The Consulting Project
 

Level: fifth year

Objectives:

All students, after four years of training:
 

determine a subject (or are given one by their partner-company or organisation) and highlight the fundamental issue,
  lead a personal research on the high-lighted subject,
 

write a paper (approximately 80 to 100 pages excluding appendices) presenting the research and its conclusions.
 

present their work orally and defend their dissertation before a jury.
Subject:

The subjects of the dissertations are intimately related to IÉSEG’s fields of teaching: economics, finance, marketing, management control, management, strategy, human resources etc.

They must be of sufficient breadth and complexity to justify 400 to 500 hours of work, and the preparation of a 100p. document.

Dissertations whilst frequently having a strong practical element must also have an “academic” dimension.

Description:

The dissertation is a piece of applied research, most often in response to an issue raised by a company or organisation.

Guidance during the dissertation is two-fold, involving a manager from the concerned organisation and an IÉSEG teacher.
The teacher acts as an intermediary between the organisation, the students and the school.

The dissertation is prepared during the fifth year (from October to April) in parallel with classes.

Timetable:

 

In fourth year, while selecting their management internship, students choose their subjects and supervisors,
  At the beginning of November students submit subjects to IÉSEG for approval,
  In November: methodology seminar,
  At the end of November: submission of pre-dissertation to IÉSEG

The pre-dissertation consists of about a dozen pages laying-out the issue and the proposed approach, that is, including a work-plan and an initial bibliography.

 

At the beginning of December, students present their pre-dissertations to an approval committee,
  From December to April: production and writing of dissertation
  May and June: defence of dissertations before a three-person jury

 

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