Operations Management

Operations Management

December 04th, 2020

8 minutes

How Can We Force Companies To Keep Our Data Safe?

With online shopping, loyalty programs, smart devices and many other aspects of business and daily lives, companies collect vast amounts of our personal data. The risk is that they may be leaked or misused. A team of researchers designs measures that regulators and companies can undertake to preserve consumer privacy.

By Ruslan Momot

Operations Management

July 01st, 2020

A 4 x 4 Matrix: What Went Into it and How it Made International Development as we Know it?

Most international development agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have some experience planning and evaluating projects using the Logical Framework matrix. Professors of Accounting Daniel Martinez (HEC Paris) and David Cooper (University of Alberta) traced the managerial traditions that informed this visual instrument and the implications this has for international development.

Associate Professor

Accounting and Management Control

Operations Management

May 23rd, 2020

What Approach and What Future for Companies Hit by COVID-19? Managing Contradictions in the Affected Companies

What we are experiencing is similar to an earthquake of strong magnitude. Everyone agrees that there will be a before and after Covid-19. Whilst this earthquake assails us all, we do have control of the choices and decisions to be made. These will determine how crippled or strengthened we will be by the end... As always in times of crisis there are losers and winners, the cards are redealt.

Associate Professor and Academic Director

Accounting and Management Control

Operations Management

May 05th, 2020

How to Reinvent Your Business Model

Today's coronavirus crisis has driven down our economy. Such a pause has a negative impact on world trade and economic growth; its social implications (loss of income and employment, increased inequality…) will have explosive consequences. In this context, there are many calls for a model change: let's not just press the "pause" button to restart the existing model, let's use this opportunity to reinvent it!

Affiliate Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

Operations Management

April 23rd, 2020

Supply Chain Management: a Critical Role in the New Normal that is too often Forgotten

While the Covid-19 reveals the criticality of the role of Supply Chain Management in an organization, HEC Paris Adjunct Professor Michel Fender provides a clear understanding of the major stakes related to Supply Chain Management, and shares his opinion about its critical role that is usually considered during a crisis only, when it is too late.

Adjunct Professor

Informations Systems and Operations Management

Operations Management

April 08th, 2020

Will Economic Decoupling Be the New Normal With the Coronavirus?

Fears about deglobalization and economic decoupling are not new but have grown in the wake of the coronavirus. Jeremy Ghez, Associate Professor on the Education Track at HEC Paris, explains in four big ideas what the Covid-19 outbreak means for the global business environment.

Associate Professor (Education Track)

Economics and Decision Sciences

Operations Management

December 12th, 2019

Optimizing Feed-In Tariffs to Boost Renewable Energy Production

Feed-in tariffs (FITs) are crucial tools to increase the adoption of renewable energy technologies. But setting them at the right level (price) is a balancing act. If they are poorly designed, they can backfire, stunting the industry and wasting public money. A duo of HEC researchers, along with a colleague from the University of Texas at Austin, have shown that, to set optimal FIT levels, regulators must take into account the behaviours all players affected, including technology manufacturers.

By Sam Aflaki , Andrea Masini

House on a hill with renewable energy - ALDECAstudio-vignette

Operations Management

November 19th, 2019

Team-Building with Robots – It Works!

Robots are increasingly being used in environments where they must interact closely with humans to perform tasks together. Sangseok You (Assistant Professor at HEC Paris) and colleagues have found surprisingly simple ways to get humans to bond with robots and thus work together more effectively.

By Sangseok You

robot and human hands team vignette

Operations Management

July 09th, 2019

The Rise of Rankings in Global Governance: How Can They Change the Regulation of Large Corporations?

Ratings and rankings have become powerful tools in global governance, frequently used to motivate companies to be good corporate citizens. A wide range of environmental and social matters such as access to medicine, climate change, obesity and working conditions increasingly transcend national borders and escape the reach of national regulators. For such issues, who should set the rules about the responsibilities of corporations? How can corporations that are by definition designed to generate profit, be guided towards making decisions that benefit society as a whole? Afshin Mehrpouya and Rita Samiolo explore the process behind the production of these rankings.

By Afshin Mehrpouya

Afshin Mehrpouya TedTalk

Operations Management

July 04th, 2019

How Online Learning Changed my Teaching Methods

In this article we share testimonials from our professors about their personal experience with online education.

Pierre Dussauge MOOC vignette