Stéphanie Lavigne, Managing Director of the school, was honoured by the L’Essentiel du Sup media at the start of 2024 for her work at TBS Education. She was awarded the prestigious prize of “Director of the Year” for this 7th edition.
“All our courses have integrated the UN’s sustainable development objectives after a review of their teaching models. Similarly, 40% of our research publications include the subject, and a centre of excellence brings together the professors concerned. To go even further, we have set up a Societal Transition Department to deal with issues of inclusion, environmental transition, living together and combating stereotypes. Stéphanie Lavigne, Managing Director of TBS Education.
This prize, awarded by a jury made up of L’Essentiel du Sup and APHEC (Association des professeurs des classes préparatoires économiques et commerciales), is recognition of the excellence of TBS Education as an institution in the field of higher education.
TBS Education is looking to the future to remain committed to pursuing its mission with excellence, openness, boldness, agility and responsibility.
In a joint initiative to shape the future of education and industry, TBS Education and the APEM group have announced the launch of a chair dedicated to Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The 3-year agreement was signed in the presence of Stéphanie Lavigne, Managing Director of TBS Education, Thomas Henin, Group Marketing Director of APEM and Kevin Carillo, Head of the Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence and Business Analysis and Programme Director of the Master of Science Big Data, Marketing & Management at TBS Education.
This partnership is a pillar of innovation and of preparing students for today’s economic challenges.
Stéphanie Lavigne, Managing Director of TBS Education, underlined the school’s commitment to innovation and to preparing students for today’s economic challenges. This collaboration with APEM consolidates the integration of technological advances into the school’s educational programme, offering students an immersive experience that is relevant to their future professional careers.
This chair is the result of the convergence of APEM’s objectives in data processing and TBS Education’s expertise in this crucial field. The partnership provides for a number of mechanisms to support APEM’s innovation, including the contribution of Master’s students on practical cases proposed by the company.
Founded in 1952, APEM is a world leader in the design and manufacture of human-machine interfaces (HMI), offering a diverse range of products for demanding markets such as instrumentation, industrial automation, aeronautics and defence.
For its part, TBS Education, through its center of excellence in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, has positioned itself as a pioneer in these fields. Since 2013, the school has been offering high-level courses to train future executives, ranked among the best internationally.
This partnership is in line with TBS Education’s mission as a committed management school, while APEM continues to consolidate its position as a major force in the field of HMI worldwide.
On Monday December 4th, the Financial Times published its annual ranking of the 90 best business schools in Europe. This is the latest annual ranking by the British economic and financial daily, dedicated to European universities and business schools. This year, TBS Education confirms its positive momentum by entering the top 50, moving up 9 places to 46th place.
Stéphanie Lavigne, Managing Director of TBS Education, is delighted: “We are proud that our school has moved up 9 places among the top European business schools. This success is a strong signal and demonstrates the positive dynamic that TBS Education is part of. This is excellent news for our entire community, as the Financial Times rankings are eagerly awaited by students and recruiters from all over the world.”
Following its rankings of the best MBAs and Masters in Management, the Financial Times has now compiled a ranking of the 90 best business schools in Europe.
To compile this top 90, the British media, which is widely consulted around the world, relies mainly on several criteria linked to the careers of graduates, but also to the course itself. Alumni are questioned 3 years after the end of their course on criteria that guide students’ choices, such as professional integration, career development, international mobility, the faculty’s academic level, its degree of internationalisation and its gender balance.
TBS Education continues to climb, having already moved up 3 places in the rankings last year. The British daily singled out TBS Education for its international dimension, an issue at the heart of the multi-campus school’s DNA, with its presence in Barcelona and Casablanca. By climbing into the top 50 of European schools, 46th place and in the top 10 of French business schools, the school is reaffirming its ambition to be a major player in French and European higher education.
TBS Education has also gained places in the other Financial Times rankings worldwide: 13 places in the Masters in Management ranking (37th) and 12 places in the GEMBA ranking (62nd).
Florence Ramillon, Director of International Relations, comments: “I am proud to highlight our remarkable rise in all the rankings, both national and international. This achievement testifies to our commitment to academic excellence, the quality of our teaching and the relevance of our programmes. We are particularly honoured by the recognition of our overall performance, which extends to crucial areas such as the employability of our graduates, the development of cutting-edge skills, the mastery of specialist expertise, and the strength of our professional networks. Innovation is central to our school, guiding our approach to teaching, the design of our programmes, our research activities, the management of our campuses and the formation of strategic alliances. Whether through the integration of cutting-edge technologies, the development of innovative partnerships or the promotion of artificial intelligence in our educational processes, we are determined to remain at the forefront of innovation to offer our students a world-class education.“
Article by Aurélien Feix and Georg WernickePublised in Journal of Business Ethics
Activism undertaken by CEOs has been on the rise in recent years. Research on this practice has been primarily concerned with determining the conditions under which a CEO’s public statements on sociopolitical issues are beneficial or detrimental to her firm’s business performance.
