Full-time MBA HEC Montréal

Are you positioning yourself for career advancement? Our MBA will give you the skills and abilities you need to become a first-rate manager. You will gain a formidable network of contacts and the confidence to make decisions and meet the challenges of today’s business world.

Designed to guide you toward success

• A one-year, practice-oriented program beginning in September.
• Business consultation projects where students propose solutions to a real mandate while gaining valuable management experience.
• Networking activities with businesses and alumni plus top-notch career management services.
• An internationally renowned program that regularly ranks among the world’s best (Forbes, Canadian Business, Poets & Quants, AméricaEconomía).

From start to finish, the program is structured to help you acquire a practical approach to management and can be customized to meet your needs.

Management fundamentals

Compulsory courses

Explore and master cutting-edge management tools and practices, to prepare you to solve a complex real-life business case.

Introduction and orientation

• Teambuilding Workshop
• Preparatory Class: Managing with Financial Information
• Case Analysis
• Professional Development

Management simulation

This online simulation lets you practice the manager’s craft and learn how to make consistent decisions as a team. The course also serves to rapidly establish the ground rules upon which your team will build during the first phase of the MBA.

• Management Simulation

Module 1 | The manager’s craft and tools

Learn about a manager’s roles and responsibilities. Adapt to the political context of the organization and apply essential management tools.

• The Manager's Craft
• Politics and Influence in Organization
• Financial Accounting and Management Accounting
• Introduction to Data Science

Module 2 | Business environment and concepts

Develop the abilities you need to understand the firm’s external environment. You’ll also master the language and basic concepts of two major organizational functions: marketing and finance.

• Macroeconomic Environment
• Market Structure and Competition
• Finance 1: Investment
• Strategic Marketing
• The Firm and its Local and Global Context

Module 3 | Value-creation challenges

Familiarize yourself with the challenges and issues involved in value creation for an organization, in terms of both strategic management and social responsibility.

• Strategic Management I: Strategy Analysis
• Ethics and Social Responsibility
• Deployment of Tactics in Marketing
• Finance 2: Financing
• Professional Development

Module 4 | Putting it into practice: managing processes and systems

See how firms support their competitive positioning and how they can offer goods and services efficiently and effectively. You’ll have the opportunity to reflect on and better understand your own leadership style.

• Strategic Management II: Strategic Action
• Leveraging and Managing Digital Technologies
• Organizational Design: People, Structure, and Culture
• Operations Management
• Developing Leadership

HEC Challenge: applying what you’ve learned

Put the skills you’ve acquired during the first program phase to work! Join in a team competition to help an organization, through a medium-term consulting mandate to draw up recommendations based on a real-life business case.

• INDV 56180A Integration Project - HEC Challenge

Elective courses

Choose 9 courses in line with your career goals.

Some English courses are also offered in French. To find out if a course is offered in French, click on the English course and consult the "Important notes" section.

• Consulting
• Digital Business
• Strategy and International Business
• Leadership
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Finance and Economics

Compulsory activities

Consulting field project: Applying what you’ve learned

An organization wishes to draw on the skills and knowledge you’ve acquired during the program, by assigning your team a complex mandate in keeping with your professional interests.

• Consulting Field Project

Reflecting on leadership and personal change

• Changing

Are you looking to reach a senior management position, change careers or start your own business? Our program is a unique accelerator that will help you realize your full potential.

Top employers recruit our students

Examples of companies that recently recruited our MBA graduates

• CGI
• Chappuis Halder
• Coveo
• Deloitte
• EY
• KPMG
• L'Oréal
• McKinsey
• Morgan Stanley
• National Bank
• Novisto
• Rio Tinto
• Rogers Communications

Lifelong support for your success

• Designated contact person, offering tailored advice and support
• Career management consulting
• Preparing a job-search strategy
• Workshops: CV, networking, interviews, preparing for recruitment
• On-campus and off-campus recruitment events (in Montreal and Toronto)