HEC in the press

Alberto Alemanno, a professor of EU law at HEC Paris business school, has launched a formal complaint against European commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, citing a breach of the European commission’s code of conduct that is intended to ensure the EU executive does not take party political decisions, and dismissed the idea that the message was delivered in a personal capacity, writes The Guardian. 

"Defunding the police is fast becoming a wedge issue in the upcoming presidential elections. To defund the police invites us to rethink the appeal of more police accountability and the role of budgets in social change", writes HEC Paris Professor Daniel Martinez, in an op-ed for Forbes. 

"Robots equipped with machine learning capabilities can learn and adapt to new environments using sensors, motors, and reinforcement mechanisms," comments Sangseok You, Professor of Information Systems at HEC Paris, in an interview with Forbes. 

Companies implementing social responsibility plans are twice as likely to enter activist hedge funds crosshairs as firms that are not addressing these issues. But management teams that are truly serious, not just greenwashing, about environmental, governance and other impact goals, may be able to avoid luring activists, according to new academic research from Rodolphe Durand of HEC Paris, Mark Desjardine of Pennsylvania State University and Emilio Marti of Rotterdam School of Management, writes Institutional Investor. 

Developing economies are less diversified. HEC Paris professor of economics and decision science, Tomasz Michalski, says that with increased reliance on fewer industries––largely in manufacturing, resourcing, and tourism––developing countries struggle to continue generating revenue in times of market volatility, writes Business Because. 

U.S. companies that spend more on social and environmental causes, such as sustainability or charitable donation programs, are more likely to attract hedge funds that challenge their strategy and board, according to a new academic study led by MarkDesJardine of Pennsylvania State University, along with Emilio Marti of Rotterdam School of Management and Rodolphe Durand of HEC-Paris, writes Reuters. 

In order for AI to live up to its potential, its risks must be visible and actively managed. HEC Paris Professor Dan Pflueger provides five actionable advice for managers to do so effectively at this pivotal movement.

On June 8 2020, HEC Paris School of Management launched a new environment-led program as part of its innovation hub, the Creative Destruction Lab. The non-profit organization is the result of a partnership between eight worldwide schools and is designed to help small technology-based companies upscale and successfully launch in the market.

Whereas 10 years ago, post-financial crash, some governments opted for austerity measures, this time around they seem to have agreed that stimulus is the best way forward—that can only be good for business, says Tony Somers, employer engagement director at HEC Paris’ Career Center, in an interview with Business Because. 

At HEC Paris, he says that they are receiving (so far) few, if any negative signals regarding recruitment in Fall 2020.

Olivier Bossard, Professor of HEC’s MiF, says the only factual observation he can make for the business school’s graduates is that companies are delaying or shortening summer internships. “The big investment banks are actually playing a very fair-play game with our graduates,” he says, in an interview for the Financial Times.