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Written by  Rachit Agrawal, MBA

Published on Fri, February 28, 2020 4:41 PM   Updated on Mon, April 6, 2020 9:36 AM   4 mins read

HEC Paris (French: École des Hautes études commerciales de Paris) is a global business college built up in 1881 and situated in Jouy-en-Josas, France. Among the most specific French grandes écoles, HEC Paris offers its leader Master in Management, MBA and EMBA programs, particular MSc programs, a Ph.D. program, and official training contributions.
HEC Paris is the establishing individual from CEMS – Global Alliance in Management Education and holds the triple accreditation (AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS).With ESSEC and ESCP, it frames the casual gathering ordinarily alluded as the 3 Parisiennes

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History

Set up in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce (CCIP), the École des Hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC) needed to be in the fields of the executives and exchange what Centrale Paris was in the field of designing. To pick up acknowledgment from the scholarly world, the school offered exercises like what was instructed in auxiliary training and not many classes in the executives.
In 1921, the school presented the case-based technique for the Harvard Business School; however the greater part of the talks stayed hypothetical. In 1938, the HEC program was extended to 3 years.
Because of French partnerships’ interest for North American style the executive’s instruction, toward the finish of the 1950s, the case-based technique was summed up, and a one-year class préparatoire was made to get ready for the placement test, which had gotten troublesome. A proof of the acknowledgment of the confirmation is that just 9% of HEC understudies likewise went to college in 1959, though 47% had done as such in 1929.

Programs

French understudies who went to a class préparatoire are shown principal administrative sciences during their first year at HEC. Courses incorporate financial aspects, bookkeeping, account, law, brain science, humanism, and arithmetic (models, activities research, and measurements). During this first year, understudies can spend a semester in a remote college (for example, Wharton, Bocconi University, Trinity College Dublin, University of British Columbia, and so on.). They can likewise try out a particular one-year program to get a four-year certification from a French college (see underneath).

Direct confirmations, including global understudies, enter legitimately into the subsequent year, where they start a serious business program. Courses incorporate corporate and market funds, bookkeeping, advertising, law, science, the executives, HR, and production network. Second-year understudies are likewise allowed the chance to burn through one semester in an outside college. Toward the finish of their subsequent year, understudies pick explicit majors and should go through a less severe application process.

To graduate, understudies are required to have eight months of temporary positions. Since this is typically troublesome throughout the late spring, numerous understudies take a semester or year off for their entry-level position, for the most part, between the second and third years. The last year of concentrate covers severe courses in the picked major.

Clubs

The HEC Student Council (Bureau des Élèves in French, or BDE) is responsible for the social diversion nearby. It is likewise responsible for planning all club exercises and speaking to the understudies before the grounds organization. The BDE sorts out week by week occasions.
The HEC MBA Council is responsible for every single social action identified with the MBA understudy body. It deals with the MBA understudies’ Piano Bar in the Expansiel (Building An), arranges and here and there reserves all MBA club exercises.

Campus

HEC is situated on a 110-hectare forest grounds in Jouy-en-Josas, 16 km. (10 miles) southwest of focal Paris, near Versailles. Jouy-en-Josas is served by the RER Parisian rural train and the nearby transport administration. The grounds is worked around a nineteenth century château, which is as of now utilized for Executive Education classes. 

Housing is given in one of ten residences (Bâtiments) giving essential yet outfitted rooms. Everybody eats together at the University Restaurant, which serves two dinners per day in a soup kitchen setting. Grande école and Specialized Master understudies have classes in the Bâtiment des études (Batzet), while MBA understudies study in an exceptionally assigned structure. There are three nearby bars: Le Zinc, which is situated on the second floor of the previous Cafeteria (or Kfet), Le Wunder Bar, which is situated on the primary floor beside the Kfet, and the Piano Bar, which is adjoining the MBA living arrangement corridor. The grounds additionally flaunts a few games fields, rec center offices and two lakes

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Rachit Agrawal

Author • MBA • 20 Years

Rachit believes in the power of education and has studied from the top institutes of IIIT Allahabad, IIM Calcutta, and Francois Rabelias in France. He has worked as Software Developer with Microsoft and Adobe. Post his MBA, he worked with the world's # 1 consulting firm, The Boston Consulting Group across multiple geographies US, South-East Asia and Europe.

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