Finance is exciting, challenging, and fast-paced. A professional life in this sector brings opportunities for rapid career growth.
If you are passionate about this subject, you should consider joining the ESCP Finance Society.
Among the many benefits of being part of a student organisation are making new friends, taking part in relevant activities, widening your network in the industry, and strengthening your CV.
As a member of the ESCP Finance Society you will get to meet like-minded students outside the classroom and work side by side with them in career enhancing projects.
We explore what the ESCP Finance Society can offer you and its activities in this interview:
When, where and why was the ESCP Finance Society founded?
The ESCP Finance Society is the largest and most active student association of ESCP Business School’s London Campus, it was founded in 2012 and is composed of students interested in Finance. All the founders and managing members have had internship experiences in the industry. Our mission is to give students the opportunity to come together, share their passion and allow other people to become more familiar with the Finance Industry.
What does the ESCP Finance Society do?
The aim of the Society is to help ESCP students break into the Finance Industry, by organising dedicated networking events, and providing useful materials to support the application and interview process.
The society has organised a range of activities to support students in the application process, among which:
- The “ESCP Banking Trek”, a week-long visit to all the EMEA HQs of the major Investment Banks in London.
- Hosting and joining M&A and Trading competitions.
- Coaching programme, providing materials and tutorials to have effective CVs, Cover Letters and resources to nail the interviews.
- Events and conferences with professionals, to talk about their firms, financial trends and to network.
- ESCP Private Equity Trek: a collection of workshops organised by the ESCP Finance Society, in collaboration with several leading financial sponsors.
What kind of students are attracted to your society?
The society interacts with students of over 40 different nationalities each year: we value diversity of thought and background, but there is something that unites us all and that is our passion for the Financial Industry.
Whether they are experienced professionals or newcomers, those who read our articles or participate in our events are looking to expand their knowledge about the industry. The interest goes from hearing a different point of view on a specific financial subject to building on your financial knowledge and skills.
Why should students get involved in your activities?
The society is present in 5 different locations around the globe and it organises conferences and events in all the ESCP campuses.
We encourage an open communication environment among the members to take full advantage of sharing best practices.
Members of the society have exclusive access to private networking events with industry professionals organised by our partners.
What are your next projects?
In addition to organising our annual “ESCP Banking Trek” and ESCP Private Equity Trek, we also organised the VC days, to bring more attention to this industry.
We are also developing new partnerships with players in financial markets. We continue to run online events with our partner AlumnEye and with AmplifyMe.
We constantly increase the range of subjects discussed during our events and our next event will touch upon Private Equity.
Moreover, we will continue to publish news and articles on a plethora of topics ranging from Sustainable Finance to the newest M&A deals.
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Encounter the flavours of the F&B industry with the new About Food society
One of the key academic areas of the ESCP Turin Campus is Food and Beverage Management. The About Food Society was created by students to give extra opportunities to better understand this vibrant sector.
The Online Master Experience Day is a great way to get a taste of student life at ESCP Berlin, and get more insights into one or more of our MSc programmes. During the afternoon, we will be hosting different sessions on topics such as accommodations & visas, career services, and a Meet & Greet with programme managers and current students.
Please register for the online event here: bit.ly/3eSNC2M
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Organiser: ESCP Berlin
Online - Worldwide
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Start date: 23/04/2021
Start time: 12:15 PM
End time: 5:30 PM
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Interview with current Sustainability Entrepreneurship Master student Pierre Catinot on his start-up
One of the main goals of ESCP’s Master in Sustainability Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MSEI) is to show what it’s like to take on a values-based entrepreneurial venture or transform sustainability practices within an established organisation.
MSEI students work on their own business ideas in the first year through the Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project, and collaborate with companies in the second year in the Consultancy Project. Those who might be interested in developing their concepts even further, and seek additional support, usually head over to the Blue Factory, ESCP’s in-house start-up accelerator for students and alumni that is part of the school’s Jean-Baptiste Say Institute for Entrepreneurship.It was here that Pierre Catinot, a MSEI student graduating in 2021, brought his sustainability idea. Pierre came to ESCP Business School fixated on mitigating the effects of carbon emissions and seeking the tools to effect change. He has since focused on a very specific but impactful solution -- insect farming -- and has worked on it with a group of colleagues coming from different German universities.
The Blue Factory staff advised Pierre’s start-up, NERTUS, and counselled his team through the application for the EXIST-Gründerstipendium, a federal grant program in Germany for students interested in starting a business. Thanks to a collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Blue Factory also recommended NERTUS for a spot in TUM’s Global DeepTech Accelerator, an initiative which aims to support international entrepreneurs in launching a successful startup in areas such as artificial intelligence and sustainable mobility. The DeepTech Accelerator programming took place online over a month, and was quite intense, but fruitful.
