple: reinforcing the alignment between individual and organisational transformation, developing capabilities for complex thinking and launching and accelerating real case company challenges for sustainable business transformation

 

  • MODULE 2

INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABILITY

This module is designed to build the fundamentals for a sustainable business transformation. It is composed of four courses:

-     Sustainable value creation : sustainability, CSR and ethics – impact on business creation processes within companies;

-      Fundamentals of business transformation : knowledge, posture and approaches for business diagnostics and transformation for sustainability;

-      Environmental sustainability : understanding the meaning of nature and the environment for businesses, deciphering threats, challenges and opportunities;

-      Social sustainability: relates to conditions for fairness, in terms of welfare, wellbeing and vision for a better future

 

  • MODULE 3

COLLABORATION FOR TRANSFORMATION

This module highlights the key points for effective cross-sectoral collaboration for sustainability. It is composed of three courses:

-       Collaboration for sustainability: develop knowledge and skills related to cross-sector partnerships and inter-firm strategic alliances in the context of environmental and social sustainability

-      Business modeling for sustainability: develop a business model which challenges the traditional economic logic and puts forward a new organisational system by considering social, environmental, and economic requirements simultaneously

-      Communication for sustainability: understanding sustainability communication challenges and incorporating sustainability in corporate communication

Semester 2

→ March-June

  •  MODULE 4  

CHANGE FOR TRANSFORMATION

This module prepares students to handle change in transforming business models for sustainability on an individual, organisational and societal level

-       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

MANAGEMENT & TOOLS

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

-      Climate change: global picture about current challenges, carbon emissions and organisations’ role in terms of emission reduction

-      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

Additional projects
  • TRANSFORMATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY THESIS

To complete their MSc programme, students have to discuss a dissertation related to one of the topics studied in class, eventually in link with their sustainability internship

 

  • 4 TO 6-MONTH SUSTAINABILITY INTERNSHIP IN FRANCE OR ABROAD

To enable students to further develop their sustainability skills during an assignment in a multinational company outside their home country.

Certifications
  • Bilan Carbone
  • Le Wagon

Long Track

Admission level :
Bachelor's degree Validation of Personal and Professional Experience (VAPP)
Duration :
2 years
Degree :
MSc, Master of Science
Campus :
Paris
Format :
Full Time
Language :
English

Regular Pathway

Format :
Full Time
Duration :
1 year
Campus :
Paris
Admission level :
Bachelor's degree - 4 years
SEMESTER 1

Manager Skills

  • Introduction to business management (Fast Track for Non-Managers)
  • Strategic management
  • Financial performance management
  • Business
  • Public speaking
  • Data management
  • Visual communication & Design
  • Hard skills
    • TOSA Excel
    • TOEIC
    • Orthodidacte
  • English/French as a foreign language

Expert skills

  • Marketing
  • Digital experience
  • Marketing studies
SEMESTER 2
INNOVATIVE & ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS

-Innovation management and entrepreneurship

-Complexity Management

-Coding skills

-Corporate project

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.

POSSIBILITY TO COMPLETE ONE SEMESTER ABROAD AT A PARTNER UNIVERSITY

Your choice of experience
  • INTERNSHIP in France or abroad
  • PROJECT: Associative, entrepreneurship...
  • LEARNING TRIP ABROAD
  • OTHER CORPORATE PROJECT

Master of Science (MSc)

Format :
Full Time
Duration :
1 year
Language :
English
Campus :
Paris
Admission level :
Bachelor's degree - 4 years

The course includes 5 different modules, starting with SUSTAINABILITY FACTORIES, followed by INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABILITYCOLLABORATION FOR TRANSFORMATIONCHANGE FOR TRANSFORMATION and MANAGEMENT & TOOLS. This highly comprehensive learning empowers graduates to orchestrate resources across corporate boundaries, and to successfully manage organisations in dynamic and changing social environments. The programme also provides them with the mindset that makes the difference between the past and the future: a mindset of sustainable collaboration for sustainable business transformation.

Semester 1

→ September-December

  • MODULE 1

SUSTAINABILITY FACTORIES

« The sustainability factories run along the whole programme, from the beginning to the end of the academic year.”

The aim of the sustainability factories is triple: reinforcing the alignment between individual and organisational transformation, developing capabilities for complex thinking and launching and accelerating real case company challenges for sustainable business transformation

 

  • MODULE 2

INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABILITY

This module is designed to build the fundamentals for a sustainable business transformation. It is composed of four courses:

-     Sustainable value creation : sustainability, CSR and ethics – impact on business creation processes within companies;

-      Fundamentals of business transformation : knowledge, posture and approaches for business diagnostics and transformation for sustainability;

-      Environmental sustainability : understanding the meaning of nature and the environment for businesses, deciphering threats, challenges and opportunities;

-      Social sustainability: relates to conditions for fairness, in terms of welfare, wellbeing and vision for a better future

 

  • MODULE 3

COLLABORATION FOR TRANSFORMATION

This module highlights the key points for effective cross-sectoral collaboration for sustainability. It is composed of three courses:

-       Collaboration for sustainability: develop knowledge and skills related to cross-sector partnerships and inter-firm strategic alliances in the context of environmental and social sustainability

-      Business modeling for sustainability: develop a business model which challenges the traditional economic logic and puts forward a new organisational system by considering social, environmental, and economic requirements simultaneously

-      Communication for sustainability: understanding sustainability communication challenges and incorporating sustainability in corporate communication

Semester 2

→ March-June

  •  MODULE 4  

CHANGE FOR TRANSFORMATION

This module prepares students to handle change in transforming business models for sustainability on an individual, organisational and societal level

-       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

MANAGEMENT & TOOLS

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

-      Climate change: global picture about current challenges, carbon emissions and organisations’ role in terms of emission reduction

-      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

Additional contents

 

    • TRANSFORMATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY THESIS

To complete their MSc programme, students have to discuss a dissertation related to one of the topics studied in class, eventually in link with their sustainability internship

 

  • 4 TO 6-MONTH SUSTAINABILITY INTERNSHIP IN FRANCE OR ABROAD

To enable students to further develop their sustainability skills during an assignment in a multinational company outside their home country.

