Integrating social responsibility into the specialization courses of Finance masters: the need for balance.

Summary Social responsibility is on the rise, both in companies and in management schools. However, training in this area is most often achieved by adding general courses dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility under multiple names (sustainable development, business ethics, etc.) to curricula and training programs. Thus, highly technical specialties such as finance are slow to integrate responsible management practices into their teaching. This form of implementation, more in line with the transversal and holistic nature of CSR, also seems more likely to train future managers who are effectively responsible. In order to verify this, a pedagogical experiment was carried out with 142 students in a Master's degree in finance at iaelyon, a public university management school. The experiment consisted of a responsible investment game that allowed us to analyze the investment behavior of the students over a period of four months. The use of extra-financial information by the students was studied through the level of responsibility of their portfolios. An in-depth analysis and discussion of both expected and atypical results was then conducted, leading to both theoretical and practical perspectives in terms of CSR training.