To revisit this historic program, we focused on 3 key areas: reinforcing its differentiation, simplifying courses and access to them, and finally, providing an operational and ambitious response to the current and future needs of companies, alumni, students and, more broadly, society, as expressed upstream of the program's redesign. At the start of the 2024 academic year, future students of Grenoble Ecole de Management's flagship program will discover a completely revamped curriculum, 40 years after its creation in 1984. While retaining the strengths for which it is renowned, the new program will also feature an ambitious editorial line "Management, technologies and sustainable innovations" at all levels, marking a clear return to its original DNA in light of the challenges of the 21st century.
The CEFDG (Commission d'évaluation des formations et diplômes de gestion) confirmed this in December 2023, validating its 2024 version: GEM's masters in Management (Programme Grande Ecole – PGE in French) is a "solid program, anchored in a continuous improvement approach", with a "committed and high-quality" teaching staff, possessing major assets such as "the development of the new, spacious Paris site, closely aligned with the school's remarkable commitment to its Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility policy".
Among the highlights of the GEM Masters in Management, 2024 version:
- Strong reaffirmation of GEM's historical DNA: 3-year courses revised through the prism of Management, technologies and sustainable innovations, creation of new curricula and signature courses in L3; M1 and M2;
- The L3 course will open on the new Paris campus in September 2024, complementing the existing M1 and M2 courses;
- International now open from L3 or from M1 for AST 2 ;
- More opportunities for international departures with the creation of a 2-year M1 and the signing of 20 new international partners for exchanges or double degrees;
- 30 Master's/M2 specializations (excluding international), including 10 new courses at the start of the 2024 academic year;
- Introduction of a 15h discovery elective at the end of L3;
- Creation of 6 new pre-specializations in the 2nd semester of M1;
- Enhancement of and easier access to existing flagship courses such as Géolab, Odyssée, MSc Finance, Global Tracks Cambridge, McGill, Pace University (ex- transcontinental), French and international double degrees;
- Work-study: unlimited number of places available, particularly in Paris and from M1;
- Creation of a 3-year Career Track.
To revisit this historic program, we focused on 3 key areas: reinforcing its differentiation, simplifying courses and access to them, and finally, providing an operational and ambitious response to the current and future needs of companies, alumni, students and, more broadly, society, as expressed upstream of the program's redesign. Philippe Monin, Academic Director of GEM.
Training enlightened managers to support transformations
Annelaure Oudinot, Director of the Masters in Management, talks about the convictions that motivated this strategic overhaul by all the GEM teams:
At the dawn of our 40th anniversary year, we were guided by a strong desire to offer a unique, inspiring academic experience, thought through the prism of transformations and in alignment with the markers and strengths of Grenoble's innovation ecosystem, as was the case when it was founded in 1984.With these challenges in mind, the new Masters in Management will aim to train enlightened, civic-minded managers capable of accompanying transformations and breakthroughs. In addition to solid training in the fundamentals of management, they will be equipped with three distinctive and interconnected elements, mirroring the assets and fundamentals of Grenoble's innovation territory:
- their ability to integrate emerging technologies responsibly,
- their awareness of their impact on society and the environment,
- their agility in meeting the challenges of a complex globalized and geopolitical business environment.
This differentiated positioning in "Management, technologies & sustainable innovations" will be supported by a greater emphasis on data and technological acculturation, thanks to signature courses such as Back to school challenfe (L3), Innovation (M1), Ecological transition of businesses (M1), Digital transformation : Information Systems, Data and AI (M1), through the creation of new pre-specializations in M1 Business Analytics & Digital Transformation, International Business & Geopolitics, Organizations and Society and finally through the creation of new M2 specializations: Managing with Data & Artificial Intelligence, Energy Business & Climate Change, Management for Sustainability Transitions, Design & Innovation.
