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Executive MSc & MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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Executive MSc & MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

HEC Paris

Applications for June 2025 are open!

Complete your application by March 3 to get a €2,000 tuition discount.

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#1 Business School in Europe

Ranked by the Financial Times for 5 consecutive years

Taught in English

Engage in group discussions with professors and peers

18-24 months

20 courses total, 20 hours per week

100% online

Lectures, webinars, and team projects

22,950-24,950 Euro total cost

Academics 

Realize your full entrepreneurial potential at Europe’s most prestigious business school. Acquire an exciting new set of skills and abilities to effect change in any organizational environment. Learn how to attract and retain capital, manage rapid growth, recognize and nurture talent, and mitigate commercial risk factors. 

The faculty have created a unique and practical curriculum that blends business innovation theory with real-life business development. You’ll learn to identify high potential commercial opportunities, and develop strategies to attract the talent and capital your start-up needs. You’ll then prepare to manage rapid growth and significant risks using ethical decision-making skills.

By focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship, you’ll develop a new mindset and approaches to help understand and create opportunity in every aspect of your professional and personal life.

Course Overview
Both program paths have 20 course modules, facilitated interactive webinars and team coaching from HEC Paris on-campus faculty, business leaders and alumni.
Group Work
Team-based project work and community-building workshops also contribute towards your final grade.

You’ll also receive personalized support and coaching from HEC Paris professors. Hear from HEC Team Project coaches on their experience of coaching teams during the project phase:

“Coaching teams during the project phase is rewarding. It’s amazing to be part of their growth and evolution. In the initial phase, team members don’t know each other and the project is just an “idea”. As months go by, team members begin to learn how to negotiate and learn from one another, transforming their initial idea into a real business opportunity.” - Natalia Del Águila

"Advising, challenging and motivating highly driven and smart teams to grow ideas is undoubtedly the most fulfilling and inspirational part of being an HEC Paris Coach." - Alina Puppe

“Coaching MSIE project teams is like being a conductor of an orchestra, guiding individuals with diverse skills and experiences towards a common goal. My favourite part about working with project teams is witnessing their growth & collaboration, overcoming differences & challenges and ultimately transforming into a high performing team! It’s truly a privilege to empower, guide, support, motivate and help the team unlock their potential and to witness their growth and development." - Sherena Yiannouka

Applications for June 2025 are open!

Early Bird deadline: March 3. Complete your application and submit all documents (including references) by March 3 to get a €2,000 tuition discount.

February 26: Join us for our How to Create a Successful Application Webinar. Register here.

View the Program Booklets for Executive MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Applications for June 2025 are open!

Early Bird deadline: March 3. Complete your application and submit all documents (including references) by March 3 to get a €2,000 tuition discount.

February 26: Join us for our How to Create a Successful Application Webinar. Register here.

View the Program Booklets for Executive MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship and MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Path 1 - MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

This 24-month program (460 hours total) consists of three stages, combining research and practical project work with a comprehensive immersion in the fundamentals of innovative business management and strategy.

  1. Fundamentals Courses (6 months): Discover the underpinning principles and approaches that drive the world’s most successful innovative companies and organizations. Alongside the seven core courses, you’ll choose to complete either Group 1 or Group 2 of the elective courses.

  2. Team Project Phase. Guide a team project from initial conception to commercialization. Your project work will be underpinned by 10 courses designed to guide your progress. Putting theory into practice, you’ll explore and collaborate with other professionals and developing decision makers to synthesize a viable start-up idea. You’ll then embark on a 12 month project-based curriculum, using all of your newfound theoretical and practical expertise to develop and be ready to launch a new product, brand or organization.

  3. Thesis. You’ll pursue your individually-researched project, and submit your business plan. Your thesis is the sum of all of your learned knowledge from the program and gives you a chance to prove your capabilities in your chosen field.

Path 2 - Executive MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

This 18-month program (433,5 hours total) is designed for established business leaders and management professionals who are ready to turn their experience into a launchpad for an exciting new trajectory. You’ll study 20 separate courses in total, grouped around three distinct program stages.

  1. 10 Fundamental Courses (6 months). These foundational skill-building courses enable participants to acquire the skills needed to scale up a company, boost creativity, manage new product development processes, capitalize on social media for marketing purposes and clearly define business strategy in individual contexts.

