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Friday 14, June, close to 3000 people, including 1132 graduates of the Grande école, the masters programs (MS and MSc) and our doctorate programs, will be gathered on the HEC campus with their families for the Commencement Ceremony. Saturday 15, June will see the graduation of 900 MBA, Executive MBA ...

HEC Paris honored the memory of Yves Blin, one of its most generous donors, by unveiling a plaque in his name under one of the campus oak trees. 65 years after graduating from its ranks, Blin bequeathed close to €2 million euros to the school’s foundation.

HEC’s online education programs take on a new dimension in September 2019. That’s thanks to an accord signed with Ecuador and the University of Kassel. It provides online education in key sectors to over 30,000 Ecuadorian students in Quito and the Tena region near the Amazon forest.

A record number of participants enjoyed the 2019 Seed Entrepreneurship Summit on April 30 this year focusing on “investing in good”. The second edition at Station F “was bigger, broader and younger,” according to its organizers. It featured debates, innovation and startup awards and keynote ...

Bringing electricity to rural Africa, providing keys for the continent’s 100 best startups and harnessing the potential of African music. These were the highlights of the third edition of HEC AfricaDays which featured leading proponents from each of these fields, all offering “African solutions for ...

Huddled amongst the 49,155 runners of the 43rd Schneider Electric Marathon in Paris were eight Italian, Belgian and Luxembourger students in HEC colors. Their baptismal marathon on April 14 also raised €5,455 for over 100 Cameroonian primary school children.

HEC Paris, ArianeGroup and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a three-year partnership setting up a joint-Chair to study long-term economic tendencies and opportunities in Space Economy. The trio seeks to capitalize on rapid advances in materials science and the dramatic drop in cost of access ...

Jeremy Ghez has been chosen as one of the 40 top under-40s professors in 2019 by Poets & Quants.

HEC Crisis Challenge coordinated the second edition of its student-led crisis simulation on April 11-12 in a high-pressure exercise involving six business schools. 66 students, divided into 14 teams, grappled with four crisis scenarios with four going through to a media-centered final.

HEC Paris and its International Executive MBA degree earned a perfect score for career outcomes in the 2019 QS ranking aiming to identify business schools doing most to enhance the employability of their graduates. The worldwide classification, released April 16, saw HEC rise eight places up the ...