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What better place than this, our first newsletter, to speak of innovation? This publication, which will keep you regularly informed of what's happening at our school, illustrates our intent to innovate wherever possible, even in our communications.
As we approach the end of the school year and students are gearing up to take their oral exams between May 30 and July 8, we are decisively shifting Sup de Co Montpellier toward managerial innovation.
In one sense, we are not inventing anything new, as innovation in the management of corporations has always been the primary force that has driven their progress. Of course, technical innovations or the discovery of new products are milestones that highlight the ascension of a successful company, but no innovation can have as much impact as those that take place at the operational level of a company. Take, for example, modern R&D laboratories, though ubiquitous today, they were invented by General Electric in 1900. Or consider project management, wall-less laboratories, etc. But we innovate by being the first school to recognize the importance of the concept of managerial innovation, which will form the backbone of our research and our instruction.
Not everyone is in a situation to invent R&D laboratories, but economic progress is made by the accumulation of less visible managerial innovations, which, at various levels, provide companies with distinct advantages over their competitors. Our aim is to train managers who will not only put their knowledge to use, but who will use that knowledge as a basis to contribute new perspective, and bring about managerial innovation.
In this newsletter, Marie-Christine Caubet, CEO of Group Volkswagen France S.A., shares with us her point of view on managerial innovation. Large corporate groups will appreciate the potential that our school will provide them by making managerial innovation a central feature of its training.
Managerial innovation in the management of a large business school also implies the ability to adapt to new trends, which we have done by embracing diversity.
2011 got off to a good start with the accreditation of AACSB, the culmination of almost ten years of transformations at the school. This trend continues with the reorientation toward managerial innovation. Sup de Co Montpellier is, decidedly, a school of constant innovation!
Didier Jourdan, Dean Group Sup de Co Montpellier Business School
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 The Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier becomes the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School!
Among the 14 Grandes Ecoles accredited AACSB, we were the only one to keep the name Sup de Co. All chose the designation "Business School" or "School of Management". While waiting for the major changes to come in 2012, the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier becomes the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School. In order to facilitate our international development, recruit foreign students, it was necessary to identify ourselves as a higher education institution, as a Grande Ecole Management Group with the addition of "Business School".
We have taken the opportunity of this change to modernise our logo.
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 The research-professors publish the "practico-practical" of all VSB directors
Katherine Gundolf and Annabelle Jaouen, research-professors of the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School, publish Manage a small company - Manage, communicate, develop the company(*) A particularly practical tool for all the creators of small companies and one which was cruelly missing in the mass of literature on entrepreneurship. "There is a plethora of books and research publications on the subject, but what was missing was a publication aimed at entrepreneurs", explains Katherine Gundolf.
The directors of small companies are very often isolated and need concrete information on the creation of a VSB. "We make people believe that creating a company is easy. This just isn't true. You have to know how to surround yourself with competent people and above all not under-estimate the need for capital", insists Annabelle Jaouen.
(*)Diriger une petite entreprise - gérer, communiquer, se développer
Coordinated by Katherine Gundolf et Annabelle Jaouen
ISBN : 978-2-10-055439-3
18,90 €
168 pages
Collection Entrepreneurs, Dunod
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MCE Awards - Alexandre Vanadia : "The Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School is the all category champion in social policies"
The Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School received the trophy for social openness and sustainable development at the MCE Awards the 28th March 2011. Alexandre Vanadia, member of the MCE Awards, relates the choice of the nominations and above all the will of the jury to reward the School for its policy of openness and diversity over the last ten years.
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 Philippe Villemus : "What I hope above all is that this book sets off a debate"
You have read in the newspapers and heard on the radio, Philippe Villemus's latest book Le patron, le footballeur et le smicard has had great success in the media. The Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School professor probes the history of salaries in an attempt to understand the origin of such huge differences between salaries in France and the risks for French society. He also opens paths to reflect on possible ways to establish a more balanced system.
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 Together at The Olympics of Diversity
On May 27th, nearly 600 people are expected for the first edition of The Olympics of Diversity. Some administrative and faculty teams, students and business partners will be present.
The Olympics of Diversity will gather close to 350 college students from the ZEP and networks ambition for success around three major sporting, intellectual and cultural challenges in order to make them aware of the tools that can help them to access to higher education.
