HEC in the press

Finance professor at HEC Paris Business School Bruno Biais provides information on the future of Bitcoin to the media Money.

Bloomberg Businessweek notices that MBAs attract more and more students who want to become entrepreneurs and are willing to learn about entrepreneurship as well as build a network. Andrea Masini, who is the associate dean in charge of the HEC Paris’s MBA program, does confirm that "if you want to be an entrepreneur, you cannot ignore the fundamentals".

The Financial Times presents BS4CL, a project which HEC Paris participates in. It gathers eight of Europe’s leading business schools in order to join forces on academic research about climate change, strengthen teaching and improve outreach between staff, former and current students.

In an article published in The Economist, Peter Tufano, Dean of the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford until 2021, presents the project BS4CL, in which HEC Paris Business School takes part: a group of eight European business schools which have joined together to help business leaders combat the climate crisis facing the planet.

While several actors of the economic and financial sectors committed themselves to climate actions during the COP26, business schools did not want to be outdone in this effort and forged BS4CL, which Forbes describes as an alliance of academic thought leaders including Oxford Saïd Business School, Cambridge Judge Business School, HEC Paris, IE Business School, IESE Business School, INSEAD, IMD and London Business School. They will collaborate in an effort to drive business towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

As MBA Crystal Ball explores the topic of a professional experience in a small company or a startup affecting an MBA admission, MBA Programs Marketing Director at HEC Paris Sara Vanos answers several questions on the role that the brand and the size of the company play in the admission and provides a few tips.

While the EU fiscal reform discussions are moving towards exemptions for green investments, economy professor at HEC Paris Armin Steinbach suggests in an op-ed for Handelsblatt that Germany should take it into account.

Supply chain management has been heavily disrupted because of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Find MBA wonders about the impact this situation has had on this sector, including for business scools. According to Svenja Sommer, associate professors of information systems and operations management at HEC Paris Business School, "supply chain management is constantly evolving. Covid-19 or not, the courses constantly need to be updated, be it about new technologies, resilience or reshoring".

In his new book written with Nobel Prize Daniel Kahneman, strategy professor at HEC Paris Business School Olivier Sibony develops the concept of "noise". He explains for Forbes how this term refers to errors stemming from variability in judgments, impacting decision-making in all sectors.

In an interview for Quartz, Olivier Sibony, professor at HEC Paris Business School, explains the concept of "noise", why it is important to be aware of it within companies, what differenciates it from bias and the solutions against it.