Wellbeing and Mindfulness are raising considerable interest within companies, and rapid adoption of mindfulness training in the private sector to improve wellbeing and performance is underway.
Mindfulness is the act of increasing real-time awareness of physiological, mental, and environmental events without imposing judgments on their quality or meaning. The benefits of Mindfulness training are many and include reduced anxiety, improved cognition, and fewer mental distractions. Mindfulness is a practice that asks us to think outside the box. In particular, a number of law schools (such as Harvard and Columbia) and law firms already teach Mindfulness tools in order to improve concentration and reduce unconscious bias in a criminal law context. Moreover, companies such as Unilever, Google and Salesforce are using Mindfulness training for their employees to improve leadership skills and collaboration.
ESCP Business School is active on this side, too. Here in London we are exploring the possibility of introducing related courses, and a staff bi-weekly mindfulness workshop has already taken place last year during lockdown periods.
Now a Mindfulness Event for students is scheduled for 8th November with expert Ben Harrison, who has been working with the School in this area since 2017. Mindfulness helps us decide how to respond to what life throws our way by building an internal resilience that can meet life’s ups and downs. Mindfulness asks us to change our relationship to our lives and to ourselves. This event promises to be a valuable evening that will recount great stories and introduce you to new ways of thinking.
The talk will cover breathwork and mindfulness for resiliency in two parts:
What is breathwork? Manipulating the nervous system through the three categories of breath and their benefits:
- Awakening breath (practical exercise)
- Balancing breath (practical exercise)
- Relaxing breath (practical exercise)
What is mindfulness? The four categories of mindfulness practice and their benefits:
- Interoceptive
- Concentrative
- Emotional
- Relational
About our speaker
Ben Harrison has a background as an MMA fighter, a national medalist in Olympic wrestling, and an ultra-marathon runner. Ben holds a first degree in Business and Management from De Montfort University and started his career as a Sales Executive at Saint-Gobain. He now teaches yoga and mindfulness full time in London.
How to attend
This event is open to current ESCP students only. There are limited places available so please book in advance.
We hope to see you there!
Participants
Ben Harrison
Mindfulness Instructor
Location
Organiser: ESCP London Campus
ESCP London Campus - London
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Start date: 08/11/2021
Start time: 6:00 PM
End time: 7:00 PM
Marina Leban's PhD thesis looked into the luxury consumption practices of high-end luxury prosumers and lurkers on visual social media platform Instagram. It was made up of three articles, two of which were published in high-level academic journals with supervisor Ben Voyer, and was rewarded by a best thesis prize.
Marina Leban successfully defended her thesis in Management Sciences on 8 July, at ESCP Business School’s Paris (République) campus. The jury made up of referees Delphine Dion (ESSEC Business School), Margherita Pagani (EMLyon Business School), suffragans Yuri Seo (University of Auckland) and Luca M. Visconti (Università della Svizzera Italiana) also encouraged her to submit her thesis to best thesis prizes such as the prestigious “prix de thèse de la Chancellerie des Universités de Paris”, which she was officially awarded recently.
"With the transition to liquid modernity, and the acceleration of society due to the high production and consumption of new content through new media technologies such as social media, social hierarchies seem to be more fragmented, unstable, ephemeral and changing,” explains Marina Leban. “To this end, research still needs to be done to uncover new forms of luxury consumption practices in a digitalized and liquid society, taking place on social media platforms.” To address this gap, her thesis looked at the luxury consumption practices of the specific segment of high-end luxury consumers (prosumers), at how they define, display and consume luxury on the visual social media platform called Instagram. One of her two articles on this topic was published in the Journal of Business Ethics. The third one takes a different approach by investigating how lurkers, as opposed to prosumers, digitally and virtually consume luxury-related content on Instagram, and was published in the Journal of Business Research:
She also co-authored with Ben Voyer a book chapter entitled Social media influencers versus traditional influencers.
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Join us on Wednesday, October 20th, for another exclusive event- “ACQUISITIONS & DISPOSITIONS: THE FLOW IN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS”- organised by the Real Estate Association (REAS), ESCP Business School. Jose Carlos Torres, Acquisitions Director of Hines, will be our special guest for the night!
Attendance in-person to this event is reserved to ESCP students and by invitation only.The event will take place at Calle Almagro 42, from 19:30 to 21:30 (GMT+2).
Online attendance is open to all ESCP community and friends.
Register here
We look forward to seeing you there!
Participants
Jose Carlos Torres
Acquisitions Director of Hines
Location
Organiser: ESCP Madrid Campus
Online- Madrid time - Worldwide
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Start date: 20/10/2021
Start time: 7:30 PM
End time: 9:30 PM
FT Ranking
ESCP Business School’s Executive MBA ranks 6th worldwide in Financial Times ranking
ESCP Business School’s Executive MBA has been ranked 6th in the world in the Financial Times annual global ranking, moving up one place from last year.
ESCP’s EMBA ranks 1st in Spain, Italy, and Germany as well as 3rd in France and the UK, which reaffirms its position as one of the most prestigious EMBA programmes in Europe.
The programme also ranks 2nd worldwide for career progression, with graduates of the EMBA achieving an average 93% increase in salary three years after completion. In addition, ESCP’s EMBA comes in among the top business schools in terms of ‘aims achieved’, the extent to which alumni fulfilled their goals or reasons for doing an EMBA.
“This ranking underscores the programme’s strong international positioning and quality as well as the extensive career benefits an EMBA from ESCP Business School brings to its candidates.” says Simon Mercado, Executive Vice President and Dean for Executive Education, Corporate and External Relations.
“This exceptional ranking for our EMBA at ESCP Business School recognizes the quality of the programme and the hard work that has been done by our team in the past years, creating a truly transformational programme that accompanies and prepares executives to become qualified responsible leaders of tomorrow who can have a positive impact on society.” says Francesco Venuti, Associate Dean of the EMBA. “With the programme’s flexible and renovated new format, we’re confident that our programme will continue to respond, with the traditional ESCP values and style, to the needs and expectations of tomorrow's business world.”
“In addition to a highly ranked programme, EMBA candidates can also be assured that they will share their experience with very diverse cohorts, mingling with EMBA peers from various backgrounds and nationalities (more than 30 per class),” says Ines Khedhir, Director of the EMBA. “They will also join an influential network within the 68,000-strong ESCP alumni community, present in over 150 countries.”
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The Executive MBA (EMBA) is a part-time programme that brings together business leaders from around the globe.
Through interaction with top faculty, and executives from many diverse professional backgrounds, our programme gives participants rare access to invaluable insights and networks from the business world.
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In addition to publishing research papers in leading journals, Prof. Christian Durach was recently recognised as an outstanding senior editor by one of them.
ESCP Business School professor Christian Durach was rewarded with an outstanding senior editor award by the Journal of Business Logistics, from which he’d already received an outstanding reviewer award in 2019.
The Information & Operations Management department professor and holder of the Chair of Supply Chain and Operations Management at the school’s Berlin campus, had also been promoted to the editorial review board of the International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM) in 2019 and received and Outstanding Reviewer Award in 2020.
His research is regularly featured in leading (A- and Alpha-level) journals - already six publications in 2021 alone -, and his article about scale purification published in the Supply Chain Management: An International Journal owed him the prestigious Emerald Literati Outstanding Paper Award in 2018.
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