HEC in the press

In this article published in Forbes, Associate Dean at HEC Paris Executive Education Anne-Valerie Corboz explains how trust is an important lever to several competitive advantages such as speed, imagination and flexibility.

According to Find MBA, and with an admission rate of 19%, HEC Paris Business School is ranked among the ten MBA programs with the strongest student profiles.

As HR Brew reflects on pay transparency, the article mentions a study led by HEC Paris professor Tomasz Obloj which highlighted the fact that wage transparency helps achieving more equality across the board, but doesn’t ensure complete wage equality or worker satisfaction.

In a new article, Busness Because presents in details HEC Paris's Master in Finance: the program, including the curriculum, career prospects, and even how to apply.

When asked by Poets & Quants about his ambitions for the school for the new year, HEC Paris Dean Éloïc Peyrache answered: "In 2022, HEC Paris will work at making business education a source for peace. Besides continuously investing in research to help change the world, leading business schools have a great responsibility in promoting social mobility in our societies."

Since the end of 2019, Chanel boosted the global prices of some of its iconic small bags by almost two-thirds. Though such a move might seem counterproductive, marketing professor at HEC Paris Business School Gachoucha Kretz explains for Bloomberg that the purchasing limit on Chanel's bags is "like telling consumers, if you can purchase a handbag, you belong to the club".

In 2021, the share of MBA students from North America at HEC Paris Business School rose by 10 points and reached 21%, states Poets&Quants. According to Associate Dean of the MBA Program Andrea Masini, this situation can be explained by three factors: the campus's location (close to Paris and at the center of Europe), the fact that the program is only 16-months-long, which is shorter than in the US, and the fact that HEC Paris's MBA is much less costly than in the USA.

With her sustainable travel startup Yūgen Earthside, former HEC Paris MBA student Hilary Matson is considered to be one the ten MBA entrepreneurs to watch by BusinessBecause: she managed to transform her passion into a viable business while paying attention to sustainaility.

Described as "a passionate teacher, who enjoys making lessons fun, lively, and interactive", accounting and management control professor at HEC Paris Business Scool Albert Mensah is ranked at the fourth position among the ten MBA Professors to watch according to BusinessBecause.

In this article for Forbes, Bertrand Quélin, professor at HEC Paris, and Isaac Smadja explain how they studied six different smart cities: Barcelona, Toronto, Singapore, Copenhagen, Vienna and Amsterdam and published their conclusions in a new eBook, where they detail why each of these cities are considered as innovative examples in their own ways.