HEC in the press

Les Republicains has yet to choose who will lead its presidential campaign, but after Sunday’s vote, Xavier Bertrand is well placed to win the nomination, writes CNBC.

“He is currently the best placed among potential right-wing candidates in the first round of the presidential election,” Eric Mengus, associate professor at HEC Paris Business School, said via email. “Yet, the nomination (within Les Republicains) is still open and will take place only in the fall,” he added.

Current HEC Paris EMBA student Marie Skinner tells her lessons learnt from graduating amid the financial crisis, in an interview with the Financial Times. 

HEC Paris has been named the best business school in the world for an executive MBA in the QS Global EMBA Rankings 2021. TopMBA caught up with Andrea Masini, Associate Dean for HEC Paris’ Executive MBA, to learn about the importance of EMBA programmes today and what makes the school a top provider of executive education.

Saying "la Covid-19" instead of "el Covid-19" reduces our perception of the danger of the virus. This is the conclusion of a new study led by researchers from the HEC Paris Business School which proves the influence of gender stereotypes on our impression of the coronavirus, writes Spanish publication El Español. 

Christophe Pérignon, professor of finance at HEC Paris Business School and an expert in AI-based risk management, said, in an interview with Handelsblatt: "The government has already used data analytics to look for warning signs in the corporate landscape in the recent past. Unprecedented, however, is the mass of data and the number of variables that will be incorporated into the new early warning system for corporate failures." 

No school has dominated these rankings like HEC Paris, writes the Financial Times. Out of the 10 annual FT masters in finance (MiF) degree rankings to date, the French school has now gained the top spot nine times.

Olivier Bossard, professor in the MSc Finance at HEC Paris, says coronavirus has not affected demand in the same way as previous economic disruption, such as the 2008 banking industry crisis, writes the Financial Times.  “Although we are facing a huge crisis post-pandemic, this crisis is ‘only’ a crisis of the real economy,” he says. “It is not a crisis of the financial system like the one we faced in 2008-2011. The banks are in a much better shape: more liquidity, better capital adequacy, risks more under control. It’s almost a business-as-usual situation for our prospective employers.”

HEC Paris takes top position with other grandes écoles retaining high positions in annual assessment of courses, writes the Financial Times.  “We’re happy we could come top again,” said Eloïc Peyrache, HEC Paris’s dean, who was appointed at the start of this year. “Our finance department is very strong, and we have a global audience. The quality of students is very good and the number of candidates is rising”, he says, in an interview with the FT. 

Professional training organisations that offer specialist financial skills are finding new students and expanding globally. These niche qualifications compete on price with masters in finance programmes: they typically cost a fraction of the tuition fees for a degree, writes the Financial Times. But Olivier Bossard, Professor of the MiF at HEC Paris, says they are no substitute for degree courses, which offer students applied learning, a broad curriculum and career mobility.

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has spawned huge interest in hybrid modes of working, with unprecedented investment in their application – and their consequences. Yet remote working is hardly a new phenomenon, writes HEC Paris Adjunct Professor Patrick Delamaire, in an op-ed for Forbes.