21-22 ft mba academic booklet-finalisé

2021-2022

AUDENCIA FT MBA 2021-2022 – ACADEMIC BOOKLET

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INDEX

INDEX____________________________________________________________________________ 1

SECTION 1: PROGRAMME _____________________________________________________________ 3

SECTION 2: ACADEMIC POLICY _______________________________________________________ 12

SECTION 3: ONLINE TOOLS __________________________________________________________ 17

SECTION 4: LIFE ON CAMPUS _________________________________________________________ 18

DISCLAIMER

The curriculum and organisation of the FT MBA may change without notice, subject to approval by the school’s monitoring and review committees.


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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE TEAM

The decision to step back professionally and take the time to develop their skills is the choice made by managers and entrepreneurs who return to study for an MBA. In a world where uncertainty has become the norm and resources are increasingly scarce, our Audencia MBA participants will have to be responsible, innovative and cross culturally aware. They consider their long-term potential and are highly motivated to succeed. Knowledge acquisition and will-power both drive them forward and influence their professional trajectory.

Over 12 months, the challenge MBA participants face is personal as well as intellectual. Joining our Full-time MBA means that:

• You will question accepted frameworks by confronting your experiences together with other participants;

• You will find that theory and concepts can serve as templates that contribute to your understanding of the world and managing change;

• You will understand environmental mega-trends and disruptive patterns;

• You will anticipate and influence the reactions of key internal and external stakeholders to define a relevant future

With the excellence of our faculty, our international network, our close relationships with companies and our expertise in sustainable performance, Audencia Business School offers you a unique MBA programme that will expand your horizons.

Christophe GERMAIN – Dean, Audencia Business School

Makram CHEMANGUI – VP Executive Education & MBAs, Audencia Business School

Mickaël NAULLEAU - Full-time MBA ACADEMIC DIRECTOR & MBA Community Director

The programme management team welcomes you!

You have chosen to invest in learning for one year at a challenging time! From now on, you will experience how our Audencia MBAs are trained to think and adapt to the context and actively changing the world for the better.

We strongly believe in supporting our students to achieve their potential. The MBA content demonstrates Audencia’ s vision of building, together, a responsible world, while relying on our strategic strengths: finance, innovation and entrepreneurship. We invite you to engage with us throughout your programme to make it even more impactful to each and everyone of you.

We are proud to educate future leaders who are able to take risks, who understand the pressures on modern businesses to be profitable and sustainable, and who challenge established thinking to offer innovative business solutions.

Make the most of your time on the Audencia MBA!

Catherine Chassanite & Odile Dusart MBA Programmes Manager MBA Programmes Coordinator [email protected] [email protected]


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SECTION 1: PROGRAMME

MBA MISSION STATEMENT

The FT MBA trains future leaders for change by equipping them with contemporary tools to understand current business challenges and to lead by example. Participants reflect on their managerial decisions, develop a sense of innovation and a heightened awareness of the effects of their actions on business, society and the planet. The leaders of today and tomorrow must be responsible, innovative and cross culturally aware.

In this section, we will cover

A. Programme overview B. Detailed table C. Faculty and classes D. Concentration of electives E. Electives abroad F. Consulting project G. Self Leadership H. MBA Project I. Optional Internship

A. PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

The MBA programme is an extensive one-year programme, which means that it runs at a very fast pace and places high demands on participants.

The curriculum is divided into five categories:

Core modules,

Concentrations (of electives),

Consulting project,

Self leadership module

MBA project.

Each module is assigned 24 contact hours and 3 ECTS (except the consulting project: 5 credits). Each module has a course leader, who sets learning goals, designs learning activities and decides on assessment policies. Courses might be taught by multiple lecturers, or, as it often happens, course leaders may invite companies and other guest speakers.

Learning sessions are delivered by international and local faculty members, involving practicing managers from different industries and functions. As an MBA participant, you are expected to actively participate in peer-learning exercises such as group projects, problem solving and brain storming. We estimate every one-hour class to require an average of 2-3 hours preparation time. Your commitment to preparation and participation means creating an in-class environment where reflective discussion and dialogue enable and accelerate learning. Parallel to Audencia’s values, the learning experience puts a strong emphasis on cooperation.

The following page provides an overview of the programme, detailed syllabi are available online (via the Tomorrow platform).

