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HEC School of Management: Paris

HEC School of Management has continually attracted a special kind of individual highly capable and talented, innovative, entrepreneurial, ambitious and open minded. HEC ‘s aim is to train the world leaders of tomorrow.
Academic contribution, teaching high quality business education and serving the economy and the business community by providing them with the talents they need are HEC ‘s major responsibilities.

World-class research – conducted by their faculty of over 100 full-time professors – has not only cemented their strong reputation, but will continue to serve as the driving force of their development. Through their expertise and consulting activities, their faculty members are sure to further augment the international standing of HEC.

HEC offers an outstanding academic and practical education, the opportunity for personal growth, state-of-the-art facilities for working with others in groups, the environment in which to learn, and the confidence to lead and make critical business decisions.

Programs offered:

1) Masters Degree in Management
2) Full time MBA
3) Part time MBA
4) PhD in Management
5) Executive MBA
6) Executive Education

Masters Degree in Management:

HEC’s ambition is to develop top international managers and to prepare them for the challenges of a steadily evolving, multi-cultural business world.
Our mission is to enable students to:
Acquire the knowledge and experience that recruiting companies expect of HEC graduates.
Enhance personal development by devising their own educational plans from the multitude of choices offered: a wide range of electives, a programme that alternates between the classroom and the work place, choice of a specialization, as well as the time spent abroad.
Develop analytical abilities enabling them to master new situations in a changing economic and business environment.
Develop aptitude to work in an international environment.
Learn to work in a team.

The two-year Master of Science in Management is comprised of core modules, electives in management and general culture, a managerial behavior seminar and language modules (MSc I); a specialization and an in-depth research project (MSc II). All core modules of MSc I are taught both in English and in French. The MSc II specializations are taught in French, although some courses are given in English.
http://www.hec.fr/hec/eng/ecole/msc/msc.html

Full time MBA:

At HEC, they believe that leadership can be taught. They demonstrate our commitment to leadership by offering a program structure that is dedicated to the principles and practice of leadership, and by exposing our participants to successful leaders, as well as ample opportunities to develop and exercise their own leadership style.
At the HEC MBA, they have expanded the definition of leadership to include a mix of Analytical, Critical, and Experiential skills, applicable to a variety of multicultural environments. By prioritizing personal and professional growth, as well as individual, interpersonal, and collective skills, the HEC MBA offers a new model of management education that places value on the core human competencies that are so critical in today’s corporate culture.
http://www.mba.hec.edu/mba/site/academics/program_structure.19.html

Part time MBA:

In response to growing demand for greater flexibility from our program candidates and corporate partners, HEC Paris has launched a Part-Time MBA Program. This option is custom made for managers between the ages of 25 and 35 who want to maintain professional activity while raising their careers to an international level.
Our new Part-Time MBA Program offers a flexible way to boost your leadership potential and career profile in a microcosm of the world, where differences and diversity are valued as core components of learning in business education. This experience will refine your talents, build your character, and render your future more successful and fulfilling.

As Valérie Gauthier; Associate Dean of the HEC MBA Program explains, “understanding the needs of companies and individuals is one of our core missions. Their ambition is to offer high-profile candidates, who want to keep their current jobs, a unique opportunity to boost their careers and personal lives in an international and multicultural environment.” The HEC Part-Time MBA is the ideal choice for determined managers with the courage to learn and the ambition to take on leadership responsibilities.
http://www.mba.hec.edu/mba/site/part-time_mba/flexible_program_options/flexible_program_options.648.html

PhD in Management:

The Ph.D. program is based on an integrated curriculum:
• It provides students with training in methodology and theoretical courses, which will be essential for their thesis,
• An opportunity to work as a research assistant,
• The possibility for them to join an international university for a semester or two.
It recruits students with a Master Degree.
During the first year, students follow a demanding and rigorous training program that prepares them for research. They choose one of HEC’s specializations and prepare their dissertation project.

Specializations:

Finance
Accounting, Management Control & Organization
Organization & Supply Chain Management
Marketing
Human Resources & Organization
Strategy & Management
The following three years are devoted to:
• Preparing the thesis : theory, model, methodology, research protocol ;
• Empirical work : data compilation, interviews, surveys, analyses and tests, observations ;
• Drafting the thesis ;
• Defending and discussing the Ph.D. dissertation (all dissertations are available at the library).
http://www.hec.fr/hec/eng/doctorat/admissions/index.html

Executive MBA:

At a key stage in your career, you want to develop your corporate vision and international leadership skills. The HEC Executive MBA is a multi-site degree program that is designed to meet the needs of busy professionals.
Created from a European perspective, the curriculum addresses the international business landscape and dynamics. Yet it also takes into consideration the market conditions of each learning location.
With three innovative and flexible formats, the program is offered in several locations, and in several languages:

