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
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
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
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
Hubert Evariste Vieyra and Maryse Lokossou, both alumni of the HEC Paris Executive MBA, were named among the French-African Foundation’s count of 100 Young Leaders this year. The list is the result of some 3,000 applicants across 39 different sectors; all are between the ages of 28 and 40 and hail from 53 countries. The… 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
Gartner, a research and advisory firm, released a workplace survey in 2018 that found that 80% of employees feel they lack the skills required in their current or future roles. Suffice it to say, for organizations jostling for position on their sector’s cutting edge, re-skilling workforces is an urgent task. Andrew Saidy, EMBA ‘2022, and… Continue Reading
When he started at the HEC Paris Executive MBA, Luca Zaccagna was, like many of his colleagues at the Whirlpool Corporation, a company “lifer.” There, the Italian national would rise to Head of Supply Chain Operational Excellence, spearheading EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) supply chain strategy. “It was like home,” he says of… 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
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