This past summer, HEC Paris Executive MBA participants took part in the Outdoor Leadership Seminar for the first time. The seminar is a highlight of the HEC Paris MBA schedule. It is designed to improve team leadership skills through a series of increasingly difficult tasks. Decision-making and leadership skills are put to the test, far… 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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The luxury industry has a unique set of challenges to hurdle. The future promises new technologies, new generations, and new business models; as such, luxury cannot remain stagnant. At the same time, it must continue in its fundamental pursuit of differentiating itself from premium brands; luxury strategy aims to wriggle free from price sensitivity and… 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
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
What follows are selected responses from Carolina and David. The rest of their answers, as well as the full Best and Brightest Executive MBA’s of 2021 feature from Poets & Quants, is available via the link below. Carolina Schmollgruber Carolina, who is the VP Global Communications at Lancome– part of the L’Oréal Group– is a… Continue Reading
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