HEC Management School - University of Liège

The Master’s degree in economics, available in two specializations, Economics and Finance and Economics and Society, offers you:

tools that are essential in order to analyze and understand the issues of local and global economics. scientific knowledge and quantitative techniques in order to analyze economic, financial and social problems on the basis of observed facts and data. Large-scale digitalization and the appearance of massive data require increasingly quantitative management from companies, public administrations, and non-governmental organizations. This training program for economists is one of the best adapted to this technological development. a training program that is directed toward analysis and interpretation of data in order to make better decisions and forecasts. a program based on the expertise of HEC in the following areas: regional economic development, competition, and innovation, public economics, and finance. varied and attractive career opportunities. ... [-]

Objectives to develop a contemporary vision of marketing and strategy, taking into account the IT revolution. to create adapted strategies by anticipating and understanding the complex international environment in which companies operate. Target groups

This program is intended for:

students who want to transform new trends into business opportunities; students who appreciate the analysis of figures to support decision-making processes.

The “Marketing and Strategic Intelligence” module is taught entirely in English.

Skills gained on completion of the specialization

Students will be capable of:

collecting, analyzing and summarizing data to assist the decision-making process; creating and maintaining a competitive advantage; anticipating and transforming new trends into business opportunities; developing e-marketing and e-business strategies; identifying, communicating with and influencing the main players; working out global strategies for products and services. Diploma and specific outcomes ... [-]

This program enables managers to specialize in marketing, including 3 pillars of the digital economy: digital marketing, e-commerce, and data analytics.

Its strengths

This program is co-developed with partners from the Chair in Digital Media & E-Commerce. They are regularly invited to speak during the courses related to their expertise. The digital economy is developing rapidly and our partner companies make it possible for us to organize an up-to-date program that follows the latest digital trends.

Objectives To understand the digital economy as a whole and to learn to develop a multi-channel strategy for a company; To anticipate the digital market by identifying future opportunities and challenges; To formulate new, IT-based digital strategies; To understand and assess the kinds of technology used to implement strategies in digital marketing, e-commerce and data analytics; To implement analysis techniques to solve problems of management, marketing, and sales. Target groups ... [-]

Objectives

This course gives students specialized skills in:

portfolio management financial analysis management of institutions investment decisions (project financing and acquisition/financing of companies).

The focus is on the application of these principles and methods rather than their development by the students.

Target groups

This program is intended:

for students who are attracted by a broad range of jobs in market finance; for students who are attracted by jobs as financial analysts, professions in the world of private equity or corporate finance consultancy; for those who wish to maintain a broad spectrum of career opportunities while choosing a curriculum that will enable them to fit into a professional environment as quickly as possible. ... [-]

Objectives

This program trains future executive managers and corporate executives of businesses and organizations specializing in all business areas related to both internal and external control processes.

Target groups

The program is intended for students wishing to pursue a career in Finance (auditor, certified public accountant, etc.). Financial Analysis and Auditing is partially taught in English.

Skills gained on completion of the specialization

In technical matters:

Mastery of accounting, financial, auditing and legal procedures necessary for a good understanding of the risks that organizations face on a daily basis; The capacity to gauge these risks as to the strategic, economic, legal and ethical context of an organization’s environment; The integration (or due consideration) of the strategic, ethical, legal and economic context of organizations, so as to develop systems for internal and external control, to manage the identified risks and to control them. ... [-]

The Master’s degree in management, with a range of specializations, gives you

sound training with a high level of specialization. The program consists of a strong core of conceptual (theoretical) knowledge ready to be transformed rapidly into practical (operational) skills in different management jobs.Each specialization combines a range of specialized courses, an internship (in a company, in a public organization, in a research center etc.) and a final thesis. This training combines the transversal university skills that are necessary for the proper development of a career in the world of finance, whether in companies or in professional organizations (adaptability, flexibility, intellectual curiosity, openness to the world, creativity, an entrepreneurial spirit, rooted in the real world, continuous learning) with detailed study of the basic disciplines of management at a level permitting the graduate to begin a general professional career, or one that is linked more specifically to one of these disciplines. a thorough mastery of a skill or a well-defined area of specialization, providing the graduate with a highly specialized profile for the purposes of looking for a job or pursuing further research. proficiency in two foreign languages: English (to a level corresponding to the international standard C1) and another language (to a minimum level of B2). understanding the way companies function and the contemporary economic issues at stake. the capacity to implement the knowledge gained in the context of a complex field situation, to analyze rigorously the situation observed and to provide appropriate solutions. Specializations in the Master’s degree program... [-]

The program of this specialization is organized around major themes of the management and optimization of the performance of any organization.

Objectives

The purpose of this specialization is to: train future executives and directors of nonprofit companies or organizations who wish to specialize in professions linked to internal control, internal auditing, management control, risk management or integrated risk management, quality and safety and, more generally, in the general management of the performance of companies, or who are called to optimize their performance continually.

Target groups

This program is intended: for students wishing to gain a solid basis of knowledge, tools and practical experience in transversal performance management (through internal control, internal auditing, management control or risk management) in all kinds of organizations (for-profit companies or nonprofit organizations). This specialization in Performance Management and Control can be followed entirely in English.... [-]

The specialization in Financial Engineering can be followed entirely in English. It is organized around major themes of modeling financial tools and markets.

Objectives

This specialization is organized around major themes of modeling financial tools and markets.

It trains specialists in modeling financial tools and markets. It provides students with the methodological and quantitative tools they need in order to participate actively in the creation, management, and control of financial products and services with high scientific and technical added value. It gives them mastery of concepts and techniques in an innovative framework. Target groups

The program is intended for:

students who want to work in advanced areas of finance. students who want to work in the quantitative departments of financial institutions, in risk management, in the technical departments of insurance companies, in pension funds or in structuring functions in trading rooms or investment fund management. people who want to strengthen their knowledge by complementary training in the fields of mathematical finance or in actuarial services. Skills gained on completion of the specialization detailed knowledge of financial institutions, markets, and assets, of their principles of operation and/or of use; mastery of concepts and problems specific to asset management and risk management; ability to identify mechanisms of price formation and of risk emergence in order to control the conceptual and technical aspects of market and banking finance; mastery of the technical aspect of financial operations by developing innovative procedures of calculation and optimization; applying the quantitative and methodological aspects of the tools... [-]

Supply Chain Management is the management of the logistics chain, in other words, all the processes and associated information for supplying products and making them available, from their design to the final customer. This is a:

central concern at the heart of the mission of all companies and organizations; a basic component of business strategy, which often leads to a decisive competitive advantage; series of management activities where all those functions that are closely linked to customers and suppliers, (marketing, management control, finance, human resources), meet; a constantly developing field, faced with opportunities and the challenges of globalization, new IT, environmental requirements and the desire for increased efficiency; a major center of competition for the Region: the port of Liege is the 3rd river port in Europe and its airport is the 8th freight airport in Europe. ... [-]