Below, Pierre discusses NERTUS, the issue at hand the start-up is trying to solve, his experience with the DeepTech Accelerator, and what it means for the future of his entrepreneurial project.
What sustainability topics interest you?
I am quite obsessed with carbon emissions and how they impact our climate and oceans. I want to be involved in projects that reduce emissions or even capture them (one of the solutions to reduce the effects of climate change). It's with such a project in mind that I applied to ESCP's MSEI programme. However, as of today this project is paused for me, and I am focusing on NERTUS, which doesn't capture carbon but increases the sustainability of the protein feed supply chain's emissions.To give some background, 70% of Europe’s protein supply to feed livestock is imported and is dominated by soy imported from countries like Brazil, where forests are cleared for arable lands. FIshmeal, which is also a protein-rich powder, and its industry has terrible impacts on the world’s oceans. Where soy is still cheap, the price of fishmeal fluctuates and increases each year, posing challenges to all industries dependent on such productions. We are expecting a 60 megatons protein shortage by 2030, so can we really clear more forests and deplete even more the oceans even more?
It has been a few years now that insects have been determined to be an alternative to soy and fish meal. Insects are able to transform food waste into high-quality protein. Furthermore, very recently, the EU food agency declared mealworms (the insect we are farming) safe for human consumption -- this is great news since it opens a new market for insects.
Tell us more about NERTUS.
Many farmers have been looking to mealworms as a more sustainable, protein-filled food source, and have expressed their desire to switch their production to the alternative of insect farming. Yet, insect farming is complex and only represented by large centralized insect production plants. Our approach is different; NERTUS provides farmers with insect eggs and the technology to grow it themselves. Farms have or are close to grain by-products (such as mills, and chicken/fish/swine farms), which insects feed on. By localizing and integrating insect farming into our current farming system, we reduce transportation costs and increase the sustainable potential of insect-based products.Where did this idea come from?
I came up with this idea during the Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation Project (SEIP) during our first year. Basically, I thought that insects should be farmed right where they are needed, and not in huge, faraway factories. Then, our SEIP team, named EXAFARM, came up with a concept of an automated container, producing insects (mealworms) directly for farmers or animal feed manufacturers. In the end it proved to be too complex for us, and we pivoted to a more traditional, factory setting.However, after the end of the SEIP, I wanted to carry on with and expand the original idea and I met Leo Flohr. He had previously worked on a similar "decentralized" insect farming project, and his brilliant idea was to separate the complex production of insect eggs from the simpler process of the remaining insect growth. We shared the same vision for insect farming and decided to work together from this point. We eventually became a group of four in this venture: Leo Flohr (CEO), Alexander Bexter (Chief Biologist), Felix Ott (CTO) and myself, CFO.
Why did you apply to the TUM DeepTech Accelerator?
Our program manager Stephan Schmuck shared with all MSEI students this opportunity, and I was not quite sure if we perfectly matched their requirements, so I asked Cynthia Klauth of ESCP’s Jean Baptiste Say Institute for advice. We had a close look on how NERTUS matched TUM DEEPTECH’s requirements because this program covers AI, robotics, sustainable mobility, and additive manufacturing. At NERTUS, we 3D print our prototypes and we rely on automation and AI to run them, so because of this, we decided to apply.What did you gain from the Accelerator and how will it help NERTUS?
An advantage was access to experienced mentors whom we could reach any day -- their feedback was very valuable to us. What was also great was the access to many other courses and lectures, some of which were mandatory, and some optional.It will for sure help us scale our impact. For example, we are applying to the EXIST grant through ESCP but our mentor at TUM helped us a great deal with his experience on the matter. It added to the Blue Factory's feedback so that we could perfect our application.
The TUM Accelerator appears to be a pretty intensive four weeks. How did you manage it all with your studies, etc.?
As of now, the program is over, yet at the time I was juggling exams, a thesis, NERTUS and TUM's Accelerator programming, the company consultancy project and the EXIST application. So in order to attend all meetings and lectures with the Accelerator, working in a team of four was really handy, since we were sharing the obligation, depending on our respective agendas.Are there long-term plans for NERTUS?
Our vision is that insect farming will be a cornerstone of the global food supply. Our long-term goal is to empower thousands of farms in the world with automated insect farming modules.Farms have been providing us with food for thousands of years and the farm of the future will be able to produce insects as a sustainable protein source for animals as well as humans. Innovations like insect farming are paramount to ensure our capacity to feed nearly 10 billion humans by 2050.
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Passionate about sustainability?