* Paris, Nice, Beijing and St. Petersburg
* One-day-per-week, End-of-week or Modular formats
* Bilingual French/English, English only, English with simultaneous Chinese translation.
http://www.exedhec.fr/frontEN/static/mba

Executive Education:

HEC Executive Education offers 7 Executive Masters (in English and in French). These programs are recognized by the “Conférence des Grandes Ecoles” and graduates are Alumni of HEC and can become members of the HEC Alumni Association. This powerful network is open to all HEC graduates, (The “Grande Ecole” (MSc), the HEC Executive MBA and the HEC Full-Time MBA, HEC Masters & HEC Executive Masters degrees).
Consulting & Coaching for Change (in partnership with the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Finance Management, Business Unit Management, Corporate Finance, Management (Supply Chain Management & Sales Order Management), Human Resources Management, SI and New Technologies Management, Marketing and Business Development.
http://www.exedhec.fr/frontEN/static/prog_diplomants

Campus:

The HEC campus is a forum for intellectual exchange, which promotes an open attitude towards other people and cultures. The international encounter starts here…

a multi-media resource center with 60 000 books and 736 journals, CDs, PCs, etc.
70 classrooms seating 8/10, 15/25 or 30/50 people
7 open-access computer rooms, 1200 networked PCs throughout the campus.
a 1600 m² sports hall (tennis, basketball, hand-ball, volleyball, badminton and climbing wall).
8000 m² of outdoor fields with 2 soccer pitches (1 hard surface and 1 turf) and 1 rugby pitch, 1 athletics track.
2 business bookshops.
a spacious center on campus for students with children.

Faculty:

The consistency of HEC’s range of programs is derived from a common permanent faculty of more than 100 professors, along with 57 visiting professors and 450 adjunct lecturers.
HEC’s full-time faculty hold doctorates from the world’s leading research universities (including US. schools such as Michigan, Stanford, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Cornell, MIT…). In the last five years, 40% of new faculty have been hired from abroad.
In addition to their teaching responsibilities, HEC’s faculty maintain a wide range of activities in areas such as publishing articles and books, carrying out research, organizing conferences and workshops, and engaging in consultancy (see Emerging Economies Newsletter), thus contributing to the advancement of business management knowledge.
http://www.hec.fr/hec/eng/professeurs_recherche/p_liste/index.php

Tuition fees and Expenses:

Before coming to France, students should ensure that they have sufficient funds to cover all fees and living expenses. The following sum is the estimated minimum cost that a student may expect to pay for one academic year at HEC School of Management Graduate program excluding ancillary expenses (e.g. travel, books, personal computer, etc.)

Tuition Fees 2007 – 2008 :

(payable in two instalments) € 12,000 for European Union citizens
€ 16,000 for non-European Union citizens
Rent: € 3,900 (€390 x 10 months)
Meals: € 3,000 (€10 x 300 days)
Compulsory Health Insurance: € 192 * (2007-2008)
Personal Civil Liability Assurance: € 150
Miscellaneous: € 858
ESTIMATED LIVING EXPENSES : € 8,100

Note that off campus rooms & board could be more expensive.
* EU students are exempted from this payment but must provide an E128 or the European Health Insurance card.
Placement and recruiters:

Placement statistics of the year 2006:
Average salary in France – 47 304 €
Average salary abroad – 69 046 €

% of students covering all employment sectors and bonuses

80 001 € 14,5 %

Some of the notable recruiters:

• ARKOPHARMA UK
• ARQUITES
• ARTHUR D.LITTLE
• BANK OF AMERICA
• COSMOSBAY VECTIS
• CREDIT AGRICOLE
• CREDIT SUISSE
• DALKIA
• DANONE FRANCE
• DELOITTE
• DEUTSCHE BANK AG
• ERNST & YOUNG
• ESPERIA
• EUROGROUP
• HERBERT SMITH LLP
• HORS MEDIA COM
• HSBC
• IBM EUROPE IMEA
• MORGAN STANLEY
• TNS SECODIP
• TORRES CHINA
• TOTAL S.A.
• UBS INVESTMENT BANK
• UNIBAIL MANAGEMENT

Ranking:

Financial Times 2008 #18
Financial Times 2007 #18
Financial Times 2006 #22
Financial Times 2005 #37
Financial Times 2004 #53

Notable Alumni:

Henri Proglio –CEO,Veolia Environnement
Henri Lachmann-CEO, Schneider Electric
Baudouin Prot –CEO,BNP Paribas
François-Henri Pinault-CEO, PPR
Pascal Lamy- Director-General of the World Trade Organization

Dominique Strauss-Kahn -Director-General of the International Monetary Fund
Michel Crozier- Sociologist
Pierre Brochand -Director of the DGSE

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