In this webinar, you will meet Yara Farhat, a current BSc student who will take you through the application process step by step, from registering on our website to receiving an offer letter, including:
- Application Portal: a walkthrough of your online application, step by step
- Supporting Documents: what documents do you need to upload?
- What should your personal statement look like
- Top Tips for your Interview
We will go through the list of documents you need to provide and give you some tips for your CV and personal statement.
As always, you can ask your questions and we'll answer them live!
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Organiser: Berlin Campus
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Start date: 01/07/2020
Start time: 3:00 PM
End time: 4:00 PM
Studying the Bachelor in Management at ESCP is not only about the high quality courses, but also about what you can do in your free time in the great cities in Europe.
Join this session and find out some tips about activities and student societies that you follow during your studies at the ESCP. This event is organised by the Student Societies Coordinator, Alina Iakovleva together with two students Antoine Siceaux and Annalisa Boano who will also share their ESCP student journey with you.
Topics that will be covered are:
- Student societies at ESCP Berlin (what kind of student student societies there are, how to join one or how to create one)
- Student life experience from Antoine and Annalisa (their experience as active society members in Berlin)
- What awaits students at other campuses during their 1st and 2nd year
To join us online, register here!
We are looking forward to e-meeting you and share behind-the-scenes of the BSc programme with you!
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Organiser: Berlin Campus
Online - Worldwide
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Start date: 17/06/2020
Start time: 4:00 PM
End time: 5:00 PM
Recently nominated by Forbes IT among the 100 most successful women in Italy, MSc in Marketing & Creativity alumna Elena Lavezzi spoke to the Creativity Marketing Centre about her career and her time at ESCP Business School.
From her graduation in 2013, to Uber, Circle and, today, Head of Southern Europe at Revolut, she shared with us the current challenges the company is facing due to the COVID-19 crisis, some career tips and another very exciting project she works on.
Let’s start with a small introduction! Can you tell us your name, nationality, current position and location, year of graduation?
I’m Elena Lavezzi and I’m Italian. Currently I’m the Head of Southern Europe at Revolut, I’m based in Milan, and I graduated the MSc in Marketing & Creativity (MMK) in 2013.
Can you tell us more about your background and what led you to apply to the MMK?
I did my Bachelor degree in Business & Management at Bocconi University in Milan. After that, I really wanted to live abroad, so I took a year off and went to New York to work and do a few internships.
In the meantime, I started to prepare myself to apply for a Master. As I was looking at all the options available across Europe, I came across the MMK. Several things convinced me: the fact that ESCP is one of the top Business Schools in Europe and not only France; that the Master was related to marketing but also extremely practical; and the most important: it was taking place in two countries and highly international cities: London and Paris. Can you imagine that we were 52 people from 47 different nationalities in the same class? Everything was extremely international!
We read on Forbes that you went through several internships in big companies before trying the startup adventure - how come?
I did three in total: one in New York for a marketing agency, one at the European Commission, and one in a big corporation; and then I applied for the MMK. It’s only after the programme that I started to apply to startups. I think I was one of the first who absolutely wanted to do my final year internship in a startup, it was not really sexy at that time. These types of career and environment were just emerging, so I asked my professors and they approved! They supported my decision even if it was not a typical career path expected after top business schools at that time.
It wasn’t sexy but you still decided to go for it. Why?
I was looking for a more entrepreneurial context, I wanted to work in a small environment where you start from zero and really get a chance to have an impact. I come from a family of entrepreneurs, so for me it was pretty natural to look for an environment to build from scratch. That’s why I decided to go in this direction more than looking for a big and already established corporation.
Looking back, what would you say have been the most valuable takeaways from the programme?
The international perspective, the competencies, and the way to structure creative thoughts. Structuring creativity can seem hard, but during classes our professors really gave us the tools to extrapolate, to drive concrete actions from our creativity, and put them into business decisions as well.
We could almost call you a “unicorn wanderer”, from Uber to Circle and today at Revolut. How did you decide it was the right moment to change job?
