Executive Short Program
Gouvernance et Stratégie
- Paris – Jouy-en-Josas Campus
- Sep 21 2026
- 3 days
- French
- 5000 €*
Support the sustainability and growth of your family business with HEC Paris Executive Education programs. Our courses provide you with the keys to balancing performance, governance, succession planning, and long-term vision in an ever-changing environment.
The "Family Businesses" programs offered by HEC Paris Executive Education are designed to address the specific challenges faced by business leaders, shareholders, and next-generation family members involved in a family-owned company. Because these organizations combine unique economic, human, and wealth-related dimensions, our programs take a comprehensive approach that integrates strategy, governance, leadership, and succession planning. You will explore the success factors that help preserve the family legacy while fostering innovation and growth. Led by internationally renowned faculty and enriched through peer-to-peer experience sharing, our programs provide practical tools to help structure relationships between family, ownership, and business. They also enable participants to anticipate generational transitions, strengthen cohesion among stakeholders, and ensure sustainable value creation over the long term.
Program Advisor Coaching & Management
By some estimates, more than 80% of AI projects fail to deliver the value expected of them. For Vincent Fraitot, those failures explain very little: it is the successes that are readable, and what they reveal goes well beyond technology. The HEC Paris professor on what it takes to scale an AI transformation.
Companies rush to define their purpose, sure it will fire up their teams and lift results. Rodolphe Durand has spent ten years checking whether that was true. Few people are better placed to know: he holds the Joly Family Chair in Purposeful Leadership at HEC Paris, runs its Purpose Center, and has spent over a decade on the boards of listed, private, and non-profit organisations - watching purpose decisions get made from the inside.
Trust gets you in the room. It does not make you indispensable once the room gets more technical than you are. Radisha Silva, VP at J.P. Morgan in Geneva, saw that gap coming and went back to school to close it.
AI and geopolitical turmoil have convinced many executives that the future is too unpredictable to plan for. Laurence Lehmann-Ortega, strategy professor at HEC Paris and co-author of Strategor, argues the reverse: permanent crisis is precisely why strategy matters again, on one condition, that you stop forecasting the future and start preparing for several of them at once.
*Net price, as HEC Paris is not subject to VAT. The prices indicated may vary depending on the intake dates. When multiple starting dates are available, the price shown corresponds to the first date listed. Program, faculty and course content are also subject to change.