B. DETAILED TABLE


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Period (indicative) Sep-Jan Feb Feb-Mar Apr-June Jan-Sep

Induction Week

Core modules Elective modules & Consulting Mission

Final Project

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- Sustainable Business: From Challenge to Opportunity

- Managerial accounting - Financial management - Human Resources - Organisational behaviour - Strategy - Marketing - Operations & supply chain - Economics - Data analytics - Data visualisation - MBA project preparation

(on campus)

Option 1: Corporate finance

- Enterprise Risk management

- Treasury management - Mergers & acquisitions

OR

Option 2: Entrepreneurship &

Transformation

- From business opportunity to business plan

- Marketing of new products and services - Transforming the

organisation

The consulting engagement

The consulting mission

(on campus)

Option 1: Strategic CSR

- Responsibility & sustainability challenges

- CSR-driven innovation - Leadership for a sustainable

future

OR

Option 2: Innovation & NPD

- New product development - Business model innovation - Managerial Innovations /

Entrepreneurial Organization

Business start-up

OR

Corporate internship & business analysis

OR

research-based dissertation

On line Certificate: Maximizing Global Performance (On line) + One out of four Electives option(on campus)

AUDENCIA BS

- Corporate and Global Responsibility (online)

BOSTON UNIVERSITY - International Business, Economics

& Cultures (online)

OR

- International Trade & Logistics (online)

TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY - Strategic alignment and global

competitiveness (online)

Self-Leadership


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C. FACULTY & CLASSES

Core courses covers fundamentals of management. The emphasis is on how tools, techniques and approaches can be adapted to the contemporary business climate and evolving economic, social and ecological concerns. Participants will be challenged in each subject area to analyse business problems, to develop convincing and innovative solutions and to lead change.

Name Course code Course title ECTS

Core Courses

Virva SALMIVAARA TRV660_2122_MBA MBA Project preparation 3

Catherine CHASSANITE TRV669_2122_MBA Final MBA Project 10

Thierry MEZERET FIN660_2122_MBA Financial Management 3

Christian MOINARD CGC661_2122_MBA Managerial Accounting 3

Eoin BANAHAN STR665_2122_MBA The consulting Engagement 3 Tamim ELBASHA STR660_2122_MBA Strategic Management 3

Catherine CHASSANITE EXP662_2122_MBA Consulting mission 5

Mihalis GIANNAKIS MSI666_2122_MBA Operations & Supply Chain Management 3

Jennifer GOODMAN-Emma AVEYTISIAN

Christian VOGTLIN-Céline LOUCHE RSE661_2122_MBA

Sustainable Business: From Challenge to

Opportunity 3

Christine NASCHBERGER MRH660_2122_MBA Human Resources Management 3

Yuliya SHYMKO MRH662_2122_MBA Organisational Behavior 3

Iordanis KALAITZOGLOU TRV684_2122_MBA Data Analytics 3 Benjamin DELMEE TRV685_2122_MBA Data Visualisation 3

Catherine MOREL MKT660_2122_MBA Marketing 3 Morgen WITZEL ECO664_2122_MBA Economics 3

Shyla DU COSQUER TRV661_2122_MBA Self leadership 3

(Elective - 1st period) - Finance

Giacomo NOCERA FIN661_2122_MBA Enterprise Risk Management 3 Etienne REDOR - Thierry MEZERET STR662_2122_MBA Company Valuation 3

Thierry MEZERET FIN663_2122_MBA Treasury Management 3

(Elective - 1st period) - Entrepreneurship & Transformation

Natalia VERSHININA RSE663_2122_MBA From Business Opportunity to Business Plan 3

Kathleen RANDERSON MRH663_2122_MBA Transforming Organizations through

Corporate Entrepreneurship 3

Latchezar HRISTOV MKT662_2122_MBA Marketing of New Products and Services 3

(Elective - 2nd period) Strategic CSR

Emma AVETISYAN RSE660_2122_MBA Responsible and sustainable business:

Understanding the challenges 3

Jennifer GOODMAN RSE670_2122_MBA CSR-driven innovation 3 Christian VOGTLIN RSE664_2122_MBA Leadership for a sustainable future 3

(Elective - 2nd period) - Innovations & NPD

Claire CHAMPENOIS STR663_2122_MBA Managerial Innovations / Entrepreneurial

Organization 3

Valérie CLAUDE-GAUDILLAT STR678_2122_MBA Business Model Innovation 3

Nicolas MINVIELLE MKT664_2122_MBA New Product Development 3

(Elective on line certificate) – Maximizing Global Performance

Boston University (USA) AD760_2122_MBA

AD655_2122_MBA

International Trade & Logistics

International Business, Economics & Culture 3

Audencia Business School (France) AUD101DE_2122 Corporate & Social Responsibility 3

Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) TI4008_2122_MBA Strategic Alignment 3


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Required credits in order to be awarded your MBA

Accumulated Credits Degree Interpretation

75 ECTS and an average over

15/20 Master of Business Administration Awarded with honours

75 ECTS Master of Business Administration Awarded

69 to 74 ECTS Master of Business Administration May be awarded, subject to approval by the

MBA graduation committee

Less than 69 ECTS* Certificate of Attendance for the MBA course Fail

*‘In the case of accumulating less than 69 ECTS due to extenuating circumstances, the graduation committee could consider offering the student re-enrolling in the following year. The graduation committee will also decide on the additional corresponding fees if re-enrolment is offered’

