Overview

HEC international custom programs are tailored and delivered to the precise specifications of the customer company. The executive programs enable global organizations to apply the academic vision and real-life business consulting experience of world-class faculty to the concrete reality of their own enterprise.

By focusing senior executives on the essential issues which shape the way business is done in their sector and their own company, we equip them to:

• anticipate and handle change,
• design and implement new strategic orientations,
• work across different cultural boundaries,
• support organizational restructuring projects.

A flexible approach benefiting from our international network

We select from HEC’s renowned international faculty those specialists who are best equipped to assist executives in tackling the specific strategic challenges facing the customer organization.

Our executive development program design teams work with customer stakeholders to define content, delivery methods and scheduling to optimize the relevance and efficiency of the learning experience.

Where appropriate, the faculty team can be enhanced by the inclusion of leading professors from world-renowned business schools. Our customized programs can be delivered anywhere in the world, to suit the customer organization. By exploiting its extensive international partner network HEC Executive Education is able to develop and deploy executive programs throughout Europe, North and South America, Asia and the Middle East.

Some of our partners for international customized initiatives: Stern School of Business (New York University), London School of Economics, Babson School of Executive Education, Oxford Said Business School, ESADE-Barcelona, Fundaçao Dom Cabral (Brazil), Tsinghua University-Beijing.

Tangible results

We take care to ensure that learning needs are correctly identified and met. We also help companies to ensure that the learning of their executives and the knowledge and skills they acquire is translated into effective action. Thanks to innovative techniques such as faculty-facilitated action learning projects, dynamic ongoing distance learning support and the establishment of learning communities, companies gain greater commitment, innovative ideas, new paradigms and enhanced performance.

Financial Times Rankings, HEC No 2 Worldwide for Custom Programs

HEC Paris Executive Education is ranked #2 Worldwide for custom-designed programs for within a pool of 45 Top graduate Business Schools.
The Financial Times has published the 2009 results of its annual ranking of the world’s best Business Schools in executive education programs for senior managers and executives.
This survey concerns open-enrolment development programs as well as custom-designed programs. Mainly based on the satisfaction of participants and businesses, it highlights the quality and suitability of the programs, the coherence of what is being offered and the excellence of the teaching body.

HEC Paris Executive Education is ranked #2 worldwide and # 1 in Europe for its custom-designed programs for companies, for:
• the quality of the teaching of the international HEC Faculty.
• the adequacy of its custom programs, tailored and delivered to the precise specifications of the company.
• the likelihood that a participant would use HEC Paris again or use the school to do the same program again.

Partial list of HEC Executive Education corporate customers (Custom programs)

AAFG • AIR FRANCE - KLM • ALSTOM • AUTODESK • BERTELSMANN • BIOGEN IDEC • BOUYGUES • CASINO • CFPB • DASSAULT • DISNEY • EULER HERMES • GÉNÉRALE DE SANTÉ • GROUPE COLAS • GROUPE SUEZ GAZ DE FRANCE • INDIAN RAILWAYS • INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE • LEEM • MATMUT • MICROSOFT • NHH (NORWAY)• NEOPOST • PERNOD RICARD • PRINTEMPS • ROCHE • SAINT GOBAIN • SANOFI AVENTIS • SAUR • SIA CONSEIL • SUN MICROSYSTEM • TOTAL • UPSA BMS • VINCI