On 5th December, the ESCP Foundation was at the Royal Society in London for a networking cocktail in the run up to Christmas with the School and ESCP Alumni.
Discover the event:
ESCP: Best Business School in the UK according to the Times Higher Education
ESCP ‘Highly Commended’ at annual Times Higher Education awards.
ESCP Business School has been named as one of the UK’s leading business schools at the prestigious Times Higher Education awards, having been ‘highly commended’ in the ‘Best Business School’ category.
The awards dinner and ceremony, which took place on Thursday 30th November at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, is known as ‘the Oscars of Higher Education’ with over 1,000 guests in attendance, including politicians, senior academics, and professional university staff from all corners of the UK.
ESCP, with distinct campuses across 6 countries – London, Paris, Berlin, Turin, Madrid and Warsaw – was the only institution on the shortlist not based exclusively in the UK.
Fundraising cocktail of the Foundation
On Wednesday November 22th, about 10 Alumni have been welcomed by the ESCP Foundation, Frank Bournois – Dean ESCP, Thomas Rajzbaum (06) and Arnaud Petit (04), Managing Director in the private rooms of Edmond de Rothschild Corporate finance.
This event was the opportunity to present the Foundation and the importance of Alumni mobilization as ESCP approaches its empowerment. Emmanuel Henrion (86) and Bruno Kemoun (80), both Major Donors, have expressed their motivations.
€25,000 of pledges has been received, thanks to all participants!
Class Gift 2017: buy a raffle ticket!
Each year, the students in their final year get mobilized to enable the funding of scholarships for ESCP talented students of the upcoming classes.
In 2017, the BDE and the ESCP Foundation organize a raffle! More than 50 gifts, offered by the ESCP community, can be won: 2 Longchamp handbags, 2 Eurostar tickets, perfumes, cosmetics and many other surprises!
Click here to buy your ticket!
Tickets will be distributed at the Palais des Congrès on December 8 afternoon, and on the Republique campus from 6pm.
To discover if you have won a gift, just scratch the ticket! Gifts will be given to the winners on the Republique Campus from 6 pm on December 8.
Thanks to all the partners: Longchamp, Eurostar, Velecta Paramount, Nocibé, Cinabre.
ESCP launches a new Mooc financed by the Foundation!
ESCP business school has launched a new MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) called ‘Doing Business in Europe’, financed by the ESCP Foundation.
The MOOC will be divided into 5 topics covering the key issues when doing business in Europe:
- Approaching European markets
- Innovating in Europe
- Investing in Europe
- Building the value chain
- Integrating diversity
The MOOC has a real international pedagogical dimension thanks to the sharing of experiences of 10 Alumni leaders and entrepreneurs. In San Francisco, Munich, Zurich, London, Beijing, Beijing and Paris, Alumni shared their pragmatic and forward-looking experience of developing their activities in Europe:
- Jean-Jacques Bienaimé, CEO – BioMarin Pharmaceutical (San Francisco)
- Sofia Benvenuto – Winsure (Buenos Aires)
- Elisabeth Cazorla, Ready-to-wear Director – Galeries Lafayette (Paris)
- Frédéric Duponchel, CEO – Accuracy (Paris)
- André Lacroix, CEO – Intertek (Londres)
- Anne Marion-Bouchacourt, Group Chief Country Officer for China – Société Générale (Beijing)
- Sylvain Orebi, CEO – Orientis and Kusmi Tea (Paris)
- Emmanuelle Petelle, Managing Director – Société Générale (Paris)
- Alexander Sixt, Managing Board Member and Responsible for organization and strategy – Sixt (Munich)
- Olaf Swantee, CEO – Sunrise Communications (Zurich)
The MOOC is available in English with subtitles in English, French and Spanish. The first session begins on November 27, 2017 on the platform of our partner, Coursera: https://coursera.org/learn/doing-business-in-europe