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Specializations: Finance Specializations: Finance

The finance specialization builds on previously acquired knowledge and experience (most crucially in the core MBA finance courses) to provide MBA participants with in-depth insights into the world of finance, and to prepare them for their post-MBA career, in or outside the finance industry. 

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Finance is a “technology of civilization” that has shaped our society. Studying finance requires critical thinking, analytical skills, a passion for problem-solving, and a drive to always do better. Participants benefit from a consistent set of finance courses, combining academic courses taught by HEC research faculty and hands-on courses taught by practitioners. After following the courses in the Finance Specialization, the participants should be able to:

  • Deal with the main financial concepts used by corporate executives, senior bankers, financial analysts, asset managers, and entrepreneurs.
  • Select and apply relevant corporate valuation methods.
  • Know how different types of deals are negotiated and implemented in practice.
  • Understand how buy-out funds operate.
  • Learn about the structured solutions that investment banks offer to clients.
  • Understand the day-to-day reality of life as a fund manager.
  • And much more…

Job opportunities:

  1. Financial analyst at a private bank
  2. Portfolio manager at an investment management company
  3. Relationship manager in a financial services company
  4. Investment officer at a global development institution
  5. Associate in an M&A advisory firm
  6.  Senior consultant at a management consulting firm
  7. Business analyst at a consumer goods company
  8.  Account manager at an IT company
  9. Project manager, economist, corporate governance analyst, entrepreneur.

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DIVE INTO TOPICS SUCH AS:

  1. Corporate valuation techniques
  2. Structured finance solutions
  3. Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
     

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN THIS SPECIALIZATION?

  1.  Learn main financial concepts for a variety of industry roles
  2.  See how different types of deals are negotiated and implemented
  3. Expand your industry knowledge

     

Sample Courses

Advanced Corporate Finance • The Legal Dimension of Mergers & Acquisitions • Structured Finance • Private Equity Buy-Outs • Financial Modeling • Entrepreneurial Finance & Venture Capital • Fund Management in Practice
 

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