Purposeful Leadership
Joly Family
Endowed Chairs
Chair holder: Rodolphe Durand, Professor of Strategy and Academic Director of S&O Center
Executive Director: Cécile Lavrard-Meyer de Lisle
Thanks to this chair through academic research and teaching, HEC Paris and Hubert Joly Family highlight their commitment in placing the search of meaning as an essential quest for each individual, manager, and organization. This philosophy of purposeful leadership has profound implications on how leaders should lead, and their role and responsability for business and the society as a whole.
Hubert Joly noted the inexhaustible nature of the work on purposeful leadership. “This touches so many aspects of the business world: how to choose leaders, how to turnaround a business, how to grow a company, how to go about defining a strategy, how to approach people development, the role of diversity, the place of corporate social responsibility. Every management field is touched by the question of purpose.”
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 recently recognized by Barron’s as one of the top 30 CEOs in the world,...