To me it’s really intuitive. I just feel it; when you believe that you’re done, you’ve achieved the most you could at your place. When I joined Uber, it was completely unknown in Europe. We were opening the first cities outside the US, and we were probably 10 or 15 people across Europe and three only to launch Italy. Four years later, when I decided to move, we were a company with thousands of employees, spread all over the world, and the brand was already established. For me it was time to move on and look for the next challenge.
While in the case of Revolut, I decided to join because it was combining the tech consumer experience knowledge I acquired at Uber, but also the FinTech international experience I got from Circle. Circle is one of the top cryptofinance companies across the globe, based in Boston, so Revolut was the perfect match to put together both experiences.
Can you tell us more about your current position and the upcoming challenges you’re facing at Revolut?
I lead the Southern Europe region. At first, my mission was to build the teams around the market and to build the strategy to grow the customer base and raise brand awareness in the region. Today, most of the challenges are linked to the evolution of the FinTech industry in a new scenario: the COVID-19 crisis. Then, of course, we aim to educate the region around the value of a cashless society, the use of digital payment and Revolut versus the use of cash for example.
In your position, how did the COVID-19 crisis impact the business?
Imagine for an industry like ours how much the virus accelerated the cashless society. Many more people tried digital payment services or mobile payment, because they simply couldn’t physically go to the bank anymore. We were all forced to do grocery shopping from home and buy online for months. So for us, it was actually a strong push towards a cashless society, and we keep witnessing changes in people’s habits, in the way they consume and purchase. Obviously, we’re curious to see how it’s going to evolve, but it’s still too early to say.
In your opinion, what are the qualities required to succeed in a career mixing tech and finance?
You have to be entrepreneurial deep inside, because most of the time you have to build everything on your own, from the most practical to the most strategic things. Second, be data driven in your decisions, and extremely flexible, because you’ll be dealing with different scenarios everyday.
UNICEF Next Gen – Can you tell us more about the project? How did it come to life?
It started two years ago already. The project aims to build a new generation of donors and to collect donations through innovative and digital channels. It is super old to do a donation through an sms or a bank transfer, it seems very far away from our generation. We wanted to build a new chapter of UNICEF in order to make it attractive for millennials. We set up a digital way to approach a new audience of donors and actives in the field, so each year, we can support a different project.
And how is it going so far?
The real year zero of the project was last year. We decided to support the Innovation Labs in Lebanon, and we raised our initial estimate twice. It was extremely successful so every year we will choose a new project, and develop a plan to collect donations for it.
We started with four founders, now we are 33 members in total, all members are very relevant in their own field, from tech to startup, design, fashion, food. The group is made up of artists, models, entrepreneurs, many different profiles. It is really heterogeneous and each of them are also a kind of ambassador of the project in their own field.
If you had an advice to give to Elena in 2013, freshly graduated from the MSc in Marketing & Creativity, what would it be?
Probably, don’t be afraid to trust your gut feelings. I always had the same approach in the decisions I made. Some things were risky, but I was never afraid to take risks, dive into something completely unknown and it always ended up extremely promising. So to me, just follow my intuition.
Your hopes for the future?
I hope I will keep enjoying what I do as much as I enjoy what I’m doing now!
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ESCP Business School and Comau welcome you to a unique experience.
This webinar will discuss how to build resilience at a time of crisis, hosted by industry experts. It will also include an Executive Master in Manufacturing Automation & Digital Transformation (EMMA) alumni session, during which they will share their experience while studying on the programme.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about both ESCP Business School and Comau, and to get first-hand professional and academic expertise.
Click here to book your place at this free event
Hosted by:
Prof. Giovanni Scarso Borioli
EMMA Programme Director
Ezio Fregnan
EMMA Programme Director
Comau Academy Director
Maurizio Cremonini
Marketing & Business Development VP
Comau SpA
Agenda:
Discussion: 4 - 4:30pm (BST) / 5pm CET
Alumni Session: 4:30 - 4:50pm (BST) / 5pm CET
Wrap-up: 4:50 - 5pm (BST) / 5:50pm CET
For any enquiries or assistance, contact us at emmalondon@escp.eu
Location
Organiser: ESCP London Campus & Comau
Online - Worldwide
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Start date: 03/06/2020
Start time: 4:00 PM
End time: 5:50 PM
Meet the winners of the Online Scholarship Contest organised by our Turin Campus: Clarissa Zanda, Ludovico Palladino, and Sara Costantin.
