Press Release
Executive Education:
Lithuanian top-level managers at HEC Paris
HEC has developed an international network of Excellence through prestigious
academic exchanges, bilateral agreements and double degree programs with more
than 110 academic partners worldwide.
One of HEC’s initiatives in central and eastern Europe is successfully illustrated
by the dynamism of The Baltic Management Institute (BMI) registered as an
accredited public educational institution in 1999. The Executive MBA program was designed
by HEC and has been implemented by a consortium of leading European Business Schools
(Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Copenhagen Business
School, Catholic University of Louvain) and a local academic partner Vytautas Magnus
University.
Within only a few years, BMI grew into a business school promoting managerial
excellence in the Baltic region. BMI offers a Western European style and quality
Executive MBA program in Vilnius, taught in English by prominent professors from the
partner schools.
http://www.bmi.lt/en.php
The entire sixth EMBA class, nearly 50 students will be welcomed at HEC next
week, attending classes on Company Valuation by HEC Prof. Antoine Hyafil
between April 11th and April 15th . Participants will also have the opportunity to
share lectures with HEC Executive MBA participants, visit multinational
companies and attend conferences with prestigious guest speakers.
Profile of BMI participants over the last 6 classes (since 1999):
BMI graduates and participants represent over 300 prominent business people of
Lithuania, with quite a number of expatriates of various nationalities, from 186 different
companies. The combined annual turnover of these companies represents about
25% of Lithuania's GDP.
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Age range: 24-52
Average age: 34
Average management experience: 6 years
16% of Women
Area of responsibility:
- General Management, CEOs, Company owners 52%
- Marketing and sales management 17%
- operations management 16%
- Finance, HR other 15%
HEC has particularly built up a very strong presence in Eastern Europe, offering a large
portfolio of educational programs: Executive MBAs, MBAs, Specialized Masters and
management training programs for companies.
Active in the region since 1989, when the school started training managers of newly
privatized companies in Poland and Russia, HEC then created the HEC Central and
Eastern Europe Center in 1992. More than twenty professors from HEC, through their
expertise in the management fields relevant to these countries, provide their know-how in
specific domains such as international taxation, mergers-acquisitions, strategy,
establishment and development of joint ventures, restructuring, corporate governance and
energy management.
HEC is also offering joint Executive Programs in Poland, Serbia, Central Asia and Russia.
Press Contact, HEC School of Management
Catherine Rousseau
 +33 (0) 1 39 67 94 23
 +33 (0) 1 39 67 94 46
e-mail : rousseau@hec.fr
www.hec.edu
Jouy-en-Josas, 7th April 2005