HEC in the press

According to Andrea Masini, Associate Dean for HEC Paris' MBA programs, MBA applications at the school grew by 23% this year, partly because covid restrictions pushed some candidates to choose programs closer to home, he says in an interview with El Pais. 

Though already considered France’s most environmentally-friendly business school, HEC Paris continues to raise the bar with ongoing recycling & waste reduction initiatives. The business school, just 17km from the center of Paris, kick started plans to have a zero-waste campus in mid-2020, writes Clear Admit. 

According to Alberto Alemanno, HEC Paris professor of European law, “we should not forget that the EU is providing vaccines to the South of the world, while preventing this shipment to Australia,” he says in an interview with CNBC. 

With the population of the world set to touch over 9 billion by the next decade, industries struggle to cater to shoppers’ needs and cope up with environmental stress at the same time. According to a research by HEC Paris, millennials are showing more concern about what impact their decisions make on environment, at the same time, they do not prefer to buy sustainable or ‘green’ fashion, known as the sustainability paradox, writes Apparel Resources. 

For Andrea Masini, Associate Dean of MBA Programmes at HEC Paris, entrepreneurship and venture capital are clearly among the current trends in academic management education. The best example would be Biontech: "This hitherto little-known biotech start-up led by a couple is currently giving the world a vivid lesson in the importance of entrepreneurship with its life-saving vaccine," writes Handelsblatt. 

A particularly intriguing background is the military. The military appeals to candidates who value discipline, serving others before self, and obedience to rules. Analysing 1265 CEOs, Irmela F. Koch‐Bayram from the University of Mannheim and Georg Wernicke from HEC Paris are able to show that those who served in the military are less likely to be involved in financial misconduct, writes Forbes. 

Sina Finance met up with HEC Paris finance professor Johan Hombert for its "Talking about Europe" section. In the interview, Johan Hombert explains how financial markets might look like in 2021, if Bitcoin's price will continue to rise and when the European economy might recover from the Covid-19 crisis. 

As GameStop’s share price falls back down, Business Because has asked business school professors whether Wall Street Bets’ bid to take on the establishment could be the start of a new impact investing social movement. 

Johan Hombert, professor of finance at HEC Paris, believes that day trading may have had its day. Ultimately, short term trading is a zero-sum game. “When one of the traders is an individual investor and the other trader is a hedge fund, guess what happens. Hedge funds have more resources and better information, so they are better able to predict short-term movements in stock prices,” he says. “As a result, more often than not, retail day traders' losses are hedge funds' gains."

Impact. It’s a word that comes up often when you speak with the newly named Dean of HEC Paris, a world-class business school and one of Europe’s finest institutions of higher education. Eloïc Peyrache, who assumed the top leadership role on Jan. 18th after serving as the interim dean, knows the school well, writes Poets & Quants. 

New research by Georg Wernicke, HEC Paris Assistant Professor of Strategy & Business Policy and member of the school’s Society & Organizations Institute, suggests that CEOs do hold considerable sway – for better or for worse, writes Brazilian daily Valor Economico.