The École de Paris du management organises meetings. Each one is planned like an event whereby the subject, the speaker and the audience join forces to provide an original contribution to management issues. These include talks on new theoretical developments, accounts from professionals about situations where their skills were particularly needed, and so on.


A careful report is written up after each meeting so that those who were unable to be present can be accurately informed about the proceedings. These reports can be found in the Journal de l'Ecole de Paris, the Annales de l'Ecole de Paris and on the website. There have been over 600 speakers at the Ecole de Paris since its creation, ranging from directors or just workers, to company and public service employees or those working in associations, as well as French and foreign researchers. Each year more than 1,500 people attend at least one meeting and several hundred regularly follow the programmes.


The talks are organised into several programmes. Each one is limited to an audience of roughly twenty people, apart from the evening discussion events where there can be between 150 and 200 people.

• The monthly seminar Vie des affaires (Business Life) (created in 1989) examines the new forms of management in the face of the ever increasing tempo, tertiary activities, and internationalisation of business.

• The monthly seminar Ressources technologiques et innovation (Technological Resources and Innovation) (created in 1997) brings together decision-makers in R&D (Research and Development) who are confronted with the need to pinpoint and quickly put into practice skills which are present both within and outside the firm.

• The monthly seminar Vies collectives (Social Life) (created in 1997) looks at how people discover their identities by their activities within or without their professional lives.

• The monthly seminar Entrepreneurs, villes et territoires (Entrepreneurs, towns and regions) studies the way in which companies put down roots in local areas and looks at the factors which encourage the development of regions.

• The seminar Creation (created in 2005) studies the methods available which help define the surroundings favourable both for expressing individual talent and for creative dynamism in all activities of creation.

• The Management and business cultures (Managements et cultures d'entreprises) seminar, which was created in 2008, studies the way in which business styles and corporate mentalities interact, can be compared or alternatively confront each other during negotiations, project execution and in the daily functioning of multicultural teams.

• The five evening discussion events each year entitled Les Invités de l'École de Paris (Guest Speakers) (created in 1994) are open to and attract a large audience. They either tackle a topical subject from an unusual angle or are the forum for discussion of the work of an established author.

• The programme entitled Confidences (Working Breakfasts) (created in 1993) was a forum which allowed guest speakers to talk about lesser-known aspects of their management techniques.  

• The monthly seminar Crises et mutations (Crisis and Change) studied, from 1994 to 1996, the way in which public and private organisations organised and overcame changes which were sometimes sudden in order to withstand the pressure around them.

• The monthly seminar Fonctionnaires (Management of Civil servants) (in 1998 and 1999) looked at the management techniques used by state and public service employees in order to understand the management principles in state employment which help overcome frequently encountered obstacles.

• Every two months, the seminar Enseignement de la gestion (Gresup) (How to teach Management) (from 1992 to 2001) critically examined management teaching methods and training available for teachers. A book from the seminar is due to be published in 2002.