In December 2017, Bola Bardet got a panicked phone call from her mother in her native Benin. Her father, a longtime sufferer of hypertension, had just had a heart attack. The prognosis was not good; he needed immediate surgery. “In Benin, a country with 10 million people, there is not a single cardiothoracic surgeon,” Bola… Continue Reading
Luca Zaccagna, EMBA ’20, left his career-long corporate comfort zone in order to refresh and recalibrate his small-and-medium business acumen at HEC Paris EMBA. He flourished in the classroom, and his work colleagues noticed the immediate EMBA impact at work. When it was their turn to take the EMBA plunge, they knew who to turn… Continue Reading
Imagine, for a moment, a library. Silent reading rooms, rows of leather-bound books, and perhaps a bespectacled librarian may come to mind. Images redolent of nostalgia and perhaps personal meaning if you’ve spent time in libraries studying or researching. For many, libraries represent places of poignancy, even if they haven’t stepped foot in one recently.… Continue Reading
A depiction of the English End-of-Week March intake, as painted by participant Audrey Chapuis.
When the HEC Paris EMBA March intake convened on Zoom for their first module, they were given a preview of what to expect by Professor Pierre Dussauge in his first-day opening remarks. “In an EMBA program, the people in the program have a fairly significant career already behind them,” he began, offering characteristically scalpel-like precision… Continue Reading
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