HEC Montréal Business school
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.hec.ca/

IT Project Management

Provide participants with a broad knowledge of the tools and methods used to manage information technology projects. Permit participants to gain hands on experience with project management tools. Use these tools to measure and manage IT project performance and analyse and manage IT project risk. At the end of the course the participant will have the knowledge and tools required to plan and i......
 

The introduction of new technologies in organisations requires to reconsider the organisational operating modes in order to determine how the new technologies can support the business processes to make them more effective and efficient, and how the processes can be transformed by new technologies. The experience shows that it’s by the rigorous realisation of this process that the companies......
 

Beyond the dotcoms boom and bust, one has to recognize that e-business has had a vertiginous evolution in the last decade. The majority of the markets and industries saw or will see during the next years the rules of competition which govern them being deeply modified by the tidal wave of the electronic business. Information technologies and the Internet make it possible to transform in-depth h......
 

The objective of this course is to present the quantitative analysis tools used to aid to tactic and strategic decision making under uncertainty in the energy sector. More specifically, the students will become familiar with the modelling of decision problem using different decision criteria and utility functions, scenario analysis, Monte-Carlo simulation and decision trees. Specialised softwar......
 

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This course in project management is intended to develop an adequate understanding of the roles, activities and responsibilities associated with project management. We will pay particular attention to projects-activities (non-repetitive, risky, uncertain), as opposed to operations-activities (repetitive, predictable, standardized), with a view to demonstrating that project management requires d......
 

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are acknowledged for their economic vitality, but generally speaking little is known about them. This course examines the world of SMEs in all its diversity. SME management is addressed through the administrative processes and strategic behaviours of the firms. The major challenges facing SMEs are discussed, with special focus on the context of globaliz......
 

This course about the role of president is intended to show the challenges dealt with by executive officers on a daily basis. Running an entire company presupposes not only in-depth knowledge of techniques and the sector, it also depends on the personality and individual qualities of the person presiding over the destiny of the enterprise. Directors are constantly being bombarded with informati......
 

Learning objectives: to provide students with knowledge of: what mergers and acquisitions are and why they occur; commonly used takeover tactics and defenses; a process for selecting appropriate takeover tactics depending on the types of anti takeover defenses in place at a target company; how and when to apply valuation techniques under special circumstances; the practical limi......
 

The Increasing digitization of economic activities deeply impacts the overall configuration of business models and generates major mutations. Such mutations can be incremental only and apply to conventional business models. Or they can be disruptive and translate into the creation of new-to-the-world business models. Whatever the magnitude of change, many experts refer to Darwin and promote a c......
 

This course explores the difference between service and manufacturing operations, and the degree of distinct marketing skills and tools required: unique characteristics stands for unique marketing strategies. It is based on lectures, cases selected from a variety of service operations with a particular interest on service business models and their evolution or reinvention, and highly specific r......
 

1- Allow participants to integrate and put into practice the concepts underlying the contemporary management of integrated marketing communications (advertising, promotion, public relations, sponsorship, ...) 2- Initiate participants to key elements of the integrated marketing communication decision making process. 3- Provide an understanding of the advertising industry and of the agency’......
 

The logistics operations of the firm will be reviewed systematically in their international context. These operations are affected by the globalization of the world’s economies which sees the gradual reduction and disappearance of the hindrances to the movements of goods, services and capital, in short, the disappearance of the major obstacles to international trade. This development r......
 

To sustain growth and profits and successfully weather the global economic turnover, it is crucial for firms to consider international development a strategic priority. Domestic markets are saturated. Major manufacturers and service providers must seek market opportunities abroad. Obviously, such opportunities do exist. They are huge. Just think of the Asian market, the European Communi......
 

In the course International Capital Market, the main borrowing tools are presented. Interest rates determination, yield curve and benchmarking in an international setting are presented in the first session with special emphasis on money markets and interbank markets. The characteristics of eurocurrency loans, commercial and investment banking activities are the core of sessions 2 and 3. This in......
 

The objective of this course is to enable students to analyze major problems relating to the decision to make investments in an international context. The financial management of an international company differs from that of a purely domestic company in that it entails new variables, specifically, the foreign exchange risk and the political risk. Throughout this course, the methods we will pres......
 

This course has two objectives. The first is to develop a means of thinking about information systems and information technology in the overall process of strategy formulation and strategy implementation. The second is to put these models into practice by developing an information systems plan for a real organisation. Information systems and technology strategic planning are components of th......
 

This course will provide an overview of the current topics in supply chain management. An examination of the issues surrounding strategic management, globalization and regionalization, speed and flexibility, and e-commerce such as the use of RFID, EDI, reverse auctions, ERP, and flow management using lean and six sigma will be undertaken through the use of current articles, cases, a basic tex......
 

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