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Customize the MBA: Global MBA specializations

In addition to the electives available for you to choose from after completing the core modules, you will also be able to tailor your capstone project.

Consulting project with a company

This specialization allows individual students to engage with an organization and gain meaningful, real-world experience as part of their MBA program. Students take a holistic approach to improving the organization’s performance in a specific domain by applying the knowledge acquired during the coursework period.

The consulting capstone project provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of business challenges in a specific domain through practical experience. It allows them to gain insights into a sector and a company in order to analyze the business setting and strategic choices made by the organization, as well as to examine the specific problem at hand.

This empowers participants to connect the knowledge acquired during the program with the practical demands of real-world situations. Moreover, the project aims to address business challenges through practical engagement, thereby providing potential benefit to the organization involved.

Through this experience, participants are expected to demonstrate that they have acquired critical and analytical thinking skills. They will also show their ability to integrate and apply what they have learned during the program, their capability in identifying and solving problems with innovative solutions and recommendations. Competencies in creating value for the company and improving its performance will also be assessed.

Technology project with Le Wagon

This specialization is designed to incorporate the challenges of increasingly converging tech and business ecosystems that require different sets of skills. Participants who chose this specialization will have opportunities to deepen their knowledge in business-related technology with relevant electives. After their coursework period, participants will spend time at our partner school, Le Wagon, renowned as one of the best tech schools with a presence worldwide.

Participants will be able to align and integrate their technology and business skills in a unique immersive capstone project with tangible outcomes. For this project, they will be at Le Wagon to benefit from guidance by experts and to be exposed to the latest tech developments within an ecosystem of technology enthusiasts.

Participants will undertake a specific applied technology project with a unique value proposition. They will then develop and deploy the product and pitch it to experts for feedback and potential improvements. Through this project, they will test their abilities to apply their knowledge and demonstrate their skills as managers who understand and can leverage technology to achieve business objectives.

Entrepreneurial project with the IÉSEG incubator

This specialization provides a one-of-a-kind chance for participants to engage meaningfully in creating a new business or developing an existing one in new regions or domains. During the coursework, participants focus on acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills needed to adopt a holistic, multifunctional approach to business.

As part of the program, participants will apply their learning to a personally relevant entrepreneurial project. This specially designed capstone enables them to integrate elements of their coursework into a substantial piece of work, helping them to further develop their entrepreneurial ideas. Throughout this process, participants will have access to the IÉSEG Incubator, where they will receive free professional advice and support from academic and professional experts within and outside the school. They also have the opportunity to engage in entrepreneurship-related activities organized by IÉSEG. Therefore, participants will be immersed in an entrepreneurial ecosystem with a high potential for business development and personal growth.

Professional thesis with an academic advisor

This specialization is designed to enable participants to integrate their learning from the program into a substantial piece of academic work, thus demonstrating their expertise in a specific domain.

The professional thesis consists of a problem-based investigation that entails the design and implementation of a rigorous research project, with results presented in the form of a written thesis. It enables participants to deepen their understanding of specific knowledge areas and apply them to a concrete business or management issue through a rigorous research project. Initially, participants will select a specific area of interest they want to investigate. Depending on the nature of this topic, they will be assigned an academic advisor who is an expert in the field. The advisor will assist them in approaching the topic in a systematic and well-informed way. Participants will delve into academic articles, practitioner texts, and professional documents to gain a better understanding of the field.

After this, they will typically collect primary data from various relevant sources for their work, through surveys, interviews, and other methods. The data will be analyzed using various tools under the guidance of their advisor. Finally, they will describe their findings, outline key implications for their work, and highlight novel insights and interpretations.