Articles | HEC Paris

December 15th, 2020

How Activist Short Sellers Police Financial Markets

New research analyzes how activist short sellers’ “research reports” convince investors that the companies they target are overvalued. Professors Luc...

By Luc Paugam, Hervé Stolowy

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Marketing

December 14th, 2020

5 minutes

Why Experiences Might Make Better Gifts for Older Children

What should we get for our kids this holiday season? As children get older, giving them something they can experience (live through) instead of material...

By Tina M. Lowrey, L. J. Shrum

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Data Science

December 09th, 2020

7 minutes

“A $%^* Sexist Program”: Detecting and Addressing AI Bias

A major issue facing companies that use AI, algorithmic bias can perpetuate social inequalities — as well as pose legal and reputational risks to the...

By Christophe Pérignon

Operations Management

December 04th, 2020

How Can We Force Companies To Keep Our Data Safe?

With online shopping, loyalty programs, smart devices and many other aspects of business and daily lives, companies collect vast amounts of our personal...

By Ruslan Momot

Decision Sciences

November 13th, 2020

How We Believe in Unsubstantiated Claims, and How This Leads to Polarization

The COVID-19 pandemic has fostered the sharing of conflicting and unsubstantiated claims by public figures. Early November, a deeply divided nation...

By Anne-Sophie Chaxel

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Strategy

November 10th, 2020

10 minutes

How Tech Firms Influence the US Supreme Court to Shape Innovation Policies

Building on the long tradition of innovation research that examines changes in firms’ rate and direction of innovation, the research by HEC Paris...

By Elie Sung

Law

October 27th, 2020

Are Carbon Markets the Solution Against Climate Change?

Global warming is one of the most pressing issues of the 21st century. In order to meet this unprecedented challenge, States and sub-state entities have...

By Arnaud Van Waeyenberge

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Marketing

September 07th, 2020

Sustainable Luxuries? Millennials are Skeptical – Yet They Buy

All companies have jumped on the sustainability bandwagon, if not out of genuine concern for the environment, at least because the new generation of...

By Anne Michaut, Jean-Noël Kapferer

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Human Resources

September 01st, 2020

How Culture Influences Creativity Across Countries

Specialists continue to hotly debate the impact of culture on creativity. Based on recent and established research on the topic, three researchers...

By Michel Lander

Entrepreneurship and Startups

July 21st, 2020

How Unemployment Insurance Can Foster Business Dynamism

Research by Johan Hombert (HEC Paris) recently published in The Journal of Finance shows that well-designed unemployment insurance is key to foster...

By Johan Hombert

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