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
A change is coming. Many companies, used to selling one-time projects, products, and services, realize they can analyze data gathered from clients’ use of their products, and offer a range of new, recurring services. When one is used to selling one-time projects or products, though, setting up new recurring business models may engender the following… Continue Reading
The name Tectona is derived from tectona grandis, the scientific nomenclature for teak, the coveted wood varietal synonymous with exceptional outdoor furniture, decking, and yachts. Teak’s tastefully understated luxury, along with with its unmissable timelessness, is very much imbued into the philosophy at Tectona, where Blanche Aloisi-de Crépy (MSc 1997, EMBA 2016) – rare in… Continue Reading
After 20 years of working on the buy side and on the sell side of the financial industry, this volatility arbitrage quant went back to school.
Over a career spanning two decades in Hong Kong and Tokyo, Jean-Noel Payer built up quite a reputation for himself as one of Asia-Pacific’s top volatility arbitrage quantitative traders. His LinkedIn page, for one, reads like a playbook in career progression for any aspiring hedge fund manager with lofty goals: Senior Equity Derivatives Trader, Senior… Continue Reading
Marie Skinner is Head of Life Sciences at B-Hive Engineering and is Academic Delegate for her intake.
“It was always my dream to do HEC Paris, ever since I was 16,” says Marie Skinner, Academic Class Delegate for the Executive MBA participants of EM2021. “I never actually thought they would accept me,” she laughs. For Marie, the long and winding road that led right to HEC’s doors has been as circuitous geographically… Continue Reading
Ponziani equipped herself with the tools she uses to drive growth at the European Space Agency by pursuing her Executive MBA.
When the gargantuan Ariane 5 rocket last blasted majestically into space from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) launchpad in French Guyana, Donatella Ponziani’s fingerprints were all over it. Not in the literal sense, of course; when not in the control room in Kourou, she was monitoring the launch from her desk in the nondescript Parisian… Continue Reading
Sebastien Bonneau is having a very successful year. The lawyer turned entrepreneur’s consulting firm All You Need For Growth (AYNFG), of which he is the founder and CEO, has closed over half a billion dollars in deals this year, a milestone which they had reached by July. He’s also just became a father for… Continue Reading
WAFIC NACCASH Senior Manager, Digital & Innovation – EY Doha Track Well there are so many! If I had to choose one, I’d say when I’ve won the elections for the class delegate, when I had really small window to build my network and showcase my work to other candidates to earn their confidence and… Continue Reading
Emefa De Souza came to the HEC Paris Executive MBA eager to make a career transition. The Engineer and Product Manager had been working at SFR Telecommunications for 11 years where she had carried out different roles and been promoted within the operations, engineering and services teams. After becoming fascinated with the marketing and business… Continue Reading
Virginie Lebidois had never dreamed of taking up a representative role during her schooling years, but a new daring spirit which she discovered during the EMBA gave her the courage to put her hand up to be the academic class delegate, a role that will stay with her for life. While I was leaving my… Continue Reading
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