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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.
Programs
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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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- Press Releases
- News
- Events
- Press Kit
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.
If you're looking for a logo, photo or someone to contact, you can also find it here!

HEC Alumni network

The HEC Paris Alumni network is among the largest in Europe with 45,000 Alumni based in 113 countries. It was founded in 1883 to develop a powerful and dynamic lifelong connection to the HEC Paris community. The alumni network promotes global awareness of the HEC Paris brand and supports HEC Paris' future development. Its first mission is to facilitate exchange and experience-sharing among its members within a dynamic and fraternal network which counts over 450 entities (51 professional groups, 69 overseas groups and 25 clubs). HEC Alumni also organizes over 1,000 events each year across the globe, and provides one-on-one career coaching with a thousand experimented mentors.

Revue Hommes et Commerce #348 HEC © Nicolas Reitzaum

A FEW HEC ALUMNI…

The 45,000 alumni are in all sorts of sectors and lines of work around the world. Such diversity is precious. The following list is, of course, non exhaustive…

Industry

Jean-Paul Agon, CEO, L’Oréal
Nasser Al Ansari, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Qatari Diar, and Undersecretary of Qatar’s Office of the Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs
Jason Araghi, President, Green Beans Coffee Company
Francis Bouygues, Founder, Groupe Bouygues
Isabelle Guichot, CEO, Balenciaga
Bruno Lafont, CEO, Lafarge
Guy Morgan, Former Chairman and CEO, BlueStar Energy Solutions
Didier Pineau-Valencienne, Honorary President, Schneider, Chairman of the Investment Committee, Sagard
François-Henri Pinault, CEO, PPR (Gucci, YSL, Puma…)
Guillaume Poitrinal, CEO, Unibail-Rodamco
Henri Proglio, CEO, EDF
Jean-Dominique Sénard, CEO, Michelin
Song Dong Sheng, President, Sinohydro Corporation Limited
Wang Zhentao, Chairman, Aokang Group

Finance / Insurance

Jean-Luc Allavena, Partner, Apollo Management International
Jean d’Arthuys, Director, Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement, President of HEC Alumni
Joseph Audi, Chairman and CEO, Interaudi Bank
Carl Braun, Chairman of the Board, Unibank SA and Groupe Financier National (GFN), Haiti
Henri de Castries, CEO, AXA
René Proglio, Chairman, Morgan Stanley France
Baudouin Prot, Chairman, BNP Paribas
Jacques Richier, CEO, Allianz France

Services

Pierre Bellon, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Sodexo
Daniel Bernard, Chairman of Kingfisher and MAF Retail Group, President of Provestis, President of the HEC Foundation
Mercedes Erra, Chairwoman, Euro RSCG France and Co-CEO of BETC Euro RSCG
Mireille Faugère, CEO, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris
Philippe Foriel-Destezet, Honorary President, Adecco
Pierre-Antoine Gailly, President, Paris Chamber of commerce and industry
Stéphane Richard, CEO, France-Télécom
Pierre-Frédéric Roulot, President & CEO of Louvre Hotels Group

Digital Business

Pascal Cagni, Former General Manager and VP for Europe, Middle-East, India and Africa, Apple
Hubert Joly, CEO of BestBuy
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, Founder and CEO, PriceMinister
Dan Serfaty, CEO of Viadeo
Rick Thompson, former Corporate Vice-President of Microsoft
Stéphane Treppoz, CEO, Sarenza.com

Media

Emmanuel Chain, Journalist, Producer and Managing Director of Elephant & Co
Claire Chazal, Anchorwoman on French TV channel TF1
Louis Dreyfus, Chairman of newspaper Le Monde
Rémy Pflimlin, CEO, France Télévisions
Alain Weill, CEO, NextRadio

Politics

François Hollande, President of the French Republic
Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization
Abdoul M’baye, Prime Minister of Sénégal

The « one and only »

Jean-Pierre Dick, Skipper
Maurice Herzog, Mountaineer and Explorer
Pierre Rosanvallon, Historian, Director of studies at EHESS, Professor at Collège de France
Kalpana Sankar, nuclear physicist and CEO of Indian NGO Hand in Hand

HEC HONORARY DEGREES

The following personalities received the HEC Honorary Degree:

José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission
Jacques Delors, former Minister, former President of the European Commission
Bill Gates, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, former President of the French Republic
Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, former President of the USSR
Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric
Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
Aleksander Kwasniewski, former President of the Republic of Poland
Samuel J. Palmisano, CEO of IBM
Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission
Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of Germany
Abdoulaye Wade, former President of the Republic of Sénégal
Jens Weidmann, Président de la Deutsche Bundesbank