D. CONCENTRATIONS (OF ELECTIVES)

Concentrations are awarded 18 ECTS. You have two choices:

1. Select one elective during the 1st period (option 1 or 2) and one elective during the second period (option 3 or 4)

2. Choose the online certificate. In addition you will have to choose one option of electives in the four options offered (see below for details)

Two sets -we call them concentrations- of three elective courses each (six over the course of your MBA) give you the choice to strengthen your portfolio in two areas in the way that supports your future career. You must choose your concentration by Friday 10 DECEMBER 2021. Changing concentrations is not possible after this deadline. If you don’t make a choice by the deadline, we will allocate two concentrations to you together with your career consultant.

Phase one of concentrations provides you with the opportunity to choose between three courses either in Corporate Finance or in Entrepreneurship & Transformation.

IMPORTANT NOTE: if you intend to carry out a business start-up (creating your own business) as an MBA

project, you MUST follow the Entrepreneurship & Transformation concentration.

Option 1 Corporate Finance

Enterprise Risk Management Dr Giacomo NOCERA

Company valuation Dr Etienne REDOR & Dr Thierry MEZERET

Treasury Management Dr Thierry MEZERET

Option 2 Entrepreneurship & Transformation

From Business Opportunity to Business Plan Dr Natalia VERSHININA

Transforming Organizations through Corporate Entrepreneurship

Dr Kathleen RANDERSON

marketing of new products and services Dr Latchezar HRISTOV

Phase two of concentrations offers the choice between three courses either in Strategic CSR or Innovation & New Product Development

Option 3 Strategic CSR

Responsible & sustainable business: understanding the challenges

Dr Emma AVETISYAN

CSR-driven innovation Dr Jennifer GOODMAN

Leadership for a sustainable future Dr Christian VOGTLIN

Option 4 Innovation and NPD

Managerial Innovations / Entrepreneurial

Organization Dr Claire CHAMPENOIS

Business Model Innovation Dr Valérie CLAUDE-GODILLAT

New product development Dr Nicolas MINVIELLE


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Online Certificate: Maximizing Global Business Performance

Three of the world’s leading business schools, Audencia Business School (France), Boston University (United States) and Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), have joined forces to offer a unique online certificate designed to provide insights into successful strategies to confront tomorrow’s global business challenges.

Each university offers a course within the certificate that brings a special perspective to the topic of maximizing global business performance. Students have the exceptional opportunity to enroll in an online course taught by each of these three world class schools to earn their certificate. They will develop an international network, become active in global discussion groups, and work in multinational teams on cases and projects.

Contemporary Course Content.

GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY Taught by Audencia (France) “There is one and only one social responsibility of business—to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition, without deception or fraud” (Friedman, 1962). As evidenced by this quote, corporate responsibility is certainly not a new idea. However 50+ years later most firms are coming to appreciate that they do not really know how to incorporate global responsibility or understand the impacts it can have on the firm’s operations. Firms are increasingly facing external governmental and consumer demands for responsible policies and, at the same time, many firms are appreciating the necessity for internal-driven strategies and change. This course addresses

many issues surrounding what are commonly referred to as Corporate and Social Responsibility with the goal of increasing awareness and providing learners with a set of concepts, theories, practices and regulations relating to Global Responsibility.

STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT AND GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS Taught by Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico)- This course analyzes how a company should adapt its organizational design and structure to respond to the dynamics of the business environment. Students will study the business environment from a comprehensive point of view in order to identify opportunities and threats to company’s competitiveness and sustainability. The students will learn how to identify the critical resources and capabilities of a company, their strengths, weaknesses and risks. The goal is to assess the capacity of an organizational design and structure to support the competitiveness and sustainability capacity of a company in the long term.

Depending on their interests, students can choose between these two courses offered by Boston University (USA):

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, & CULTURES The course reviews the problems of decision-making relating to demand, production, costs, market structure, and price, and provides an analysis of the interplay between governments, economic systems, labor, and multinational corporations (MNCs). This course additionally investigates the relationship between the interaction of national culture and development.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE & LOGISTICS This course teaches practical techniques and procedures for conducting international trade. Topics include operations, government agencies and import/export channel networks, and the evaluation of international opportunities.

E. ELECTIVE ABROAD

There might be opportunities from this second phase with an elective abroad, either in MIP or University of Exeter This is to be confirmed at a later date and after choosing your concentrations. These opportunities are not guaranteed and subject to availability from our partners, and additional admission criteria (e.g. English Language test, minimum GMAT score) may apply. The programme staff may inform you about additional opportunities thoughout the year. A first selection of candidates will be made by sending a cover letter to the MBA programme.The hosting university will choose successful candidates.Thoses electives abroad are optional and without any ECTS.

