Emerging Countries Seminar

Dear you All,

We are all back !!

Rio, Delhi, Shangai : we had to choose out of these 3 great destinations.

Each of us according to its own agenda.

But now, back home, we could share the experience of the other groups, and to say the least, all were different but SO good !

We won't illustrate all the seminars with millions of photos (some of us really pushed the limits of their memory cards ;-) but to summarize all in one, please find the final @ the Shangai one, where we had this little German song to thanks our organiser host, for the fantastic job he did for us during this fascinanting week !

See you all together in Texas ;-) or anytime before !

MBA Annual reunion 2007: Back in Business ... Back at School !

That's it, summer break is long over and we are back in our tracks (for the weeklys we finished with corporate finance !)

The Mba annual reunion was the chance for us to meet our predecessors from the earlier classes.

It was also the chance to listen to our favourite economic professor, Dr Gougon, in the presentation of the NEW ENERGY AGE, a thrilling subject about the challenges of the world energy !

After the presentation, we had the cocktail which gives us the unique chance to meet the others (from 1997 to 2009 : yes, there were some future students there !)

Vive la rentrée & see you all soon !

Next step : emerging SeminarS (Shangai, Dehli, Rio)

Issue of magazine « Manière de voir » from « Le Monde Diplomatique »

This is about India. A mix (in French) of very interesting old (20th century) and recent articles to have a better view of this country. Available until the end of September...

Running Running ...

Chips and beer at l'horloge are great ... but how can we eat pasta, keep on spending our nights drinking alcohol and be fit (... ok, that may be too ambitious ... let's say try to keep in shape ...) ?
The solution is running the "20 km de Paris" !

The event takes place in Paris on the 14th of October. Even non-parisians can join in as we have an elective in Paris this weekend (Entrepreneurship).

To register : http://www.20kmparis.com/

Some words about Business Plan

To give some perspectives after the presentation made today on Business Plan, I recommend you to read the discussion launched by Guy Kawasaki on the issue : "Is a Business Plan necessary?"

On the same subject, Raphaël Cohen published a very important contribution with the "IpOp Model".

THE POWER EFFECT of Global teams ... in Madrid or anywhere

July, July , July ... this sounds like a promised summer ! School holidays are coming : Full tracks are, as their courses ended. Monthly tracks also, as Madrid was the last course before long. And we -weekly- will have our last thursday course this week. The Madrid elective was so great, we had a fantastic time with this elective "creating global teams" in a look like Club Med Campus (the swimming pool effect, even if we couldn't use it). But still, we worked hard & well in this atmosphere !

we had such a great time in town & we really created a global team !! this is for sure !!

ESCP-EAP, learn Everywhere, Manage anywhere !

have a look @ the photos (you'll even see the Dean at the friday lunch) : http://picasaweb.google.fr/escpemba2008

but, we also had some great fun and almost sponsorized by some funny accessories that i like to remind here : find the link to the funny powerball that I tried to explain & simulate at the bar but fortunately, both Sandra & David could bring their testimony to my explanation (i had no powerpoint slide show, could you believe this ;-) http://www.powerballs.com/

• Have a nice holidays for all those we won't see thursday ! (or/and a nice seminar in Oslo in aug) and keep in mind, we can meet the 2007 after the course as they are going to celebrate the return of the end of their MBA period ... to make it simple they had their closing seminar last week and are already missing each others ;-) (from 8pm at the Cricketer Pub - 41 rue des Mathurins - 75008 Paris)

And have a little fun before you leave & watch this (for all promotion & tracks ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9brDsRdtdzE

but, his MBA is not ours ;-)

SAVE THE PLANET : Our School is acting Green !

Our School is acting Green ! In today's world, acting green is seeding for the future. We are not yet a "green school" but ESCP-EAP is willing to follow some good green practices that do not alter the quality of its service towards us students, and give us the chance to meet some simple (but always) efficient maners to help our planet to be greener for us & the next generations ! Go for sustainable developpement and green learning ;-)