Join us in an unprecedented event: the ESCP Green Hackathon | AlixPartners Call to Action on March 30th, 2-6 pm (CEST).
Don’t miss the chance to empower your professional network!
Test your skills, project and design an innovative sustainable idea, and present it to the AlixPartners’ jury!
Why should you participate in the ESCP Green Hackathon?
We have decided to offer you a hackathon on a theme that we know is essential today: sustainability for companies. Your opinions and ideas about it are significant to us, and we would like to understand how to make them achievable. Participating in the hackathon will be a way to express your idea to your team and a broad audience. Still, it will also be an opportunity for in-depth reflection and exchange with other students, where you will be able to acquire and share new and practical skills and information.
Unique Experience
Don’t miss the first ESCP Green Hackathon organized by The Student Experience Office in collaboration with the Career Service of Turin Campus.
Sustainability
Contribute with your ideas to the creation of an ecological, sustainable, and green future!
Limited participant slots
Places are limited so registrations are subject to availability of participant slots and will close on March 26th 2021 at the latest.
Teamwork
Form your team (maximum 5 people per team), choose a team name tied to sustainability, and sign up! Test your skills, project, and design an innovative idea with your team of classmates.
When it really matters
AlixPartners has worked with clients around the world for nearly forty years, helping businesses respond to challenges when everything is on the line – from urgent performance improvement to complex restructuring, from risk mitigation to accelerated transformation.
Each project is different, but they all have one thing in common – a need for decisive, informed, and often urgent action. And because that need is at the heart of everything we do, it has come to shape every aspect of our business.
The way we work – with our clients, as well as each other – is as much a part of who we are as what we actually do. It’s what makes us different – and the partner of choice for some of the world’s most successful as well as some of the most challenged companies, when it really matters.
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What has always inspired me about our firm is how our people go straight to heart of the problem or opportunity. Our social responsibility is the sum total of our contribution to society: all the ways we take decisions within our own business, how we work with each other, and with our clients against a common set of values. For example:
- Our leadership teams and Employee Resource Groups engage across the business in identifying ways to build inclusion into our culture, internal processes and the communities in which we live and work. For the 3 rd year in a row we earned a score of 100% in the Human Rights Campaign’s 2020 Corporate Equality Index as a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality, as well as being recognized by Consulting Magazine as a “best firm to work for”.
- Our local market teams educate each other about ways we can reduce our carbon footprint both at work and at home. We work with One Carbon World and ClimateForce to measure and offset our global carbon footprint. We encourage employees throughout the firm to join our Drawdown Eco - Challenge team to support their education on the topic and to track their progress against individual goals.
- We have a Code of Conduct which serves as a framework for making sound decisions and guides our people in how to embed our Core Values into our business activities. We contribute to societal market impact around the world, including through our membership in the World Economic Forum and our commitment as a founding partners of their Racial Justice in Business initiative and their Council for Systemic Inequalities and Social Cohesion.
Cindy Godwin
Head of Social Responsibility at AlixPartners
Special guests
Take the chance to improve your professional network!
Discover below the AlixPartners team that will take part in the event:
- Brooke Hopkins: Managing Director - AlixPartners USA
- Marieke Otto: Vice President - AlixPartners Germany
- Caterina Campagna Weiss: Vice President - AlixPartners Italy
- Alberto Cola: Senior Vice President - AlixPartners Italy
- Alfredo Naldi: Consultant - AlixPartners Italy
Prize
Are you ready to present your idea in front of AlixPartner’s Professionals? They will evaluate your project and choose the winner.
The winning team will gain an Inspirational Mentorship Session with them. Take the chance to be in contact with a high-performance professional from AlixPartners and be inspired by his/her experience and tips on how to set and achieve your professional goals.
Register
Places are limited, and registration will close on March 26th.
Hurry up, first-come, first-served!
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Start date: 30/03/2021
Start time: 2:00 PM
End time: 6:00 PM
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During their last year of the ESCP Bachelor in Management, that brought them to study in London, Turin, and Berlin, four young Italian entrepreneurs rode this trend by founding the first sustainable fashion marketplace that merges aesthetics, sustainability, and AI-technology: Staiy. The startup was born in 2019 in Berlin from an idea that came to Ludovico Durante, Chiara Latini, Adrian Leue and Alessandro Nora, who wanted to create something tangible regarding responsibility in the fashion system, in terms of ethics and innovation.
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Live and study three years in three countries
Register and join this webinar to discover ESCP Business School's Bachelor in Management, a three-year general management programme that embraces an interdisciplinary approach. This programme will give you the unique opportunity to study management alongside training in languages, liberal arts and personal development. You will spend your time at a different ESCP campus each year, experiencing living and studying in different countries and cultures without having to compromise on academic excellence.
