Doctoral Program PhD in Management The HEC Paris PhD Program - gateway to a career in research and academia Doctoral Program 2 3 Doctoral Program Accept the Challenge "Every leading business school or university recruits its professors on the basis of their promise to carry out groundbreaking research and to publish in the leading research journals. The HEC Paris PhD Program prepares for this challenge. It offers the training needed to enter the demanding world of academia. Built on a strategy of Ulrich Hege excellence, it aims to attract students with the highest level Associate Dean of academic ambition. The hallmarks of our program are & Professor of Finance, intensive coursework, close supervision and full immersion Director of the PhD Program in the school’s research activities." HEC Paris Founding member HEC Paris is fully accredited by the world’s three leading organizations of Business School accreditation: AMBA, EQUIS, AACSB. Doctoral Program 4 5 Doctoral Program Why choose the HEC Paris A PhD Program PhD Program? with Global Reach HEC Paris is one of the oldest and most acclaimed European Business The HEC Paris PhD Program is playing globally. It receives Schools: it is one of the two top Business Schools in Europe every year since applications and accepts excellent students from all over the world. Only a minority of PhD students and applicants are 2006 according to the Financial Times. It is one of the leading Business French. Currently enrolled PhD students hail from 25 different Schools of the world: the Financial Times also ranks HEC Paris as the countries. A majority of them do not speak French when they #1 Business School worldwide for its pre-experience Master in Finance, and as the arrive. HEC professors and staff members communicate exclusively in English with them, and PhD courses are taught #1 Business School worldwide for its Executive Education programs. entirely in English. English is the only language requirement. HEC Paris strives to place its PhDs in the leading business The HEC Paris PhD Program is built on a strategy of schools of the world. HEC Paris PhD graduates have been excellence: hired in faculty positions in Europe, the United States and the rigorous selection process, the high calibre and ambition Canada, Latin America, Asia, Middle East/Africa, and of its students, the small size of the program with only between Australia/Oceania. 1 and 4 students enrolled in each area of specialization every At the same time, the HEC Paris PhD Program keeps ties with year, demanding coursework, one-on-one supervision, and the higher education landscape in France. For its training, strong support for successful placements are cornerstones it cooperates closely with the best graduate programs in of HEC Paris’ philosophy in PhD training. economics and management in the Paris area, such as Paris School of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSAE, PhD students benefit from the following key features: and INSEAD, all teaching in English. HEC Paris is a founding • Intensive course training at the frontiers of the field for up member of the new Paris-Saclay University, the leading to two years community of research and higher education institutions in France. Accredited by the French Ministry of Higher Education • Close supervision by the international, research-driven, since 1985, the HEC Paris PhD Program leads to the French young and yet renowned faculty of HEC Paris diploma « Doctorat ès-sciences de gestion », delivered by • Full immersion in the research activities at HEC Paris Paris-Saclay University. It offers French language courses. HEC Paris PhD graduates hold research and teaching • Exchanges with the world’s best business schools as a positions at top French institutions including Toulouse visiting PhD student School of Economics, Paris School of Economics, CNRS*, • Research presentations in the leading international INSEAD and ESSEC. conferences * Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Doctoral Program 6 7 Doctoral Program A Diversity Funding of Backgrounds and Support PhD students bring to HEC Paris a diversity of experiences The HEC Foundation is the main source and backgrounds: of funding for the PhD scholarships • Applicants come from all continents. and the PhD Program. It also provides • More than 45% of PhD students are female. funding for research and need-based • PhD students come with prior studies in management, scholarships under HEC Paris’ fully economics, but also in engineering and a variety of need-blind admission policy in all other academic fields. degree programs. • HEC Paris PhD students often have prior work experience. The HEC PhD Program provides generous funding, research and travel support to its PhD students. It grants full scholarships and a full tuition waiver to all PhD students admitted to the program. "Prior to attending the PhD program at HEC Paris I worked in military logistics and marketing analytics in the United States. These experiences have been a great • Each new HEC PhD student receives a cost-of-living scholarship and assistantship guarantee of complement to the classroom training that I have had at HEC Paris. Moreover my 20,000€ per year, guaranteed for four years. The scholarship is funded by the HEC Foundation industry background has been a great source of inspiration when designing my and HEC Paris. research proposals, in collaboration with faculty. As an international student, I appreciate the stimulating academic and cultural experience at HEC Paris, and the • HEC provides a full tuition waiver to all its PhD students (from year 1 to year 4). Only a token diversity of the PhD student community." registration fee of 391€ applies (2015-2016). Ebenge Usip • Ample research and teaching assistantships are available. HEC Paris faculty members enjoy generous research funding provided by the HEC Foundation and others, like the Qatar Foundation PhD student or the French Government, of which a considerable part benefits PhD students. HEC Paris Operations Management students have ample opportunities to teach courses or help as TA and earn extra income. "I have been supervising PhD students for eight years now. I am extremely proud • Additional generous fifth year scholarships are available. of all of my current and former students! As a thesis supervisor, you need to give clear direction, but you also need to give room to students’ personal discovery by • PhD students benefit from subsidized housing on HEC Paris’ green world-class campus. trial and error. You need to give all the support you can give, and then you need to • HEC Paris provides additional funding for research visiting positions abroad for periods between let them go their own way. I love working together with my PhD students. 3 and 12 months. It is enriching to see them grow and become experts in a field." • Comprehensive travel funding for up to two academic conferences per year is offered if a research paper is accepted. • HEC Paris offers a top-notch research and teaching equipment with its library and electronic Kristine De Valck resources, and its campus and IT facilities. Associate Professor, Marketing Doctoral Program 8 9 Doctoral Program "When I joined HEC’s PhD Program, I had ideas but I lacked the theoretical background and training in research methods that I needed to rigorously tackle the research questions I was –and still am- passionate Placements about. At HEC, I benefited from top-level training as well as constructive interactions with faculty who played a central role in my development, HEC Paris provides many levers of support to ensure its PhD graduates find placements at top Anne Jacqueminet HEC Paris PhD 2015 the fruitful relationship with my main advisor, from internal seminars, business schools and academic institutions. The complete record of all academic placement in Strategy & Management and from stimulating exchanges with other HEC PhD students. It is with the most recent year: Assistant Professor great enthusiasm but also a bit of nostalgia that I leave HEC and begin a Bocconi University (Italy) new chapter of my life as an assistant professor at Bocconi University." 2014-2015 "My PhD studies at HEC Paris were a very • Adrien Matray (Finance): formative, rich and intense experience. Faculty members are at the forefront of Princeton University - USA Complete academic placements in the preceding years: • Thomas Bourveau (Accounting & Management Control): research in their field, and I could benefit The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from their constant and unwavering 2013-2014 support. Professors are very available, (HKUST) - Hong Kong • Boris Vallée (Finance): • Panayotis Georgallis (Strategy & open, and friendly, and always willing to Harvard Business School - USA Management): • Anne Jacqueminet (Strategy & Management): generously share their time with PhD Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Bocconi University - Italy students. HEC Paris is also very supportive • Olivier Dessaint (Finance): University of Michigan - USA (post-doc) • Alireza Keshavarz (Marketing): in getting student to present their work, Rotman School of Management, University University College Dublin - Ireland in internal brown bag seminars and in of Toronto - Canada • Navid Bazzazian (Strategy & Management): • Claire Garnier (Accounting & Management Control): international conferences. I spent a year • Lionel Paolella (Strategy & Management): National Bureau of Economic Research HEC Montréal - Canada visiting the London School of Economics Judge Business School, University