List of Chairs

AXA Chair

Decision Sciences

Research Chair

Chair Holder: Itzhak Gilboa, Professor of Economics, Decision Sciences

The AXA Chair for Decision Sciences was established in 2010, recognizing the fact that decision making is central to business and economics, and that the field of decision sciences is undergoing a very interesting period. With the combination of psychological findings with mathematical theory, and with the rise of experimental and behavioral methods in economics, as well as with neuroeconomics, it appears that decision sciences may adopt new paradigms and methodologies.
In light of these changes, the Chair is devoted to the promotion of research on decision making, addressing a variety of questions ranging from the optimal or desirable ways of making decisions to the study of the way in which people tend to make decisions in practice. This research is interdisciplinary in nature, combining mathematical modeling, psychological studies, and philosophical foundations, all geared to applications in economics and business.
The Chair supports a range of research activities, including visits by well-known researchers who come to teach and interact with faculty and students at HEC, an annual conference titled "Decisions: Theory, Experiments, and Applications (D-TEA)", which brings together top researchers in a given sub-field, and so forth.

Deloitte - Société Générale Chair

Energy and Finance

Research and Teaching Chair

Chair Holders: Blaise Allaz, Professor of Finance and Jean-Michel Gauthier, Affiliate Professor of Finance

The "Energy & Finance Chair" has the following objectives: to develop teaching material and applied research related to common challenges affecting energy and financial market sectors and to develop a portfolio of courses and seminars for HEC graduate programs and Executive Education seminars in France and abroad.

DIGITAL INNOVATION FOR BUSINESS Chair

with the support of Free - Meetic - Pixmania Group - PriceMinister (Pierre Kosciusko‐Morizet) - Vente-privée.com

Teaching Chair

Directeur Exécutif : Julien Lévy, Affiliate Professor of HEC Paris

EDF Chair

New Business Models in the Energy Industries

Research and Teaching Chair

Chair holder: Dominique Rouziès, Professor of Marketing

The EDF Chair is designed to consider the changes currently sweeping the energy industry and their implications for businesses and consumers. The collaboration explores how new business models, greater customer involvement and new behaviors are affecting all stakeholders in the energy industry's value chain. Particular emphasis is placed on the evolving relationships between energy providers and customers, in both business-to-business and consumer markets.

Fédération Bancaire Française (FBF) - HEC - Université Paris Dauphine Chair

Corporate Finance

Research Chair

Chair Holder: Ulrich Hege, Associate Professor of Finance

The Corporate Finance Chair, jointly held by Université Paris-Dauphine and HEC-Paris, is one of the five academic chairs funded by the Fédération Bancaire Française (FBF). The Corporate Finance Chair was established in January 2008

The purpose of the Corporate Finance Chair is to foster innovation in the investment banking industry in order to increase the competitiveness of the Place financière de Paris. The Corporate Finance Chair has to advance the scholarship, teaching, and practice of investment banking. To this aim, the Chair facilitates interactions between the academic partners and the members of the FBF.

The Chair's objective is to realize top-level fundamental and applied research in corporate finance with a special focus on topics related to investment banking. More specifically, the following issues are studied:

• Mergers and acquisitions and related corporate transactions, incl. Private Equity
• Primary markets and security issuance
• Corporate Governance.

The Scientific Directors of the FBF Chair are Edith Ginglinger (Université Paris-Dauphine) and Ulrich Hege (HEC)

GDF-Suez Chair

Business and sustainability

Research and Teaching Chair

Chair Holder: Rodolphe Durand, Professor of Strategy & Business Policy

Google Chair

Google@HEC

Research and Teaching Chair

The creation of the "Google@HEC" Chair constitutes a worldwide first for Google, as until now it had never financed a Chair in a business school before. The Chair demonstrates Google's will to be an active partner in the development of e-business in France and Europe. For HEC Paris, this partnership reinforces its commitment to the development of knowledge and training in e-business.

Bernard Ramanantsoa, Dean of HEC Paris, Daniel Bernard, President of the HEC Foundation, Jean-Marc Tassetto, Managing Director of Google France and Jean-Paul Vermès, First Vice-President of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry in charge of education, are all delighted to announce the creation of the "Google@HEC" Chair.

According to Daniel Bernard, "This partnership between Google and HEC Paris responds to the need to integrate e-business and Digital Business skills in the educational offer of our School. We are proud to welcome Google as a new partner to the HEC Foundation."

Bernard Ramanantsoa adds, "The launch of the 'Google@HEC' Chair illustrates HEC Paris' commitment to training the future leaders and entrepreneurs of Digital Business. This partnership offers us a unique opportunity to develop our e-business training. It will certainly promote Digital Entrepreneurship to our students and beyond."

"This partnership with HEC Paris was inspired by our ambition to share our knowledge in order to train the decision-makers of tomorrow and to therefore contribute to digital development of Digital Business in France," declared Jean-Marc Tassetto, Managing Director of Google France.

