HEC in the press

Can learning social skills at elementary school be useful for a child's future professional career? Yann Algan, professor at HEC Paris Business School, shows in an op-ed for Forbes how learning cooperation, empathy and dialogue from an early age may help decrease criminality and joblessness.

How is Executive Education doing in the midst of economic turmoil? Anne-Valérie Corboz, the Associate Dean of Executive Education at HEC Paris Business School, explains to Executive Courses: "The current custom program demand on the market is still strong.First, the unprecedented challenges presented by the pandemic to global organizations has led them to turn to business schools in search of answers. Secondly, there are varying degrees of consensus as to whether a recession is coming. This means that we are currently protected from a significant drop in demand."

According to finance professor a HEC Paris Business School Armin Steinbach in the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung, the protests against the pension reform in France could paralyze President Macron's reforms dynamic.

Finance professor at HEC Paris Business School Armin Steinbach was interviewed by Handelsblatt on quotas for future technologies which the European Commission wants to implement. He stated: "We have to face new realities."

As Giorgia Meloni blamed migration surge on Russia's Wagner Group, law professor at HEC Paris Business School Alberto Alemanno clarified to Express: "There is no evidence that the surge in migrants is caused by Wagner para-military groups."

Will the election of Elly Schlein at the head of the Partito Democratico change Italian politics? Matteo Wrinkler, law professor at HEC Paris Business School, commented to CNBC: “Meloni has frequently boasted about her being the first female Prime Minister while the left has not been able to produce the same result in a decade-long control of the parliament. Now things may change with Elly Schlein.”

On the set of France 24, Jean-Edouard Colliard, a finance professor at HEC Paris Business School, debated about the consequences of Silicon Valley Bank's failure: "We are unlikely to see a severe crisis because of SVB, but the current episode damages the credibility of these regulations."

Interviewed by El Mundo on Emmanuel Macron's visit to UK's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, professor at HEC Paris Business School Jeremy Ghez commented: "In Macron's eyes, Rishi Sunak is arguably the most reliable and reasonable partner France has had in the UK for years. The two countries have indisputable shared interests when it comes to managing the migration crisis in the short term", while his peer Tomasz Michalski added that "France is not a dominant country today, everything has changed since 2018."

In Private Equity News, strategy professor Oliver Gottschalg shares his analysis on the 2022 HEC-Dow Jones Private Equity Performance for MidMarket Buyout Firms results.

Despite the resilience of the MBA job market, the current economic climate makes securing a job after an MBA a bit more difficult than usual. Business schoools' career servies are here to guide MBA students. Director of employer engagement at HEC Paris Tony Somers confirms to Find MBA: "Students who take full advantage of what we have to offer will achieve the career transformation they envisage."