Unjustified absences, no submission of the assessment or failure to respect the Code of Behaviour of the hosting university may lead to a written warning or to a disciplinary hearing depending on the seriousness of the situation

F. CONSULTING PROJECT

The consulting industry is very popular amongst MBA graduates. Internally, managers are increasingly in an ‘internal consultant’ mode, where they apply systematic and analytical approach to solve problems, improve performance or develop the business. The first of the two modules aims to introduce you to the industry and familiarise participants with tasks and processes typically found in the consulting engagement. We form teams and each of them has a consulting mission with a company or an organisation. You are expected to act as consultant; dealing with clients’ query, collecting data and proposing recommendations to Audencia’s partners.


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The Consulting Engagement Dr Eoin BANAHAN

Consulting mission Ms Catherine CHASSANITE

G. SELF LEADERSHIP

During your MBA, you have dedicated sessions to boost your abilities enabling you to forge new a career, to compete effectively for management positions and to develop your leadership and networking skills. A series of workshops throughout the year builds on your existing expertise and creates a reflective and supportive environment in which to think about and prepare for your future career.

Participants benefit from coaching on the “must have” tools (CV, letters, interviewing, job hunting techniques). Moreover, each participant is encouraged to have a more in-depth look at his or her experience, true goals and motivations and how to leverage this within the MBA training. The self leadership module is co-designed by the Programme and the

Career Center. To highlight its importance, it is considered as a module on its own (3 ECTS), with its own assessment exercises including a ‘Soft Skills Oral Presentation’ in April or May. This module is delivered in all MBA Programmes and leads to sessions in common with Executive MBA participants.

H. FINAL MBA PROJECT

The MBA final project is a crucial step in your MBA journey. Project preparation module is designed to help you focus your project, providing some essential skills to design a rigorous study. This module starts early in the first term, where you need to choose, and refine, a topic. The project coordinator helps orienting you to find a supervisor for your project with whom you work closely until the end of the MBA. The nature and choice of the field or case depends on the professional goals and objectives of the participant.

Unlike other modules, the MBA project is allocated 10 ECTS. Students are expected, in line with international standards, to spend around 500 hours on researching, collecting data and writing up their project in a final report. The level of rigour, the length and the integration of academic knowledge are identically for the three types.

The project can take one of three forms:

1. Corporate internship & business analysis

You can only take this option AFTER signing an APPROVED internship agreement with a company.

The internship could last between 2-6 months. It can take place in France or abroad. Through the internship, you should be able to identify a particular ‘case’ or an issue, and use the knowledge you accumulated to research relevant literature, rigorously analyse this issue and offer solutions. Examples of ‘case’ include: market feasibility study (is product X suitable for market Y?), internal inefficiency, internal management practices, seeking investors for a project, product design, and so on. Hence, this could also take form of a consulting project with a company. Your internship should have a clear impact on the business, this could be assessed by yourself at first instant by evaluating the anticipated outputs of the internship. Are you personally expected to do any of the following action verbs by the end of your internship: Create (e.g. new services/products, new procedure to offer a service or a product, new business development plan) Increase (e.g. turnaround time, turnover, customer satisfaction) Decrease (e.g. rejected/returned products, waiting time, absenteeism) Remove (e.g. communication barriers, unnecessary procedure, unnecessary travel etc.)

If the answer is yes, then your internship is likely to fall into the accepted category. To get approval, you must submit a job description (or a similar document) + the internship announcement to the programme administration. The internship must be approved by the careers department AND the MBA academic director/project coordinator.

In order to validate the internship as a final project, you must ask both to your supervisor and to the programme director. The Internship as a final project must respond to developing a critical and analytical thinking leading to new avenues, orientations, and so on from a practical perspective. That means describing what you have done during your internship can’t be considered as a final project.

We will not accept a change of the form of the Final project after May 30, 2022. It’s important to take into account that changing your final project to an internship involves a new submission of each milestone (with a date of submission to be defined by the supervisor and the programme director).


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At the end of your internship, you should submit a report in which you must:

- Ground your problem solving in current academic literature

- Present the problem

- Offer recommendation based on a thorough and a rigorous analysis

In accordance with French laws, your internship must END by 31st December 2022 and you can only sign one internship contract or “Convention de Stage”. Please note that these are restrictions imposed by French law and not by Audencia.

2. Start-up / business creation project

If you have your own business idea, we would like to encourage you to develop this during your MBA. You must take the Concentration “Entrepreneurship and Transformation” in Phase 1 so you have the foundations of starting up a business. You must, with the help of a mentor assigned to you, develop your project and prepare a presentation with an investment panel in mind.

Your project should be written in a report, in which you should include:

- Your business plan

- Your partners for this project, or how you will source the necessary skills and competencies

- Your feasibility studies: market, product/service design and delivery, prototype (if applicable) etc.