Certifications
  • Bilan Carbone
  • Le Wagon

CONDENSED TRACK

Admission level :
Bachelor's degree Validation of Personal and Professional Experience (VAPP)
Duration :
16 months
Degree :
MSc, Master of Science
Campus :
Paris
Format :
Full Time
Language :
English

Fast Pathway

Duration :
4 months
Language :
English
Campus :
Bordeaux Marseille

Enter the specialisation year in just a few months by choosing the condensed track that provides the prerequisites in just 4 months.

Bordeaux campus

SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMME

Includes business and cultural visits at no additional cost.

5 or 6 courses of your choice among the following list

Supply Chain

  • Design of the Supply Chain 
  • Management of the Supply Chain

Value creation & digital marketing

  • Value creation & brand management
  • Digital Marketing for Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

Wine tourism

  • French wine industry
  • Oenotourism

 

FUNDAMENTALS & SOFT SKILLS PROGRAMME

3 courses of your choice among the following list

  • Data Management
  • Team Management
  • Video Communication & Design
  • Public Speaking & leadership
  • International Management

CORPORATE PROJECT

The mission is carried out in groups of 4 to 5 students and combines collective and individual work. The final project is presented to the company and the KEDGE tutor.

 

French as a Foreign Language

Marseille campus

SUMMER SCHOOL PROGRAMME

Includes business and cultural visits at no additional cost.

5 or 6 courses of your choice among the following list

Sports management & marketing

  •          Strategic management & advanced marketing for sport organizations
  •          Sport marketing & communication

Design thinking

  • Managing the creative process
  • Design thinking

      Social business

  •       Social business, territories & innovations
  •       Sustainable entrepreneurship

Global Finance & International Business

  • Global Finance Regulations or Managerial Cost Accounting
  • International Business : A Mediterranean Perspective

Ethics in business and society

  • Ethics in business & society
  • Towards sustainability

FUNDAMENTALS & SOFT SKILLS PROGRAMME

3 courses of your choice among the following list

  • Data Management
  • Team Management
  • Video Communication & Design
  • Public Speaking & leadership
  • International Management

 

 CORPORATE PROJECT

  • The mission is carried out in groups of 4 to 5 students and combines collective and individual work. The final project is presented to the company and the KEDGE tutor.

 

French as a Foreign Language

Master of Science (MSc)

Format :
Full Time
Duration :
1 year
Language :
English
Campus :
Paris
Admission level :
Bachelor's degree - 4 years

The course includes 5 different modules, starting with SUSTAINABILITY FACTORIES, followed by INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABILITYCOLLABORATION FOR TRANSFORMATIONCHANGE FOR TRANSFORMATION and MANAGEMENT & TOOLS. This highly comprehensive learning empowers graduates to orchestrate resources across corporate boundaries, and to successfully manage organisations in dynamic and changing social environments. The programme also provides them with the mindset that makes the difference between the past and the future: a mindset of sustainable collaboration for sustainable business transformation.

CURRICULUM

→ September-December

  • MODULE 1

SUSTAINABILITY FACTORIES

« The sustainability factories run along the whole programme, from the beginning to the end of the academic year.”

The aim of the sustainability factories is triple: reinforcing the alignment between individual and organisational transformation, developing capabilities for complex thinking and launching and accelerating real case company challenges for sustainable business transformation

 

  • MODULE 2

INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABILITY

This module is designed to build the fundamentals for a sustainable business transformation. It is composed of four courses:

-     Sustainable value creation : sustainability, CSR and ethics – impact on business creation processes within companies;

-      Fundamentals of business transformation : knowledge, posture and approaches for business diagnostics and transformation for sustainability;

-      Environmental sustainability : understanding the meaning of nature and the environment for businesses, deciphering threats, challenges and opportunities;

-      Social sustainability: relates to conditions for fairness, in terms of welfare, wellbeing and vision for a better future

 

  • MODULE 3

COLLABORATION FOR TRANSFORMATION

This module highlights the key points for effective cross-sectoral collaboration for sustainability. It is composed of three courses:

-       Collaboration for sustainability: develop knowledge and skills related to cross-sector partnerships and inter-firm strategic alliances in the context of environmental and social sustainability

-      Business modeling for sustainability: develop a business model which challenges the traditional economic logic and puts forward a new organisational system by considering social, environmental, and economic requirements simultaneously

-      Communication for sustainability: understanding sustainability communication challenges and incorporating sustainability in corporate communication

 

→ March-June 

  •  MODULE 4  

CHANGE FOR TRANSFORMATION

This module prepares students to handle change in transforming business models for sustainability on an individual, organisational and societal level

-       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

MANAGEMENT & TOOLS

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

-      Climate change: global picture about current challenges, carbon emissions and organisations’ role in terms of emission reduction

-      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

Certifications
  • Bilan Carbone
  • Le Wagon