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From 2022 to 2026, Transdev and HEC Paris trained 101 of the group's top executives, in four cohorts, through a custom program built around the company's 2030 strategy. The program was designed for leaders who were already running significant businesses - and who, for the most part, did not spend time together. Its ambition: give them time to look ten years ahead, and the conditions to act as one group across 19 countries. 

Transdev operates public transportation in 19 countries, under hundreds of contracts with transport authorities. Its model is B2G2C: public authorities sign the contracts, and passengers judge the service. A structurally complex position for the private-sector operator, signing contracts with one party and answering to another.

“Great leaders see further, execute better, and bring people with them. The ability to combine strategic vision, operational excellence and human leadership is what transforms ambition into lasting value, for organizations and for society." - Andrea Masini, Professor of Operations Management, HEC Paris, and academic director of the program.
 

Twenty times larger in twenty-five years. That is what has happened to assets under management in private equity, and investing in the asset class has become much more common for a wide range of investors. The past three or four years slowed the pace. Guillaume Vuillemey, Associate Professor at HEC Paris and academic director of the Executive MSc in Finance, puts that down to interest rates. The long-term trend has held. 
 

By some estimates, more than 80% of AI projects fail to deliver the value expected of them. For Vincent Fraitot, those failures explain very little: it is the successes that are readable, and what they reveal goes well beyond technology. The HEC Paris professor on what it takes to scale an AI transformation.