- A 5-years financial and operational projection

Your project will be assessed by a panel made of internal and external members. More details will be circulated by the project coordinator.

3. Research-based project

A research-based project is an exercise through which the learners, like in the other types of projects, conducts a literature review around a topic, studies a company or a phenomenon through data collection and analysis, and provides recommendations based on this study. As with the other projects, you are required to collect primary data from a company (interviews, observations, financial statement etc…), only in rare cases secondary data might be adequate.

More details about the MBA project (assessments, deadlines) will be provided during the project preparation module.

I. OPTIONAL INTERNSHIP

Finding an Internship and related information

Looking for an internship is your responsibility. The DRED (Direction des Relations Entreprises et Diplômés) has made a variety of sources of information available to you, in particular Internship/Job offers in the Career Center section on Tomorrow and Internship History in the Search section on Tomorrow.

You can also work with the Career Center / career consultant on your internship search. You will find many tips on networking, CV, cover letters and interviews on the other Career Center pages.

Reminder:

- Your internship can last between 2 to 6 months (maximum, according to French law). It can take place in

France or abroad.

- In accordance with French law, your internship must END by 31st December of the year you graduate and

you can only sign one internship contract or “Convention de Stage”. Please note that these are restrictions

imposed by French law and not by Audencia.

- No professional experience (internship, contract) or training day in a company can take place over a period of courses

or exams. Your internship or contract can only start from the day after the official end date of your semester.

Tutoring

Remember to inform your programme coordinator & director about your internship, so that you can gain access to a tutor in order to finalise your “convention de stage” or internship agreement.


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Internship Approval Process

From a legal & insurance standpoint, you must have a convention or an agreement justifying your presence in the company in order to begin an internship. In any case, you must submit your request for validation before the start of the internship on Tomorrow at least:

• 5 working days (for internships in France),

• 10 working days (for internships abroad).

These are the steps that must be followed

1. If you are using the internship agreement provided by the School : Send the internship information sheet to your company to collect the information necessary to submit your application on Tomorrow : [add link to document]

2. Whatever the type of contract (internship agreement, fixed-term or long-term contract,...) : Submit your application for

internship validation on Tomorrow once your "recruitment" is confirmed by the company. This is a definitive and irrevocable commitment.

If your internship is not validated due to missing information, you will receive a message stating the reason. It will be imperative to re-submit your internship with the requested items as soon as possible, your original file being removed from our interface. Once your internship has been validated

For an internship in France

If an internship agreement is issued:

oIf the company provides the agreement: we will sign copies upon receipt and send the documents to the company. Join the signed enterprise agreement in "Documents " if the company sent it to you.

o If Audencia provides the agreement: the internship agreements are sent by e-mail to the email address of the signatory of the agreement.

Each signatory party (company and student) will receive a link by email to sign the Audencia internship agreement (signed in advance by the School). You will need to click on this link (received in your Audencia mailbox) for signing the internship agreement electronically.

Once the internship agreement have been signed by all, each party will receive by email a link towards the final internship agreement signed by all (available on your Tomorrow).

Secure internship offer from company

Inform the programme coordinator + director in order to have tutor assigned

Send internship information sheet to company

Once you have received this information, submit the appropriate sheet on tomorrow (at least 10 working days before your start date)

Sign the agreement online when you receive the email


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♣ If the company has not received the agreement - Check the email address of the signatory of the agreement (which you have filled out on Tomorrow). o if necessary, you must write to the address [email protected] for the document to be re-sent.

If you are under a fixed-term or local contract

o Submit your experience to validation on Tomorrow

o Attach a copy of the contract signed in "Documents" on Tomorrow

For an internship abroad same process as for an internship in France.

+ You must attach the insurance certificates taken to cover you during this internship (repatriation, medical expenses, civil liability)

Follow-up internship after validation

Once your agreement is signed by all parties, you will be able to download your convention on: Tomorrow >

Schooling > Internship > My Approved internships (select the relevant internship)/ As stated in the Convention, the host organization has an obligation to issue an internship certificate (according to the attached model https://www.service-public.fr/professionnels-entreprises/vosdroits/R42009). Model also downloadable in the section Stage Grande Ecole > "Important Documents ". Keep this attestation which may be useful to you in the future.


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SECTION 2: ACADEMIC POLICY

The quality of the teaching and learning experience is of the utmost importance to Audencia and in order to ensure that levels of excellence are maintained, students are assessed in accordance with guidelines that respect international accreditation standards.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES

In order to ensure an all-round programme, an inventory of skills has been developed by Audencia in the form of five key actions that define behavioural and intellectual skills. Each action verb has a series of operational measurable learning outcomes. Each MBA module uses these learning objectives for their specific course objectives.

