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  • EMBA Alum Takes the Entrepreneurial Route to Pivot from Fossil Fuels to Renewables

    Thierry Gahamanyi, EMBA ’19, founded his startup, MAGMA Energy, in the effort to reduce the production costs of gas for renewables. The idea for MAGMA Energy came gradually to the 41-year-old over a successful, 18-year career in negotiating and justifying purchases of biomethane injection stations for Engie and GRDF, two French energy behemoths. There, he… Continue Reading

    Posted on November 29, 2022
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  • How the HEC Paris EMBA Helped Me Launch My Own Energy Consultancy

    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

    Posted on January 27, 2022
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  • HEC Paris EMBA in Hand, Patrick Aisenberg’s Firm Linkbynet Acquired by Accenture

    “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

    Posted on September 27, 2021
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  • EMBA Participants Lending Wisdom, Know-How to HEC Paris EPV Circle Entrepreneurs

    Oftentimes, the most difficult part of entrepreneurship is knowing how to start. This is the niche that Maxime Arnulf, MBA ‘21, and Armin Rachwalik, MBA ’22, wanted to fill when they launched the HEC Paris EPV (Entrepreneurship, Philosophy, Value) Circle, a 35-person cohort that offers a laser-focused first entrepreneurial step for HEC Paris students and… Continue Reading

    Posted on August 30, 2021
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  • MBA Programs Professor Spotlight: Corinne Dauger

    Since her debut at HEC nearly 13 years ago, Professor Dauger has consistently ranked among participants’ favorite professors in exit surveys. This is of course a testament to her aptitude as an instructor, but also to an astonishingly well-rounded professional background; her résumé glitters with the requisite polish of a multifaceted graduate of HEC Paris’… Continue Reading

    Posted on June 7, 2021
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  • How My EMBA is Helping Me Empower the African Diaspora

    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

    Posted on May 31, 2021
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  • How to Maximize Your Time at the EMBA with Atalian Asia CEO Roland Salameh

    Roland Salameh has been the Singapore-based ATALIAN Asia CEO for a year, after having spent most of his career in Europe, Africa and Middle East. Still new to Asia, he arrived during a pandemic with the challenges of navigating a diverse region under extraordinary circumstances. “Singapore is a very progressive country and running a business… Continue Reading

    Posted on April 12, 2021
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  • Bringing Back the Diaspora: Alum Uses his EMBA to Help Reverse the African Brain Drain

    Lawyer, HR Managing Director, and EMBA alum Joel-Eric Missainhoun heads Africsearch, an Abidjan-based HR consultancy. Its mission, he says, is “to bring young professionals living in Western countries back to Africa.” “We want to bring back the diaspora.” According to the AFD (Agence Française de Developpement), a French government non-profit, the African diaspora in France… Continue Reading

    Posted on March 18, 2021
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  • Going Beyond Borders: Why the HEC EMBA Was My Next Logical Step

    The richness and diversity of student experience before entering the program is a hallmark of the Executive MBA program at HEC Paris. In his rich life and professional experiences, the well-travelled René Azeez, EMBA ’22, works at Toronto’s vaunted MaRS Discovery District, embodies that idea perfectly. He explains why the HEC EMBA is the right school… Continue Reading

    Posted on January 27, 2021
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  • HEC Executive MBA alum Henrique Sigolo went from classic finance at General Electric to running FP&A for Amazon Brazil.

    How my Executive MBA Helps Me Run Amazon’s Financial Planning in Brazil

    “I already had a pretty great role,” Henrique Sigolo says of his career before beginning his Executive MBA at HEC Paris.  “So, if my next step was going to be going back to school, I was really only considering the top programs.” And given his CV alone, Henrique would make a lot of sense as… Continue Reading

    Posted on December 17, 2020
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