High commercial studies (Paris)

History of the school

Difficult beginnings

The school of the High Commercial Studies opens its doors with 57 pupils the December 4th 1881, Malesherbes boulevard with Paris. Enough late compared to the other schools, like ESCP in Paris in 1819 or National colleges of business (ESC) of Le Havre, of Rouen and Lyon to the beginning of the year 1870. The school ambitionne then to be for the trade what the Central School is for industry . The frame of mind of the time is then with a better recognition of the role of the economy. Thus, Maurice Rouvier, Minister for the colonies, declares it during the inauguration:

Your work, Sirs, have a double merit: it proceeds of a high thought and fertilizes and it comes at its hour. I say that it comes at its hour because we touch at the time when questions of the economic order, commercial and financial have to take an increasingly big part| Maurice Rouvier, Minister for the colonies|Inaugural speech on December 4th, 1881

The beginnings are difficult: The school is little known, expensive and suffers from an easy reputation of school for children of good family. Illustration, between 1902 and 1904, the number of pupils drops by 401 to 277. The graduates are then still allowed of right. The introduction of a contest in 1892 tries to reverse this impression. Removed in 1906, it is restored in 1913. The direction also innovates by the introduction of an entrance examination in second year in 1921 or, the following year, the experimental introduction of the method of the cases. The courses remain however, as in the French of the time, very theoretical teaching. In 1938, the schooling passes from two to three years and the obligatory training course in company is introduced, and the level of the teaching staff is increased by the recruitment of holders of American MBA. In 1964, the rupture is incarnated by the displacement of the school on true a Campus with Jouy-in-Josas, inaugurated on July 9th, 1964 by the Général de Gaulle. It is one of the first schools to leave Paris to settle in vaster buildings in suburbs. The general evolution continues with the constitution of a permanent teaching staff which, from zero in 1962, passes to 79 in 1970. Agreements are also signed with foreign schools like ESADE (Spain), the Bocconi (Italy) or McGill (Canada). The accreditations AMBA, Equis and AACSB come to recognize this progress in the years 1990-2000. In 2001 group HEC launches TRIUM Executive MBA, program united with New York University and the London School off Economics.

In 1973, the entrance examination is opened to the girls and HEC Young girls disappears. In 1985, the girls account for 30% of promotion and in the years 2000 between 45 and 50%.

The doctoral program is born in 1975 but until 1985 the doctors must support their thesis at the university. It is into 1985 that the school obtains the right to distinguish the title of doctor. The teaching staff continues to develop and reaches 350 people in 1980, with like corollary a greater specialization: Creation of specializations “Finances” and “Contractors” in 1986. Corollary of the Big Bang and the explosion of the City , more and more students of this first specialization leave in England and, more generally, the students of the school abroad. In 2006, a third of the students left for their first employment abroad.

In addition the school develops the pulpits financed by companies (Deloitte, EDF, Toshiba,…) to multiply the bonds with these last. The purpose of foundation HEC, created in 1972, is specific to develop these bonds and the financing of the school by the companies, currently of 4,5 € million per annum.

Panel of formations

Group HEC proposes various formations with management:

the University for initial training, the School of the high commercial studies (School HEC)
the MBA of HEC, (Institute of higher learning of the businesses),

for the executives having a few years of experiment,

the specialized mastères HEC for the specialists in a field wanting to open in one year with the problems managers
the Executive MBA of HEC (Center of improvement to the businesses), for the executives and leaders already tested,
Executive TRIUM MBA, in partnership with the University of New York (Stern School off Business) and the London School off Economics and Political Science
the doctorate (130 graduate doctors)
training programs for frameworks and leaders within the pole " Executive Education" , including the CRC (Offsets of research of the heads of undertakings).

The course “University”

; Contest of access The students of university HEC are selected by contest. There exist two contests of access:

Admission in first year: after two years or more preparatory classes, in particular preparatory classes at the business schools (said, moreover, Prépa HEC ). A maximum of 380 places is proposed, for approximately 3 700 candidates. This contest is carried out in bond with the common Banque of tests (ECB) for the schools of management (die of commercial preparatory classes option S, E, T, and preparatory classes letters ENS A/L, ENS B/L, ENS L S H)
Admission in second year: 60 places make the object of a national competition, commun run with ESCP-EAP and the National colleges of business of province accessible to all the titular students from a license.

; International admissions the Service of the international admissions (SAI) has the role of recruiting foreign pupils of the following business schools: HEC, ESCP-EAP, EM Lyon and CERAM.

HEC selects exclusively, by the means of the SAI, the titular candidates of a nonFrench diploma (License (ex: Bachelor) obtained at least after three years of higher learning carried out out of France).

The students thus selected directly integrate the second year of the Program University, and see themselves allotting, at the conclusion of their studies, the diploma of the EHEC.

; Course The schooling with HEC lasts three years, supplemented one year optional of training course (increasingly practiced by the students). During the first two years, the students follow a joint base (finance, accountancy, marketing, human resources…) and of the courses of their choice, known as " électifs". Then comes to intercalate itself one year optional of in-company training. Then, in third year, the students specialize in a " majeure" (Marketing, legal and tax strategy, Finance, Contractor, economy, strategic Management etc).

The pupils must at least validate 40 weeks of training courses and 20 weeks abroad, these last being able the being in academic exchange or training course.

