“Resonance”, the new 2024-2028 strategic plan of emlyon

Resonance is the harmonious presence to the world around us, a successful relation with society.

The strategic plan “Resonance” reasserts the importance of the “maker spirit” that continues to drive our students and has been constituting emlyon's DNA ever since it was created. The maker spirit is at the heart of the School's academic model and strategy. The 2024-2028 plan is built around the 5 qualities “makers”, emlyon's students, are expected to demonstrate, so they can become change entrepreneurs.

• Academic excellence,
• Entrepreneurial spirit,
• Commitment,
• Hybrid knowledge,
• Resonance with society.

emlyon business school is committed to providing academic excellence so that each student can access the latest scientific output and the best teachings:

• By investing in the recruitment of 50 new world-class professor-researchers by 2028.
• By launching the Healthcare Innovation, Technology & Society Institute (HITS), which will provide a top-quality comprehensive offer (higher education programs, executive programs, research and corporate partnerships) in healthcare economy and biopharmaceutical industries, with some of the most renown academic partners on the international scene.
• By ramping up in signing off Research chairs with the best companies, notably on the subjects of energy and health.
• By innovating in digital pedagogy, through new classroom equipment.
• By integrating an introductory to research in 100% of our degree-delivering programs.

The ambition of emlyon business school is to train action-driven leaders and managers. To do so, the singularity of the School's pedagogy will be pursued, in the light of its motto “think to do and do to think”, by:

• Doubling-up on the new campus in Lyon, the surface dedicated to the “makers' lab”, our manufacturing laboratory regrouping a whole range of prototyping tools and techniques.
• Launching the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Institute in 2024. This center of excellence dedicated to entrepreneurship marks a new chapter in the history of emlyon business school, one of France's pioneering institution thanks to its incubator's entrepreneurial support program over the past 40 years, where more than 2.000 start-ups have been incubated. The Sustainable Entrepreneurship Institute which will have its own dedicated place on the new campus, will amplify the actions and entrepreneurial commitment of the School, by drawing on teachings, support and mentoring, research, but also on knowledge dissemination and building partnerships. It will showcase the commitment of emlyon business school to training entrepreneurs who will forge tomorrow's society in a responsible manner.
• Consolidation of the leadership of its programs designed to support High-Level Athletes from the start of their career to their professional retraining. The offer focuses on the initial education of athletes at the start of their sports career and their high-level achievements, via notably our post-baccalaureate track (Bachelor Talent Track), but also on their preparation for career transition via our Executive Education programs (validating programs equivalent to Masters programs). Since 2019, more than 350 athletes have taken or are taking these programs. Over 30 students of emlyon are currently qualified or are qualifiable for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

The School wants to be a committed school for committed students:

• The training of 100% of its students, professors and staff members to the social and environmental issues, under the supervision of the Associate Dean to the pedagogy in Anthropocene.
• The creation of an Academy of the Transition, to reinforce the impact of all experiential pedagogical projects in which students are committed to address the ecological urgency, with a specific perspective on decarbonized neo-industrialization. This focus will draw on a solid scientific research, born from multi-disciplinary partnerships, and allowing for the emergence of models which can address the new industrial challenges.
• Gathering up all these initiatives of social diversity within a Solidarity and Inclusion Center to take actions starting with education orientation, to integration and up to professional insertion.
• The development of a scholarship program dedicated to the Global BBA students, going as far as a total exemption of tuition fees.
• The implementation of an ambitious climate plan for a “net zero in 2030”.

emlyon business school wants to develop its opening to multidisciplinarity by:

• Systematic hybridization around key knowledge for the future such as AI, Data, Human and Social Sciences, Design Thinking and Soft Skills.
• Signing off new double and triple degrees (such as the future triple degree European Master in Management, Finance & Technology with Politecnico di Milano and Bayes Business School). New degrees will also be developed with the schools of the Galileo Global Education Group (alike the one already created with the Cours Florent in 2023): Strate, Penninghen and Istituto Marongoni…
• This development of hybrid knowledge will be embodied in the building of a Global Management University by 2028: as already illustrated by emlyon as shareholder of the London Interdisciplinary School in September 2023.

Each student of emlyon business school needs to be able to interact at the very heart of the city in connection with the other ecosystems and the rest of the world:

• As of September 2024, the School will be back in central Lyon as it will open its new campus whose ambition is to become a forum for scientific, cultural, economic and civic exchanges.
• On the international scene, the development of emlyon business school will further continue in Europe, but also in China, India and in Africa.
• The Leadership Academy For New Futures will be launched as of 2024. It will aim at supporting executives in exercising their leadership and their management, in the face of the challenges relative to planet habitability and individual ecology. Beyond Executive Education programs backed by research in this domain, its pedagogy will also draw on experiences of immersion in action-driven contexts.