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 AACSB Award at New York
Didier Jourdan, Dean of the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School, Nassim Belbaly, Dean of Academic Affairs, and Yvon Desportes, Dean of International Cooperation officially received the AACSB certificate, the 28th April at New York.
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 Company relations discovered by the University of Burapha
A delegation of six persons from the Graduate School of the University of Burapha (Thailand) came to discover the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School from the 9th to 12th May 2011. During their stay, the Thai academics were pleasantly surprised by the importance attached to professional experience in all our programmes as well as the relations sustained by the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School with companies. The delegation also had the concrete experience of visiting two of the Group's major partners: Auchan and BNP Paribas. A visit which follows the signing of the partnership between the Group, the Institute of Business Administration of the University of Montpellier II and the University of Burapha.
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 Passeport avenir: a rope for success for the techno prepa class students
The Montpellier Business School Grande Ecole Master Programme signed a partnership, the 19th April, with the "Passeport avenir" association, at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, in Paris. This partnership will enable Master Programme students coming from the technology prepa classes to be particularly surrounded and supported during their studies at the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School.
Photo caption: Passeport Avenir accompanies high school students and undergraduates throughout their studies: preparation to enter a Grande Ecole, individual tutoring by company executive managers, information concerning professions... Caroline Cazi, Programme Manager Diversity, beside Benjamin Blavier, National Representative of Passeport Avenir
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 Oracle, a partnership of good omen
Friday 22th April, the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School signed a major partnership with the global high-tech giant, Oracle. A link based notably on the interest for social intelligence demonstrated by the Oracle DRH, Pierre Farouz, also vice-président of the association Odissée (Organisation of Dialogue and Social Intelligence in Society and the Workplace), of which the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School is preparing the launch of the regional antenna*. Oracle hopes to help young students progress in their training in the values of managerial innovation, of openness and diversity. So it's no surprise that this company has chosen the Montpellier Business School!
(*)We will come back to the creation of this antenna in the next newsletter.
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 Marie-Christine Caubet : "Managerial innovation, it's very exciting !"
Marie-Christine Caubet, President of the VOLKSWAGEN France Group, took the opportunity of her presence at the Talents of Women to attend a conference organized to present the new positioning of the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School : managerial innovation. She tells how important it is, as a manager, to be creative and to use change as the key element for team motivation.
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 Innovative Talents of Women !
Thursday 12 May, more than 300 people were gathered together for the Talents of Women.
Organised by the magazine Objectif Languedoc-Roussillon, in partnership with the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School, the evening kicked off with a debate on the contribution of women to managerial innovation and ended with prizes being awarded to two talented businesswomen!
Photo caption : Sophie de Menthon (centre) : "Women are a different sort of men", surrounded by Claude Vialade, Talents of Women 2011 (right), and Anne Rossignol-Castera, Most Promising Woman 2011 (left).
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 The Do It 2011 prize is awarded to…
Each year the Do It prize, made in Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School, rewards the best company creation project of the Montpellier Business School Grande Ecole Master Programme. This year, it was awarded to Charlotte Martin, in "small business" specialization for her micro-nursery network project. "What counted in the choice of the jury is the extensive detail that Charlotte went into", explains Joseph Lorang, professor at the Montpellier Business School and manager of the "small business" specialisation.
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 Jérémie None, a mission : defend and promote territories
Jérémie None, graduate of the Montpellier Business School Bachelor Programme and of the University of Belgrano, Argentina, in 2010, is doing his end of studies placement at the office of the General Secretary of European Affairs (SGAE) in the Prime Minister's staff. In the Master 2 "Applied European Politics" at Sciences Po, his final dissertation on the European Union and Mercosur is receiving academic diffusion.
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 Edhec Yacht Race - Christophe Belbeoch : "We were shooting for the podium"
Student in the Montpellier Business School Grande Ecole Master Programme, president of the Sup d'Eole association, Christophe Belbeoch is the initiator of the participation of the Montpellier Business School in the Grandes Ecoles Yacht Race. This sea fanatic has the same passion to introduce beginners to the sea as he has for the sea itself.
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 Valérie Dubois, social intelligence, an inborn talent
A few days before the start of the oral entrance exams for the Grande Ecole Master Programme, discover the portrait of Valérie Dubois. She was selected by our juries last year, for her personality which clearly showed her social intelligence.