We complement this instrumental perspective on CEO activism with an ethical investigation of the implications of CEO activism for the democratic process. Drawing on political philosophy, we show that the answer to the question of whether CEO activism is conducive to the democratic process depends on the view of democracy that is adopted.
From the perspective of liberalism, the sole requirement that an instance of CEO activism must fulfill is that it is lawful, provided that the applicable law sufficiently protects people’s essential rights. However, from the viewpoint of republicanism, this is not a sufficient condition. Besides being law-abiding, CEOs should be “civic-minded” when intervening in public debates, i.e., concerned with the quality and fairness with which those debates are conducted. Based on the literature on republicanism, we suggest four possible criteria that civic-minded CEOs can apply to gauge the democratic conduciveness of a possible public intervention: added insight, timeliness, constructiveness, and transparency.
Our article complements the predominantly instrumentally oriented literature on CEO activism and contributes, more broadly, to the literature that explores the normative dimensions of corporate political involvement, as well as to a growing strand of research that draws on philosophical theory to inform business leaders’ ethical decision-making.
Article by Mathieu Molines, Anthony PerrierPublised in Public Administration Review
How do public employees respond to organizational identity threats?
The present study investigates how public employees make sense of and react to threatening events that may call into question organization’s core attributes and status. Using social identity theory and the appraisal theory of emotions, we develop a model in which organizational identity induced by negative media coverage threat provokes shame that results in exemplification.
We further explain the role of public service motivation as a moderator of the proposed mediated relationships. Predictions are tested in an experimental study and a field study involving French police officers.
Our results show that shame mediated the positive effect of organizational identity threat on police officers’ exemplification behaviors. When public service motivation is high, police officers are more likely to engage in exemplification to cope with organizational identity threat than when it is slow. Theoretical and practical implications and future research directions are discussed.
Article by Quentin Plantec, Benjamin Cabanes, Pascal le Masson, Benoit Weil.Publised in Research Policy
Academic engagement with industry is a well-researched topic. However, research has focused on scholars in traditional university departments, overlooking more hybrid research contexts such as the growing trend of PhD students and their supervisors engaging in collaborative research projects with industry during their training.
To address this gap, this study explores the early-career academic engagement of PhD students in university-industry collaborative research projects. It particularly focuses on research orientation and its association with scientific and inventive yield. Drawing on Stokes’ (1997) framework, the study investigates the extent to which the research orientation (basic research, applied research, and user-inspired fundamental research) is associated with scientific and inventive yield.
The study is based on a review of 631 collaborative PhD projects with industry completed in France in 2018 through a national programme (CIFRE). It finds that the three research orientations are associated with different levels of scientific and inventive yields. While basic research is the most common orientation across the sample, the rarest, user-inspired fundamental research, is associated with the highest scientific and inventive yield. Moreover, the study highlights the critical role of PhD students’ taste for science or industry (and the potential change in this taste during the project) in the association between research orientation and projects’ yields.
Overall, this study sheds light on an understudied area of academic engagement and highlights the significance of considering research orientation and students’ taste for science or industry when developing university-industry collaborations. This has implications for PhD supervisors, PhD students, their industrial partners, and policymakers.
The Financial Times has published its annual ranking of the world’s top 100 Executive MBAs. This year, TBS Education’s Global Executive MBA moved up 12 places, confirming its growth momentum and ranking 62nd.
Every year, the Financial Times ranks the world’s top 100 Executive MBAs. To build this top 100, the British media, widely consulted throughout the world, relies mainly on several criteria linked to the careers of graduates, but also to the course itself. Alumni are interviewed three years after completing their course, on criteria such as professional integration, career development and international mobility, as well as the faculty’s academic level, degree of internationalization and feminization.
This trajectory towards the top of the rankings is similar to that of TBS Education’s Master in Management, which is ranked 37th (+12 places) in the FT 2023 published on September 11.
Last year, TBS Education’s Global EMBA had already moved up 11 places in the rankings. This program combines efficiency and employability, enabling students to choose an expert career path in Strategic Management or Aerospace Management. This year’s challenge was to confirm this progress. Mission accomplished for the Toulouse-based management school, which has climbed to the top of the French rankings.
TBS Education’s Global Executive MBA stands out on several criteria, including:
Nationally, the TBS Education Global EMBA ranks 9th among the best EMBAs.
”The Global Executive MBA has been designed to meet current and future business challenges, providing participants with a set of technical and managerial skills to meet the greatest challenges in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. ATR is proud to be a partner, and to contribute in this way to stimulating the emergence of talents who are committed to profoundly transforming our industry, making it even more responsible and innovative.”— Nathalie Tarnaud Laude – Executive Chairman, ATR
”The Global Executive MBA has been designed to meet current and future business challenges, providing participants with a set of technical and managerial skills to meet the greatest challenges in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world. ATR is proud to be a partner, and to contribute in this way to stimulating the emergence of talents who are committed to profoundly transforming our industry, making it even more responsible and innovative.”
