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Students and Faculty

Firms' Accounts & Restructuring Summer Program

Students in class

56%

Women

51

Nationalities represented

50% 

Student nationalities outside of Europe

22

Average age

48%

Post-bachelor's level

28%

Non-business background

(not Business, Management, Finance or Economics)

*Total Summer School 2025 Profiles

Some Students' Home Academic Institutions in 2025

  • University of Sydney, Australia
  • Vienna University, Austria
  • McGill University, Canada
  • University of British Columbia, Canada
  • FUDAN University, China
  • Tsinghua University, China,
  • Shanghai University, China
  • Copenhagen B. School, Denmark
  • Sciences Po Paris, France
  • TUM Munich, Germany
  • University of Mannheim, Germany
  • HKUST, Hong Kong
  • Ashoka University, India
  • IITB Bombay, India
  • Bocconi University, Italy
  • LUISS Business School, Italy
  • University of Tokyo, Japan
  • ITAM, Mexico
  • RSM, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • NUS, Singapore
  • ESADE, Spain
  • IE Business School, Spain
  • University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
  • Glion Inst. of Higher Ed., Switzerland
  • University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • Georgetown University, USA
  • New York University, USA
  • Imperial College London, UK
  • LSE, UK
  • Warwick B. School, UK
  • UCL London, UK
  • University of Cambridge, UK 

Student Stories

HEC Academy

In two weeks, I learned how to build financial statements from scratch, read them, create financial ratios, and analyze them.

 

I am an undergraduate student at IE University, pursuing Economics. As I was finishing my first year and combining it with...

Photo Sofiia Iagotska

Summer School

Accounts & Restructuring

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HEC Academy

Working alongside peers from some of the world’s best universities, I was immersed in a dynamic and high-performing cohort that challenged my thinking.

 

With an academic background in engineering and risk management, and a professional internship as a...

Photo Qinyuan Yang

Summer School

Accounts & Restructuring

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HEC Academy

Accounting is often described as the language of business and mastering it is essential for anyone who wants to succeed in the corporate world.

 

That is why I chose to build a strong foundation at the HEC Paris Accounts and Restructuring  Summer...

Photo Saverio Bellone

Summer School

Accounts & Restructuring / Private Equity

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HEC Academy

The professors made complex concepts accessible, while the practical emphasis on Excel gave me tools I could immediately apply.


My first encounter with HEC Paris came in Summer 2024, when I joined the Entrepreneurship and Digital Innovation summer...

Photo JP Ornellas Filho

Summer School

Multiple Summer Programs

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HEC Academy

You will delve deep into a specific field, learn to think critically from the best there is and become part of a life-long international community.


I am currently completing my MSc Management at Imperial Business School, specializing in finance. This...

Photo Åsa Rytter Huseby

Summer School

Accounts & Restructuring

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HEC Academy

Collaborating with students from diverse international backgrounds for two weeks immensely broadened my worldview.

 

I wholeheartedly recommend this program to anyone seeking a world-class education that goes beyond textbooks, and for those driven by a...

Student Vaishnav Ayush Sharma

Summer School

Accounts & Restructuring

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Academic Team 

  

Professor Olivier Levyne

As Academic Director of our finance and accounting Summer Programs, Professor Levyne oversees the portfolio and ensures consistency and evolution between the programs. His classes are enriched with diverse industry experts to complement the academics and ensure the real-world application of the content.

Professor Olivier Levyne has been teaching at HEC since 2007 and held the position of Affiliate Professor from 2013 to 2023. He joined the Education Track Faculty, as an Associate Professor within the Accounting and Control department, in 2024.

He has more than 30 years of experience in Investment Banking, initially in the Mergers and Acquisitions field, then as a Managing Director at CACIB, in charge of M&A and ECM operations within the financial institutions sector.

His teaching primarily revolves around corporate valuation, the market for control, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), financial accounting, financial institutions, financial and real options. He is responsible for teaching modules in the AFM, MEF, MAC and CEMS programs.

Olivier is also the Academic Director of the L'Oréal Academy that is dedicated to "Corporate growth fueled by deals with Private Equity funds". Furthermore, he is a regular contributor to Forbes magazine.

Olivier holds a degree from ESCP, a PhD in Economic Science and an Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) in Management Science; he is also qualified as a University Professor. He is an Officer of the Academic Palms, a national order bestowed by the French Republic on distinguished academics and teachers and for valuable service to universities, education and science.                                                           

 

 

PAST SPEAKERS

  • Hervé Stolowy, HEC Professor of Accounting, member of the Association Francophone de Comptabilité (AFC), European Accounting Association (EAA), American Accounting Association (AAA), and Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA).
  • Alice Roux, CEO & Founder Comco Consulting, HEC Paris graduate