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AI and geopolitical turmoil have convinced many executives that the future is too unpredictable to plan for. Laurence Lehmann-Ortega, strategy professor at HEC Paris and co-author of Strategor, argues the reverse: permanent crisis is precisely why strategy matters again, on one condition, that you ...
Executives want to know what happens next in Iran, in Washington, in the markets. Professor Jeremy Ghez argues that the real skill in a broken world is no longer predicting what happens next, but spotting which of the assumptions that made them successful have stopped working.
Strategy execution is a leadership problem, not a methodology problem. And it starts long before the plan is launched.
“What do I do on Monday morning when I get back to the office?” It all begins with this one simple question. It is the question that Emmanuel Coblence, Professor of Leadership and Academic Director of several custom programs at HEC Paris, uses to close every custom program.
AI coaching tools promise to democratize access to coaching. What they can't promise is that what they deliver is actually coaching.
Late 2025. A decisive year-end negotiation, a strategic internal decision-making chain, mounting pressure. A few weeks earlier, William Ast may have forced the issue: escalated, pushed harder, raised his voice by nature. This time, he did something different.
Executive training faces a well-documented challenge: retention. Research suggests that passive learning formats can lead to retention rates as low as 10%. In high-stakes environments, this gap matters. Time is invested, energy is mobilized, yet what is learned does not always translate into action ...
When Indra Nooyi, then CEO of PepsiCo, was told to walk into a job interview in a sari — “and if they don’t hire you for who you are, that’s their loss” — she didn’t know it yet, but she was getting one of the most important leadership lessons of her life.
Dr. Tayyab Rashid explains how to spot red flags, assess risk, and refer responsibly when coaching conversations shift into clinical territory.
To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we meet Fahima Di Federico—a molecular biologist whose passion for science took root in childhood and flourished into nearly two decades of research excellence. In 2023, despite an exemplary career, Fahima sensed the initial spark ...
