THE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATIONENTREPRENEURS OF CHANGE

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THE SCIENCES PO SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION

Entrepreneurs of Change

GENERAL PRESENTATION

Since its foundation, Sciences Po has established a strong reputation for training business professionals. Today, 73 percent of Sciences Po graduates find their first job in the private sector. By establishing a School of Management and Innovation, Sciences Po intends to assert its central role and unique positioning in the education of economic leaders.

In line with the « Sciences Po 2022 » strategic plan, Sciences Po is also completing the structuring of its graduate education. The new School of Management and Innovation will develop a unique and ambitious educational model grounded in the social sciences, which are central to Sciences Po's identity. To educate the entrepreneurs of change, the School has set a threefold objective it calls the 3 Cs: · Complexity: Transmit the keys for understanding globalisation, the digital revolution and the complex issues and changes associated with them. · Creativity: To anticipate and support the development of the creative economy and new business models. · Common Good: To highlight the role of companies (and their managers) in society and the responsibility of economic actors with regard to issues of the common good.

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OUR AMBITION: TO TRAIN ENTREPRENEURS OF CHANGE To prepare the students for the many profound changes which are redefining the company and the business world, the School of Management and Innovation is offering a groundbreaking approach which aims to contribute to the necessary reinvention of the model for training business actors in the digital revolution era.

Understand, anticipate and raise awareness of the challenges of the common good

To train the leaders, managers and entrepreneurs of change, the School has set itself a triple goal summarised as 3 C - Complexity, Creativity, Common Good:

· Complexity: Transmit the keys for understanding globalisation, the digital revolution and the complexity of the related challenges and transformations. Students will need to develop the following skills:

· Understanding complexity; · Thinking critically; · Learning how to learn.

· Creativity: Anticipate and support the development of the creative economy and

new business models. This means encouraging the following attitudes in our students:

· Develop curiosity and creativity; · Promote an entrepreneurial culture; . Learn to collaborate in a digital world.

· Common Good: Highlight the role of companies (and their managers) in society

and the responsibility of economic actors with regard to issues of the common good. This means encouraging the following skills in our students:

· Exercise initiative and responsibility; · Understand and value cultural differences; · Nurture a commitment toward society.

To attain this threefold objective, the School aims to explore the following topics, in addition to the courses specific to each Master's programme:

● The interplay between the economic, social and political roles of business, at the local, national and transnational levels

● The digital revolution and its impact on companies and the economic chain

● The balance between the value created for private interests and the value created for

society, which ensures the viability of economic development over the long term.

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● Corporate social responsibility defined as companies' responsibility for their impact on society, and the understanding of externalities, particularly in their social and environmental aspects.

● Creative industries and their digital reinvention

● Emergence of new forms of economic organisation and new business models such

as the sharing economy, the social economy, social entrepreneurship, socially responsible investment, fintech and crowdfunding solutions, the circular economy and "green" economy.

Taking on new challenges and their capacity to transform business ecosystems

A new ecosystem brought on by the digital revolution

Today, companies must respond to the changes brought on by the digital revolution, which is shaking up all business activities; the companies of the conventional economy are obviously impacted and a new economy, based on innovative business models, is emerging in parallel. Driven by the effects of the digital revolution, connected objects and big data, companies are becoming platforms for collective intelligence with an increasing focus on society and its needs. In this new kind of ecosystem, innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship are a must.

The need to reconcile diverse stakeholders interests by addressing issues of the common good

In a profoundly changing world where globalisation, technological developments and social, environmental, political and geopolitical challenges generate complexity and uncertainty, business is under increasing scrutiny with regard to its social role and responsibilities.

Companies are now expected to pursue a broader vision than simply maximizing profit for their shareholders, by integrating into their strategies and operations the interests of diverse stakeholders and the major issues of the common good (scarce resources, inequality, instability of the financial system, environmental impact). The activity of the company has an impact on an ecosystem and this impact is all the greater in the case of huge multinationals. By contributing to the economic growth of a country or region, business organisations often play a key social role in addition to their economic one. They form a hub of social inclusion at the heart of a dense network of relationships—between customers, users, employees, suppliers and regulators. The company can also have a substantial political impact – multinationals in particular are sometimes delegated roles which were more traditionally assigned to states, through the production and management of infrastructure assets, partial privatisation of the welfare state (health, schools, even prisons or defence) and even regulatory action.

In a complex and unstable world with fluid borders, the common good is no longer only the prerogative of the state. It is also the responsibility of private stakeholders and, in particular, the powerful economic actors that companies and their managers have unquestionably become.

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Programmes catering to diverse backgrounds and needs

The School offers standard two-year Master's programmes, programmes designed for young professionals, and executive programmes for senior managers.

The standard Master's programmes begin with a broad-based foundation and become increasingly professionally-focused and specialised. The first year is devoted to core courses in the social sciences, digital humanities and management, and more specialised courses specific to the different Master's degrees. The second year allows students to put their learning into practice with professional experience in the form of an internship or an apprenticeship.