You will be able to attend the recruiter presentation, hear about the experience of our student ambassador and meet the Academic Director of the programme. You can interact and ask live questions to solve all your doubts about applications, internships, campuses, classes, scholarships and much more.
Scan the QR code and follow us on Wechat to receive the webinar's link.
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Organiser: ESCP Turin Campus
Online - Worldwide
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Start date: 19/03/2021
Start time: 11:30 AM
End time: 12:30 PM
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ESCP’s Bachelor in Management (BSc) ranks 1st in France
In the ranking by le Parisien / Challenges ESCP is ranked first out of 13 criteria, including international, selectivity and professional insertion
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Discover the Global Macro Trends that will shape future business scenarios with Alessandro Lanteri, Entrepreneurship Professor at ESCP Business School. Together, with our Executive MBA team, will understand how the EMBA can help managers to tackle tomorrow's challenges.
Agenda
- 15 minutes Programme Presentation
- 15 minutes Feedback alumnus
- 15 minutes Alessandro Lanteri Speech
- 10 minutes Q&A Session
Speakers
Marta Leonardi – Head of Recruitment and Admissions EMBA&GMP
Alessandro Lanteri – Professor of Strategy at ESCP Business School and Business Consultant
Prof Lanteri is an expert educator, helping executives, managers, entrepreneurs and students navigate turbulent ecosystems and respond strategically to the opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He published 25+ internationally peer-reviewed articles and books. His latest book “CLEVER. The Six Strategic Drivers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution” became a no.1 Amazon bestseller in Italy and the UK.
Register and join this webinar to discover ESCP Business School's Executive MBA (EMBA), a part-time programme with 6 flexible international tracks lasting 18 to 30 months. Its curriculum offers 9 core courses, 10 electives, 5 International Seminars and 1 International Consulting Project.
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Organiser: ESCP Turin Campus
Online - Worldwide
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Start date: 25/03/2021
Start time: 11:30 AM
End time: 12:30 PM
Prof. Véronique Tran will take up her position as the new Rector of ESCP Business School in Berlin as of 2 April 2021. As the Academic Dean of the Executive MBA and General Management Programme, Veronique Tran has been eager to engage and inspire all stakeholders of this truly European flagship programme, ranked 7th in the Financial Times 2020 ranking. She will put her leadership at the service of the Berlin Campus.
“In addition to her constant commitment as a professor at ESCP, Véronique has succeeded in bringing our flagship Executive Education programme to a global level and adapting to the needs of our senior managers who are faced with new and evolving business challenges,” says Pr.Frank Bournois, Executive president & Dean of ESCP. “Véronique has our full support as she carries this drive and vision to her exciting new role in Berlin.”
With 6 campuses across Europe, in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Turin and Warsaw, ESCP is today the only truly pan-European business school. Each campus is recognised and accredited in its own country by national and/or local authorities.
Véronique Tran
Véronique Tran joined ESCP Business School as a Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Organisational Psychology in 2006 and since has not only taught on all campuses but occupied a wide range of responsibilities giving her a strong sense of what it takes to build a European Business School. She has served as Course coordinator in the Master in Management (MIM), as the first European Department Coordinator (Management), then as the Academic Director of the Master in European Business (MEB) transformed into the MBA in International Management, ESCP’s full time MBA, from 2015 to 2018. She has been Academic Dean of the Executive MBA and GMP since 2018.
She earned her PhD in Psychology from the University of Geneva in 2004 and did her post-doctoral studies in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University from 2004 to 2006. Her research focuses on emotion, decision-making, and diverse teams. Her expertise lies in personality, high-performance teams, leadership, and emotional competence. She has extensive experience in executive education and international management development.
"Becoming Rector of the Berlin Campus is an amazing challenge. I am honoured to lead and engage in a collaborative environment, building on past successes and innovating for the future. I am particularly eager to continue building our European identity while strengthening the Berlin Campus in the German landscape,” adds Prof. Tran.
The Creative London Live Summer School online information session, organised by ESCP Business School's London Campus, is a great opportunity for you to learn more about our immersive two-week programme.
Focused on innovation, marketing and brand-building, the 2021 course starts on 19th July.
This online session will be hosted by the Programme Director, Peter Stephenson-Wright, and the Admissions Executive, Poonam Bharkhada. Together, they will give you a comprehensive overview of the programme and answer any questions you may have.
The event is free to join. It starts at 2pm GMT on 24th March. Register your place
Participants
Peter Stephenson-Wright
Programme Director
Poonam Bharkhada
Admissions Executive
Location
Organiser: ESCP London Campus
Online - Worldwide
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Start date: 24/03/2021
Start time: 2:00 PM