S&O Academic Events

Thursday, October 9th, 2025 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
S&O Academic Year Kick off Lunch Seminar
Practitioner: Fernando Díaz López, Exectutive Director, S&O Climate and Earth Center. Lead Author for the “Industry” chapter of the IPCC's Seventh Assessment Report

Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Impact of Social Media on Youth Well-Being, Emotions, and Policy Views
Academic : Yann Algan, Professor of Economics, HEC Paris
Practitioner:  Béatrice d’Hombres, Researcher & Policy Analyst at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

Tuesday, September 10th, 2024 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
S&O Academic Year Kick off Lunch Seminar
Practitioner: Maurizio Zollo, Leonardo Centre on Business for Society at Imperial College

Tuesday, October 8th, 2024 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Ethics, Decision Making, and Content Creation in Organizations
Academic: Roberto Weber, Professor of the Economics of Corporate Culture, Business Ethics, and Social Responsibility at the University of Zurich
Academic: Aluna Wang, Assistant Professor of Accounting at HEC Paris, 

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Exploring Sustainable Consumer Behavior: Insights from Research and Practice
Academic : Stefano Lovo, Professor from the HEC Paris Finance Department
Practitioner:  Garrette Clark, Programme Officer for Sustainable Lifestyles at the United Nations Environment Programme

Tuesday, September 26th, 2023 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
S&O Research Seminar: "The Uncertainty of Corporate Sustainability Metrics"
Academic : Magali Delmas, Professor of Management at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and the Anderson School of Management

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
S&O Research Seminar: "Governing Corporate Purpose"
Academic : Rodolphe Durand Professor of Strategy, Founder of the S&O Institute and Academic Director of the HEC Purpose Center, HEC Paris Practitioner: Laurence Debroux, Non-Executive Board Director (Novo Nordisk, Exor,HEC Paris)

Tuesday, November 21th, 2023 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
S&O Research Seminar: "Carbon emission of private firms: Evidence from a French disclosure mandate" 
Academic : Thomas Bourveau, Associate Professor of Accounting from Columbia Business School 
Practitioner:  Frédéric Samama, Head of Strategic Development at Sustainable1, S&P Global 

May 12-13, 2022
S&O Research Day
Presentation on 20 research papers on our topics

May 30-31, 2022
1st edition of the Climate Day
Organized by the S&O Climate Centre

June 12-17, 2022
Medici Summer School
Medici Summer School organized on HEC Campus  for 25 PhD Student worldwide  with MIT sloan and Bologna business School

Thursday, January 26th, 2023
Frauds in Capital Markets: "The Role of Short Sellers"
Practitioner: Fahmi Quarid, Shortseller,  Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Safkhet Capital

June 1-2, 2023
S&O Research Day
Flagship event of the S&O Institute with the presentation of the 20 research papers 

Tuesday, September 7th, 2021 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Business and Climate Change
Academic: David Kanter NYU, Visiting at HEC Paris
Practitioner: Valérie Cabanes, Lawyer in international law, Member of the Advisory Board of Stop Ecocide Foundation

Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
The role of top management characteristics and personalities
Academics: Georg Wernicke, HEC Paris and Abhinav Gupta, Foster School of Business (Academic visiting at HEC )

Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
The firm's stakeholders: The role of dialogue
Academic: Julien Jourdan, HEC Paris
Practitioner: Jean Christophe Scriberras, CEO Newbridges, International Employee Relations Consulting

Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Sustainable Finance
Academic: Kornelia Fabisik,Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Practitioner: Marie Elkeland,  Founder of 2050, the first management company 100% owned by a perpetual purpose trust

Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Unusual organizations: The Sicilian Mafia and (alleged) connections with a listed firm
Academic: Eero Vaara, Said Business School, University of Oxford 
Practitioner: Olivier Pinaud, Editor-in-chief of L‘Agefi

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2022 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Smart Cities and the Common Good
Academic: Bertrand Quélin, HEC Paris
Practitioner: Special guest from Bouygues 

Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Tax evasion
Academic: Niels Johannesen, University of Copenhagen
Practitioner: Bradley Birkenfeld, UBS whistleblower, author of  “Lucifer's Banker” 

Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Corporate frauds and listed firms' manipulations
Academic: Zhao Wuyang, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
Practitioner: Daniel Yu, Gotham City Research

September 8th 2020
Daniel Halbheer, Associate Professor of Marketing HEC Paris:
"Pricing and Transparency to Conscientious Consumers."
Hervé Stolowy, Professor of Accounting and Management Control at HEC Paris:
"Competing for Narrative Authority in Capital Markets: Financial Analysts vs. Activist Short Sellers"

October 6th 2020
Philippe Maupas, a Consultant and a blogger and  the former  CEO of Morningstar France:
"De omnibus dubitandum (Everything must be doubted )"
Pablo Baquero, a Research fellow from Law Department HEC Paris:
"Networks of Collaborative Contracts for Innovation"

November 3rd 2020
Ludovic Phalippou, Professor of Financial Economics at University of Oxford, Saïd Business School:
"Private Equity and Employee Welfare"

December 8th 2020
Simone Ferriani, Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Bologna & Gino Cattani, Professor of Management, NYU Stern:
"Innovative form of presentation to trace the  joint intellectual/collaborative journey across key ideas : "The Legitimation Journey of Novelty"

