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In recent decades we’ve seen inequalities growing in society, exacerbated in part by the current global health, social and economic crises. It falls to ambitious businesses to recognize the benefits of redressing the balance, affirms Marieke Huysentruyt, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business ...

In some ways, the 21st century has brought about the biggest changes in consumer behavior since the industrial revolution. These changes have forced companies to shift their focus from brand centricity to customer centricity. Once upon a time, brands shared their story and brought customers into the ...

MBDA Missile Systems, which offers a range of high-technology products, is the only European company that caters to the three branches of the armed forces: land, sea, and air. Customers choose MBDA for its ability to meet ever-changing military requirements, its cost effectiveness, and its ...

As life under Covid’s shadow continues, one thing has never been clearer - there is no static ‘new normal’. This pandemic has driven dramatic changes and innovations in the way business is done, and it will continue to do so. For Executive Education, adapting to such a rapidly changing environment ...

To meet the major challenges we currently face, leaders must be able to offer their teams projects that are aligned with their personal and civic aspirations. At the same time, they need to help them accept that every great innovation project involves phases of failure and that this is part of the ...

An expert in the social and environmental aspects of running a business for almost two decades, Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot - Associate Professor of Strategy & Business Policy at HEC Paris, and also Executive Director of the Society & Organizations Institute - was the obvious choice to head up a new ...

HEC Paris is equipping the leaders of tomorrow with a multitude of business skills – but for three years now it has been giving them an appreciation of something that may ultimately turn out to be even more important than profit. Cécile de Lisle, Executive Director of the Joly Family Chair in ...

Marc Beretta is Franco-Irish. After working in finance for major corporations for many years, he made a major switch 17 years ago by training to become a coach and going on to open his own international firm, Inis alga. HEC Paris recently entrusted him with the management of its School of Coaching ...

Holder of a doctorate in law, Efoé Dosseh-Anyron had an ambitious project – creating a "legal aid clinic" to provide the most impoverished people in his country, Togo, with access to legal aid and services. The "Lead Campus: Sustainable Leadership in Africa" program gave him the opportunity to fine ...

People have been banding together since the days they were hunting mammoths, and this natural inclination to work collectively has never ended, says Julien Jourdan, Associate Professor of Management & Human Resources at HEC Paris. It's an indication, he feels, that there's more to every business ...