Mission, Vision and Values

Mission

Through research with a societal impact, TBS Education trains diverse, open and enlightened learners, who will contribute to the development of a responsible and sustainable economy within their organizations. This is TBS Education’s fundamental purpose – a Business for Good since 2022.

In 2021, the transformation of TBS Education’s status into a Business for Good was launched.

In 2022, TBS Education became a Business for Good following a major project involving all the school’s stakeholders: students, alumni, professors, company employees, board of directors, and regional participants.

TBS Education trains future international decision-makers who are collaborative, agile and responsible.

• Collaborative, through the prioritising of management practices based on collective intelligence.
• Agile, through the global integration of learning related to artificial intelligence and its variations (big data, machine learning, etc) in order to shed light on the resulting new decision-making processes.
• Responsible, through investment in Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in order to promote the critical distance needed in relation to decision-making impact.

Vision

• TBS Education aims to be a leader in responsible and sustainable education and research. We aspire to be among Europe’s leading providers of high-impact business and management research. In line with its mission and strategic plan, the school aims to positively impact society, business education, the diversity of people and ideas, and the success of graduates through multi-faceted and multidisciplinary approaches across each of its strategic pillars.  
• TBS Education aims to become a reference in pedagogy. We aspire to become the school of educational well-being: giving students the best learning conditions, giving professors the best teaching conditions so that they can deliver cutting-edge teaching and contribute to a positive impact on society.

Our school aims to be among the 10 best business schools in France and to increase its reputation on international markets as much as possible. Today the school ranks 54th in the Financial Times ranking of European Business Schools. In the long term, we aim to progress to the top 30.

The school’s vision is both challenging and realistic, focusing on inspiring students through high-level academic courses and research, experiential learning, while providing an excellent learner experience and taking a stand on major societal issues, such as sustainable development, artificial intelligence, and innovation management to prepare learners for professional fulfilment and high-level employability across the globe. These axes will be continued in the next strategic plan as they require continuous development and commitment.

Values

As reflected in the school’s motto, Inspiring Education, Inspiring Life, TBS Education aims to be a source of inspiration for learners, faculty, partners and stakeholders towards a positive impact and a better society for the future.  The school’s values of responsibility, audacity, excellence, agility, and open-mindedness provide a clear understanding of what the school stands for and are deeply embedded in the school’s pedagogical methods, projects, overall culture as well as in the Inspiring TBS 2021-2026 strategic plan, making them an integral part of the school’s identity.

• Responsibility is our cornerstone value, which permeates throughout the organisation, particularly in the context of CSR&SD, diversity, and inclusion, to ensure that students, faculty, and staff are aware of their role in contributing to a socially diverse, sustainable, and responsible future.
• Excellence is demonstrated by the school’s triple accreditation and the validation from the French Ministry of Higher Education, among other quality labels.  TBS Education’s commitment to excellence is also evident in the high academic standards of the faculty, the steady increase in the school’s academic research contributions, the growing importance of its Centres of Excellence and TBS Education’s position in national and international rankings.
• Audacity is the value that reflects TBS Education’s drive to innovate and inspire learners towards a better society for tomorrow, through innovative approaches and educational well-being.  Learners are encouraged to challenge conventional norms and transcend their native environments and cultures to better interact with others, regardless of origins and beliefs.
• Agility is the value aimed at preparing learners to lead in a complex, perpetually evolving environment.  The school offers a wide choice of programmes and adapted tracks to prepare students for their employability and a life of agile decision-making.  These programmes take advantage of innovative technology and life-long learning opportunities to build up learners’ confidence via a multitude of practical, corporate and/or personalised projects.  The 2-year COVID period particularly tested this value.
• Open-mindedness is another key value, emphasising curiosity, tolerance, critical thinking, and mutual enrichment.  The school fosters an environment where learners have respect for opinions and are exposed to a diversity of international and intercultural experiences through Internationalization at Home and abroad.