HEC in the press

How is HEC Paris Business School evaluating the value of its training? Cecile Arragon, executive director for business development for Executive Education, details to Executive Courses that the school measures the impact of all its training across several dimensions, including the impact on hard business results and the effect its clients are having on society and the environment.

Despite the wider gap between workers and shareholders, firms are more and more socially engaged. Bertrand Quélin, Bouygues Chair holder of Smart City and the Common Good at HEC Paris Business School, details in Forbes six ways integrating a hybrid public-private-citizen approach towards more sustainability.

Although multidisciplinarity is usually perceived as an asset, it comes at a cost in the field of research. Management professor at HEC Paris Business School Julien Jourdan explains in an op-ed for Times Higher Education that "when high performers are multidisciplinary scientists, they are seen by their peers as posing a significant threat to the status-quo in their field."

As WirtschaftsWoche analyzes the possible consequences of the French legislative elections, Armin Steinbach, finance professor at HEC Paris Business School, fears that the originally planned reforms will as a result not be implemented.

The Financial Times wonders about the aftermath of the parliamentary elections in France. Finance professor at HEC Paris Business School notes: "Macron will not be able to pursue the economic policy goals he promised during the campaign, because he has to make too many compromises. His reform agenda will be far less ambitious than envisaged."

Interviewed by Al Jazeera on the legislative elections' results in France, law professor at HEC Paris Business School Albert Alemanno comments: "LREM remains the largest parliamentary group, so the situation is not so desperate. But the only possibility for Macron is to try to form a coalition government."

In a new op-ed published in Forbes, Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, professor at HEC Paris Business School's Doha campus, explains why, even if they are necessary, quotas for female representation in board are not enough to ahcieve gender equality at the workplace: "For quotas to be effective, they need to be embedded with interventions that address inherent biases that impede the progression of women into senior leadership roles."

As executive positions require more and more ESG awareness, The Economist details that HEC Paris Business School's MBA program has adapted its curriculum and offers a 3-day seminar in a monestary with a monk who guides them through ethical dilemmas.

Despite the steady demand for MBAs, business schools have to adjust their offer to the uncertainty of today's world, be it the coronavirus or the war in Ukraine. HEC Paris Business School did adapt, thus enabling the possibility to provide classes on campus again since September 2021. Andrea Masini, associate dean of MBA programs at the schools, explains to Find MBA: "All courses have been and continue to be delivered in-person and students have access to full utilization of our facilities. Over the summer, we upgraded our infrastructure, equipping our lecture theatres with better AV systems to facilitate a seamless and smooth interaction between participants and lecturers in the classroom and participants connected remotely."

As reported in Private Equity News, the HEC-Dow Jones Performance Ranking of Private Equity Fund-of-Funds 2021 elaborated by professor a HEC Paris Oliver Gottscalg has been dominated by US firms which occupy all of the top five positions and eight of the top 10.