Two-year Master's programmes

● Finance and Strategy ● Economics and Business ● Organisations and Human Resource Management ● Marketing ● Communication

One-year Master's programmes for young professionals

● Master in Finance Regulation and Risk Management ● Master in Corporate Strategy ● Master in Private Banking and Wealth Management

This offering will be expanded with new programmes in marketing, digital strategies, entrepreneurship, and the social and political implications of business.

Masters further education programmes in conjunction with Sciences Po Executive Education: - Digital Humanities - Communications - Media and Digital Management - Executive Career Paths - Corporate Sociology and Strategies for Change - Human Resources - Corporate and Market Finance More formats will be offered at a later date. Training in a wide range of business areas

The school will equip students to pursue a wide range of positions in various different sectors. As well as covering all the fields already served by our existing offering, the education delivered at the School of Management and Innovation will facilitate the placement of graduates in new areas such as the creative economy, the digital sector, entrepreneurship, new business models, responsible investment, risk management and governance, and social and environmental reporting.

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More specifically, the School prepares students for careers in the following areas:

● organisational consulting, management, strategy and audit ● banking and finance ● regulation and compliance ● human resources ● marketing ● communication ● entrepreneurship ● the digital sector ● the creative economy ● corporate transformation ● new business models ● social responsibility, sustainable development and responsible investment

The training provided by the School will enable future graduates to work both in France and abroad; nearly 40 percent of graduates find their first job outside France.

BUILDING ON THE SCIENCES PO HERITAGE AND IDENTITY

A long tradition of training business leaders

Today, 73 percent of Sciences Po graduates find their first job in the private sector. Nearly half of our students go into audit/consulting, banking/finance/insurance, industry/energy/transport, communications or creative industries.

Since its foundation, Sciences Po has established a strong reputation for training business professionals. Many of our alumni went through the Economics and Finance section (called the Private Economy section prior to 1945), which was enhanced in the 1970s with programmes in communication, the media and human resource management. Today, these business-related Master's programmes are well recognised on the French and international markets. For example, 93 percent of Master of Finance and Strategy graduates found their first job less than six months after graduating, and 43 percent found their first job outside France. Similarly, 94 percent of Master of Communication graduates find their first job in less than six months.

The School will bring together the large number of students enrolled in existing Master’s programmes - Finance and Strategy, Economics and Business, Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources, Marketing and Communication – a total of 1,000 students, and will rapidly create new courses to expand its educational programmes.

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An education in the social sciences backed by world-class transdisciplinary research

A grounding in the humanities, world-class transdisciplinary research in the social sciences, and the international makeup of Sciences Po's programmes, student body and faculty are major strengths. The School will work within a rich ecosystem – Sciences Po’s research centres and Economics, Sociology, Political Science, History and Law Departments.

Facilities and methods conducive to innovation

The "Sciences Po Entrepreneurs" programme and the Medialab have been spearheading entrepreneurship and experimentation on issues related to digital technology and the digital humanities at Sciences Po for several years. They will have a central role in developing a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the new School.

Since 2009, "Sciences Po Entrepreneurs" has been supporting the entrepreneurial aspirations of Sciences Po students. It has worked with 350 students and incubated 90 business projects, resulting in 400 permanent positions created in Ile de France and 220 million euros worth of startup acquisitions by large companies. It is soon to become the Entrepreneurship Centre and will have an even greater capacity to deliver its offering of support, training and research.

The Medialab was crucial to the development of the course on controversy mapping (initiated by Bruno Latour), a prime example of the pedagogical innovation practised at Sciences Po. This facility, which is unique in the French university landscape, promotes complex and critical thinking through a transdisciplinary approach and project-based learning and will play a key role in the new School. The Medialab will provide greater scope for design thinking and digital humanities in its curricula and, in so doing, contribute to the development of innovative teaching methods. World-class teaching with a strong multicultural dimension

The international dimension of the School of Management and Innovation is inherent in its project, which is to train business actors in dealing with different cultures, traditions, ways of thinking and questioning. Future graduates will be equipped for multicultural and multinational management. To achieve this, the School will develop an educational approach that addresses the challenge of doing business in a multinational and transnational context and exposes students to practical work situations.

The School will also be international in terms of its students who will eventually be able to take the whole curriculum in English. By developing academic partnerships with the world's best universities, the School will offer several dual degrees. The network of partnerships, which is set to expand, includes:

● University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) ● University of Pennsylvania (United States) ● Fundação Getulio Varga-Escola de Administração de Empresas (Brazil) ● Fudan University (China)

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AN EDUCATIONAL APPROACH BASED ON FIVE PILLARS All students of the Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation will share a solid core curriculum in the social sciences, while taking the specialized and professionally-focused courses corresponding to their Master's programme.

1. A core curriculum in the social sciences

The humanities and social sciences are essential for understanding complexity and developing the analytical and critical capacities that future change managers require. These courses will be common to the different Master's programmes and constructed in a transdisciplinary manner. They can address both broad themes, such as business and society and business and ethics, or more specialized topics, such as social relationships, the media, financial markets, etc.

