RANKED #62 WORLDWIDE — FINANCIAL TIMES 2025
The Executive MBA at HEC Lausanne. 16 months part-time, taught in English in the heart of Switzerland. Built for executives who refuse to choose between career, family, and growth.
Trusted accreditations · Triple-crown adjacent · 14 consecutive years in the FT Top 100
Why this EMBA
Career. Family. Growth. Most programmes ask you to sacrifice one. We refused to build that programme.
Stop being the smartest engineer, surgeon, or analyst in the room. Become the leader who gets the room aligned. Strategy, finance, leadership — built for the corner office.
Our Essential Skills programme — coaching, mindfulness, career management — is what 80% of EMBAs leave out. It is what our alumni cite first when asked what changed them.
15+ nationalities. 12+ industries. Founders next to Fortune 500 VPs next to chief surgeons. The peer-learning ROI alone justifies the tuition.
Doctorates from Harvard, Wharton, INSEAD, MIT. Active researchers. Active advisors. They teach what works in next quarter's board meeting — not last decade's case study.
Friday and Saturday, every other week. 47 days off the office over 16 months. Keep the job. Keep the family. Get the EMBA. Switzerland's most life-compatible top-100 programme.
Book a 30-minute one-to-one with the programme director. No pitch. Just an honest read of your fit.
Book my call →The programme
An integrated 16-month curriculum that blends the rigour of academic research with the pragmatism of executive practice. Every module ends with an applied project you take back to your organisation on Monday morning.
Focus areas
For CFOs, investors, and operators who want to read — and shape — the numbers behind every strategic decision.
Ranked #1 in Health Management by Eduniversal. Built with — and for — clinicians, hospital directors, MedTech founders, and pharma executives.
Faculty
Strategy & Geopolitics
Former McKinsey partner. Advises three Fortune 500 boards. Author of two HBR cover features.
Corporate Finance & Valuation
PhD Wharton. Independent director on two SMI-listed boards. Cited by the Federal Council on Swiss financial policy.
Healthcare Strategy
MD-PhD Harvard. Built and exited two MedTech ventures. Senior advisor to WHO Europe.
Leadership & Coaching
PhD INSEAD. Executive coach to 40+ C-suite leaders. Designed our Essential Skills programme.
Names above are illustrative. Meet the actual cohort of 30+ professors in the brochure.
Alumni voices
"I came in as the best engineer in my division. I left running the division. The Essential Skills programme — not the strategy modules — is what unlocked it."
"I was promoted to managing partner four months before graduation. My capstone became our firm's expansion plan into German-speaking Switzerland."
"Forty-seven days off the hospital over sixteen months. I didn't lose a single OR slate. My patients didn't notice. My career trajectory did."
Admissions
Online, 20 minutes. CV, motivation letter, two references. Rolling admissions until June for the August intake.
A 60-minute conversation, not an interview. We test fit both ways — yours and ours.
Most candidates hear back within two weeks. Confirmed cohort by mid-July. First module: late August.
Free · 24-page brochure
The 24-page brochure with everything you need to make an informed decision — and share with your CFO, your spouse, and your future self.
Frequently asked questions
16 months, part-time. Classes on Friday and Saturday every other week, on average. About 47 full days away from the office over the entire programme. Most participants schedule no holidays around module weekends in the first six months, then quickly find their rhythm.
Everything academic: 15 core modules, your focus track, the Essential Skills programme, all coaching sessions, capstone supervision, and learning materials. Travel, accommodation, and meals during international study trips are excluded.
In our last three cohorts, 71% of participants secured at least partial employer co-funding. We provide a ready-to-send business case template once you're admitted — most participants close the conversation in one meeting.
15+ nationalities and 12+ industries on average. Roughly half Swiss-based, half international commuters. The diversity is a feature, not a side effect — it's where most of the peer-learning ROI comes from.
No. We assess academic readiness through your CV, motivation, references, and the director conversation. We've found this predicts success in our cohort better than a standardised test.
Life happens. Each module has structured catch-up materials and a peer-pairing system. Missing more than two weekends per year requires a brief discussion with the programme director — but in 14 years it has rarely been an issue.
Rankings are imperfect, but they signal three things our prospective candidates care about: post-MBA salary uplift, alumni network reach, and academic rigour. We've been in the FT Top 100 for 14 consecutive years — the most important word in that sentence is consecutive.
Yes. We host monthly open evenings on campus and quarterly online info sessions. The most valuable format is usually a one-to-one with the programme director — book one below.
August 2026 intake · Rolling admissions
Spend them becoming the leader your future self has been waiting for.
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