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Executive Master

Executive Master in Management - Strategic Management - Paris Executive Master in Management - Strategic Management - Paris

In your role as a current or future senior manager, learn how to master all the necessary tools to define and implement an original strategy that creates value. Successfully manage its deployment in a volatile and uncertain environment by taking into account all the key stakeholders - customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and the natural and social environment. Develop your personal leadership skills and galvanize the talent of your teams to innovate by capitalizing on the digital revolution and the challenges of energy transition.

Place(s):

Paris – Jouy-en-Josas Campus

Duration:

16 months (9 modules over 36 days)

Format:

In-class

Next start(s):

Apr 20 2026
Sep 28 2026

Language(s):

French

Cost:

48 200 €*

Objectives

  • Analyze the situation of a strategic unit and develop a responsible strategy
  • Manage the strategy of a business unit and optimize its responsible performance 
  • Lead teams and manage innovative projects within a learning and value-creating organization

Program

  • Executive Certificate "Management d’une Unité Stratégique" (MUST)
  • Executive Certificate "Strategy in the C-Suite"
  • Executive Certificate "Dirigeant PME : Innovation, Impact & Croissance"
  • Module 1: Piloter l’exécution de la stratégie de l’entreprise
  • Module 2: Approfondir les nouvelles clés de succès de la réussite
  • Module 3: Appliquer la stratégie en milieu concurrentiel
  • Module 1: Développer son potentiel de leader
  • Module 2: Management de l'innovation
  • Module 3: Diriger dans l'incertitude

Profile

Who is this program for? Is it right for you?

Participant Profile

Company directors and strategic business unit managers, operational or functional directors or managers planning to take charge of a strategic business unit in the short or medium-term, entrepreneurs with short or medium-term plans to take over or create a company.

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Prerequisites and Admission Criteria

Have 5 to 10 years of professional experience in management

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Career opportunities

  • Profit Center or Business Unit (BU) Director,
  • Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Managing Director (MD),
  • Project Director,
  • Director of Operations,
  • Founder,
  • SME Director
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Participant Satisfaction and Success Rate

4,7 / 5*
*Average satisfaction rating given by participants (on a scale from 1 to 5) over the past year.
Success rate, observed over the same period: 92%
Overall employment rate at 6 months: 97%
Employment rate in the targeted profession at 6 months: 71%

Faculty

Christopher HOGG

Affiliate Professor, HEC Paris

Our role as leaders is increasingly complex and demanding—ethical and responsible, focused on innovation and performance, eco-responsible, and resilient. These challenges cannot be met alone without engaging our teams and fostering genuine collaborative leadership around a shared and innovative strategy.
Christopher Hogg
3min12s
A WORD FROM THE ACADEMIC DIRECTOR

Learning methods & Evaluations

The learning approach revolves around conceptual and methodological input, which the participants appropriate through individual work, sharing experiences with the other participants, business case studies, simulations, an interactive business game and practical application in the form of concrete individual projects. Developing and writing a professional thesis, with the support of an HEC Paris tutor, concludes the program.

Writing and defending a professional thesis, with the support of an HEC Paris tutor, concludes the program. Exclusive feature of the major : Benefit from a unique and exceptional training session with the GIGN (National Gendarmerie Intervention Group).

Admission

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This program is accessible to individuals with disabilities. Please contact us to discuss any additional needs or to obtain the Public Accessibility Register.

Tuition Fees and Funding

The program fee includes tuition and meal costs during training hours (lunch and breaks).

Not included: dinners (except in specific cases), transportation costs, and accommodation costs (except in specific cases).

Funding options: Depending on your profile and the program you choose, several funding options may be available to you. Visit our funding section for more information.

Personal Training Account (CPF): This program may be eligible for funding through the CPF, in whole or in part (depending on the selected core curriculum), with the training linked to a certifying program registered in the RNCP. The details can be clarified with the training consultant during the interview. 

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Special cases: HEC alumni holding the Infinity Pass benefit from a 30% discount on this program. 

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Program Eligibility - RNCP

RNCP*: This program (in its version with the Executive Management certificate of a strategic unit, in the common core) prepares candidates for the certification “Director of Strategic Unit” listed under file 38435, registered at Level 7 of the RNCP (French National Register of Professional Certifications) by France Compétences on 12/20/2023 (certifying body: Établissement d’enseignement supérieur Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris).
*National Register of Professional Certifications

  • Possibility of validation by competency block through the 3 Executive Certificates that make up this program. However, no bridge is provided toward another Master’s degree.
  • To obtain the certification, the candidate must validate all 3 competency blocks.
  • Program (in its version with the Executive Management certificate of a strategic unit, in the common core) eligible for VAE (Validation of Prior Experience).

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CHRISTINE COLLONGUES

Program Advisor Management & Strategy

collongues@hec.fr
+33 (0) 1 39 67 94 57
Christine Collongues