The McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA has not escaped the disruption caused by COVID-19. Resilient, the EMBA community has been able to adapt, particularly by listening to its students and graduates. Here are three examples. Human exchange above all While most university programs resumed virtually a few weeks after the start [...]
Wouldn’t our best business partners be our biggest competitors? Should we make a deal with the enemy? Radio-Canada brought together panelists and speakers from diverse backgrounds to present inspiring examples of collaboration, partnership and trust, as they are more than ever part of our reality: Louis Hébert, co-director, McGill-HEC Montréal [...]
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the program organized a cocktail, followed by a full-day conference on Building Future-readiness and an evening gala. Over 200 alumni joined us to celebrate this important milestone! A little history of the EMBA Professors Louis Hébert (HEC Montréal) [...]
More than a decade ago, a group of 32 experienced leaders from diverse backgrounds began a journey that would mark the next decade of their lives. Everyone who embarks on the EMBA McGill-HEC Montréal journey shows great courage by returning to school, but the participants of this first cohort [...]
Ten years ago, the leaders of two of Canada's most prestigious business schools, McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management and HEC Montréal took up the ambitious challenge of joining forces to launch the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA program. Professors Alain Pinsonneault (McGill) and Louis Hébert (HEC Montréal), pedagogical [...]
“Those that win the most are those that give the most” Advice from Elliot Lifson, Vice Chairman of Peerless Clothing and Patron of the McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA Class of 2020 Over a lunchtime conversation, Elliot Lifson, who will be following ‘his’ class throughout the year, shared his advice for how [...]
Whether you're 6 or 60 years old, going back to study, at a new school (two in this particular case), is always a stressful situation. The McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA back-to-school cocktail aims to reduce this stress, to promote networking, to build relationships between the different EMBA graduate cohorts, etc. On [...]
Angelica Potes, a 2018 McGill-HEC Montreal EMBA graduate, moved to Zagreb, Croatia last spring to work with Oradian, a financial inclusion company serving financial institutions in remote, hard-to-reach communities. As Head of Global Sales Operations, Angelica Potes drives the expansion of Oradian’s global community of visionary financial institutions through strategic [...]
Anne Marie Talbot, a 2016 HEC Montréal MBA graduate and founder of 17Aylwin, a personal assistant service, recently created a Women Entrepreneurship Scholarship for a HEC Montréal MBA student entrepreneurs. Having herself received a scholarship during her studies, she certainly saw the benefits. Anne Marie initiated the project by contacting [...]
Jean-François Bertrand, a 2014 McGill-HEC Montréal EMBA, has recently been appointed to Vice-President, Trading Systems at the Montréal Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX Group). Jean-François has 19 years of experience in exchanges, clearing houses and market surveillance environments. He studied in genetics and astronomy, before finding his professional [...]