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 Three students on a humanitarian project in Morocco
Entrepreneurship is a frame of mind that is also applicable to the humanitarian sector.
Ibrahim Rouissi, William Saulnier and Edouard Elias start in this way the first stage of their project which consists in constructing a computer room for the the school of the nomad camp of Oulad Taleb, a village 30 kms south-east of Casablanca. "We hope that eventually the inhabitants of Oulab Taleb will realise the necessity for these infrastructures and the access to the world that the knowledge of new technologies provides", states Ibrahim Rouissi, student in the Montpellier Business School Grande Ecole Master Programme. Over five years, the students of the School will relay each other to complete the full programme of their actions to renovate the school and teach literacy to women thanks to computer support. This humanitarian project is achieved in partnership with the School, the Moroccan branch of the Inner Wheel association and the Management of Academic Affairs of the Casablanca Agglomeration.
Find them during their mission on Facebook
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 The Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School rugby team: on top form!
It's a year rich in sporting achievements for the Montpellier Business School. After the victory in the Grandes Ecoles Yacht Race, the students succeed this time in rugby. They finish second out of eleven teams in the academic rugby union championship and first in the sevens promotional tournament organised by the Law Faculty of Narbonne.
A genuine success for all the team which has to juggle with renewing its line-up each year as a consequence of the organisation of the courses. "We cannot make up the team before the month of October, outlines Mathis Roudil, student in the Bachelor Programme, and it is very difficult to find time for the training sessions." All the same, they have managed to create a cohesion and a team organisation sufficient to be "way above the other teams at the end of the year", as the young man is delighted to point out.
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 Executive Committee Meeting the 20th May
The Executive Committee of the Foundation of the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School, under the aegis of the Foundation of France, met on Friday 20th May in the presence of Mr Jean-Philippe André, President of the Haribo France Management Board.
Ms Cyrille Géminard, Programme Manager Fundraising, presented the plan for the Foundation's first fundraising campaign, which Mr Jean-Philippe André has accepted to preside.
The photos on Facebook
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In French on campagne-handivalides.org: Paul, student in the Montpellier Business School Grande Ecole Master Programme, gives his account of the of the Handivalides day in the framework of the Global Responsibility week.
In French on montpellier-rugby.com: the La Trobe graduation ceremony for Adrien Pratmarty, student in the Montpellier Business School Bachelor Programme.
In French on our Facebook page: the publication of the first thriller by Kathrin Kontor, alias Kathrin Jacob, Programme Manager Placements and Employment of the Montpellier Business School.
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The advancement of the Montpellier Business School Grande Ecole Master Programme continues with the publication of the 2011 ranking of the Grandes Ecoles Business Schools in the "Parisien Aujourd'hui en France" : 12th! Find the ranking in French here.
The Bachelor Programme Gala is postponed to 15 October to make it possible for more students to participate.
Philippe Becqué, associate professor in company law, has engaged in a humanitarian mission on the Tibetan-Nepalese border. Find the article in French and the photos on Facebook.
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Marie-Christine Caubet, President of the VOLKSWAGEN France Group: "Managerial innovation represents the manager's aptitude to see things differently, to create the desire to change things, to get the teams moving, to show that certain changes can bring energy and extraordinary results."
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27 may: The Olympics of Diversity at the Montcalm Park, Montpellier.
Until end May: registration of the Montpellier Business School students in our foreign partner universities for the academic year 2011/2012 with our Outgoing Coordinators of the International Programmes Department. The registrations of international students coming from our partner universities have already reached the number of 220 and the nominations from our partners have not finished yet!
From 30 May to 15 June: the oral entrance exams for the "Passerelle" students (Bac + 2 to Bac + 4).
From 31 May to 1 June: selection interview for the "excellence" and "professional app'titude" programme candidates.
15-16 and 20 June: specific Master Programme oral entrance exams.
17 June: executive MBA selection juries.
21 June: Conference by Annabelle Jaouen and Katherine Gundolf on "Manage an SME" at the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School.
From 21 June to 8 July: Grande Ecole Master Programme oral exams for the prepa students (coming from the preparatory classes).
From 25 to 30 June: the Groupe Sup de Co Montpellier Business School is organizing the Summer School on the theme "Competitive strategies in Europe". Sixteen students and two professors from our partner, the California State University at San Bernardino (United States), along with ten apprentices from the Grande Ecole Master Programme will participate.
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