  2. Team Project-based Courses (12 months). 10 courses designed to inform and underpin your progress through the team project, as you work together to create a new product, service or brand.

  3. Team Project. While studying the courses above, you’ll simultaneously guide a team project from initial conception to commercialization. Participants will be mentored, both 1:1 and as a team, by a highly experienced entrepreneur/business leader. Pitch your start-up ideas - for real. Use the program to plan your ideal enterprise - then pitch it to ‘Station F’, the world’s largest start-up accelerator.

Curriculum

The following 7 core courses are mandatory during the Fundamental phase:

Fundamentals Phase Courses
Entrepreneurship StrategyLearn the step-by-step process of an entrepreneurial project, and how to use disruptive creativity to your advantage.
Building Your Leadership SkillsExplore and define your own leadership style, in accordance with your motivations and inspirations.
Business StrategyLearn to analyze your project’s external environment, internal capabilities and resources to discover your competitive advantage.
New Product DevelopmentA comprehensive overview of the product development process, drawn from multiple industries and disciplines.
Design ThinkingLearn systematic approaches to uncovering creative insights and solutions for specific design situations.
Marketing Through Social MediaCombine hands-on technical learning about managing professional social accounts with a deeper understanding of how social media has changed marketing.
Scaling Up OperationsUsing quantitative analysis methodology, including probability theory and optimization, you’ll advance your understanding of start-up evolution and how to scale business operations.

Alongside the seven core courses, you’ll choose to complete either Group 1 or Group 2 of the elective courses:

Group 1 Electives:
Social EntrepreneurshipLearn about sustainable business models through an action-based learning project, exploring the challenges of creating societal value through entrepreneurship.
Organizational DesignStudy the core challenges common to the trajectory of any venture, and learn how to effectively design organizations.
Boosting CreativityExplore creativity as a cognitive function, and discover how to innovate approaches to business challenges.
Group 2 Electives:
Leading OrganizationsBuilding on your existing leadership skill set, you’ll undergo a series of leadership challenges with mentorship and feedback from a diverse range of business leaders.
Giving Sense to Your Leadership ExperienceUsing the Savoir-Relier leadership method, you’ll build your self-awareness and leadership confidence, and develop management skills based on the three ‘G’s - genuine, generous, and generative.
Your Leadership ChallengeOn this mini-project, you’ll choose a personal leadership challenge, and then use the five steps of the relational circuit model to solve it.

The following 10 core courses are mandatory during the Team Project phase:

Project Phase Courses
Team WorkingLearn new ways to sustainably manage and lead people toward a common vision.
Developing a Customer-centric StrategyLearn how to develop and communicate offers that customers will value, using the latest psychological frameworks, marketing ideas and tools.
Strategic Management of InnovationLearn how innovation shapes business strategy and affects competition. Develop a set of tools to help judge the potential impact and value of innovative ideas.
Fundamentals of NegotiationMaster the art of negotiation in a variety of settings, learning how to handle investors, partners, customers and employees.
Managing the Performance of a Growing EnterpriseLearn how to manage and measure the performance of an enterprise, and how to set up planning and accountability systems that’ll help your project stay agile.
Business Model InnovationYou’ll access Odyssey 3.14, an original approach developed to help you invent or reinvent a business model.
Intellectual Property LawIn this course, you’ll get a balanced overview of the acquisition of IP rights, freedom to operate, licensing tools, and the valuation of IP assets.
Entrepreneurial FinanceLearn about the range of available financing mechanisms for innovative and growth companies, and the critical role of venture capital.
How to Create A Business PlanIn this course, you’ll learn how to build and write a business plan, and how to design and present a successful five-minute pitch that will convince any stakeholder.
Private Equity and Venture CapitalExplore fundamental notions around equity and venture capital funds, to help you understand, build and leverage your finance relationships.

Program Objectives:

  • Drive innovation and business development
  • Create products or services in a start-up context or within an existing organization
  • Obtain a degree from one of the leading business schools in the world without having to leave your home or workplace

Learning and Evaluation Methods:

The fully online nature of the program allows participants to acquire new knowledge and skills without having to compromise their personal and professional commitments, while benefitting from direct interactions with HEC Paris Faculty, and personalized support from an HEC Paris Program Manager.

The project-based learning activities combine asynchronous courses, interactive webinars facilitated by HEC Paris professors, and team coaching by business leaders, or program alumni.