For the third year in a row, 20 young and talented incoming and prospective ESCP students got to experience the business school and its teaching methods by participating in the BSc in Management – Online Scholarship Contest. In 2020 the business simulation challenge, organised yearly by the Turin Campus, was held online due to the Covid19 pandemic.
The session was hosted by Professor Fabrizio Zerbini, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, and Isabella Maggioni, Assistant Professor of Marketing.
The young participants were divided into five groups that worked in teams in virtual rooms on the business case, that was designed to test the students' logical, strategic and decision-making acumen.
The winners of the competition were awarded a scholarship for the next academic year: the first classified, Clarissa Zanda, received a 50% tuition fee scholarship, the second-ranked, Ludovico Palladino, a 30% scholarship and the third-classified, Sara Costantin, received a 20% scholarship.
The winners shared their impressions about the contest and ESCP's hands-on pedagogical approach in this interview:
You are one of the winners of the ESCP BSc in Management - Scholarship Contest. What do you think of this opportunity?
Sara Constantin: It was definitely a unique opportunity that allowed me to experience a day as an ESCP student. I really embraced their practical way of teaching students, by developing each and everyone’s perspective of a business situation.
What part of the contest was the most challenging for you?
Clarissa Zanda: The most challenging part for me was probably presenting the case in only 5 minutes because my team and I came up with a lot of ideas in a great brainstorming session and it wasn’t easy to sum them up in a short time.
What did you learn from this experience?
Ludovico Palladino: I think that the most important thing I learned today is how this school implements a very practical study method, the use of case studies and teamwork have given me a clear vision of the ESCP teaching method.
In your opinion which skills or talents helped you get this scholarship?
Sara: For the first task, I used rational thinking, and analysed all the statistics and given information to find the perfect spot to locate my business. During the second task, being able to communicate efficiently with my team and acknowledge all their ideas definitely placed us at the top.
What did you like most about the contest?
Ludovico: I liked the fact that this contest was quite fast, in just one afternoon I was able to challenge myself and prove to myself that I am ready for a school like this. Thanks again for this opportunity.
What will you tell your friends and family about this experience?
Clarissa: I would strongly advise anyone who is interested in ESCP Business School to take part in an experience like this. It gives you an idea of what the school’s approach is like while having fun at the same time!
Congratulations to the winners on their achievement. This is just the first step towards an outstanding career.
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Prof. Marie Taillard and Prof. Daniela Lup offer us a lively discussion on virtual collaboration in the latest webinar from ESCP Business School.
The acceleration of virtual collaboration is one of the most important and immediate consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. It's also a topic that people disagree on, depending on their own personal experience. For some people, working together online is a huge opportunity to harness greater diversity and develop new ideas more efficiently. For others, the idea of collaborating online is simply nonsensical: how can you possibly bring out the best of your team members in a digitally-mediated environment?
We'll examine the evidence and examples to illustrate both sides and propose some solutions.
Join us online at 5pm BST on 9th June to learn more.
Register your place
Discussion: 17:00 - 17:30
Q&A: 17:30 - 18:00
Our speakers
Daniela Lup is Associate Professor in Human Relations and Organisational Behaviour at ESCP Business School. She is passionate about researching and advising practitioners on dilemmas related to the future of work, especially regarding hiring, diversity and inclusion, teams and team creativity, prosocial behaviour and ethics.
Her work has been published in internationally renowned journals such as Organization Science, Strategic Organization, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Work Employment Society, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and featured on management blogs such as Harvard Business Review and LSE Business Review and in the media.
Marie Taillard is a L'Oréal Professor of Creativity Marketing at ESCP Business School. Throughout her career, she has been interested in creative thinking, and particularly the kind of creativity that comes from working together. She helps students and corporate executives work more effectively, creatively and happily in teams.
Participants
Daniela Lup
Associate Professor in Human Relations & Organisational Behaviour
Marie Taillard
L'Oréal Professor of Creativity Marketing
Location
Organiser: ESCP London Campus
Online - Worldwide
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Start date: 09/06/2020
Start time: 5:00 PM
End time: 6:00 PM
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