What is factoring?
You’ve heard the word – but do you really know what it means? Sabrina Chikh, Associate Professor of Finance at SKEMA Business School, as she pulls back the curtain on factoring. The video features French audio, English subtitles are available…
The one course that teaches you the top digital skills to start your career
Pedagogical innovation at SKEMA is closing the gap between academic knowledge and real-world demands. Innovative workshops, on tools like Notion and ChatGPT, teach students skills to thrive in today’s job market. And guess what? Students were particularly engaged. The spark…
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Are Business School students really more distracted today?
Digitalisation impacts every aspect of society, and education is no exception. In a world where Generative AI and social media have become integral to our lives, students are faced with the dual nature of modern technology: a powerful tool, but…
Olynguistic Games: when learning Portuguese becomes a team sport
What if learning Portuguese was an Olympic event? That’s the challenge taken up by Fernanda Coelho, professor of Portuguese at SKEMA Business School, whose students from three continents have organised real games to help them learn the language. Before the…
Empowering students to become active players in their training?
Being aware of the responsibility of one’s writings as a future jurist or lawyer is essential. It is knowing this that Hélène Tostain, professor of English at SKEMA Business School, asked her students to write and publish articles on the…
Friends: Would Joey, Rachel, Chandler & co. have been friends in the age of social media?
They’re THE group of friends we’ve all dreamed of having. But the last episode of Friends was shot… 20 years ago. Back then, there was no social media, nor smartphones and the Internet was running at a snail’s pace. In what…
Back to the Paper age: how to increase students’ creativity without a laptop
Grande Ecole students are used to working on complex problems in no time using high-tech products such as their laptops or mobile phones. But what happens if you remove these technologies, giving them a pair of scissors, pens, paper, and…
Ludovic DiBiaggio: “Adapting the Education world to the era of AI will take longer than we imagine”
Nothing escapes Artificial intelligence (AI). Not even Education. For Ludovic Dibiaggio, a professor at SKEMA Business School whose research focuses on Innovation and Organizational dynamics, teachers and the world of Education will have to adapt to the revolutions it brings.…
Dr Raphaël Zaffran: “The ability to concentrate is one of the super-skills of the 21st century”
Can you read this interview without glancing at your smartphone? During a recent conference on pedagogical innovation, Dr Raphaël Zaffran gave a workshop on the use of podcasts as experiential learning tools. On this occasion, Dr Zaffran raised a problem…
Gamification: how to encourage Gen Z students to read the course syllabus
The Gen Z students are not known to be the easiest to interest. So, I had to think of a solution with SKEMA’s Direction of Innovation and Learner Experience. In order to catch their attention, we decided to gamify their…
How the process of Sketching Tomorrow has changed me…
Desmond McGetrick is the highly committed Program Director of the Mastère Spécialisé® Manager des Projets et Programmes at SKEMA Business School in Paris. With a mission, he embodies the program both physically and spiritually. So much so that the program…
A leader is above all a person who is aware of her body
Our body is so obvious that we are not even aware of it. Yet it speaks as much as our words or all the methods we put in place. Desmond McGetrick, Director of the MASTÈRE SPÉCIALISÉ® Project and Programme Management & Business Development at SKEMA's Grand Paris Campus, is inspired by the work of Arawana Hayashi to teach his students: being a leader begins with your body.
Is ChatGPT really a threat to the world of education?
ChatGPT's prowess has intrigued as much as it has worried. The world of education is one of the first to be targeted. But beyond the risks it implies, this new technological revolution, made possible by artificial intelligence, is an opportunity for higher education. To reinvent itself and keep up with society.
Theory U: How to accompany students in the face of uncertainty?
Training future project managers requires group building and interpersonal skills more than any other course. But how can this be achieved remotely in an uncertain context? This is the challenge taken up by Desmond McGetrick, Professor of Organizational Development at…
How to give students an international experience during a pandemic
The Covid-19 travel restrictions dramatically reduced the number of student exchanges around the world in September 2020. Having fewer exchange students in the BBA International Business class forced me to think out of the box to find new ways to…
How I turned my non-technical students into data analyst heroes thanks to no-code AI tools
Last year when I was asked to teach a course of AI & Data analytics in Marketing to non-technical students I really wanted to make sure that my students would understand the outstanding extra-value of applying AI to business....
How to cultivate action confidence in an uncertain world?
On my personal journey, I have often wondered how I could look out for others and the planet, without losing sight of my own interests. When I met Theory U by MIT’s Otto Scharmer, it changed my life. This theory offers a framework and steps to build action-confidence in the face of uncertainty....
When Students drive the learning journey: How we designed a peer-to-peer multicampus learning experience
It is difficult to convey the challenges of managing innovation without fully immersing students in a practical environment. So when Covid 19 locked everyone behind a screen, we needed to act fast to rethink the Innovation course in our International Marketing and Business Development program.