The ISM MBA is designed for young professionals who combine a strong academic record with some business experience, and who want an opportunity to go global. Whoever you are and wherever you come from, you can be sure that ISM students and faculty will broaden your horizons by showing you the challenges managers confront in other parts of the world-and the solutions they've discovered. Young professionals come to ISM to get that edge in the job market that only an international education brings, and by coming from different continents, cultures and professional backgrounds, they teach each other how to work in a global world.

ISM's intensive one-year MBA grounds students in the vital disciplines of management: corporate finance and development, accounting and entrepreneurship, human resources management and marketing. The pillars of any successful business are conveyed clearly and forcefully through a series of seminars, which combine real-world cases with rigorous theoretical analysis. Students also have the opportunity to specialize by choosing a topic for their MBA thesis that is particularly relevant to their careers.

The ISM Master of Business Administration is a fully accredited, comprehensive, one-year program consisting of 33 credits in seminars, as well as a Master's thesis. The three annual intakes for the MBA program are January, April and October.

MBA candidates are expected to complete their coursework at ISM Paris over a period of one year. For more information concerning the specifics of this program, or to arrange a personalized program, please contact the registrar.

Part I: The MBA Seminars
The MBA's core consists of a series of seminars, all of which take place at 1a, avenue Lowendal in Paris' 7th arrondissement. The core includes 20 fundamental courses in the following subjects: International Business, Management, Finance, Marketing, and Information Technology. Upon completing the core program, Students possess a solid understanding of the topics and issues that form the basis of international business theory and practice.

Part II: The MBA Thesis
Conducted under the close supervision of an ISM-approved thesis advisor, the MBA thesis should be an original project with bearing on current international business theories and practices. The student formulates a thesis topic, which must be approved by the ISM Thesis Director and Associate Dean prior to writing the thesis.

Once the thesis has been completed, the student must submit it to the ISM Thesis Committee for approval. Following Committee approval, and provided that the 33 credits have been completed, the student is eligible to receive the MBA diploma.

Part III: International Continuation
Certain outstanding students fulfilling the degree requirements of the ISM MBA will be offered the opportunity to study with ISM's international partners: St. John's University (SJU) in New York and Temple University Japan in Tokyo. Graduates of the MBA program have the option of continuing their studies in a two- or four-week certificate program at one of these three institutions. Some additional professional experience-a maximum of two years-may be required before MBA graduates are eligible for the international programs.

Corporate Development
This seminar is designed to expose students to the constant preoccupations of the Chief Executive of a corporation and his senior colleagues in assuring the quality of future earnings. The motto is "Develop or Die." This underlines corporations' need to continually assess which activities will be providing these future earnings. We look at the systems which must be in place to enable both the review of the profit performance of current activities and the identification of future opportunities. In particular, we examine a case study of a contested acquisition bid of a quoted company in order to study the motives and methods of making such an acquisition.

Corporate Finance
This course describes the theory and practice of finance. It is true that managers learn how to cope with routine problems, but the best managers are also able to respond rapidly to change. This requires a sound knowledge of current financial theory. Throughout the course, we use sound financial theory to solve the practical everyday business problems that we face as managers; not just as financial managers but also managers from other corporate functions. It is centered on looking at ways to deal with the financial decisions facing today's corporations. Good financial theory helps us understand "how" businesses function.

Entrepreneurship
Students will be exposed to various "real world" entrepreneurial ventures in this course through various case studies. They will learn to identify "aspects of success" for new ventures as well as "aspects that may impede success." By the end of the course, students should be able to analyze new entrepreneurial ventures and determine important factors that will help contribute to their success or failure. Students will learn about business plans and how a business plan can contribute to the success of a new entrepreneurial venture.

Human Resources Management
The overall goal is to prepare the manager to utilize the human assets of the organization in a manner that maximizes his or her contributions to organizational performance. Emphasis will be given to understanding differences and similarities of individuals and groups, with careful examination of individual and group values, attitudes, and behaviors. Equipped with this understanding, the manager should be able to operate comfortably and successfully in today's complex workplace. The instructor will use a combination of lecture, discussion, and group experiences and exercises, promoting active rather than passive learning. The course of study will involve forming small teams, with each group seeking to maximize its learning and expertise in an international management setting.

Management
As organizations face increasingly competitive and complex business environments the nature of what constitutes an effective organization is becoming a vital question. Hierarchy is dead, but is there still a place for the hierarchical organization? Teamwork is today's essential ingredient, but in knowledge-based economies, are individuals the key to success? Decentralization is all the rage, but can centralization still add value? How can modern organizations respond to the increasing complexity they face on all fronts? Students will be able to describe a number of important issues that appear to influence organizational effectiveness; they will learn to recognize and reflect on the interdependencies, influences and trade-offs between these issues; and they will come to understand how the concept of organizational effectiveness is constantly changing and being shaped by changing societal and other macro-environmental factors. The module will be supported through a mixture of development methods ranging from guided background reading, short lectures, group work and problem solving, and the analysis of business videos and case studies.

Marketing
The aim of Marketing is to explore the theory and practice of Marketing in a range of business environments. It shows how Marketing has evolved as a business discipline and examines the opportunities, challenges and issues it faces today - both from a management perspective and from an external "societal" standpoint

Seminars Scheduled to be Offered in Paris

International Business:
International Business Law
International Comparative Corporate Law
Entrepreneurship
Corporate Development
International Finance
Management:
Human Resources
Multicultural Management
Organization Policy Management
Change Management
Risk Management
Finance:
Accounting & Finance
Corporate Finance I
Corporate Finance II
Marketing:
International Marketing I
International Marketing II
Strategic Marketing Management
Marketing Research
Technology:
Management Information Systems
Internet & The New Technologies
E-Commerce

ISM provides top-level business programsfully accredited in the United States and Europe at a very competitive rate. When measuring the real value of ISM—our excellent professors with first hand business experience, dynamic international students, and partnerships with some of the best universities in Asia, Europe and the US—prospective students should also compare our tuition fees with other international business schools offering fully accredited degrees. ISM tuition is significantly more attractive than other leading business schools while offering programs of equal quality.

Individuals are allowed to pay tuition fees in either one lump-sum payment or in payment plans over 4 installments.

If a student chooses to pay his entire tuition in one payment, he or she is eligible for financial assistance of 10%, or 1,560€. This brings the total lump-sum payment to 14,040€.

If a student chooses to pay his or her tuition over 4 installments, he or she will pay 4 equal installments of:
3,900€

Additional tuition fees apply to international continuation programs.

Students fulfilling the degree requirements of the ISM MBA might be eligible to pursue further studies with ISM's international partners: St. John's University (SJU) in New York and Temple University Japan in Tokyo.

New York Summer Program: 4 weeks - 4,400€
Tokyo Program: 2 weeks - 2,200€


These rates include the financial aid ISM offers to those MBA students selected for International Continuation.