The major last created by HEC is major the " Management alter" who has as an aiming to wonder about the relationship between the company and the company, as well as the managerial evolutions which will result from this.

The best pupils of the University (signal 2%) are distinguished on the Liste from the President ( Dean' S Honor List ).

; Outlets August 1st

MBA

This one 16 month duration course is most international of Group HEC. He addresses himself to candidates having already a higher formation and a few years of track records. The characteristic of the program is its international character insofar as the participants come from many different countries, teaching which can be entirely followed in English. The Middle Age of the participants is 28 years. The MBA, following the example university, profits from programmes of exchange with other schools with international, the such Wharton School and Columbia Universty, Babson College (the USA) or the London Business School (the United Kingdom). The best pupils of the MBA are distinguished on the Liste from the President ( Dean' S Honor List ).

Mastères specialized

The accession with a specialized mastère is done after obtaining a diploma of higher education. The schooling of a Mastère specialized with HEC varies according to the selected mode (full-time or part time) and according to its duration. Obtaining the mastère specialized HEC gives right a diploma distinct from that from the University.

The specialized mastères are either under the responsibility of HEC, or under the joint responsibility for HEC and another establishment. The establishments entitled to deliver diplomas of mastère specialized in partnership with HEC are:

ESCP-EAP
the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of telecommunications (ENST or Paris Telecom)
the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the mines of Paris (ENSMP)
the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of aeronautics and space (Supaéro)

Four mastères profit from a particular organization: the pupils of mastères are mixed to the pupils of the University for whole or part of the courses. These mastères particular is:

Contractors
Strategic Management
Finance
Management & New technologies (Of the pupils of the ENST are also integrated into the ms)

Executive Education

Formation for managers and managers of undertaking August 1st

Seek

; Research centres Research with HEC is organized around ten poles sets of themes:

Behavior of the consumer
cultural Factors and management of human resources
organisational Forms, training and performance
Undertaken and company: management in question
countable and financial information: value and limiting
the innovation
Modeling and evaluation of performances of supply chains
Organization of the markets and asymmetry of information
Piloting and performance evaluation
Strategies of growth

The projects carried out by these poles receive the financial support of Foundation HEC.

Seven of these poles is active within laboratory GREGHEC (Grouping of studies and research in management with HEC), a unit of CNRS localized on the campus of school HEC.
HEC created with the Polytechnic school the INSEFI, an research institute and of higher education in economy and finance.
HEC is associated member of the Pole of research and higher education (NEAR) UniverSud Paris, and academic partner of world pole SYSTEM@TIC Paris-Area.

; Centers of studies specialized They are opened to the students and to the professionals: HEC European Institute, Institute HEC Start Up, the Club Finances International, HEC Eurasia Institute, the Center of Activity HEC Latin America, the Center of Activity HEC Europe Central and Eastern, CREATED it (Research center and of anglophone studies).

Since 2001,8 pulpits of teaching were created in partnership with large companies: Group Carrefour - Savings bank - Toshiba - Accor, Air France, the SNCF - Apple - Postal bank - Atos Origin - Deloitte.

Life coed

HEC is installed on a campus of 130 hectares to Jouy-in-Josas. The large majority of the students of first and second year live on the campus, which allows a life important coed. She appears in particular by the existence of more than 80 associations of which here a nonexhaustive list:

The Junior Undertaken

HEC Junior the Council is the Junior Undertaken of the school. It is about an association functioning like a consultancy. Its administrators, students of the school, are based on the courses exempted by their professors and on the experience gained during the twenty last years to put their competences at the service of their customers.

That it is for a study of satisfaction, the development of a strategy of launching, a market research, a business plan etc the administrators are adequate to answer many invitations to tender in very varied fields. HEC Conseil junior combines, by his structure, a serious engagement and a quality control pushed to satisfy its customers.

The goal of this association is to propose missions remunerated by the 2500 students of the campus (information retrieval, administration of questionnaires, translation, statistical processing…) to allow them to enrich their track records.

HEC Junior the Council is an autonomous entity but profiting from the support of the administration of the school as well as that of its teaching staff.

Former students

See also: List of former students of the High commercial studies, : Category: Former student of the High commercial studies (Paris)

The Association of graduates HEC account more than 32.500 members throughout the world. There are groups made up of graduates in 53 countries, but of old in good of other countries. According to a study carried out by the school of the mines of Paris, it is the fifth institution of higher education in term of former students presidents of the one of the 500 greater world groups.

List of the President

The Liste of the President of HEC Paris (or in Dean' S Honor List ) distinguishes the best pupils from each promotion of the courses MBA and University of the school of the High commercial studies of Paris (HEC Paris)

The list of the President is the honorary distinction highest granted by this school. Only the first 2% of the pupils of each promotion are eligible with this high distinction.

HEC Paris registers each year on the list of the president the pupils who were characterized by excellence from their academic results. Each year, at the time of the ceremony of handing-over of the diplomas, an honorary price is given to each novel member of the list of the president by Henri Proglio, chairman and managing director of Veolia Environnement and president of the council of establishment of HEC Paris and Bernard Ramanantsoa, managing director of HEC Paris. The list of the new prizes winner of the list of the president is also published in the notebooks of the newspaper Le Monde, in the edition in date of the ceremony of handing-over of the diplomas.

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