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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.

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.

Wooseok Jung

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.

Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini

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. 

6 minutes
Klaus Miller

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.
 

HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute

Genomines: Producing Nickel with Plants, Not Mines

Fabien Koutchekian and Dali Rashid turned botanical science into a scalable, low‑carbon alternative to traditional mining

HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute

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.

Yeonsin Ahn

Why Blockchain Still Needs Accountants

The FTX collapse highlights the dangers of believing in fully automated trust. The human dimension of blockchain is its most overlooked vulnerability, and strength. Extracts of Dane Pfluger's interview from Breakthroughs, the HEC podcast on research.

Dane Pflueger

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