PWC Luxembourg, partner of the MSc Data Science & Organizational Behavior

An engaging and relevant partnership for this new program dedicated to big data management

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The audit firm PwC Luxembourg has just signed an agreement with BSB to become the preferred partner of a new program launched this year: the MSc Data Science & Organizational Behavior (DSOB), which trains future leaders in big data management at a high level of expertise. Having already collaborated with BSB for many years and particularly keen on its graduates from the Audi-Expertise-Consulting sector, PwC Luxembourg is strengthening its ties with the School by investing fully in this innovative and strategic program, which includes around twenty students in its first promotion.

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PwC Luxembourg committed to the heart of the program's pedagogy

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By becoming a partner of the MSc DSOB, the prestigious audit firm will intervene at various levels in the educational process of the program. Thus, students will have the opportunity to work on practical cases specially provided by PwC Luxembourg. They will also be able to benefit from an exclusive module developed by the firm and attend a conference on the audit of information systems hosted by the company, which will also welcome students for a two-day seminar on its premises.

These professional enhancements will be complemented by collaboration on experimental work conducted by the LESSAC (Laboratory for Experimentation in Social Sciences and Behavioral Analysis), and of course a preferential circuit for internship and job offers.

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“Reinventing our society”

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” Now more than ever, data is on everyone's lips and is pushing the stakeholders in our society to reinvent themselves.” explains Vincent Ball, partner at PwC Luxembourg. ” Our jobs are changing rapidly in order to adapt to this new era. Our firm is primarily known for its qualities and its audit network, but the jobs in our Consulting and Strategy branch complement a wide range of business services in order to meet the various demands of our clients. ”

” This partnership will allow students to deal with a certain number of problems internal to our organization but also to consider certain concrete case studies based on the model of what is offered to our customers, and whose predictive recommendations will be presented in real customer situations, while hoping to see some students join us at the end of their MSc. ”, adds Vincent Ball.

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Know how to use data as a management tool

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Launched during the last school year, the MSc DSOB welcomes a first class of 20 students. Entirely English-speaking, it is designed to respond to the new situation of a world marked by the rise of artificial intelligence and is perfectly in line with the recent recommendations of the Villani Report: promoting multi-skills and combining technical knowledge with the use of data in a permanent relationship with humans.

Its content makes it possible both to master programming, and therefore to produce data, but also to know how to manage and analyze them in order to be able to use them as a managerial tool. It is aimed at both managers and engineers who will become skilful leaders in a world disrupted by the digital revolution. This emblematic program of the BSB Center of Academic Excellence in Behavioural Economics is based on LESSAC, the largest experimental economics platform in Europe, home to the best researchers in the world in this field.

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Photo: Vincent Ball (PwC) and Isabelle Demay (BSB) sign a partnership agreement, November 2018.