Starting from this year onwards, the « Google@HEC » Chair will include:

1. "Google Track": Classes in e-business and Digital Economy for first- and second-year Masters students;

2. "Google Creativity Talks": Regular meetings between students and creators (entrepreneurs, designers, artists etc.);

3. "Google-HEC Initiative": Tools to accompany students with e-business projects;

4. "Start-up Weekends" organized on the HEC campus and open to students from other management, engineering and design schools etc.

Jean Monnet Chair

Research and Teaching Chair

Chair Holder: Alberto Alemanno, Associate Professor of Tax & Law

The European Commission granted Alberto Alemanno a Jean Monnet Chair in European Law and Risk Regulation.
The Jean Monnet Programme has been launched by the European Commission in order to stimulate teaching, research and debate on European integration in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

From October 1st, 2011 and for a three-year period, the Chair Program will consist in developing research and teaching in European Law and Risk Regulation. The Chair will allow our HEC graduate students to get familiar with global regulatory issues and to improve their understanding of European major questions. To this purpose, Alberto Alemanno plans to organize a series of Jean Monnet conferences aimed at sensibilizing the greater number of HEC students and participants of the different executive programs, HEC Paris Professors and also students from ParisTech Schools to European issues.

Pernod Ricard Chair

Premium Brand Management

Research and Teaching Chair

Chair Holder: Jean-Noël Kapferer, Professor of Marketing

The objective of this chair is to contribute to the advancement of managerial research related to the management of prestigious brands in all sectors.

This chair also conducts empirical research into the behavior of leading brands, key players in the luxury field, and the attitudes and perceptions of the clients themselves.

PPR Luxe Chair

Luxury Strategies

Teaching Chair

Directeur Exécutif : Anne Michaut-Denizeau, Affiliate Professor of Marketing

More information on the Luxy Strategies Certificate

Renault-Polytechnique-HEC Chair

Multicultural Management and Corporate Performance

Research and Teaching Chair

Chair Holders: Eve Chiapello,Professor of Accounting and Management Control; Eric Godelier (Professor, Ecole Polytechnique)

This Chair has been created as a result of Carlos Ghosn's wish to set up a Chair on the theme of managing cultural diversity. This International Chair will be working in collaboration with prestigious foreign institutions in Japan (Keio University) and India (Indian Institute of Management of Ahmedabad).

The objective of the Chair is to develop the abilities of young graduates to understand and apply managerial practices that are suited to the different economic realities in terms of national, professional and operational cultures.

The activities of the Chair include: a teaching programme for mixed groups of HEC and Polytechnique students leading to field research in India and Japan; plus a scientific programme including the organisation of a research seminar on the theme of multicultural management.

SAFRAN - HEC - ISAE Chair

Management of innovative programs

Research and Teaching Chair

Social Business, Enterprise and Poverty Chair

With the support of Danone et Schneider Electric

Research and Teaching Chair

Chair Holder: Frédéric Dalsace, Associate Professor of Marketing

This Chair is co-presided by Professor Muhammad Yunus and Mr. Martin Hirsch and receives the financial support of Danone, the French government (represented by the High Commisionner for Active Solidarity) and private donors.
The aim of the HEC Social Business/Enterprise and Poverty chair is:

• To contribute to training a new generation of managers, aware of societal challenges and aspiring to be part of the solution, regardless of their professional activity;
• To develop quality research on strategic innovation in societal fields on themes involving social business and the ways in which business can fight poverty;
• To contribute to an inclusive economy, in France and in developed countries through the Action Tank initiative

"Creating wealth without creating poverty!"

Through this chair, HEC is offering a program of 100 contact hours (SB/EP Certificate) in class examining Social Business themes and studying the involvement of business in the fight against poverty, complementing students' main fields of study. During the program, each participant has the opportunity to experiment an hands-on experience in a business, in a structure of social integration, or in a project of social entrepreneurship involved in fighting poverty.

Across the SB/EP certificate program, the objectives of HEC and its partners are:

• To train students in innovative business approaches that do reduce poverty, by offering new economic models in both developed and developing countries;
• To investigate new ways of co-creation and distribution of wealth to reduce poverty;
• To think critically about the role of business in society;
• To allow students to incorporate their valuable experience in humanitarian associations into their professional life and to acquire key questioning skills on the role of business in society.

More information on the Social Business / Enterprise and Poverty Certificate

More information on the Social Business / Enterprise and Poverty Chair

Unibail-Rodamco

Real Estate

Teaching Chair

One of the main objectives of the Morgan Stanley, Unibail Rodamco Real Estate Chair is to develop courses focused on real estate economics and finance for Masters, Specialized Masters, CEMS and MBA students at HEC Paris.

The chair also aims to:

• extend the global reach of the real estate industry and its leading players,
• develop sophisticated professionals with the skills necessary to succeed in the global real estate industry,
• and recruit the best future talent.