HEC in the press

Kering and L'Oréal are among five founding, corporate sponsors of Hi! Paris, a French research center focused on artificial intelligence and data. The new center was unveiled Tuesday by the two prestigious higher learning institutions behind it, the French business school HEC Paris and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, writes Women's Wear Daily. 

There’s a wealth of academic research on ‘creativity constraints,’ or limits designed to encourage innovation. Anne Laure Sellier, an associate professor of marketing at HEC Paris who has researched the effects of restricted choice and time on creativity, notes, however, that there are good constraints (like setting timers for oneself), and there are bad ones. Stress — like the kind you might feel amidst, say, a pandemic, mass employment and a crumbling economy — is a bad constraint, writes The Cut. 

Andrea Masini, associate dean of the HEC Paris MBA, explains in an interview with Business Because that despite the COVID-19 crisis, the school had an “unprecedented” number of applications for the September MBA intake.

Students were given the flexibility to either follow their courses in person, following strict government guidelines, or to defer their studies to the next intake. A significant part of the program is being delivered face to face with other courses being delivered online, both in synchronous and asynchronous format.

Research shows that managers and organizations are prone to missing early warning signals with alarming regularity. Why, then, are we so bad at detecting such early warning indicators of deteriorating conditions, and acting swiftly and purposely when we witness them? - asks HEC Paris' Professor of Strategy and Business Policy Pablo Martin de Holan, in an op-ed for Forbes. 

At HEC Paris, the admissions office received record numbers of applications to the MBA program in March, April and May during the pandemic. Overall demand for the class starting this year is up by 10 percent compared with 2019, writes Find MBA. 

In an interview with the Financial Times, HEC Paris finance Professor Augustin Landier says of France's €100bn coronavirus recovery plan, that “the risk of misallocation is high,” complaining of a “fuzziness” in the new plan. 

The large luxury brands — such as Chanel, Dior, Gucci and Saint Laurent — know exactly how to limit the risk of what they buy for their own retail networks. According to Gachoucha Kretz, a professor of marketing at HEC Paris, these marquee brands have learned to fill their stores and concessions with timeless, iconic products that carry over and accrue more pricing power, she says, in an interview for WWD. 

"While Hogan’s actions look hard to defend, the Commission would do well to arm itself with more independent tools for evaluating potential ethical breaches, such as an ethics oversight body" says HEC Paris European Law Professor Alberto Alemanno, in an interview with Bloomberg. 

HEC Paris Professor of European Law Alberto Alemanno comments on the "golfgate" scandal in Ireland and explains, in an interview for Politico, that an overhaul of the Commission's ethics rules is overdue — including the creation of an independent ethics body to preside over such cases.

Two HEC Paris in Qatar professors have complied several high profile cases studies from Qatar in a new book titled ‘Doing business in Qatar - case studies for executive education'. The work by Dr Wolfgang Amann Dr Laoucine Kerbache, explores business opportunities and challenges in Qatar, writes Menafn.