January 12th 2021
Birgul Arslan, Assistant Professor at Rotterdam School of Management:
"The Effectiveness of Public-Private Alliances for Socially Beneficial Innovations : Evidence from Antibiotic Drug Development"
Guillaume Vuillemey, Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Paris:
"Evading Corporate Responsibilities: Evidence from the Shipping Industry

February 9th 2021
Jean-Philippe Robé, partner in the Paris office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a specialist in Business Law:
"Property, Power and Politics: Why We Need to Rethink the World Power System"

March 9th 2021
Nauman Asghar, HEC PhD Student at Strategy Department:
"Purposeful Leadership and Innovative Behavior"
Giovanna Michelon, Professor of Accounting at University of Bristol:
"ESG Rating Agencies: from ‘arbiters of taste’ to ‘facilitators of taste’"

April 13th 2021
Yoonjin Choi, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School:
"An Employer with a Purpose: How Corporate Purpose Impacts an Organization’s Ability to Attract and Retain Talent"
Hyejun KIM, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Policy, HEC Paris:
"User Before Entrepreneur: User-motives as a Signal of Commitment"

May 26-27 2021: S&O Research Day
Key note speakers:
George Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School:
“Redefining Profit, Value, and Success”
Ruth V. Aguilera, Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business,Northeastern University: “Corporate Governance in Society and Organizations”
+ Presentation of 20 research Papers on S&O related  Topics

September 10th 2019
Jody Grewal, Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Business:
"Disclosure of climate change business opportunities"

Jean-Philippe Vergne, Associate Professor of Strategy, Ivey Business School, Director of Scotiabank Digital Banking Lab:
“Role-play”on blockchain and what research can be developed on crypto and blockchain + a short presentation on Scotiabank Digital Banking Lab

October 11-12- 2019
ARCS WORKSHOP Collège des Bernardins:
“Accelerating Researcher-Practitioner Collaborations in Sustainability Research”The Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) and Society and Organizations (S&O) Center at HEC Paris

November 7th  2019
Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School:
"Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire"

January 7th 2020
Loïc Bertrand and Mathieu Thoury  from IPANEMA CNRS (European research platform on ancient materials):
"Construction of the IPANEMA laboratory and networks in heritage sciences: Towards new models of interdisciplinary cooperation?"

Guilhem Bascle from Université Catholique de Louvain:
"Unintended Costs of Strategic Action: The Case of Firms’ Earnings Gamesmanship"

February 4th 2020
Albert Mensah HEC Paris, Accounting and Management Control department:
“Hardening Soft Information in Bank Lending: Evidence from Customer-generated Product Information on Twitter”
Arnaud Cudennec, HEC PhD Student, Strategy department:
"Framing of Contradictory Institutional Logics, Perceived Authenticity and Audiences’ Evaluations"

March 9th 2020
Georg Wernicke Assistant Professor, HEC Paris, SPE Department:
"Introduction to the "2030 Sustainable Development Goals Game"

April 21st  2020
Jean-Noël Barrot, HEC Associate Professor of Finance and  Member of French Parliament:
"Sectoral Effects of Social Distancing"

May 28th 2020
Shon Hiatt, University of Southern California:
"Tackling 21st Century Problems through Entrepreneurship and Innovation:A Research Agenda on the Business-Administrative State Interface"

November 13th  2018
Wooseok Jung, Assistant Professor, MHR & Roxana Barbulescu, Associate Professor, MHR, HEC Paris:
"Female Penalty or Female Premium? Gender Differences in Financial Crisis Experiences."
Magali Delmas, Professor of management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability:
"The Green Bundle: Pairing the Market with the Planet"

December 11th 2018
Hervé Stolowy and Luc Paugam, HEC Paris Accounting Department:
" Policing Financial Markets: The Rhetorical Battle of New Whistleblowers"
Verena J. Patock, Research Fellow, S&O Institute:
"Linking Top Management Team Diversity and Corporate Social Performance: A Configurational Approach"

January 8th 2019
Julien Jourdan,University Paris Dauphine:
"Now serving Freedom Fries: the Effect of Stigma on the Political Behavior of Multinationals"
Saverio Favaron, PhD Student, HEC Paris Strategy Department:
"Too Blind to See? A field Experiment on the effect of emotions on the allocation of attention"

February 12th 2019
Héloïse Berkowitz (CNRS, TSM Research):
"Playing solo or in team: the evolution of individual & collective effectuation in the emergence of  an innovative sector."
Georg Wernicke, Assistant Professor at HEC Paris Strategy Department:
"Enemy at the Gates, Short Selling and Firm Performance on Corporate Social Responsibility:Evidence from a Natural Experiment."

March 12th  2019
Eric Zhao from Indiana University, Kelley School of Business:
"Optimal distinctiveness in CSR practices: Examining the CSR profile extensiveness and deviation among Chinese publicly listed companies."  
Paul Gouvard, PhD Student, Strategy Department, HEC Paris:
"Does IPO’s congruence to institutional investor’s impact their valuation?"

April 16th 2019
Thomas Roulet,University of Cambridge, Judge Business School:
"How to Become an Academic Influencer?"

May 23-24-2019, S&O Research Day
Key note Speakers:  
Witold Henisz, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Davide Ravasi, University College London
Magali Delmas, University of California Los Angeles
+ Presentation of 21 research Papers on S&O related topics