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The Society & Organizations Center is an interdisciplinary center at HEC Paris whose members research and teach about the contemporary challenges that organizations face and how these organizations mold society.

Its three pillars of research, education, and action give rise to our Center's motto: Think, Teach, Act for an Inclusive and Sustainable World!

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Addressing challenges of the XXIst century capitalism Building inclusive business models Tackling the ecological transition Developing a purposeful leadership

Oct 11, 2019

ARCS workshop

12:00 pm

Paris

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Jun 17

2019

11th Medici Summer School

9:00 am

Jouy-En-Josas

We are pleased to announce the organization of the 11th edition of the Medici Summer School in Management Studies for doctoral students and young researchers which will be held in Paris, France, June 16 – June 21, 2019. The school is organized and sponsored by Bologna Business School (University of Bologna), HEC Paris (Society and Organizations Research Center and the HEC Foundation), and MIT Sloan School of Management (Economic Sociology PhD Program).

Oct 11

2019

ARCS Workshop

12:00 pm

Paris

The HEC Paris Society and Organizations (S&O) Center and the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) organize the 2019 ARCS Workshop on “Accelerating Researcher-Practitioner Collaborations in Sustainability Research” that will take place in the Collège des Bernardins, Paris on 11-12 October 2019.

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Jul 19, 2019

The SASI Co., the firm born from the MSc SASI Class of 2018

46 graduates from the MSc Sustainability and Social Innovation (SASI) of HEC Paris decided to create a ‘sustainability agency’ after their common university experience. Not simply a story of an ordinary...

Jul 10, 2019

Medici Summer School Marks Interaction Between Science and Culture

For only the second time in its 11-year-history, HEC’s S&O Center hosted the annual Medici Summer School in Management Studies. The weeklong event, co-organized with MIT and the Bologna Business School,...

Jun 12, 2019

Frank Debates Over Cutting-edge Research at S&O

The fifth S&O Research Day featured 21 presentations and three keynote speeches in a whirlwind exchange over two days. Organized by HEC Professor Georg Wernicke , the May 23-24 event was notable for its...

Jun 05, 2019

Entrepreneurship with a positive social and environmental impact

HEC Paris Professor Florian Hoos, an expert in social entrepreneurship and change-making, defines social entrepreneurs as individuals who see innovative solutions to social and environmental challenges...

May 29, 2019

Q&A with Witold Henisz: Exploiting Big Data for a Financial Revolution

Witold Henisz has been a key figure at The Wharton School for the past two decades. The Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management has been researching ways for corporations to find, build and maintain...

Apr 04, 2019

HEC’s Proteen Team Eyes $1 Million Hult Award

HEC Paris is marking the tenth anniversary of the annual Hult Prize, nicknamed the “Nobel Prize for students” after winning the regional final in London. A team from the MSc Sustainability and Social...

Apr 01, 2019

The Perils and Promises of AI and Robotics

For the fourth S&O ’s Annual Conference, HEC academic Mitali Banerjee organized a high-caliber conference on the impact of AI and robotics on work and society. Participants enjoyed lively debates led by...

Feb 15, 2019

Inaugural HEC Impact Careers Day Hits Home

February’s student-driven HEC Impact Careers Day saw a record affluence for its debates, career fair and networking arena. Jointly organized by the HEC Career Center and six students from the “Have a...

Feb 12, 2019

S&O Launches New Tool to Measure Social Responsibility Impact

In February, HEC’s S&O research center unveiled groundbreaking proposals to standardize social impact measurements for industry, development agencies, consultancy firms and NGOs.

Oct 31, 2018

Impactful Investing: Turning Promises into Results

The Society & Organizations (S&O) Center and the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EPVA) recently teamed up with Action Tank Social and Business for a plenary focused on impactful investing. This...

Oct 26, 2018

Green Bundle to Drive Conservation Behavior

Magali Delmas is Visiting Professor at HEC’s Center for Society & Organizations (S&O) . She is the Director of the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance and Professor of Management at the...

Sep 18, 2018

Sustainability is the New Strategy

During the “Sustainability is the New Strategy” Challenge on September 6-7, 2018, fifty HEC Paris M1 students learned how sustainability challenges are radically reshaping the way we think and do business...

Sep 03, 2018

Landmark Agreement between HEC Paris and Hubert Joly to Create Purposeful Leadership Chair

Best Buy Chairman and CEO Hubert Joly and his Alma Mater signed an agreement on July 4, creating HEC’s first-ever personally endowed Chair, devoted to purposeful leadership . The 1981 graduate, who was...