Areas of Competences Learning objective

ANALYSIS

LO01 - Make use of critical analysis/critical thinking skills

LO02 - Analyse complex situations

LO03 - Use cross-disciplinary approaches

ACTION

LO04 - Make proposals, take initiatives

LO05 - Evaluate, prevent and manage short, medium and long-term risks

LO06 - Communicate in a foreign language in a professional context

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION

LO07 - Identify needs and draw up an appropriate offer

LO08 - Take the initiative for projects

LO09 - Develop innovative solutions and test them

CSR

LO10 - Identify and understand stakeholder interests

LO11 - Identify ethical issues and act on them from an ethical perspective

LO12 - Take a decision from economic, social and environmental perspectives

COOPERATION

LO13 - Communicate and interact in diversified contexts

LO14 - Work effectively in a team

LO15 - Act with flexibility, adaptability and intellectual curiosity

ASSESSMENT

Each module is evaluated differently as designed by the course leader (individual paper, in-class participation, team project or exam). The type of assessment and the structure of grading is provided by the course leader at the beginning of each course.

Grading in France is done out of 20 points. You pass the module, and obtain full credits for it, upon obtaining 10/20 or above. If not, each case is considered on its own merit by the academic director (in consultation with the course leader).

LATE SUBMISSION OF WORK

Students are expected to respect deadlines given by lecturers for submission of work. Late submission of work will entail a penalty in form of reduction of awarded grade. 1 point per day.


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RE-SITS

Participants who do not obtain the minimum required grade in the first sitting will be given one further opportunity at a later date. If passed after a re-sit, the grade for that module will be capped at 10/20.

Over the course of your MBA, you are allowed to re-sit up to 4 modules.

Some modules are not eligible for re-sits. This happens for instance when the assessment is based on participatory group work, such as the Consulting Mission module. In such cases, the only way to re-sit the module is to register as a student and attend it in the following year.

Please note that the following are not available for re-sit:

Consulting mission – soft skills oral – Viva – Final Project

APPEAL PROCEDURE

A student who feels that their grade is not justified must contact, in the first instance, the course leader. Students should contact the MBA programme when: 1) they are not receiving an answer from the course leaders within two weeks, or 2) if the course leader doesn’t explain the reasons for the grade.

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT, TERM PAPERS AND EXAMS

Assignments are strictly personal and plagiarism, including taking material from the Internet, is a punishable offence. Quotations are allowed if the name of the author and the source are clearly indicated and if there are used within reason

Individual and group work must be handed in by the announced deadline otherwise the late submission penalty will be implemented (see above, 1 point penalty per day). All papers and assignments must be submitted via Blackboard unless otherwise specified.

The professor in charge of the course will set the submission date. One set, this date is not subject to change.

During exams, the code of conduct for exams (see below) must be respected in order to avoid disciplinary proceedings. Any document or item (even those that have no relevance to the exam) on the exam tables or nearby is forbidden except those authorised by the examiner.

Students with disabilities who wish to benefit from compensatory measures must contact the Programme Director at the beginning of the programme by 1st October 2021. Should you fail to notify the Programme by this date, we will

not be able to guarantee that appropriate measures can be taken.

Your work will also be assessed by peer to peer evaluation. This is an opportunity for you to assess other and receive feedback of your work. This is done online via TOMORROW. Please note that a group work doesn’t not mean that all students of the same group will automatically have the same grade.

In order to prevent cheating or any attempts at cheating, students must not wear clothing or items that:

- Make identification difficult or impossible or likely to raise doubts about identification; - Hinder the organisation of the exams. - Any cheating during exams is an offence and disciplinary action does not preclude legal proceedings. Cheating

during exams can take several forms: - Unauthorised use of documents, calculators, mobile phones - Written or oral communication of information between two or more candidates - Substitution of one candidate for another, etc.

CODE OF CONDUCT FOR EXAMS

Students should:

- Arrive in the exam room 10 minutes before the exam is due to start

- Show their Audencia student card

- Write their exams on regulation exam paper supplied for each exam


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Students are requested to:

- Write their full name legibly in the triangle to the right of the paper then paste it down so that their exam sheet is anonymous

- Refrain from signing any of the pages or to identify themselves in any way – on supplementary pages, students should only write their student number

- Only use authorised examination paper

Notes may be taken on a dedicated coloured paper that is handed out at the beginning of the exam (these will be destroyed by the invigilator at the end of the exam; they will not be given to the examiner). No paper is to be brought into or taken out of the exam room.

At the end of the exam students must hand in to the invigilator:

- Answers on official exam paper as well as any spare pages

- All notes (coloured paper)

- The exam subject

The following items are permitted in the exam room:

- Writing tools (pens, erasers, rulers)

The following items are forbidden in the exam room:

- Dictionaries (unless otherwise stated by the examiner)

- Calculators (unless otherwise stated by the examiner)

- Mobile phones (students should remember to bring their watches)

Silence is required at all times. Queries may be signalled to the invigilator by raising a hand and waiting until (s)he comes over. Students must not leave the room once the exam has begun except on the invigilator’s permission. No more than one student may be absent at any given time. If two students leave the room at the same time, their exam paper is liable to be invalid. Late arrivals will not be admitted to the exam room.

