Kedge Business School

The entire KEDGE BS community: teaching staff, administrative teams and students alike support the directions it takes with respect to the school’s social responsibility commitment. What makes KEDGE BS distinctive, what makes the School a renowned key player in sustainable development and CSR, is its viral approach that combines excellence with consistency. It is not simply a case of adding exemplary practices (a master’s course, a research centre), but of implementing consistent actions across its research, its teaching, its social and environmenal management of the campuses and its governance.

 AT THE SOURCE OF INNOVATION
Its high-quality faculty, innovative teaching methods combining personal development, learning by doing and social responsibility, together with its impressive research centre and campus that is open to its environment, have made KEDGE Business School a pioneer in corporate social responsibility (CSR).

• Social policy and territorial anchorage
• Environmental management
• Training
• Research activities

EDUCATION

KEDGE BS maintains high standards of academic excellence. We are convinced that our responsibility is not to train sustainable development directors, even if this is what certain students may go on to become. We have a duty to give future marketing, purchasing, financial and HR managers, future decision-makers and entrepreneurs, everything they need to incorporate sustainable development as a key factor to the success of both their personal and professional life. This is why we work with each programme director and each faculty member to integrate these concepts into the learning pathway of all our students to the best of our ability.

CSR, an essential aspect of education that is central to the strategy of KEDGE BS:
The School’s ambition is to train innovative, ethical and socially responsible entrepreneurs who are equipped to meet the needs of businesses and contribute to their development. To achieve this, it draws on the scope of responsibility and the six principles of responsible management prescribed by PRME, using a three-pillar approach:

• Responsibility
• Commitment and initiative-taking
• Innovation

Fully integrated into the learning pathway, CSR benefits from the mandatory second-year “Sustainable Development” module. Each course module contains a CSR focus, to ensure students are made fully aware of the challenges of tomorrow. This viral approach implemented across all programmes aims to train every one of our students in CSR so they can become successful, innovative managers.

 

MEASURING OUR ACTIONS

Higher education graduates are the citizens of the future. They will be required to make decisions that will impact society and the world. How can we make this generation an enlightened and committed generation for the 21st century? How can we ensure they are adequately equipped to incorporate these elements into their future job and that they can handle the consequences of their choices in an informed manner? Since September 2014, all new students must sit the Sulitest and by 2020 the School plans to apply a minimum score that must be achieved in order for them to graduate.

 

RESEARCH

Research at KEDGE BS: expertise and international recognition. We are internationally renowned for our fields of expertise like CSR, which is now a cluster in its own right, managed by Professor Franck Figge. Today, six research chairs are directly linked to CSR at KEDGE BS:

• Business as Unusual
• Alternative Finance
• Responsible Purchasing
• Well-Being and Work
• Sustainable Sourcing in the Network Environment
• Sustainable and Global Responsibility of Organisations

as are many conferences and events:

• Corporate Responsibility Research Conference
• Humanism and Management Day
• Air Transport Research Society Conference

CREATE
Creating new forms of learning and skills development via educational innovations like personal and professional development.
SHARE
Connecting communities throughout the world to share practices and ideas.
CARE
Encouraging and stimulating responsible practices and social commitment.