# HEC Montréal

HEC Montréal (French: Hautes études commerciales de Montréal; English: High Commercial Studies of Montreal) is a bilingual 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 is now called the Gilles Hocquart Building.
In 1988, a group of HEC students established Jeux du Commerce, where more than 1300 students from 14 universities in Eastern Canada gather annually for academic, social, and sports events. 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.

### List of directors

| | Years | Director |
| 1 | 1907–1916 | Auguste-Joseph de Bray |
| 2 | 1916–1938 | Henry Laureys |
| 3 | 1938–1962 | Esdras Minville |
| 4 | 1962–1972 | Roger Charbonneau |
| 5 | 1972–1974 | Paul Dell'Aniello |
| 6 | 1974–1975 | Roger Charbonneau (2nd time as Director) |
| 7 | 1975–1982 | Pierre Laurin |
| 8 | 1982–1987 | Pierre Harvey |
| 9 | 1987–1995 | Jean Guertin |
| 10 | 1995–2006 | Jean-Marie Toulouse |
| 11 | 2006–2019 | Michel Patry |
| 12 | 2019–Current | Federico Pasin |

## 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

In 1970, Robert Bourassa inaugurated the Decelles building of HEC Montreal, also known as "the School on the Mountain." The students sometimes use the expression "Bunker" to refer to it due to the use of concrete for the exterior façade and the absence of windows.
In 1976, the PhD program was proposed in collaboration with McGill University. The MSc program was created in the same year.
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

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) is now used as a secondary building. The first building used by HEC Montréal was located in downtown Montreal but is no longer used by the school.
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
* Jean Campeau: ex-CEO of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and co-chairman of the Commission on the Political and Constitutional Future of Quebec
* Verònica Canals i Riba: Minister of Tourism of Andorra since May 22, 2019
* Louis R. Chênevert: ex-CEO of United Technologies Corporation
* Armando Torres Chibrás: Orchestra conductor in the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico
* Caroline Codsi: President and founder of Women in Governance, and Board Member of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
* François Desjardins: CEO of B2B Bank
* Jérôme J. Dufourg: ex-CEO, FC Talanta
* Robert Dutton ex-CEO of Rona, Inc.
* Anne-Marie Gélinas: Film producer and CEO of Emafilms
* Marie Gibeau: Québec Politician
* 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)
* Daniel Paillé: Québec Politician, Economist and former Minister
* Jacques Parizeau: Former Premier of Québec (26th)
* Charles-Albert Poissant: Philanthropist and Canadian Businessman
* Martine Ouellet: Québec Politician
* 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)