HEC in the press

HEC Paris business school is educating students on mental and physical disorders. At HEC, 1.7 per cent of students have disclosed a disability. Faculty make accommodations for the neurodiverse population. For example, dyslexic students can request material printed on coloured paper (white can be too dazzling, creating reading difficulties such as losing one’s place, skipping or misreading words), writes the Financial Times. 

Last month, HEC Paris launched Hi! PARIS, an innovative center for research and education in collaboration with the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris). The initiative marks the creation of the first interdisciplinary and interinstitutional center in Europe, bringing together world leaders from a wide range of sectors to foster innovation in AI and Data Science, writes QS Top MBA.

Online teaching, as business schools everywhere have discovered, has downsides. But it also has big benefits, particularly when it comes to MBA students’ experience, says Olivier Sibony, associate professor of strategy and business policy at HEC Paris, in an interview with Poets & Quants. 

Professor Anne-Valérie Corboz joins HEC Paris as its new associate dean of executive education. Corboz, who has enjoyed a long and international professional trajectory in the business school arena, joins the school from Duke Corporate Education in Singapore, where she oversaw Duke’s executive education operations in Asia, India, and the Middle East, writes Poets & Quants. 

Research from HEC Paris highlights the cultural aspects of creativity, with what the researchers refer to as "cultural bundles" playing a crucial role. These include both the cultural values that characterize a particular country and the strength of the norms that enforce these values. While the researchers highlight that there is no such thing as a "creative nationality", there are nonetheless cultural values, and the enforcement of those values through norms, that help to define whether any latent creativity is realized, writes Forbes. 

Anne-Sophie Chaxel, associate professor of marketing at HEC Paris, explains how the influence of a limited time perspective on hiring and promotion decision-makers can have a very detrimental effect on rectifying gender imbalance in a workplace, in an op-ed for HR Magazine. 

All executives have been faced with tough calls. They find themselves having to choose, not between a good decision and a bad one, which would make the choice easy, if not obvious, but between two decisions that could be considered as bad decisions, writes HEC Paris Strategic Management Professor Veronique Nguyen, in an op-ed for Forbes. 

The lenders of last resort doctrine must extend to the real sector if economies are to escape the pandemic relatively unscathed, writes HEC Paris finance Professor Jean-Edouard Colliard, in an op-ed for The Banker. 

HEC Paris, which is number two in the FT’s global ranking this year, recorded a 52 per cent rise in applications this year compared with 2019. Applications from Germany and Italy roughly doubled and those from China and India were up 59 per cent and 37 per cent respectively.

The Financial Times tells the story of Xang Xy, an HEC Paris Masters in Management alumna, whose extraordinary drive took her to a top role at Kraft Heinz.