Among the last tasks of the Executive MBA is completing the exit survey. It is the moment fresh graduates of the intense, 15- to-18-month program share their experiences, thoughts, and advice for future EMBA participants. Their comments — from the lengthiest and most long-winded to the bluntest and most brief — run the gamut of… Continue Reading
Dominique’s story is one defined by ambition, determination, and self-belief. Born in France to Congolese parents, her family moved to the Republic of Congo when she was 10. There, she attended a French lycée in Brazzaville, Congo’s capital and most populous city. “Growing up and going to that school, I had friends from all over… Continue Reading
New Financial Models SaaS-oriented business models have a very specific way to look at costs, recognize revenue and perform financial analyses. The excellent website The SaaS CFO is a great way to build hypotheses for costs and revenues: Costs: Service (R&D, support, maintenance, hosting, account management and client success salaries), Sales (sales and marketing salaries,… Continue Reading
It was an unforgettable beginning for the 73 participants of the HEC Paris Executive MBA English Modular 2022 Intake (EM2022). The intake, representing 38 different countries and averaging 37 years old, represents the cream of the crop of their chosen professions. The participants average 14 years of professional experience, much of it spent in the… 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
If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that no eventuality can ever be counted out. In business, as in life, expecting the unexpected is crucial to success. In an uncertain world, those organizations that wish to survive will have to ask themselves a simple question – how can they quickly develop the agility required of successful… Continue Reading
Daniel Porot, one of Europe’s leading pioneers in career design and job hunting and a regular EMBA careers workshop presenter, recently enumerated his time-tested techniques for a disruptive approach to the job hunt.
In the current state of affairs, the prospect of landing any job at all may seem to be an outlying event. Daniel Porot, one of Europe’s leading pioneers in career design and job hunting and a regular HEC Executive MBA careers-workshop presenter, recently enumerated his time-tested techniques for a disruptive approach to the job hunt.… 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
HEC Executive MBA alum Henrique Sigolo went from classic finance at General Electric to running FP&A for Amazon 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
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