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
“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
For globetrotting Whitney Gore, EMBA ’22, work and school go hand-in-hand. She set the tone for herself early. In high school, she worked during the summers on a horse ranch in Montana and on construction sites around Edmonton, Alberta as part of a survey crew. The Canadian transplant then spent tireless undergraduate years living, studying,… 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
French hospitality giant Accor’s new VP of Sustainability and Transformation is Julie Allison, EMBA ’19. A Franco-British product of the University of Warwick and Sciences Po, the arc of her career has been crafted by more than a decade of highly diverse and unconventional leadership experience across the public and private sectors—and refined by her… Continue Reading
Even before she was among the ranks of HEC Paris Executive MBA participants, Ruba had the kind of upwardly mobile career anyone would be proud of. International experience of more than 18 years in marketing, sales leadership, business development and operations management, all within culturally diverse environments, attest to the clockwork achievements of her professional… Continue Reading
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
Bola Bardet, EMBA ’18, founded Susu, a healthcare startup, as an innovative solution to offer access to superior healthcare for the individuals in Africa that need it most. Though the germ of the idea was planted by personal tragedy, it came to fruition via careful tending at the HEC Paris EMBA. In December 2017, Bola… 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
International Women’s Day serves a distinct purpose: putting conversations about women’s achievements and gender equality issues into the limelight. To add to the conversation, we interviewed a few of the outstanding HEC Executive MBA women. These women are executives, entrepreneurs, rocket scientists, philanthropists, and government leaders – andhave shattered all manner of proverbial glass ceilings… Continue Reading
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