Program Year of the Master's Year 2 in Sustainable Performance
Mandatory Courses
- Introductory seminar
Introductory seminar
Ects : 3
Total hours : 18
Overview :
During this introductory seminar, we will define sustainability and situate the concept in a socio-historical perspective.
A business case led by our corporate partner CGI on public transport organization will introduce CSR stakes as a transversal matter.
Coefficient : VAL
Learning outcomes :
- Understand organizational stakes of CSR
- Apprehend the role of management control in implementing and controlling CSR policies
- ARE
ARE
Ects : 6
Total hours : 20
Overview :
This course is a group project for students over the term, in collaboration with the ARE (Association pour le Retournement des Entreprises), with other CARF students.
It comprises a two-day training on different aspects of turning around companies (Audit, legal, change management, banking, crisis communication etc.). Students groups of 5 work on a real-life business case of a turned around company, overseen by a mentor from the ARE. Each group issues a diagnosis of the company's troubles and puts forward a plan for action presented in front of an 8-member jury, including a member of the studied organization.
Coefficient : 1,25
Learning outcomes :
- Issue a diagnosis on a company to turn around
- Suggest out-of-crisis recommendations taking salient stakeholders into account
Assessment :
30% on teamwork
30% on report
40% on final plan presented to the jury
- Sustainable Finance
Sustainable Finance
Ects : 3
Total hours : 21
Overview :
Course in partnership with Grant Thornton
Coefficient : 1,25
- Business Ethics
Business Ethics
Ects : 3
Total hours : 21
Overview :
This course will provide an overview of Business Ethics, from a philosophical and sociological point of view. The course delves into how business ethics can be implemented in organizations and influence employee behavior. It presents the techniques and tools involved in normative control in organizations and how to link organizational culture to ethics.
Coefficient : 1
Learning outcomes :
- Link different aspects of control such as strategy and values
- Implement and control ethics in organizations
- Accounting for sustainability: internal reporting
Accounting for sustainability: internal reporting
Ects : 3
Total hours : 21
Overview :
Internal technique of control for sustainable development (lifecycle analysis, carbon assessment, introduction to CARE)
Coefficient : 1,25
Learning outcomes :
- Redefine a business model based on CSR requirements
- Master accounting techniques to change perspective on corporate activity
- Regulation and lobbying in CSR
Regulation and lobbying in CSR
Ects : 3
Total hours : 24
Overview :
Two units:
- Lobbying for sustainable development
- Introduction to environmental law for managers
Coefficient : 1
Learning outcomes :
- Articulate control problematics at regulation - organizational level
- Understand the influence of lobbying practices for sustainability
- Acquire a basic toolkit for legal aspects of environmental law in organizations
- CSR Audit
CSR Audit
Ects : 3
Total hours : 21
Overview :
Course in partnership with Mazars
Coefficient : 1,25
Learning outcomes :
- Get familiar with the CSR audit methodology
- Understand how CSR and financial audit relate to one another
- Situate CSR audit in a "audit society" as a legitimation process
- Governance
Governance
Ects : 3
Total hours : 21
Overview :
This course will introduce how governance relates to strategies in the organization and how they can impact management. Specifically, different type of organizations and recent denominations such as mission-led companies or B-Corp come with specific responsibilities for organizations.
Coefficient : 1
Learning outcomes :
- Understand the different governance structures and how they relate to CSR obligations
- Identify and recommend strategies for governance
- Institutional integrity
Institutional integrity
Ects : 3
Total hours : 21
Overview :
This course will look into organizational processes for the prevention of of fraud, harassment and corruption in organization. These social risks are increasingly key in maintaining corporate integrity and managing reputational risk for organizations.
Coefficient : 1
Learning outcomes :
- Recommend control processes in organizations to prevent social risks
- Develop an organizational culture for corporate integrity
- Identify and resolve conflicts in the organization
- Dissertation Methodology
Dissertation Methodology
Total hours : 12
Overview :
This course provides a methodology to help students construct their research proposal for their master's dissertation. It will cover the structure of the dissertation, explain how to conduct research for academic articles and expose different data analysis methods.
