HEC Lausanne

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The HEC Lausanne ( École des Hautes Études Commerciales ) is the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne. The courses meet all the Bologna system: it can be acquired degrees in two Bachelor of Sciences and in six Masters of Sciences; Moreover, there are various Executive MBA and Ph.D. programs. The Faculty received the AMBA and EQUIS accreditations for the excellence of teaching.

7.1 Alumni Organization
7.2 Former

History

In 1890 a university was founded in Lausanne. Economics was taught at the law school. Its founding period was marked by Léon Walras (1834-1910), founder of the Lausanne school in economics and inventor of general equilibrium theory, as well as by Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923), the developer of Pareto optimization.

On April 15, 1911 Léon Morf and Georges Paillard founded the " Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales " ( HEC) within the Faculty of Law. In the same year, the university welcomed its first 12 students of economics. Léon Morf, a professor of business administration, accounting and financial mathematics was its first director, followed by Georges Paillard.

Courses

Bachelor Program ( undergraduate )

The Bachelor program of HEC Lausanne consists of three modules, which extend over three academic years. Possible semester including repetitions is the maximum duration of study for a Bachelor's degree five years. With the summer semester in the second year can be selected, depending on the aptitude and interest of two specializations that upon successful completion, leads to the following academic titles:

BSc in Management
BSc in Economics

The first two years of the bachelor's program are very selective, especially the first year with a failure rate of 70%. The bachelor's program is open to all high school graduates who can demonstrate an appropriate Maturaabschluss in Switzerland or an equivalent high school diploma.

Graduate program

HEC Lausanne offers six master's degree programs with the following statements on:

MSc in Accounting Control and Finance:
MSc in Actuarial Science
MSc in Information Systems
MSc in Economics
MSc in Finance
MSc in Management

PhD Programs

In addition, HEC Lausanne offers several ways to doctoral (PhD) in the following areas:

PhD in Actuarial Science
PhD in Information Systems
PhD in Economics
PhD in Finance
PhD in Management
PhD in History of Economic Thought
PhD in Public Administration

Executive MBA

Executive MBA in Management & Finance
Executive MBA in Health Care Management
Executive MBA in Management of Technology

Adjustment to the Bologna system

Since 2005, HEC Lausanne has their programs according to the Bologna process adapted to make their academic training standards and trial quality compatible with other leading universities from all over Europe and comparable.

Exchange programs

In addition to the faculty, Socrates -Erasmus and bilateral exchange programs, the HEC Lausanne has more than 90 other partner universities.

Among them

In the United States: Columbia University, Texas A & M University, UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Claremont Graduate University,
In Canada: HEC Montréal, McGill University, University of British Columbia, Richard Ivey School of Business,
In Germany: EBS University of Economics and Law, Free University of Berlin, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, University of Mannheim,
In India: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
In China: Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong, Peking University,
In Switzerland: University of St. Gallen,
In Italy: Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, LUISS University Rome ( Libera Università degli Studi sociali International )
In France: Sciences Po Paris,
In South Korea KAIST Business School,
In Belgium Université catholique de Louvain,
In Norway, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration,
In Singapure National University of Singapore.

Research

The individual research institutes of the HEC are:

Institute of Tourism (IT)
Institute of Banking & Finance ( IBF)
Information Systems Institute ( ISI)
Unit of Research in Accounting, Auditing and Finance ( URCCF )
Institute of Research in Management ( IRM)
Institute of Applied Macroeconomics ( Créa )
Institute of Health Economics and Management ( IEMS )
Institute of Actuarial Sciences ( ISA)
Department of Econometrics and Political Economy (DEEP )

Student organizations

The following student organizations there are at HEC:

AIESEC
Comité des Etudiants HEC
Finance Club
HEC Espace Entreprise
Junior Entreprise HEC
Oikos Lausanne
PhDnet
START Lausanne

Review / Rankings

HEC Lausanne is considered a universal business school with major international influence (5 Palms, out of 5) by Eduniversal. Among business schools in its category HEC Lausanne is classified as follows.:

According to the " Top 100 Business School Research Ranking " of the University of Texas HEC Lausanne is ranked among the best European business schools:

The "QS Global 200 Business Schools: The Employers' Choice " classified HEC Lausanne to the international employers preferred business schools

The Financial Times European Business School Rankings placed HEC Lausanne as follows:

The Financial Times Masters in Management rankings was the MSc in Management from HEC Lausanne as follows:

According to the Financial Times Masters in Finance Pre -experience of the MSc was in Finance from HEC Lausanne as follows:

Alumni

Alumni organization

HEC Graduates
Alumni MBA
GMBF ( Graduates of the master in banking and finance )
MoT Alumni Association

Former

Louis C. Camilleri, Altria CEO
Goetschin Blaise, CEO BCGE ( Banque Cantonal de Genève )
Nicolas Campiche, CEO Pictet Alternative Investments
Daniel Wanner, CFO Pictet & Cie
Marc Dardenne, CEO, Emaar Hospitality Group
Patrick Gueudet, CEO Gueudet, Knight of the Legion of Honor
Etienne Jornod, Chairman of Galenica and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Georges Muller, Chairman of SGS ( Société Générale de Surveillance )
Claude Béglé, former Chairman of the Board of Swiss Post
Robin Cornelius, chairman of Switcher
Joseph " Sepp " Blatter, President of FIFA
Roland Decorvet, CEO Nestlé Switzerland
Yves Manghardt, CEO Nestlé Southern Africa
Jacques de Watteville, Head of the Mission of Switzerland to the European Commission
Mr. Alfred Stone, chief economist of the European Investment Bank

Directors of HEC

2009-2012: Daniel Oyon
2006-2009: Suzanne de Treville
2004-2006: François Grizel
2002-2004: Alexander Bergmann
1990-2000: Olivier Blanc
1986-1990: Francis Léonard
1977-1986: Charles Iffland
1961-1977: Robert Grosjean
1936-1961: Jules Chuard
1925-1928: Georges Paillard
1911-1925: Léon Morf

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