Infringing these regulations may lead to disciplinary proceedings or to the student being given a 0 (zero grade).

PLAGIARISM

Plagiarism is the action or practice of taking someone else’s work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one’s own; literary theft. It also entails not quoting the sources or references. Audencia takes issues of academic fraud very seriously. Students’ work is systematically submitted to a plagiarism-detection software. In the event that plagiarism has taken place, disciplinary proceedings will apply (disciplinary procedures are details in this booklet (P.14).

FEEDBACK TO LECTURERS

Students’ feedback on courses is important and Audencia takes comments and suggestions very seriously provided that they are made in an appropriate manner by students. Feedback is anonymous and must be written in English. Any issues regarding aspects not linked to course content should be raised directly with the programme administration. If feedback is considered inappropriate or defamatory, the anonymity of the author will be lifted. Please note that faculty access the anonymous feedback directly from Tomorrow.

CLASS MATERIALS

Audencia uses little, if any, class handouts in paper format. Whenever possible, students will receive electronic files of relevant class material. They will be made available on Blackboard

ATTENDANCE & PUNCTUALITY

Class attendance is mandatory, and participants are expected to be on time for the start of each session. Late arrivals will be denied entry in the classroom. This is also the case for all online sessions.


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Lecturers monitor class attendance. Presence in class is important for reasons of continuous assessment. Attendance at all continuous assessment modules is compulsory. All absences will be sanctioned by a "zero" grade. Only exams have to be announced at least one week in advance. Continuous assessment tests do not have to be announced beforehand. A student with a justifiable reason for being absent may re-sit the test which is organised and planned by the Programme Director.

Your presence is also mandatory for: Project of consulting mission, company visits ... and all events or actions organised for you by the programme.

Any justifiable request for absence (administrative appointment for residency permits or OFII) must be made in writing at least 48 hours beforehand to the programme administration

More than 4 hours of unjustified absences per module of 24hrs will entail a penalty in form of reduction of 0.5 point of the awarded grade of the course concerned by the absence. Unjustified absence from a session that contains an

assessed activity (classwork, multiple choice quiz etc) will result in losing grades for that particular activity.

If the programme administration notices several unjustified absences, you will be called into a meeting to discuss your situation. Unjustified absences may lead to a written warning or to a disciplinary hearing depending on the seriousness of the situation.

In the event of illness, students must inform the programme staff by email as earlier as possible and at the latest by the working day and must provide a medical certificate to the programme administrative staff less than 72 hours after the beginning of the absence.

GROUP WORK

Part of the MBA assessment is made through group work assignments. The objective is to reproduce the business environment where team members each contribute to the final result. By the end of the MBA course, it is expected that all students will have worked in a group with each of their fellow classmates.

In order for group work assignments to be successful, team members must:

- Be willing to work together to complete the assignment and accept change as part of the continuous improvement process;

- Decide how members will work together - basic ground rules can be drawn up;

- Work together on the assignment, attend any meetings that are deemed necessary and be accountable to the group as a whole;

- Be aware of their given role within the team and understand what skills they can bring to the assignment;

- Commit to the team’s priorities and time line;

- Resolve problems (group conflicts, team members not contributing, dominant team member...);

- Respect one another.

Reminder: Group work will lead to peer to peer Evaluation.

DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE

Infringement of the rules laid out in the code of behaviour, or academic policy, may lead to the following proceedings:

The Academic Director or Programme Manager may give a written warning or a temporary suspension which cannot be longer than three weeks.

A Disciplinary Council may pronounce any sanction that it deems necessary, including the expulsion of the student.

The Disciplinary Council is presided by the Academic Director or the Programme Manager and is made up of the following, including:

- Academic or Programme Director, - Two or three professors including at least one part-time professor - The student

Depending on the wishes of the student(s), the Disciplinary Council will hear a representative of the student(s) (class delegate) and may consult any other person it deems necessary.


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Decisions of the Disciplinary Council are made by an absolute majority vote. A relative majority is sufficient in the event of a second round.

Students will be called before the Disciplinary Council if they are the perpetrators or accomplices of the following:

- An act that disturbs public order or the functioning of the School - Plagiarism - Cheating or attempted cheating namely for registration, continuous assessment tests or exams - Failure to respect the Code of Behaviour at Audencia (please refer to the Student Handbook) and at Partners

universities - Repeated unjustified absences

According to the seriousness of the offence, the following sanctions are applicable: warning, reprimand, temporary suspension for a maximum of three consecutive weeks, expulsion.

Disciplinary proceedings may also be followed up with the cancellation of a student's registration or the cancellation of a grade in the case of cheating in an assessment.

