Executive MBA Russia (St Petersburg)

HEC Executive MBA

At a key stage in your career, you want to develop your corporate vision and international leadership skills. The HEC Executive MBA is a multi-site degree program that is designed to meet the needs of busy professionals.

Created from a European perspective, the curriculum addresses the international business landscape and dynamics. Yet it also takes into consideration the market conditions of each learning location.

With three innovative and flexible formats (One-day-per-week, End-of-the-Week and Modular), the program is offered in several locations, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai and St. Petersburg.

The Major in Aerospace and Aviation is an optional specialization offered within the Paris formats of the HEC Executive MBA.

Executive MBA Russia (St Petersburg)

A unique opportunity to gain insight into two thriving areas of the European business world, the HEC and GSOM (Graduate School of Management of St Petersburg State University) have developed this groundbreaking EMBA. Taught by world-class HEC and GSOM faculty, visiting professors from partner institutions and renowned experts, the program exposes participants to a diverse range of business practices.

Launched as part of the Russian National Priority Project in Education, GSOM is one of the most internationally recognized Russian business schools and the only Russian member of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS).

HEC’s partnership with St Petersburg State University’s Graduate School of Management (GSOM) is an exceptional opportunity to benefit from the experience of two leading business schools.

Target Audience

Target: Executives, senior and mid -level managers.

Key Features

• Teaching responsibility shared by HEC and GSOM • Taught by HEC, GSOM Professors, 8 modules are held in St Petersburg, 2 modules in France, 3 internationally: Belgium, USA and Asia • An individual project • A company group project • Only 13 weeks out of the office over a 16-month period

Curriculum

With a strong general management focus, the program covers the following themes:

• Strategic Marketing • Accounting and Finance analysis • Mastering Operations • Mastering Performance • Corporate Finance • Human Resources Management • Competitive Business Strategies • Corporate Strategy • Management of Technology and Innovation • Strategic Implementation • Leadership and Change Management

Admissions

Application form

You need to include a resume, your company's organizational chart, two letters of reference and your TOEIC or TOEFL score. Contact your Program Advisor for further details.

Pre-admissions

Each candidate will meet a Program Advisor to discuss your profile and professional project.

Selection criteria

A discussion of your profile will be addressed:

• Rich and substantial professional experience (at least eight years) • Track record of ability to influence your company's strategic decisions • International experience • Concrete ambition to add to your managerial responsibilities • Your professional and personal goals as well as their coherency with the HEC Executive MBA program.

A pre-admissions committee will do an initial vetting of your application.

HEC Paris - Executive Education: Training business leaders for more than a century

The Grande Ecole concept was first introduced into France with the aim of providing the French industrial, administrative and military elite with postgraduate education. Today HEC Paris (Hautes Etudes Commerciales) ranks among the cream of the Grandes Ecoles and trains students and business leaders from all walks of life, coming from more than 30 different countries.

HEC Paris was founded in 1881 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIP), with the purpose of training students in management practice to cope with the growth in industry and booming financial markets.

In 2009, HEC Paris Executive Education is ranked #2 Worldwide for custom-designed programs for within a pool of 45 Top graduate Business Schools.

HEC Executive Education is #5 Worldwide for all executive education programs as well: it has moved up six spots in the worldwide ranking in the last year.

HEC Paris - Executive Education

Your success is our ambition. Our challenge is to meet yours.

Our business is to help you and your company grow.

A learning program should be designed to match your ambitions, and our solution puts you right at the heart of the learning process. Indeed, we take your experience, add it to that of our professors, experts and members of the business community, and create a context of mutual learning.

We want to provide value rather than merely the acquisition of knowledge. To do this we incorporate three fundamental values into our courses:

- direct access to ‘management producers’ In concrete terms, our programs are run by professors who also conduct research and publish their results. We give you access to this work to help you gain new insights into your own experience.

- keeping an open mind Step back, review your convictions and put them into perspective. Take the diversity of the other participants and grow as a person.

- close links to corporate life In the degree programs, you carry out projects of your own design meeting your personal as well as your company’s goals. When the results of the project lead to new markets for your company or better operational methods, the return on investment is plain for everyone to see!

Given in French, English and Chinese, our Degree Programs, Open Enrolment Programs and Custom Programs are delivered in France and all over the world.

The learning programs themselves are all internationally recognized, either through accreditation or simple reputation.

There is the renowned AMBA, Equis and AACSB triple accreditation . But there are also the Financial Times rankings which put HEC programs among the world’s best: Trium Global Executive MBA developed jointly with NYU Stern and the London School of Economics is ranked number two worldwide, and HEC Paris has been rated number one European Business School, all criteria taken together.