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Vélizy-Villacoublay (French pronunciation: [velizi vilakublɛ]) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the south-western suburbs of Paris 13.9 km (8.6 mi) from the center and 3.2 km (2.0 mi) east of Versailles. Its inhabitants are called Véliziens.

Chaville–Vélizy is a railway station of the RER C train line located on the border between Chaville and Vélizy.

Jouy-en-Josas (French pronunciation: [ʒwi ɑ̃ ʒozas] ) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. It is located in the southwestern outer suburbs of Paris, 16.4 km (10.2 mi) from the centre of Paris, on the departmental border with Essonne. Jouy-en-Josas is home to the main campus of HEC School of Management (HEC Paris).

Viroflay (French pronunciation: [viʁɔflɛ]) is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the south-western suburbs of Paris 14.1 km (8.8 mi) from the center and 3 km (1.9 mi) from the Palace of Versailles. The town motto is Lux mea lex which is Latin for "Light is my law".

Chaville (French pronunciation: [ʃavil] ) is a commune in the Hauts-de-Seine department and Île-de-France region of north-central France. It lies some 12 km from the centre of Paris in the south-western suburbs of the French capital.

The HEC Paris Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center is a center created to promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris.

Viroflay-Rive-Droite station (French: Gare de Viroflay-Rive-Droite) is a railway station in the commune of Viroflay (department of Yvelines). It is in the Île-de-France region of France and is part of the Transilien rail network, on the Paris-Saint-Lazare – Versailles-Rive-Droite line. It is also an underground tram-on-tyres stop on line 6. The name "Rive-Droite" refers to the trains' Paris destination (Saint-Lazare) being on the right bank of the Seine. The Transilien & tramway platforms are connected by an IMEM Ascenseurs lift.

The Society & Organizations Institute is an interdisciplinary center, unique in Europe, which members, professors and researchers, work on societal and environmental issues. Their research, teaching activities and experiments are applied to companies. It is located on the HEC Paris campus in Jouy-en-Josas.

The Groupement de Recherche et d’Etudes en Gestion à HEC Paris (GREGHEC) is a CNRS - HEC Paris joint research laboratory. It is located on the HEC campus in Jouy-en-Josas. GREGHEC is one of the largest joint research laboratories in the fields of economics and management in France.

HEC Paris (French: École des hautes études commerciales de Paris, lit. 'Paris School of Advanced Business Studies') is a business school and grande école located in Jouy-en-Josas, a southwestern outer suburb of Paris, France. One of the best business schools in the world, it offers MiM, MSc in International Finance, MBA, EMBA, executive education, and PhD programs.HEC Paris is the founding member of CEMS - Global Alliance in Management Education and is triple accredited (by AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS).

Porchefontaine is a neighborhood in the south-east of Versailles, in Yvelines department of France. It was a working class residential area. Since the 1970s, the working class has been replaced by white-collar workers. It features a tiny downtown, two schools, a sports complex, and a green space that is surrounded by the Versailles, Satory, and Meudon woods.

The Centre de perfectionnement aux affaires de Paris (CPA Paris) is a French private higher technical education establishment created in 1929 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry under the name Centre de perfectionnement aux affaires. Its original mission was to pragmatically train business management professionals using new teaching methods, in particular those of Harvard University with the help of Georges Doriot, one of the first French graduates.In 1999, the CPA was integrated into the École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris and has been running the “Executive MBA” program since 2002. The CPA is headquartered in Paris but offers its programs in Jouy-en-Josas.Following the model of the CPA Paris, other CPA have been created by chambers of commerce and industry from other regions of France (Lyon, Nice, Toulouse, Lille, etc.). Since 2006, at EM Lyon and Toulouse Business School, joined by CEPI Management for the CCI Grand Lille in 2011, the CPA has delivered an Advanced Management Program (AMP), in order to continue to promote the training of leaders by leaders while benefiting from academic support from Business Schools.In 2002, EMBA HEC obtained accreditation from the Association of MBAs.The CPA Paris delivers a diploma recognized by the State at a Master's degree level.