Leading a sustainable future starts by choosing responsible paths

Start by choosing responsible paths

With our contemporary world going through major changes, the era of responsible and collaborative leadership has arrived. By educating responsible leaders for tomorrow, ESCP Business School prides itself in being a platform for innovation on ethics, responsibility and sustainability issues, as well as a catalyst for debate on these crucial topics.

The challenges facing the world

The world is currently facing major environmental and societal challenges, with many of our natural resources being stretched to their limits, hence the urgent need to transition toward a new form of responsible capitalism.

Leading a sustainable Future

Leading a sustainable future starts with educating better leaders for tomorrow. As a growing majority of young adults are looking to use their careers to solve social and environmental problems, we are convinced that business schools play an important role in equipping them with the knowledge and skills to manage our changing world.

Key adjustments

To that end, key adjustments have occurred in ESCP Business School’s activities regarding ethics, responsibility and sustainability. Beyond teaching traditional business management, we have developed dedicated programmes as well as innovative educational content across our programmes.

The crucial role of sustainability

Sustainability plays a crucial role in research and teaching, as well as in daily operations of our campuses, with our Berlin campus being a leader in the in the field through sustainability-driven Master programmes, research hubs, chairs and publications, for example on sustainable business models and the circular economy or the use of Big Data and IoT to reduce food waste.

Foster the transition toward circular economy

To foster the transition toward circular economy, a complex process involving the collaboration between numerous actors and institutions, we must also explore how companies can contribute to sustainable development by completely rethinking their business models.

The Chair in Circular Economy

That's why ESCP Business School created a Research Chair in Circular Economy, with the mission to inspire a cross-fertilisation of views and encourage companies to take part in these economic and societal changes. As explained by the Chair's co-scientific Directors, Prof. Valentina Carbone and Prof. Aurélien Acquier, its approach is completely interdisciplinary, because the circular economy brings into play social science, political science, engineering science, economics, design and the various management disciplines.

A sustainable future for the next generations

In a world defined by the economy, the sphere of business can tip the scales towards a sustainable future for the next generations. By defending our values, our unique approach to management and our multicultural point of view on the world, we lay down responsible paths for future business leaders and train them to embrace the world with intelligence and ethics.

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Leading tomorrow's world starts by choosing an open world today

For 200 years, we have trained and educated high-potential leaders and entrepreneurs through teaching and research on the one hand, and support to companies on the other.

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Leading beyond boundaries starts by choosing European diversity

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Leading beyond boundaries starts by choosing European diversity

Created in 1819 by entrepreneurs, ESCP Business School has embraced the values of multiculturalism and diversity rooted in European university culture for the last 200 years.

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Leading a new era of business starts by choosing to transcend disciplines

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Leading a new era of business starts by choosing to transcend disciplines

To thrive in today’s fast-changing world, business leaders must be equipped with a wide range of skills.

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Leading tomorrow's world starts by choosing an open world today

Start by choosing an open world today

For 200 years, we have trained and educated high-potential leaders and entrepreneurs through teaching and research on the one hand, and support to companies on the other. From this long-term experience, the world’s first Business School which celebrated its Bicentenary in 2019, has drawn three challenges that have to be considered as priorities for business schools.

A world with globalised companies

Far from the promise of a “flat world”, we now operate in a world where globalised companies face very different cultural realities: the political, legal, cultural, and social playing fields of these global companies have remained segmented.

In this context, the ability to know two or three cultures in depth and to have the mindset to discover other cultures throughout one’s life is a distinctive feature of tomorrow’s leaders and entrepreneurs. This is the very mission of ESCP Business School: offering students rotational curricula on 6 different European campuses in Berlin, London, Paris, Madrid, Turin and Warsaw.

The technological revolution

The technological revolution that started more than 20 years ago has disrupted all our activities: trade, information, training. Today, digital is no longer a world apart; the frontier between the real world and the digital world has been abolished.

Responsiveness commands professionals to be able to think and work in project mode rather than in established processes. In this context, interdisciplinarity prevails and everyone must master an expertise while being able to dialogue with other specialists.

At ESCP, the multidisciplinary approach was theorised by our founders – a group of economic scholars and businessmen, including the famous economist Jean-Baptiste Say: lawyers cannot elaborate rules without a solid digital culture; engineers and developers will see their innovative products doomed to failure if the designer and the marketer are not, and so on.

An incessant transformation

Finally, these incessant transformations are only meaningless pictograms if one remains with their nose pressed to a small part of the canvas. The leader must connect information, detect weak signals, embrace a long-term perspective... In short, stand back as if looking at an impressionist full picture.

The three dimensions

ESCP programmes provide tomorrow’s leaders with broad knowledge to help them go beyond the mere technical approach or exclusively economic purpose of a company, providing a solid grasp of the economy, politics, societal, and environmental issues.

These three dimensions — multicultural, multidisciplinary, and humanistic — constitute the historical foundation of the European education. If companies legitimately expect young graduates to be experts as soon as they enter the professional world, it is up to the higher education institutions to plant this seed that will help them evolve quickly and over time.

The world without borders will probably never exist, whether these borders are geographical, cultural, or disciplinary.

It is up to us to train the next leaders who will be able to successfully bridge borders. This is why today, more than ever, an integrated multi-campus Business School is the best answer to global challenges.

Campuses

Berlin

London

Madrid

Paris

Turin

Leading beyond boundaries starts by choosing European diversity

Created in 1819 by entrepreneurs, ESCP Business School has embraced the values of multiculturalism and diversity rooted in European university culture for the last 200 years.

Berlin

London

Madrid

Paris

Turin

Warsaw