HEC in the press

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".

Although the topic of ESG is growingly tackled in the media, the social (S) aspect is often overlooked. To make up for this, Marieke Huysentruyt, professor at HEC Paris Business School, explains in an op-ed for Forbes how a recent study shows that bosses and managers can have a strong impact on integrating this social factor.

When interviewed by Find MBA on tailoring one's MBA application, Benoit Banchereau, executive director of marketing, communications and admissions for HEC Paris, advices: "Candidates should really spend time looking into different MBA programs to find the program that is the right fit for them."

As Bloomberg reflects on Pierre Castel's career, Philippe Pelé-Clamour, adjunct professor at HEC Paris Business School, comments: "The way Pierre Castel has organized his companies certainly isn’t transparent, but this is not unusual. It was created by a man who built everything from scratch and wanted to retain control. Pierre Castel is the type of company founder who will likely die at the helm."

As the FT reports that the European Union is set to implemented a new tax on vaping, law professor at HEC Paris Business School Alberto Alemanno comments that "the absence of an EU-wide excise framework for vapes and heated tobacco had been weakening tobacco control efforts across the bloc.

Despite the progress which has been made for female representation in the workforce, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions. In an op-ed for Forbes, Assistant Professor at HEC Paris Business School Ekaterina Netchaeva explains how her latest research suggests that this disparity might be caused by self-stereotyping.

As the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung reports on unemployment benefit reforms in Germany, Italy and France, Tomasz Michalski, professor of economics at HEC Paris Business School, explains that several studies have shown that strengthening the access to unemployment compensation only increases the likelihood of finding a job "to a very small degree."

In November, Italy refused to let the charity ship Ocean Viking which was carrying 234 migrants to dock, forcing France to welcome them. Commenting to The Financial Times on this incident, law professor at HEC Paris Business School said: "As prime minister of Italy, she is expected to represent the Italian interest at the table. This does not necessarily mean to... mechanically say ‘yes’ to everything in Brussels. She is taking a political stance that is helping her political momentum at home."