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Specialized in education and research in management, HEC Paris offers a complete and unique range of educational programs for the leaders of tomorrow: Masters Programs, MBA, PhD, HEC Executive MBA, TRIUM Global Executive MBA and Executive Education open-enrolment and custom programs.

Founded in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry and founding member of ParisTech, HEC Paris has a permanent faculty of 115 professors, more than 4,000 students and over 8,500 managers and executives in training every year.
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Master in Management - Grande Ecole

The Master in Management - Grande Ecole Program is designed for students who hold a Bachelor’s degree in any field. The 1st academic year is comprised of general business courses; the 2nd academic year is devoted to the student’s area of specialization.
The school selects students that show the highest potential and then guides them towards the top careers in management. The vocation of the Grande Ecole program is therefore to train its students to become leaders, capable of anticipating changes in the world and of playing a responsible role within it.
HEC successfully meets this exciting challenge by:
- systematically registering all of the knowledge transmitted at HEC at the forefront of research, in all fields of management science;
- being up to date with the on-the-field practices and expectations of the businesses that the school has maintained extremely close relations with since its creation and developing leadership and entrepreneurial skills amongst the students;
- giving all its students the opportunity to have a more international outlook from the beginning and throughout their school life, whether this is through exchanges or double degrees or even on the campus itself, where more than 95 nationalities are brought together.

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Specialized Masters / MSc

The Specialized Masters and MSc provide students with a specialization in a sector or a function. Lasting 8 to 12 months and taught full-time, they are aimed at candidates, with little or no professional experience, who have graduated from higher education in France or abroad, and wish to acquire an expertise in a specific field of management.
Six programs are offered in English: MSc in International Finance (with one option in Real Estate conferring a double degree with the University of Wisconsin), Masters in Strategic Management, MSc in International Business, MSc in Managerial & Financial Economics, MSc in Marketing, MSc in Sustainable Development.
Five programs are offered in French: Specialized Masters in International Law and Management, Specialized Masters for Entrepreneurs, Specialized Masters in Projects Management, Specialized Masters in Intelligence Marketing, Specialized Masters in Media Arts and Creation.

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MBA

One program, two options: 16-month full-time MBA and 24-month part-time MBA.
The HEC MBA is divided into 2 phases. During the fundamental phase participants gain a solid foundation in 11 core business subjects. In the customized phase participants tailor the MBA to suit their individual career paths in selecting from a range of business concentrations, corporate experience and international exchanges.
Participants gain hands-on, practical experience through seminars integrated into the curriculum, such as the MBA Tournament and the off-campus leadership seminar at St-Cyr Military Academy.
The program offers participants a unique and valuable experience of being immersed in a student body of highly diverse nationalities, academic and professional backgrounds. Teamed with exceptionally talented peers, participants motivate each other to achieve, to realize their full potential and ultimately develop and sharpen their leadership skills.

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Executive MBA

A unique program: 8 majors • 5 locations • 1 single diploma

Specifically built to provide to the managers and to the executives around the world the opportunity to choose from eight majors, but also to follow their courses in five different international locations. The HEC Executive MBA is a program aimed toward senior executives around the world willing to accelerate and boost their career at the mid-term of their professional lives. The main values of our education program are based on strategy, change management, leadership and entrepreneurship.
The Executive MBA is conducted in Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, St. Petersburg and Doha and allows you to remain either in your home track throughout the program, or to take classes within different environments.
In order to fulfill the needs of the executives in today's world, we offer eight different majors: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Differentiation and Innovation, Global Business Perspectives, Aerospace & Aviation Management in an Energy-Concerned Economy, Telecom & Digital Business, Services and Luxury Management. These majors will allow participants to specialize themselves in a specific field and increase their knowledge in various sectors.

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TRIUM Global Executive MBA

TRIUM Global Executive MBA enables executives to understand the world, as it is today and will be tomorrow.

Ranked #3 Executive MBA worldwide by the Financial Times, it is a unique degree jointly awarded by 3 world-renowned universities: HEC Paris, London School of Economics & Political Science, New York University Stern School of Business.

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Executive Education

Speed up your career!

Ranked #2 worldwide for Executive Education by the Financial Times, we offer trainings for business leaders and host over 8,500 executives and managers from the whole world. Our mission is to assist companies in training managers, future managers and leaders.
Our desire is to offer executive education programs specifically built for managers and executives. They allow you to put into perspective by revisiting your convictions, enrich you thanks to the diversity of the participants and offer proximity and access to corporate issues. HEC Executive Education relies on the excellence of the faculty of HEC Paris, the expertise of its external speakers and the international reputation of its research in order to offer to its customers a unique and unforgettable experience.

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PhD

HEC Paris offers:
- a 4-year full-time doctoral program fully taught in English that meets the highest international standards
- a program which fosters originality, innovation and the ability to advance the frontier of management knowledge
- a first year dedicated to courses to give you a grasp of research skills and advanced conceptual frameworks in your field
- supervision by a world-class Faculty engaged in cutting-edge research
- placement at top-level academic institutions around the world.

