HEC Montréal (; "High Commercial Studies of Montreal") is a public business school located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1907, HEC Montréal is the graduate business school of the Université de Montréal and is the first established school of management in Canada.

HEC Montréal offers undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate programs, including Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Master of Science in Administration (MSc), Master of Management (MM), Master of Business Administration (MBA), and PhD in Administration, in addition to a joint Executive MBA program with McGill University.

History

HEC Montréal was founded in 1907 by the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal. Its initial building in Viger Square now belongs to Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) (the building being named Gilles Hocquart Building). A similar competition has been established in Western Canada called JDC West.

As of 2021, the centenary of the HEC Montréal Alumni Association, the school had over 100,000 alumni.

thumb|Université de Montréal, the parent institution of HEC Montréal, which is seen on the bottom right

thumb|The school's oldest building: Square Viger

List of directors

thumb|HEC Montréal's Signboard on an autumn day

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| 1 ||1907–1916 || Auguste-Joseph de Bray

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| 2 ||1916–1938 || Henry Laureys

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| 3 ||1938–1962 || Esdras Minville

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| 4 ||1962–1972 || Roger Charbonneau

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| 5 ||1972–1974 || Paul Dell'Aniello

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| 6 ||1974–1975 || Roger Charbonneau (2nd time as Director)

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| 7 ||1975–1982 || Pierre Laurin

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| 8 ||1982–1987 || Pierre Harvey

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| 9 ||1987–1995 || Jean Guertin

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| 10 ||1995–2006 || Jean-Marie Toulouse

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| 11 ||2006–2019 || Michel Patry

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| 12 ||2019–Current || Federico Pasin

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Reputation

CANADIAN BUSINESS

  • Value Rank: 1st, among business schools in Canada (2016).
  • Reputation Rank: 3rd, among business schools in Canada (2017).

BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK

  • Top 30 International Business Schools in 2015.

Buildings

The Decelles Campus: 1970–today

thumb|The Decelles Building

thumb|A side view of the Côte-Sainte-Catherine

In 1970, Robert Bourassa inaugurated the Decelles building of HEC Montreal,

Under the presidency of Pierre Harvey, the 75th anniversary of the school was celebrated in 1982 with René Lévesque, then Premier of Quebec, in attendance. The 7th floor of the Decelles building was inaugurated on this occasion.

Between 2010 and 2012, the 3rd and 4th floors were renovated.

The Côte-Sainte-Catherine Campus: 1996–today

thumb|New building in downtown Montreal

HEC Montréal's main building was constructed in 1996 and has since won an award for "institutional architecture." The building was designed by Dan Hanganu and Jodoin, Lamarre, Pratte, and Associates and is situated at 3000 Côte-Sainte-Catherine (Map), next to the Université-de-Montréal Metro Station. The former main building at 5255 Decelles (Map

The trading floor of the school was inaugurated in 1997, and it was conceived to be usable in case the Montreal Stock Exchange ever had significant engineering problems. Now known as the Salle des marchés Financière Banque Nationale, it was renovated in 2007 to remain technologically current.

Noted alumni and faculty

Alumni

  • Antoine Arnault: ex-CEO of Berluti and CEO of Dior SE
  • Stéphane Bédard: Québec politician and lawyer
  • Verònica Canals i Riba: Minister of Tourism of Andorra since May 22, 2019
  • Louis R. Chênevert: ex-CEO of United Technologies Corporation
  • François Desjardins: CEO of B2B Bank
  • Soraya Martinez Ferrada: Québec politician
  • Anne-Marie Gélinas: Film producer and CEO of Emafilms
  • Léo-Paul Lauzon: Professor of accounting at the UQAM and social activist
  • François Legault: Current Premier of Québec and Founder of Air Transat
  • Rémi Marcoux: Chairman of TC Transcontinental
  • Pauline Marois: Former Premier of Québec (30th)
  • Thierry Vandal: CEO of Hydro-Quebec
  • Samir Trabelsi: CPA Ontario Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Governance and Accounting at Goodman School of Business

Faculty

  • Ann Langley
  • Gilbert Laporte
  • Danny Miller (economist)

See also

  • Higher education in Quebec
  • List of universities in Quebec
  • Canadian Interuniversity Sport
  • Canadian government scientific research organizations
  • Canadian university scientific research organizations
  • Canadian industrial research and development organizations

References

  • HEC Montreal Virtual Tour
  • HEC Montréal on YouTube