HEC in the press

Among several tips Sophie Dimich-Louvet, director of recruitment for the masters program at HEC Paris Business School, gave to MiM Guide on how to curate the ideal application to business master’s programs, she insisted on: "Above all, be yourself and not the one you think we want you to be."

What is the ultimate competitive advantage which enabled BYD to overtake Tesla? According to professor at HEC Paris Business School Veronique Nguyen in an op-ed published in Forbes, agility is key. In order to anticipate and survive the inevitable changes within a sector, she advocates for the use of the Bamboo Strategy.

As Executive Courses reflects upon the prevalent role that online courses new play in business schools post-pandemic, Cecila Arragon, Executive Director of Business Development at HEC Paris Executive Education, details: "We have noticed that our participants look forward to coming back to the classroom. Now we are working on blended programs that offer more flexibility and human contact at the same time. This combination enables us to really have very diverse and international cohorts and to leverage face-to-face time for value-added networking, experiential and vision-building sessions."

Personnel Today mentions a study led by professor at HEC Paris Business School Ekaterina Netchaeva which suggests that corporate unspoken rules expecting employees to go beyond assigned tasks can cause stress, pressure and, potentially, burnout.

Convinced that business is the key factor to world peace, HEC Paris Business School launched a scholarship program for students coming from war countries: "HEC Imagine Fellows". In an article, Bloomberg introduces the scholarship through two awardees and their journey.

With 66 percent of the MBA class securing employment outside of their home countries within three months of graduation, HEC Paris Business School's MBA program ranks among the ten business schools offering the best global mobility according to Find MBA.

While France has restarted several of its nuclear reactors, Handelsblatt wonders if French nuclear power is back on track. Despite signs of "some return to normalcy", professor at HEC Paris dampens this enthusiasm: "It will likely take time for nuclear capacity to become fully operational. Only after the maintenance work has been completed will France have come out of the woodwork."

To have a better understanding of people's relationship towards time, NPR dives into HEC Paris Business School pofessor Anne-Laure Sellier's research on time mindsets. The study found out that people tend to be either clock-timers or event-timers, and that these mindsets not only "shape your activities — it shapes the way you think about the world and the way you make decisions".

According to Executives Courses, HEC Paris Business School ranks among the ten schools offering the best executive courses on design thinking with the Managing Innovation & Design Thinking program.

According to Psychology Today, experimentation should be promoted within companies, as failures can generate more creativity and ultimately potentiel success. However, strategy and business policy professor at HEC Paris Business School Laurence Lehman Ortega thinks that, in reality, "the culture of experimentation in the workplace is unusual as only success is celebrated".