Faculty & Research

Society & Organizations Institute

The Society & Organizations Institute is an interdisciplinary Institute 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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Fields

Addressing challenges of the XXIst century capitalism Building inclusive business models Climate and Earth Developing a purposeful leadership

Sep 08, 2020

S&O Monthly Seminar

12:30 pm

Jouy-En-Josas

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Think, Teach, Act for an inclusive and sustainable world!

News

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Jun 17, 2020

Yunus to HEC: Social Business Must Transform Post-COVID-19 World

In the second of a series of online seminars, HEC Paris invited Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus for an hour-long exchange on bouncing back after the COVID-19 health crisis. Led by Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot...

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May 20, 2020

Hubert Joly Conference : Reinventing Capitalism

HEC Paris invited Best Buy’s Executive Chairperson Hubert Joly to the first in a series of online seminars, organized by the Society & Organization Institute (S&O). In a wide-ranging Q&A led by S&O...

Apr 22, 2020

HEC EarthWeek: One week to rethink your environmental impact

In February 2020, the HEC Paris campus welcomed a week-long event on the topics of sustainable innovation and responsible business, organized by the student association Esp’R. The 1,500 students living on...

Impact Career Fair - HEC Paris - 13 Feb. 2020

Mar 05, 2020

Impact Career Fair: Where Business Meets Purpose

How do we do business in a world in constant evolution and an exploding population? This is how Jeremy Ghez, Scientific Director of the MSc in Sustainability and Social Innovation (SASI), introduced the...

Purposeful leadership - remise des prix denis machuel - HEC paris

Mar 10, 2020

Purposeful Leadership: Awarding Students for their Work on Purpose

Sodexo CEO Denis Machuel helped bring down the curtain on the three-month freshman course in a closing ceremony featuring 381 students, 18 tutors and a top academic team from the S&O Center. The event...

Conférence d'Alain Grandjean à HEC Paris - décembre 2019

Jan 27, 2020

Economist Alain Grandjean Throws Down the Climate Gauntlet

French economist Alain Grandjean joined HEC students and academics for a 90-minute exchange co-organized by Pour un Réveil Ecologique. The campus event with the cofounder of Carbone 4 was part of an S&O...

vignette - S&O nouveau parcours pédagogique- climat - sept 2019

Oct 02, 2019

A new environmentally and socially engaged learning path

Members of the Society & Organizations Center at HEC Paris recently responded to an appeal by Shift Project, aiming to ‘teach all students about climate and ecological issues’. Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot...

HEC Paris - Mont Saint-Michel - Purposeful Leadership - Sept. 2019

Oct 03, 2019

Purposeful Leadership Program Takes Off with a Bang

A year after creating the Joly Family Endowed Chair in Purposeful Leadership, HEC Paris launches its three-year sense and leadership program, destined for the entire HEC Grande Ecole 2019 intake. A...

Mar 04, 2020

Transporting Energy into the 21st Century

The eighth edition of the HEC Energy Day brought together academics, students, public sector representatives and corporate leaders to discuss the challenges for the world’s transport sectors. Two panels...

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...

Social Impact Assessment Strategy Report - HEC Paris

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.

S&O ARCS Report - Researcher-Practitionner Collaboration on Sustainability Research

Accelerating Researcher-Practitioner in Sustainability Research

The report showcases 7 sustainability research collaboration

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Events

Sep 08

2020

S&O Monthly Seminar

12:30 pm

Jouy-En-Josas

At the S&O Institute, we are preparing the new academic year and a very exciting program of monthly research seminars with many remarkable guest speakers, Join us for the first meeting on September 8th.

Dans la Presse

Podcast Perspectives

Dans le deuxième épisode de la série «Perspectives», le nouveau podcast du Figaro sur l’économie responsable
Aux côtés de Fanny Picard, fondatrice du fonds Alter Equity, Tatiana Jama, entrepreneuse, fondatrice de Sista, Cécile Cabanis, directrice financière de Danone, Bris Rocher, PDG du Groupe Rocher, et Henri Lachmann, ancien PDG de Schneider Electric, Rodolphe Durand, Professeur de Stratégie et Directeur Académique de l'Institut S&O, raconte les relations complexes entre entreprises et investisseurs, et la nécessité de répondre ensemble aux défis de demain.

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