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Why Hard Work Isn’t Enough: The Role of Chance in Career Success

April 2nd, 2026
Roxana Barbulescu

Career success reflects not just effort, but how everyday chance events shape opportunities and visibility.

Putting Nature at the core of Business Strategy

What if conservation could be financed like infrastructure – structured, scalable, and performance-based?  

What Predictably Irrational Reveals About Human Behavior

Dan Ariely's book shows how cleverly researchers can test the hidden forces behind their decisions, and why social norms matter more than they often think.

7 minutes
Quirin Fleckenstein

Why Hard Work Isn’t Enough: The Role of Chance in Career Success

Career success reflects not just effort, but how everyday chance events shape opportunities and visibility.

Roxana Barbulescu

Marie Sushka's research legacy across banking, governance and private equity

The American academic kept returning to the same question: what do financial structures actually do once they are tested against evidence?

13 minutes
Daniel Brown

What Every Family Business Leader Should Learn from Mathieu Lustrerie

CEO Régis Mathieu blends creativity, legacy, and relational leadership to prepare a successful family business succession.

Center for Family Business

Can Entrepreneurship Really Empower the Most Vulnerable?

Despite decades of programs to democratize entrepreneurship, many vulnerable groups remain underrepresented. HEC Paris research invites a rethink.
 

3 minutes
Isaline Rohmer

“Exceptional” floods: what if the real scandal was our lack of preparedness?

Recent floods in France reveal a double reality: a climate that is intensifying storms, and a society that continues to behave as if all this were still accidental.

3 minutes
HEC Paris Sustainability & Organizations Institute

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