The following 10 core courses are mandatory during the Fundamental phase:

Fundamentals Phase Courses
Entrepreneurship StrategyLearn the step-by-step process of an entrepreneurial project, and how to use disruptive creativity to your advantage.
Building Your Leadership SkillsExplore and define your own leadership style, in accordance with your motivations and inspirations.
Boosting CreativityExplore creativity as a cognitive function, and discover how to innovate approaches to business challenges.
New Product DevelopmentA comprehensive overview of the product development process, drawn from multiple industries and disciplines.
Design ThinkingLearn systematic approaches to uncovering creative insights and solutions for specific design situations.
Business StrategyLearn to analyze your project’s external environment, internal capabilities and resources to discover your competitive advantage.
Social Entrepreneurship and Change-MakingLearn about sustainable business models through an action-based learning project, exploring the challenges of creating societal value through entrepreneurship.
Organizational Design and ManagementStudy the core challenges common to the trajectory of any venture, and learn how to effectively design organizations.
Marketing Through Social MediaCombine hands-on technical learning about managing professional social accounts with a deeper understanding of how social media has changed marketing.
Scaling Up OperationsUsing quantitative analysis methodology, including probability theory and optimization, you’ll advance your understanding of start-up evolution and how to scale business operations.

The following 10 core courses are mandatory during the Team Project phase:

Project Phase Courses
Team WorkingLearn new ways to sustainably manage and lead people toward a common vision.
Developing a Customer-centric StrategyLearn how to develop and communicate offers that customers will value, using the latest psychological frameworks, marketing ideas and tools.
Strategic Management of InnovationLearn how innovation shapes business strategy and affects competition. Develop a set of tools to help judge the potential impact and value of innovative ideas.
Fundamentals of NegotiationMaster the art of negotiation in a variety of settings, learning how to handle investors, partners, customers and employees.
Managing the Performance of a Growing EnterpriseLearn how to manage and measure the performance of an enterprise, and how to set up planning and accountability systems that’ll help your project stay agile.
Business Model InnovationYou’ll access Odyssey 3.14, an original approach developed to help you invent or reinvent a business model.
Intellectual Property LawIn this course, you’ll get a balanced overview of the acquisition of IP rights, freedom to operate, licensing tools, and the valuation of IP assets.
Entrepreneurial FinanceLearn about the range of available financing mechanisms for innovative and growth companies, and the critical role of venture capital.
How to Create A Business PlanIn this course, you’ll learn how to build and write a business plan, and how to design and present a successful five-minute pitch that will convince any stakeholder.
Private Equity and Venture CapitalExplore fundamental notions around equity and venture capital funds, to help you understand, build and leverage your finance relationships.

Program Objectives:

  • Use social media to help build value-creating digital marketing strategies
  • Develop a value proposition by identifying customer problems and market opportunities
  • Communicate effectively and negotiate with external and internal stakeholders as part of an innovative or entrepreneurial project
  • Learn to use a methodological framework to design, write and present a business plan
  • Elaborate a development strategy for an innovative or entrepreneurial project
  • Design and implement management systems adapted to the development of an innovative or entrepreneurial project
  • Manage the performance of an innovative project or a growing company
  • Integrate any legal aspects which are an essential part of an innovative or entrepreneurial project
  • Develop a managerial culture and organizational structures, adapted to the contexts and challenges of an innovative or entrepreneurial project
  • Develop your leadership potential to generate meaning and confidence in the service of an innovative project

Learning and Evaluation Methods:

The fully online nature of the program allows participants to acquire new knowledge and skills without having to compromise their personal and professional commitments, while benefitting from direct interactions with HEC Paris faculty, and personalized support from an HEC Paris program manager.

The project-based learning activities combine asynchronous courses, interactive webinars facilitated by HEC Paris professors, and team coaching by experience entrepreneurs.

The learning methods include business cases, action-based learning, project management, models and analysis tools, theoretical and practical presentation, group work, interactive exchanges, tutoring, virtual classes, and distance learning.

The evaluation methods used include application in real-life professional situations, business cases, developing objectives and strategies (Marketing, Business Development, Digital, Financial…), applying concepts in real-life contexts, identifying stakeholders and implementing an adapted strategy (for each stakeholder if necessary) and self-assessment.

Applications for June 2025 are open

Complete your application by March 3 to get a €2,000 tuition discount.