Mission and purpose
A Mission-driven company
A pioneering legal status for a binding commitment
emlyon adopted the status of Mission-driven company on 26 July 2021.
The mission is steered by dedicated governance team: a Steering Committee and an independent Mission Committee, involving all of the School's stakeholders. An independent third-party body checks the achievement of its objectives.
Purpose
Now registered in its legal status, the School's purpose aims at:
providing lifelong training and support to enlightened people who effectively change organizations to build a society that is fairer, shows solidarity for others and respects the planet.
4 convictions
This purpose embodies emlyon’s convictions:
- Efficiency must go hand-in-hand with responsibility and humility.
- The company and the economy must also produce social and environmental justice.
- The transformations to be carried out require a scientific basis, awareness and boldness.
- It is necessary to act and lead differently for the common good.
10 statutory goals
To embody and drive its mission, the School undertakes to pursue 10 statutory goals that interdependently cover all the School's activities: education and research, as well as its functioning, notably through proactive policies on the environment, diversity, equity and inclusion.
Training
- To nurture the entrepreneurship and commitment spirit using a pedagogy based on experience and experimentation
- To develop critical thinking and creativity via pluralism and knowledge interconnections;
- To guarantee skills' improvement so that learners can take up tomorrow's social and environmental challenges
- To allow each and every one to find out about themselves, to anticipate broad professional horizons and build on their employability
Research
- To promote the academic freedom and develop pluralist research
- To play an ever more active role in the world's scientific conversation and in the socio-economic debates, by taking a stand on issues relative to value creation, and social and environmental justice
- To develop our training programs based on newly created knowledge
Functioning
- To turn our School into an innovative organization in terms of diversity and environmental protection
- To reflect in our practices a management model respectful of people and contributing to their development
- To commit all the School's stakeholders to an active community sharing emlyon's educational project