An international week like the one we have just enjoyed could be summed up as follows:
Figures and data first: delivered; 15 thesis defences; 66 professors present from Cameroon, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Portugal, Senegal, Switzerland and the United Kingdom; doctoral students and doctors from Australia, Canada, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, …; a faculty meeting with 45 colleagues present on a Thursday evening in Paris; 120 guests at the Trianon Palace for the graduation ceremony…
Followed by memories: a community of supportive professors; exceptional defence sessions; remarkable strategic meetings with the launch of the DBA book; speeches by Eric Cornuel and Xavier Durand ; seminars involving lively discussions; doctoral students happy to be fulfilling their dream, the room wondering if I was joking when I asked the new doctors for a plan to communicate their research results within 48 hours; the magnificent setting of the Trianon Palace…
Michel Kalika
President of Business Science Institute