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From Predictive AI to Generative AI: Understanding the ChatGPT Breakthrough

In 2025, AI remains a helpful tool – but for how long? When artificial general intelligence becomes available, could Isaac Asimov’s I, robot shift from science fiction to reality? With these questions in mind, we must make the choice of AI revolution and its most famous application, ChatGPT. That begins with understanding the often-overlooked aspects of this Generative Pre-Trained Transformer.

  • Handcrafted Futures — One Year with Barbara Stöttinger, Dean of Executive Education at HEC Paris

    One year after stepping into the leadership of HEC Paris Executive Education, Barbara Stöttinger has had time to take stock — not through a grand speech, but through the quiet clarity that follows a year of building, listening, and learning. What she found on campus, she says, is a community driven by determination and curiosity, an institution in motion, and a world asking new things of business schools.
     

  • If AI Manages, What’s Left for Managers?

    As AI automates core managerial tasks, HEC Professor Julien Jourdan explores what remains uniquely human in leadership.
     

  • «Where do your dreams and desires call you? Listen to that inner voice that makes you want to move forward, to dare… » – Sandrine Mies

    In this interview, Sandrine Mies, a former Disney for nearly 20 years, shares her career transformation - from the world of childhood to robotics and on to the Longevity Economy, with one unwavering thread running through it all: her desire to combine what matters most to her - the art of storytelling, technology, and human connection. Her journey weaves together executive positions, consulting roles, learning experiences, and even an internship.