Structure
The program is divided into 4 segments totalling 54 credits.
Segment 1: Acquire fundamentals
Duration: 7 months (32 credits)
Explore and master management tools and practices as part of a team. You will acquire advanced skills that will help solve real, complex business problems in all types of organizations and businesses.
Fundamentals
- Analyzing Financial Information
- Deployment of Tactics in Marketing
- Ethics and Social Responsibility
- Finance: Financing
- Finance: Investment
- Macroeconomic Environment
- Management Accounting and Performance Measures
- Management Simulation
- Market Structure and Competition
- Operations Management
- Organizational Behavior
- Organizational Design and Innovation
- Politics and Influence in Organization
- Strategy Analysis
- Strategic Marketing
Integration activity: HEC Challenge
This course will enable you to synthesize, integrate and apply the knowledge acquired on the fundamentals through the carrying out of a mandate with a company or an organization.
Segment 2: Refine your strategic thinking
Duration: 3 and a half months (12 credits)
Build on the fundamentals in line with your career goals.
You can:
- Follow one of the four specializations and obtain a certification in addition to your diploma;
- Create your personalized pathway.
Each option offers the possibility of taking courses from the following categories:
- Managing Projects (preparation for PMI certification exams);
- Creative Destruction Lab (supporting the development of a tech start-up);
- Campus (immersion in a foreign business culture or group cycling adventure to explore sustainable business models in Québec).
Sustainable development and strategy
To obtain the associated certification, you must complete a total of 6 courses:
- 1 compulsory specialization course;
- Minimum 3 optional specialization courses;
- Maximum 2 electives.
Compulsory specialization course
Optional specialization courses
- Climate Change and Strategic Management
- Managing Social Impact Projects and Organisations
- Organizational Transformation
- Sustainable Degrowth: Theory and Practices
- Sustainable Finance
- Sustainable Supply Chain
Electives
Managing Projects
Creative Destruction Lab
Campus
- MBA International Campus
- MBA Campus Bike tour
Other options
Any courses from other specializations.
Finance and strategy
To obtain the associated certification, you must complete a total of 6 courses:
- 1 compulsory specialization course;
- Minimum 3 optional specialization courses;
- Maximum 2 electives.
Compulsory specialization course
Optional specialization courses
- Capital Markets
- Financial Decisions of the Firm
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Strategy and Internationalization
- Strategy and Marketing Intelligence
- Sustainable Finance
- Value Creation in Small Business
Electives
Managing Projects
Creative Destruction Lab
Campus
- MBA International Campus
- MBA Campus Bike tour
Other options
Any courses from other specializations.
People management and strategy
To obtain the associated certification, you must complete a total of 6 courses:
- 1 compulsory specialization course;
- Minimum 3 optional specialization courses;
- Maximum 2 elective courses.
Compulsory specialization course
Optional specialization courses
- Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship
- Leading Successful Teams
- Negotiation Skills
- Organizational Transformation
Electives
Managing Projects
Creative Destruction Lab
Campus
- MBA International Campus
- MBA Campus Bike tour
Other options
Any courses from other specializations.
Digital transformation and strategy
To obtain the associated certification, you must complete a total of 6 courses:
- 2 compulsory specialization courses;
- Minimum 2 optional specialization courses;
- Maximum 2 electives.
Compulsory specialization courses
- Digital Transformation: Managing Disruption from Information Technologies
- Organizational Transformation
Optional specialization courses
- Business Analytics
- Managing Data and Artificial Intelligence
- Strategy and Marketing Intelligence
- Strategy Execution
Electives
Managing Projects
Creative Destruction Lab
Campus
- MBA International Campus
- MBA Campus Bike tour
Other options
Any courses from other specializations.
Personalized pathway
Create your own unique and personalized pathway. You must complete a total of 6 courses from any of the following:
Specialization courses
- Business Analytics
- Capital Markets
- Climate Change and Strategic Management
- Design Thinking and Entrepreneurship
- Digital Transformation: Managing Disruption from Information Technologies
- Financial Decisions of the Firm
- Leading Successful Teams
- Managing Data and Artificial Intelligence
- Managing Social Impact Projects and Organisations
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Negotiation Skills
- Organizational Transformation
- Strategy and Internationalization
- Strategy and Marketing Intelligence
- Strategy Execution
- Sustainability Strategy Execution
- Sustainable Degrowth: Theory and Practices
- Sustainable Finance
- Sustainable Supply Chain
- Value Creation in Small Business
Other courses
Managing Projects
Creative Destruction Lab
Campus
- MBA International Campus
- MBA Campus Bike tour
Segment 3: Explore leadership principles and practices
Duration: throughout the program (6 credits)
Become a more impactful and influential leader by immersing yourself in HEC Montréal’s rich business ecosystem.
Our personal development workshops are unique in Québec. They start with a coaching program that pairs you with a high-profile manager.
Workshops
- Becoming a Manager – Coaching Program
- Case Method Workshop
- Consulting: Solving Strategic and Complex Problems
- Enterprise Information Systems: A Business Simulation Game
- Leadership, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and MBA
- Managing Collaborative and High-Performance Teams
- Professional Development
- The Art of Communicating as a Manager
Segment 4: Apply your learning
Duration: 1 and a half months (4 credits)
In keeping with your professional interests, you will work in a small team on a complex, experiential integration project within an organization.
This mandate is a unique opportunity to put to good use the knowledge and skills you have acquired during the program, and to expand your professional network.
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