Articles
Sustainability & Society
Overlooking Vulnerability Can Harm Everyone, Including Your Business
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.
Growth or Human Ties
Reflecting Progress After the 2025 Nobel Prize
Strategy & Leadership
Rankings Nudge CSR - But What Happens at the Margins?
Research by the late professor Wooseok Jung on marginal firms reveals that status anxiety drives CSR policy shifts more than real commitment.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Rearming Europe Requires a New Approach to Secrecy
Research by Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini shows how European defense firms can maintain openness and protect sensitive knowledge.
Brands & Behaviors
Tech & AI
Did EU Data Laws Really Rein in Online Tracking?
Europe’s landmark data legislation slowed down online surveillance, but didn’t stop it. Klaus Miller shows tracking has grown - just less aggressively, and with more disclosure.
Veeton: Reinventing Fashion Visuals With AI
Flore Lestrade and her cofounders turned a fast-growing need for fashion visuals into a scalable AI solution adopted by major retail brands.
Genomines: Producing Nickel with Plants, Not Mines
Fabien Koutchekian and Dali Rashid turned botanical science into a scalable, low‑carbon alternative to traditional mining
Tech Startup Culture Not as Innovative as Founders May Think
Despite rejecting their past employers, tech founders often replicate old cultural norms, as uncovered in a study by HEC Paris Assistant Professor Yeonsin Ahn.
