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Overlooking Vulnerability Can Harm Everyone, Including Your Business

December 19th, 2025
Octavio Augusto de Barros

Drawing on insights from HEC Paris faculty, Octavio de Barros, postdoctoral researcher maps how businesses can respond to vulnerability without defaulting to control, charity, or silence.

Why Business Schools and Businesses Need a Geopolitical Reset

Power and coercion have returned to the center of economic life, and executives need new ways to see, map and manage their exposure.

Olivier Chatain, Daniel Brown

When Corporate Purpose Meets Shareholder Power: Governance Lessons from the Ben & Jerry's–Unilever Conflict

This award-winning case study shows that when a purpose-driven brand inside a global conglomerate turns activism into strategic risk, governance structures—not intentions—determine who ultimately holds power.

Nils Plambeck

World Day of Social Justice: Why Value Sharing Can’t Wait

In an era of rising inequality and inflation shocks, companies are becoming frontline actors in shaping social justice.

11 minutes
Marieke Huysentruyt

Trust Is the Invisible Infrastructure of Prosperous Societies

Trust underpins economic performance, social mobility, and democratic legitimacy, yet remains largely invisible in public decision-making.

Marieke Huysentruyt, Yann Algan

What Becomes Core to Learning If AI Does the Work for Students?

As generative AI becomes ubiquitous in students’ daily work, how can higher education ensure they integrate these technologies into their learning without outsourcing judgment?

Hi! PARIS

What the Homeless Taught Us About Dignity 

They had neither the words nor the gestures at first. Yet, confronted with extreme hardship and social distress during outreach patrols in the Paris metro, Pierre and Syndou discovered that rebuilding human connection is within everyone’s reach. 

HEC Paris Sustainability & Organizations Institute

India Summit Asks If AI Can Scale Without Breaking Trust or the Climate Budget

On the eve of the New Delhi Summit researchers and policymakers debate in Paris on how to scale AI under tight constraints of energy, data, and ethics.

14 minutes
Daniel Brown

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