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.
Geopolitics & Public Affairs
Tech & AI
Fake News in Crisis: The Real Cost of Weak Institutions
Based on research by HEC Paris, fake news spread is driven more by freedom and connectivity than by algorithms alone.
AI Advances Supply Chain Sustainability Goals
Predictive algorithms reroute ships to avoid whales. AI tools scan for compliance risks in global supplier networks. In this interview, HEC professor Sam Aflaki shows this is real.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Neurobus: Bringing Frugal AI to Defense and Aerospace
Florian Corgnou turned a career shaped by engineering, entrepreneurship and multiple HEC Paris programs into a deeptech venture delivering ultra-efficient AI for drones, satellites, and defense applications.
Rethinking AI Ethics Beyond Compliance
As AI reshapes industry and society, ethical oversight lags behind. Seven of HEC’s top scholars provide some answers. By seven HEC academics.
Strategy & Leadership
What HR Managers Should Know About AI Recruitment Tools
Established in 2024, the startup Bluco offers businesses a solution that simplifies and accelerates the recruitment process. Co-founder Nicolò Magnante (H.24) explains.
Diversity & Inclusion in the 21st century and Why It’s Dividing the World
As political backlash grows against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, HEC Paris experts Matteo Winkler and Marcelle Laliberté propose a roadmap to keep DEI alive across regions.
Economics & Finance
How Much is Executive Pay Really Driven by ESG?
Research by Matthias Efing reveals that, although integrating ESG criteria into executive compensation should ensure that corporate governance actively supports sustainability and ethical goals, the effectiveness of this approach remains questionable