2. General management training

This will equip students with the basic knowledge and skills needed by future business leaders. A core curriculum covering the major business disciplines—accounting and finance, strategy, human resource management, communication and digital skills, and marketing—will be shared by all the School's Master's programmes. This common core will be organized in a variety of ways in the different Master's programmes to ensure a better fit with the respective labour markets they cater for.

3. An introduction to the digital humanities

The digital humanities, a new field of teaching and research introduced in universities abroad in the late 2000s, open up new teaching perspectives for basic education: cognitive science, cultural studies, digital sciences, game theory, digital culture, design thinking, data science, user experience design, behavioural psychology, etc. They are changing approaches to current disciplines and help to understand the current disruptions occurring in society.

By including the digital humanities in our educational approach, we aim to give students the means to challenge established digital uses. The Medialab already participates in the controversy mapping courses, and we will strengthen links with this facility to allow further experimentation around the digital humanities.

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4. Professionally-focused courses specific to each Master's programme

The curriculum includes a strong "technical" component to develop core professional skills and prepare students for the labour market. In terms of career prospects, the School of Management and Innovation has a solid base to build on, as the existing programmes have a very positive record of graduate employability. Collaboration with a broader community of recruiters will be a priority so as to stabilize and improve these results. Apart from the technical components of the curriculum, the professionalization of students within the School will hinge on several mechanisms:

· Several practical application sessions throughout the period of study, via a compulsory internship semester, apprenticeships, meetings with professionals and even the possibility of doing a gap year in a company.

· Active learning built around professional issues and situations, such as case studies

and group projects.

· Regular career and networking events. Career guidance activities (recruiting breakfasts, after-work socials, mock interviews), which are offered to varying degrees in the current Master's programmes, will systematically be scheduled several times a week in free time slots to increase the chances of successful career launch for all students of the School. This preparation will be backed up by training in how to build, maintain and use professional networks in the digital era.

5. A culture of entrepreneurship and innovation

Throughout the entire period of study, business creation and simulation exercises will be encouraged through special experiences in order to promote an entrepreneurial spirit. For instance, students will be able to participate in workshops and group projects, and develop individual projects focused on design thinking. The School will take advantage of the Entrepreneurship Centre for setting up these experiences and opportunities.

Digital technology and design are the drivers of innovation and the "start up" ecosystem, and will be integrated into our courses. Student knowledge in these areas will be supported by new teaching practices.

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APPENDIX

Biographies of the co-deans Marie-Laure Djelic, Co-dean of the Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation

Marie-Laure Djelic, PhD Harvard 1996, Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Stockholm, has also been since September 2016 University Professor at the Sciences Po Centre of Organisational Sociology. She was previously Professor at the ESSEC and Director of the Centre of Research on Capitalism, Globalisation and Governance. Marie-Laure Djelic’s research work focuses on the contemporary transformations of capitalism, the international dissemination of ideas and practices, the spreading of globalisation and the dynamics of regulation and governance in a globalised economic environment, the social responsibility of companies and their political role in this context. Her work is published in top international academic reviews and university presses.

At ESSEC, Marie-Laure Djelic occupied a variety of administrative and managerial positions – Dean of Professors (2003-2007), Director of the Management Department (2008-2012), Associate Dean in charge of the PhD (2012-2015). Marie-Laure Djelic was Guest Professor at the University of Stanford, the University of Uppsala, the University of Stockholm and the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden, at the Bocconi University in Italy and at the Institute of Higher International Studies and Development in Geneva, Switzerland. She also sits on many scientific councils or university evaluation boards in many countries in Europe and North America. Benoît Thieulin, Co-dean of the Sciences Po School of Management and Innovation

A specialist in digital innovation, Benoît Thieulin has been an observer and actor of the digital revolution since the mid-nineties. Founder of Netscouade in 2007, he was appointed Innovation Director of Open when the latter purchased it in August 2016. A lecturer at Sciences Po since 2010, he has been Dean of the School of Communication and of the “Digital humanities” Master’s course since 2015.

Convinced that Internet is the cause of a profound change of "civilization", he is particularly interested in the phenomena of empowerment triggered by the digital revolution and in the innovative mechanisms which they enable, for companies, brands, institutions, NGOs, media, etc. In this context, he designed the first participative community platforms in France. From ToutelEurope.fr (2005 referendum campaign) to Désirs d’avenir (of which he was netcampaign director in 2007), he also

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worked on the digital software of the “Grenelle de l'environnement” and built community initiatives for many companies. With his digital innovation and transformation agency, he helped to create Mediapart with Edwy Plenel and worked on the digitization of several media. From 2013 to 2016, Benoît Thieulin was the chair of the National Digital Council, an independent body whose mission is to formulate and raise issues relating to the impact of digital technology on the economy and society on behalf of the French government. In this context, he worked on questions of net neutrality, platform loyalty, transatlantic treaties, digital inclusion, transformation of health, education and work, and organized the major public consultation in 2014 which gave rise to the “Digital Ambition” report leading to the law “For a Digital Republic”. He is a member of the board of directors of Terra Nova, a director of France Télévision and advises many major companies in their innovation strategy.