Learning outcomes :
- Conduct an online academic research for articles
- Construct a problematic
- Design a research proposal, with adequate correspondance between problematic and methodology
Mandatory Courses
- Management control for sustainability
Management control for sustainability
Ects : 3
Total hours : 24
Overview :
Two units:
- Management control for alternative environments (Circular economy, non-profit, NGOs)
- Public management
Coefficient : 1,25
Learning outcomes :
- Adapt management control techniques to contingencies
- Grasp specific aspects of performance for non-profit, NGOs and alternative business models
- Understand how sustainability can impact public management and democratic stakes
- IFRS and CSR
IFRS and CSR
Ects : 3
Total hours : 21
Overview :
Green taxonomy, EFRAG and reporting policies
Coefficient : 1,25
Learning outcomes :
- Master technical skills for latest regulations in accounting
- Understand the regulation process for green regulation
- Banks and ecological transition
Banks and ecological transition
Ects : 3
Total hours : 21
Overview :
- Investment matters (ESG, balance sheet decarbonation...)
- Ethical matters (credits etc.)
- Control systems in banking
Coefficient : 1,25
Learning outcomes :
- Understand sustainability stakes in banking
- Organizational approach to ecological transition
Organizational approach to ecological transition
Ects : 3
Total hours : 21
Overview :
Organizational theory and change management to implement CSR-driven policies
Coefficient : 1
Learning outcomes :
- Articulate organizational policies with CSR stakes
- Reflexive thinking
- PSL Week
PSL Week
Ects : 3
Total hours : 24
Overview :
PSL Weeks are open to all PSL Students and provide them with the opportunity to access another field in an interdisciplinary perspective, for a week-long course.
Coefficient : VAL
Learning outcomes :
- Discover another academic domain
- Reflexivity : linking own expertise with another course
- HR for Managers
HR for Managers
Ects : 3
Total hours : 15
Overview :
Providing students with basic HR tools to manage and be managed
Coefficient : 1
- Soft Skills
Soft Skills
Ects : 3
Total hours : 12
Overview :
Learning to recognize your motivational levers
Coefficient : VAL
Learning outcomes :
Learning to recognize your motivational levers
- Master's dissertation
Master's dissertation
Ects : 6
Overview :
The master's dissertation provides students with the opportunity to investigate in-depth a problematic based on both academic research and fieldwork. It enables students to become experts on a domaine, and link their professional experience with the academic outcomes of the program.
Coefficient : 1,25
Learning outcomes :
- Develop a research proposal
- Academic writing in English
- Internship
Internship
Ects : 3
Overview :
Internship of 4 to 6 months, mandatory, in France or abroad
Students with a permanent job offer are exempted from completing an internship
Coefficient : VAL
Learning outcomes :
Professional induction
Academic Training Year 2024 - 2025 - subject to modification
Teaching Modalities
This program, only in initial training, lasts for 368 hours across both semesters. The program is held full time at the Paris Dauphine campus. The first semester lasts from September to December and the second semester from January to March, followed by an internship. The program is mostly taught in English. However, in order to get the most out of our project-based pedagogy, business projects in partnerships with corporations are taught in French.
Program specificities:
- Courses taught by corporate partners (such as Mazars and Grant Thornton, Carbone sur Factures), academic specialists and professional experts of their field
- Project-based pedagogy: restructuring, carbon accounting, consultancy projects, CSR implementation.
- Master’s dissertation to bridge problematics from the internship with theoretical knowledge
- Mandatory internship of 4 to 6 months (except if permanent job offer)
- Participation in a class trip
Internships and Supervised Projects
Initial training track’s students must complete a 3 to 6 months long internship which can take place abroad to further the international benefits of this English-taught program.
Students with a permanent job offer can be exempted from this internship.
Students participate in a class-wide project based on real business cases for turning around companies.
Research-driven Programs
Training courses are developed in close collaboration with Dauphine's world-class research programs, which ensure high standards and innovation.
Research is organized around 6 disciplines all centered on the sciences of organizations and decision making.
Learn more about research at Dauphine