HEC in the press

In an interview with Poets&Quants  on the school campus just outside Paris, Andrea Masini, Associate Dean of HEC Paris' MBA, says that in two years, the cohort of incoming MBAs will number 300 — a number that represents “critical mass” for recruiters.

Julien Manteau, director of strategy and global development for master’s programs at HEC Paris, comments on the challenge faced by students to find the time to prepare for the GMAT and on the importance of the GMAT's score to enrol in the school's Master in Management programme.

French universities producing the most employable graduates have been ranked by companies around the world in the Global University Employability Ranking 2018, published on Times Higher Education. HEC Paris gains the first spot in the ranking.

HEC Paris selects MiM candidates with less than 18 months’ experience, though most have already had a small taste of work in a company environment. The program at the French school is 18 months long, with participants having an average age of 23 and a 715 average GMAT score.

Many of the European business schools congregate a large number of Latin Americans, who value not only learning, but being part of a community. Benoit Banchereau, Director of Admissions of the MBA Program at HEC Paris, explains how the school helps to enhance the relationship with its international students and alumni, through the celebration of more than 450 events around the world each year and through numerous "cultural week" events on campus.

Alberto Alemanno, professor of EU law and policy at HEC Paris, comments on the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe's (Acre) real goals.

Foreign demand of housing has spillovers. If an oligarch buys a house, it drives up the prices of smaller properties nearby. A paper by Dragana Cvijanovic of the University of North Carolina and Christophe Spaenjers of HEC Paris finds similar effects in Paris’s property market. Foreign buyers, mostly from China, have been a force behind booms in the big cities of Australia and Canada.

Wintegreat is a student organisation that aims to integrate refugees and empower them to achieve their full potential. HEC Paris has partnered with this organisation to deliver a programme which, as well as intensive language courses, pairs participants with students and alumni. HEC Paris student Harry Daniel Gurth writes about his experience as a volunteer for the Wintegreat programme on the school's campus. 

How can big data save millions of lives threatened by a pandemic, a natural disaster or simply a poor diet? The answer is both straightforward and thought-provoking. It requires providing public access routes to the phenomenal amount of data we are amassing, processing and recycling, writes HEC Paris Jean Monnet Professor of European Law and Regulation Alberto Alemanno.

With a 17.5% acceptance rate, HEC Paris can rightly claim to admit fewer candidates from its applicants pool than Wharton, Chicago Booth, Northwestern Kellogg or Dartmouth Tuck. In the past year, some 2,231 candidates, a 5% increase over year-earlier volume, applied to HEC's MBA program.