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Faculty & Research
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- Publications
  
  Articles
  
  Books
  
  Working Papers
  
  Case studies
- Chairs and Centers
- GREGHEC (CNRS)
- Research Seminars
- Awards
- Research@HEC
The faculty is central to knowledge creation and dissemination at HEC. Our 115 permanent faculty (over half are from outside France) work on internationally acclaimed research in most of the major disciplines of management, reflecting the diversity of thought and cultures, the open-mindedness and the exacting intellectual standards promoted at HEC.
The permanent faculty is reinforced by 94 affiliate professors bringing their academic and professional skills to HEC's students and program participants, and 40 visiting professors each year who come to teach and carry out research alongside HEC's own professors.
All these professors enhance HEC's courses and programs through their research work, original teaching materials, and personal interaction with the business world; they contribute to corporate reflection on management issues and are involved in national and international scientific community debates.
Corporate Relations
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At HEC Paris, companies find what they are looking for: interns, young graduates, MBA graduates, executive education programs, professors to work with on research or teaching projects. Drawing from this positive experience, some of them decide to support HEC's development and become HEC corporate partners.

In 2011-2012:
- 2,000 internships
- 300 companies attending recruitment events on campus
- 20 Chairs and Centers
- 52 HEC Foundation corporate partners
- 80 Club Campus partners
- 8,500 Executive Education participants
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- News
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In the 'Press Room', find everything you need to know about HEC Paris, our programs, faculty, international relationships, corporate partnerships and life on campus. In the blink of an eye, discover what the press says about HEC with our latest news postings.
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About HEC Paris

Founded in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry, HEC Paris specializes in education and research in management sciences. As a leading academic institution in Europe and worldwide, HEC Paris offers a complete and unique range of education programs for students and leaders. HEC Paris has a permanent faculty of 115 professors, 4,000 students and over 8,500 managers in executive education programs every year.

A complete and unique program portfolio

Master in Management – Grande Ecole program: leader in Europe for several years, the Grande Ecole program recruits students with little or no professional experience through a rigorous admissions process, and guides them towards top careers in management.

Masters Programs -Specialized Masters and MSc- are designed for students at postgraduate level who want to acquire high-level expertise and professional know-how in their chosen specialization. They are aimed at students with little or no professional experience, who already hold a bachelor’s degree from a university in France or abroad.

MBA program: custom-designed for young managers with 6 years work experience on average, the MBA is a highly selective program which enhances their leadership potential to boost and change their career paths.

Executive Education programs: HEC Paris offers unique learning opportunities for managers and executives,
- TRIUM Global Executive MBA in partnership with New York University, Stern School of Business (NYU Stern) and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- HEC Executive MBA, offers 8 tracks in 5 locations (EMBA France, EMBA St. Petersburg, EMBA China Beijing /Shanghai, EMBA Doha) and 8 Majors
- HEC Executive Masters: HEC Oxford Consulting and Coaching for Change and Executive Masters in French.
- Open-enrolment and custom programs as well as tailor-made coaching services.

PhD program: designed for professor-researchers, the PhD is a highly selective program which offers high quality internationally renowned training in management sciences.

Cutting-edge Faculty and Research

HEC Paris has a full-time faculty of 115 professors, holding PhDs from the world’s most prestigious universities. 58% of the faculty is international.

60 books published in French and 16 other languages, among which: “Strategor”, “International Investment”, “Industrial Management and Logistics”
360 articles in refereed academic journals
930 presentations at academic conferences

In addition to the full-time faculty HEC Paris counts:

26 Emeritus faculty
94 Affiliate professors, generally prominent members of the business community who have established a long-term relationship with HEC Paris
40 Visiting professors from prestigious universities worldwide
700 lecturers

Privileged corporate relationships

HEC Paris maintains close relationships with the business world. This cooperation can take many forms and is tailored to companies’ areas of activity, as well as their research and recruitment needs. HEC Paris is a central partner to numerous prestigious multinationals which support HEC’s ambitions, participate in its strategic orientation, and provide a direct link between the academic and business worlds.
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View the list of corporate partners of the HEC Foundation

Specialized centers

HEC Paris also offers centers of specialized studies open to students and professionals, including: the Entrepreneurship Center, HEC Eurasia Institute, the HEC Europe Institute, the Finance Club, the Alternative Management Observatory and the “Society and Organizations” (SnO) Research Center.

Academic Partnerships

International exchanges, dual-degree programs, and joint-degree options are offered in partnership with over 100 prestigious partner institutions worldwide including: Freie Universität Berlin, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Faculty of Business Administration, Fundação Getulio Vargas-EAESP, the Graduate School of Management of St Petersburg State University, the IIM Ahmedabad, the London School of Economics, the National University of Singapore Business School, the Stern School of Business New York University, Tsinghua University School of Economics & Management, Oxford Saïd Business School, the Keio Business School in Tokyo and more recently the Technische Universität München.

Institutional alliances

HEC Paris is a founding member of ParisTech, a science, technology and management institute which brings together 12 of France’s most prestigious Grandes Ecoles: each of these select universities is recognized as the best in its domain in France. The complementary nature of ParisTech’s fields of excellence means that researchers, students and all institutional partners and companies get access to an exceptional pool of talent cutting across a full range of subjects.

HEC Paris is also a founding member of the Paris-Saclay Campus which brings together the best research institutions in France in a high potential science and technology cluster. Its ambition is to become one of the world’s top universities, in terms of knowledge produced and quality of teaching. In 2012, within the framework of the French government’s reform scheme for higher education, an international jury selected 8 laureates, amongst which the Paris-Saclay Excellence Initiative (Idex). HEC Paris is the only Grande Ecole business school to be part of an Idex in France.