One of the most common questions our EMBA applicants ask is, ‘when is the right time for an EMBA?’ The short answer: there is no “right” time for an EMBA. The decision requires reflecting on career goals and aspirations, and how an EMBA can support or accelerate that trajectory. HEC Paris Executive MBA: a snapshot… Continue Reading
Like all HEC Paris EMBA students entering the program looking to leverage its transformative leadership development potential, women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) sport impressive resumes long before beginning the program. But for HEC Paris students and alumnae in STEM, the simple act of pursuing and accomplishing their goals sets a positive example… Continue Reading
According to the industry publication, these newly minted alumni “personify excellence in through their contributions to the class, academic performance, extracurricular involvement, professional achievement, personal intangibles, or unique personal stories.” What follows are selected responses from Emma Kearny and Toby Tiktinsky, both members of the HEC Paris EMBA Class of 2022, as highlighted by Poets… Continue Reading
Ever since finishing my master’s in finance degree, I dreamed of doing an MBA. At first, I thought it would be a full-time MBA, but I was progressing quickly in my career, and I didn’t have the time or the desire to put it on pause. By the time I was 33, I had 12… Continue Reading
Émilie Viargues Metge’s (EMBA ’19) career has always maintained a tight orbit around luxury brands. Recently it paid off in a big way, when at 37, the EMBA alumna was named CEO of Christofle. She’s helming a brand that boasts a more than 200-year-old legacy, a bastion of French luxury and prestige in savoir-vivre that… Continue Reading
Rui Retagi, EMBA ’20, is, first and foremost, an energy enthusiast. The Mozambique-born consultant, polyglot, and entrepreneur is a 19-year veteran of energy and mining firms around the world. After breaking into the mining industry in Brazil and the United States, he made the leap— both in industry and in geography—to oil and gas in… Continue Reading
In a 2017 appearance on US business news network CNBC, Hubert Joly, then-CEO of American technology retail behemoth Best Buy, provided an inadvertent microcosm of his leadership effect and ethos. “We’ve become relevant again,” he beamed. It had been five years since his appointment as CEO. For the first time, Best Buy had been in… Continue Reading
“The EMBA really enabled me, I think for the first time, to stop and think about how I wanted to live my life more deliberately going forward.” “Fresh ideas come from the painful process of growth,” muses Bommy Lee, EMBA ’18. The Korean-Canadian transplant, recently ‘’officially French, and very happily so,” is gamely unspooling… Continue Reading
Before she ever set foot in an HEC Paris classroom, Mona Levacher, EMBA ’16, had her foot on the gas, so to speak. The product of Iran’s finest business and engineering schools, she cut her teeth at Renault before vaulting the corporate ladder at Hyundai, Faurecia, Groupe PSA, and Stellantis. Her 17-year career in the… Continue Reading
“Doing the EMBA helped me understand that I had the capabilities that I needed and helped me find solutions to my problems.” Entrepreneur Patrick Aisenberg, EMBA ’2016, has had an eventful year. In May, Linkbynet, the SaaS (Software as a Service) firm he and his brother founded 25 years ago, was acquired by Accenture as… Continue Reading
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