Articles

Entrepreneurship and Startups

February 06th, 2023

How to Ensure Entrepreneur Training Really Delivers Business Growth

Vast sums have been pumped into training schemes to boost entrepreneurship and innovation despite mixed reviews of their true impact. As belts tighten in...

By Anne-Valérie Corboz

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January 17th, 2023

Addressing “S” Demands of ESG: What Role the Board Can (and Should) Play

Faced with rising demands from society, it is crucial that companies address their social/societal impact and the board has a key role to play. A report...

By Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot

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December 16th, 2022

How Much to Reveal to Persuade a Decision Maker?

How much information one needs to provide to decision makers to respect transparency while keeping its competitive edge? In a new study using a...

By Tristan Tomala, Marie Laclau, Frédéric Koessler

Information Systems

December 05th, 2022

Digitalization as an Enabler of Business Transformation: The Orange Case

Transformation is lauded as the best way to build competitive advantage and adapt over the long term. To succeed, it requires a culture of adaptability...

By Shirish Srivastava, Joseph Nehme

Social Innovation

December 20th, 2022

Spotlight on the Social Dimension Measurement in ESG

Three HEC academics joined forces with an S&P Global social specialist in ESG research (Bruce Thomson) to bring out a landmark report on the social...

By Marieke Huysentruyt, Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot, Leandro Nardi, Bruce Thomson

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January 17th, 2023

How Will New European ESG Reporting Standards Affect Companies?

The European Commission mandated a group of experts to work on new European corporate social responsibility reporting requirements. Marieke Huysentruyt...

By Marieke Huysentruyt

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November 10th, 2022

Do Employee Shareholders Care about their Employers' ESG Performance?

The Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) performance of companies has become an increasingly significant factor influencing investor sentiment in...

By Maxime Bonelli, François Derrien

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November 07th, 2022

How Governments’ Heavy Reliance on Bank Debt Affects Firms

Noémie Pinardon-Touati, newly Assistant Professor at Columbia University and holder of a PhD in Finance from HEC Paris, investigates how governments...

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November 04th, 2022

Future of Finance: How Are New Technologies Reshaping the Sector?

The advent of digital technologies has created a very new and vastly different financial landscape. Today's buying and selling of securities is conducted...

By Thierry Foucault

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Human Resources

November 03rd, 2022

Why Brilliant Multidisciplinary Academics Are Discriminated Against – And How To Fight Back

Leading academic organizations officially promote multidisciplinarity as favoring a richer, more innovative research environment. Yet Julien Jourdan...

By Julien Jourdan

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