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Executive Education

Strategic Finance

Strategic Finance Strategic Finance

EXECUTIVE CERTIFICATE   capitalisation certificat

Language: English drapeau anglais

 

Program overview

The Certificate in Strategic Finance is designed for executives, high performers, and finance professionals who aim to acquire in-depth knowledge and practical skills in key areas related to strategic finance. The program focuses on cutting-edge tools and techniques to analyze the major events in the life of a company, such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged and management buy-outs, and initial public offerings, both from a financial and a strategic perspective. It provides a thorough analysis of the strategic issues facing entrepreneurs and financiers in connection with regulation, sustainability, climate, AI, macroeconomics, and FinTech. The certificate relies on world-class teaching by outstanding HEC Paris faculty, including renowned researchers with executive-education experience and high-level investment bankers and consultants. It provides access to the extensive HEC Paris Alumni network and to successful and dedicated EMiF alumni.

Strategic Finance

Format: Présentiel
Duration: 12 days
Language(s): English
Next start(s):
Cost: 18000 €*
Place(s): Paris – Jouy-en-Josas Campus

PARTICIPANT PROFILE AND PREREQUISITES

The program is aimed at:

The program is intended for finance directors in all sectors, current and aspiring corporate executives, bankers and financial services experts, and other experienced professionals: managers who wish to move to a more senior role (CEO, CFO, CIO, COO), executive board members, senior leaders, or private equity/venture capital/startup/family office founders.

 

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* Net price, HEC Paris is not subject to VAT. Prices, dates, faculty, and program content are subject to change. 

Objectives

 

Acquire in-depth qualitative understanding of financial economics concepts and principles related to strategic finance.


Enhance quantitative skills through hands-on problem solving


Gain intuition for advanced finance concepts, topics, tools, and trends related to strategic finance.


Optimize financing operations, risk management, and governance of an organization.


Analyze the corporate impact of FinTech, regulation, sustainability, and macroeconomics.


Improve business strategies and negotiation techniques.


Develop global perspectives and boost networking opportunities.

Academic Director(s)

portrait de Loanid Rosu
Ioanid ROSU
Associate Professor, HEC Paris

Learning methods & evaluations

Learning methods

Most courses in this program are delivered by alternating between lectures, case studies, exercises, simulations, applications, group work, and in-class presentations. Most courses require preparation before class: reading case studies or articles, answering preparatory questions, or solving a pre-class assignment. In the certificate project part, each participant chooses a tutor (supervisor) from the HEC Paris faculty to work on a certificate project. The project gives participants the opportunity to specialize in a particular area of strategic finance by applying what they have learned during the certificate on an original individual project. In this process they capitalize on the input and guidance of faculty and field experts from the world of finance who act as tutors.

Evaluations

Participants are evaluated along several dimensions: group writing or presentations on projects or case studies, quizzes, in-class or home exercises, multiple-choice quizzes, final exams, post-class analyzes and class participation. The weightings that instructors choose from all of these dimensions vary for each class.

Program

 

The program is comprised of a 10-day module with regular courses, courses, and the completion of a 2-day certificate project either in person or online. The certificate project gives participants the opportunity to apply the investing tools learned during the module on a challenging individual project. The project is done under the supervision of an experienced, world-class HEC faculty tutor.


New markets and franchising, joint ventures, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), divestitures, Leveraged Buy-Out (LBO) and Management Buy-Out (MBO), Initial Public Offering (IPO), restructuring and financial distress.

Value-based strategies, distributive vs. integrative negotiations, multi-issue negotiations, advanced integrative negotiations, ethical dilemmas, negotiation via agents, dispute resolution, emotions, negotiation styles and culture, coalitional games in negotiation.

Business evaluation and valuation, venture capital method, deal structure, financial contracts, information and incentives, angel investors, venture capital, corporate VC, social venture capital, exit (remain private, sell, go public).

Dodd-Frank, commercial vs. investment banking, European Banking Union, bank capital/liquidity requirements, Basel III, Sarbanes-Oxley, high-frequency trading (HFT), OTC derivatives, financial transactions taxes, short-selling bans, “too big to fail”, political economy of financial regulation, financial crises, regulatory capture.

Corporate social responsibility, pro-social preferences, corporate governance, managerial incentives, integrated capital budgeting, internal carbon price.

Ledgers and keys, blockchains, economics of money, cryptocurrencies, decentralized finance (DeFi).


Capitalization   capitalisation certificat  

This Certificat Executive Program is eligible for capitalization towards the Executive MSc in Finance,

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Do you feel that this program could be made for you?

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This program is accessible for people with disabilities. Please contact us if you have any specific requirements or to obtain the Public Accessibility Register.

Contact

photo Imre Ignacio SZAPARY
Imre Ignacio SZAPARY
Business development manager

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