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Specializing 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, 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 Université Paris-Saclay, HEC Paris has a permanent faculty, more than 4,400 students and over 8,000 managers and executives in training every year.
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Master in Management - Grande Ecole

The Grande École curriculum is divided into a generalist phase and a specialization phase. The first phase concentrates on business fundamentals, while the second one focuses on acquiring an expertise (chosen according to the professional goals of the student). The unique structure of the curriculum enables students to acquire both an excellent grounding in general management and expertise in a specific field. We firmly believe this combination is the key success factor in training future leaders and making a lasting impact on the careers of our students. The second year of the Master’s program Cycle is composed of a specialized and professional curriculum, and the composition of a research paper.

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Specialized Masters / MSc

Specialized Masters are one-year Master’s degrees taught in French. They are designed for students who already hold a Master’s degree in an other field and wish to specialize in a specific field of management. MSc programs are one-year Master’s degrees taught in English. They are designed for students who hold a Bachelor degree in any field from leading international universities.

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MBA

Custom designed for managers between the ages of 25 to 35 with previous work experience averaging 6 years, the MBA program addresses both functional and crossfunctional skills, through a fundamental and a customized thread to cover all areas of management in depth. Highly selective, the program has around 250 participants per year, from 52 different nationalities with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

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.

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Executive MBA

The Executive MBA is a transformational experience which offers senior managers and executives from all around the world the opportunity to select one of the 8 majors that take place in 14 international locations, and also to take classes in any of its different tracks in France or Qatar.

The EMBA is an interactive and intensive program developed to provide executives with an understanding of the international business context, as well as the comprehensive, practical and innovative knowledge and skills they need, to put their vision into action.

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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!

Executive Education offer training programs for business leaders and host over 8,000 executives and managers from the whole world, 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 gain perspective by revisiting your convictions, learn from the diversity of participants in the class 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 its customers a unique and unforgettable experience.

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PhD

Your Gateway to a career in research and academia

The mission of the PhD Program is to train top-level researchers in the major areas of management, and thereby faster the reputaion of HEC Paris in the best business schools in the world (MIT, Harvard; Princeton, LBS, INSEAD, Oxford, Cambridge,...). Since 2015, HEC Paris delivers the 'Doctorate in Management Science' degree in partnership with the University of Paris Saclay.

Intensive course training during the first two years

7 specializations in management

Close supervision by international, research-driven, young and renowned Faculty members

Full involvement in the research ethos of HEC Paris

Financial support for research visits and conferences

Tuition waiver and financial support for living expenses guaranteed for the first 4 years

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Summer School

We look forward to welcoming a new generation of leaders to our innovative and intensive Summer Programs.
Two offerings are proposed:
- The Summer School for university-level students or recent graduates who are eager for an academic challenge in one of 10 domains of expertise.
- The Youth Leadership Initiative for high school students who wish to develop their leadership potential.
We intend for participants to leave HEC Paris informed, equipped and inspired to take their learning into the world.

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The faculty is central to knowledge creation and dissemination at HEC. Our 108 research faculty (over 66% 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 affiliate professors bringing their academic and professional skills to HEC's students and program participants.

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.
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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.
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When piracy drives capitalism's evolution, by HEC Professor Rodolphe Durand

4 December 2012

First published in French to great critical acclaim and commercial success, The Pirate Organization: Lessons from the Fringes of Capitalism, is now published by Harvard Business Press Books (December 4, 2012).

The pirate organization, Rodolphe Durand - Harvard Business Press Books

Written by Rodolphe Durand, professor of strategy at HEC-Paris and Jean-Philippe Vergne, HEC PhD graduate, assistant professor of strategy at the R. Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, this book invites the reader to question common wisdom about capitalism and piracy.

In "The Pirate Organization", the authors argue that piracy drives capitalism's evolution and foreshadows the direction of the economy. Through a rigorous yet engaging analysis of the history of piracy—from the classic pirates of the Barbary Coast to today's digital and DNA pirates—, the authors show how pirates form complex and sophisticated organizations that change the course of capitalism. Surprisingly, pirate organizations also behave in predictable ways: challenging widespread norms; controlling resources, communication, and transportation; maintaining trade relationships with other communities; and formulating strategies favoring speed and surprise.

We could learn a lot from them--if only we paid more attention. Durand and Vergne recommend that rather than trying to stamp out piracy, savvy entrepreneurs and organizations should keep a sharp eye on the pirate space to stay successful as the game changes--and it always does.

Watch the movie "What is the Pirate Organization", on www.pirateorganization.com

Watch Rodolphe Durand's Interview on HEC Paris YouTube Channel