Disciplinary proceedings are independent from any legal proceedings that may be engaged.

Students or their families may be held responsible for the cost of repairs due to damage caused by the student.

For more information, please refer the Student Handbook you will find on Tomorrow Platform in the section


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SECTION 3: ONLINE TOOLS

During your studies at Audencia, you will have the opportunity to use a few online tools. Here is an overview of the most

useful ones and what they are used for.

NB support for these tools varies depending on the provider

Audencia ‘online tools What it’s used for ? Contact in case of issues

TOMORROW

In the information tab there is a tab dedicated to your

programme with all the most useful information –

Planning – Syllabus - Peer to peer evaluation - Register

your internship - Book a classroom - Access to the

cafeteria - Speakers evaluation - Print documents -

Career Center - Data on previous Internship - Students

directory…

[email protected]

BLACKBOARD Course Material - Assignment –Submission - Grades -

Online classes [email protected]

TOGETHER Alumni Directory- communities - Calendar Events –

News - Alumni chapters [email protected]

KNOWLEDGE HUB Database press article – Books – eBook - Market study -

Language lesson - Legal information - Career database [email protected]

CAREER CENTER

Access via Tomorrow: Career advice - Book a meeting

with career consultant - Internship and job offers -

Personality tools - Employment market

[email protected]


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SECTION 4: LIFE ON CAMPUS

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE

The role of Class Representative

1. To act as a liaison between the students and the programme staff.

2. To represent the class at regular programme meetings and committees. 3. To ensure that classmates are properly represented and completely informed 4. To be available for consultation when the School requires student input 5. To familiarize themselves with procedures 6. To ensure the programme and the School continually listen to and engage with students to improve teaching,

learning, assessment and academic services.

7. To help create solutions to problems. 8. To create and maintain the connection between the MBA class and the Audencia Alumni network and meet with

the Audencia Alumni team throughout their studies.

Election process

• Within the first 3 weeks of the programme, students must elect 2 class representative. (The school promotes diversity in the class representative: gender, age, nationality …).Speaking French is a plus.

• At the end of the first 2 weeks, students can declare their interest in being elected class representative in writing by email to the whole class and copying the programme staff.

• During the 3rd week, students will organize an election when they wish and communicate the results (ie names of the 2 elected reps) to the programme staff.

CLASS AMBASSADOR

An Audencia Alumni ambassador from the MBA programme is elected at the end of your school year to represent your class within the Audencia Alumni network. The Audencia Alumni ambassador maintains the connection between alumni and the school and implements projects that foster these connections. Please contact Audencia Alumni team if you want more information.

AUDENCIA ALUMNI

From your first day at Audencia and beyond your graduation, you are part of the worldwide Audencia Alumni network of 25,000 alumni and 5,000 students in over a hundred countries. This dynamic global network with its communities and ambassadors, inspires, connects and supports you every day wherever you are in the world. To be a part of this network:

• Set up your account on Together, the alumni platform https://together.audencia.com to connect with alumni and leverage opportunities

• Folow Audencia Alumni on Facebook & Twitter: @audenciaalumni

• Join the LinkedIn Group: Audencia Alumni

• Contact the Audencia Alumni team: Katie Francois ([email protected])

• Ask a question about the Together platform: [email protected]


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AUDENCIA FONDATION

The Audencia Foundation’s role is to contribute to the school’s development in France and internationally by enabling future generations of students to have access to excellent educational training by funding student scholarships, innovative research and investing in entrepreneurship.

The projects supported by the Audencia Foundation fall under the following themes: • Social and cultural diversity through student grants

• Entrepreneurship – student grants and pre-incubator

• Educational innovation

• Research via thematic chairs

• Solidarity Fund – providing financial assistance to students impacted by Covid-19

Since 2009, Audencia Foundation:

• Awarded over 500+ student scholarships

• 1,000+ Alumni and Friends of Audencia donors

• 131 corporate philanthropic partners

• Includes 13 Research Chairs

How can Audencia students benefit from and participate in the Foundation?

Funding for your entrepreneurial project that focuses on societal challenges via the Class Gift Fund. Created by the 2016 graduating class, this fund finances student projects and student entrepreneurship scholarships. Each year, the outgoing graduate class donates to this fund at graduation to help current students. Application process in April.

Participate in the Learning Expedition

– CES/Silicon Valley, USA. Visit the CES, the most important trade fair dedicated to technological innovation, and visits to leading companies and start-ups in Silicon Valley. Co-created and 100% funded by Audencia graduates. ON HOLD currently.

Startup Lab – entrepreneurial scholarships for the Startup Lab, Audencia’s pre-incubator, to help them create their business while providing coaching and a co-working space.

Questions? Contact Karyn Mikkelsen-Tillet, Fundraising Manager, Audencia Foundation [email protected]


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