”Since its very creation and once again, the Global Executive MBA of TBS Education has climbed in the Financial Times ranking. Achieving consecutive years of recognition by an organization as prestigious as the FT, is undeniably the mark of sustained efforts and an international level of educational quality. TBS Education has established itself among the best business schools in the world and enters the big league. Having been involved with TBS Education, following its progress over the years and currently the Godfather of its current promotion (P21), I am particularly proud of this achievement.”— Dr. Mohamed El-Boraï – President, Reliance Aerospace Solutions – Godfather of the promotion 21
”Since its very creation and once again, the Global Executive MBA of TBS Education has climbed in the Financial Times ranking. Achieving consecutive years of recognition by an organization as prestigious as the FT, is undeniably the mark of sustained efforts and an international level of educational quality. TBS Education has established itself among the best business schools in the world and enters the big league. Having been involved with TBS Education, following its progress over the years and currently the Godfather of its current promotion (P21), I am particularly proud of this achievement.”
”We are proud of our GEMBA’s 12-place rise in the world rankings. This success goes beyond academic excellence: it embodies our commitment to diversity, both of our faculty and of our learners. Our teaching, which is largely based on real-life situations, reinforces the high-level global experience. At TBS Education, we also embrace strong environmental, social and governance initiatives, ensuring that learning is both innovative and responsible.”— Stéphanie Lavigne – Dean of TBS Education
”We are proud of our GEMBA’s 12-place rise in the world rankings. This success goes beyond academic excellence: it embodies our commitment to diversity, both of our faculty and of our learners. Our teaching, which is largely based on real-life situations, reinforces the high-level global experience. At TBS Education, we also embrace strong environmental, social and governance initiatives, ensuring that learning is both innovative and responsible.”
Article by Camilla Barbarossa, Michela Patrizi, Maria Vernuccio, Maria Carmen Di Poce, Alberto Pastore.Publised in Health Policy
Western governments’ attempts to encourage young adults to adopt COVID-19 contact tracing apps (CTAs) have been unsuccessful. Drawing on psychological reactance theory, we propose that government-imposed containment measures (e.g., lockdowns, curfews) may cause young adults to resist CTAs. We investigate how and when threats to freedom posed by government-imposed containment measures to young adults reduce their CTA adoption intentions.
We conducted a survey of young adults during the second general lockdown (March‒April 2021) in Italy. The results show that when young Italian adults focus on the restrictive nature of government-imposed containment measures, their sense of freedom is threatened.
Threats to freedom produce psychological states of either helplessness or reactance, depending on if young Italian adults think they can recover their freedom. Helpless young adults are motivated to adopt CTAs because they seek guidance from containment measures.
Reactant young adults resist CTAs because they exhibit aversive psychological states toward containment measures. These results offer relevant insights for policymakers. They shed light on young Italian adults’ resistance toward CTAs. They also inform governments on how to interact more efficiently with young adults if a novel pandemic should occur.
Article by Maciel M. Queiroz, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, Chinming (Victor) Shi, Samuel Fosso WambaPublised in International Journal of Production Economics
The remarkable growth of ChatGPT, a Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI), has triggered a significant debate in society. It has the potential to radically transform the business landscape, with consequences for operations and supply chain management (O&SCM). However, empirical evidence on Gen-AI’s effects in O&SCM remains limited.
This study investigates the benefits, challenges, and trends associated with Gen-AI/ChatGPT in O&SCM. We collected data from O&SCM practitioners in the UK (N = 154) and the USA (N = 161). As we used the organizational learning theory for the research, our findings reveal increased efficiency as a significant benefit for both adopters and non-adopters in both countries, while indicating security, risks, and ethical as prominent concerns. In particular, it appeared that the integration of Gen-AI/ChatGPT leads to the enhancement of the overall supply chain performance.
Moreover, organizational learning can speed up the results of Gen-AI/ChatGPT in O&SCM. No wonders that adopters express their satisfaction about the post-implementation benefits of the technology, which include reduced perceived challenges for pre-implementation, and greater optimism about future Gen-AI/ChatGPT utilization compared to non-adopters.
Adopters also display diverse behavioral patterns toward efficiency, agility, responsiveness, etc. This study provides valuable insights for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in comprehending Gen-AI/ChatGPT’s implications in O&SCM for both adopters and non-adopters. Additionally, it underscores the importance of organizational learning processes in facilitating successful Gen-AI/ChatGPT adoption in O&SCM.
Article by Waleed Shleha, Ferran Vendrell-Herrero, Yancy VaillantPublised in International Business Reviewe
As the importance of servitization and service-augmented solution delivery grows into a mainstream phenomenon for manufacturers, offering theoretically founded avenues to solve their specific internationalization challenges is necessary.
The study addresses the internationalization paradox faced by servitized manufacturers generated by the specific hybrid nature of their product-service offering. As such, this research is meant to understand the entry mode diversity for the internationalization of advanced servitization providers.
Our primary research deal-level data follows 1885 potential sales negotiations for servitized products closed in 2018 by a Poland-based multinational high-tech optics firm offering product-service systems. The results of the study support the idea that manufacturers of advanced servitization could benefit from the implementation of entry mode diversity.
It is found that the sales deal success when entry mode diversity is implemented in a foreign market is positively moderated when knowledge-intensive advanced servitization is included in the negotiation.