HEC Paris press coverage from all over the world
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.
HEC Paris ranks first among providers of pre-experience masters in finance (MiF) courses — that is, for students with little or no relevant professional experience. The tables set out information on the best programmes worldwide in this area, as well as on the top three courses for people who have already worked in the finance sector. It is based on surveys of schools and of alumni who completed their masters in 2017, writes the Financial Times.
Creative Destruction Lab, through its newest member school HEC Paris, has announced the launch of CDL Climate, an initiative that will coordinate entrepreneurs, scientists, mentors, and investors in a structured process to increase the probability of success for high-impact and scalable solutions to climate change challenges, writes Poets & Quants.
HEC Paris entrepreneurship Professor Thomas Astebro explores how Covid-19 has accelerated notions of online learning, business-research-education cooperation and interactive startup fundraising, in an op-ed for Forbes.
"The biggest change I've seen is that luxury brands are focused on being more fashionable and trendy.” says Gachoucha Kretz, an affiliate professor in marketing and brand management at HEC Paris, in an interview with Vogue Business.
Alberto Alemanno, professor of EU law at HEC Paris, says Europe observers remain concerned about the lasting effects of lockdown, and its lifting, on the principle of free movement on the continent, in an interview for France 24.
“You have to recognize that a fairer share of the tax burden could help a wide range of economies better adapt to coming waves of transformation,”comments HEC Paris economics professor Jeremy Ghez, referring to the growing shift to digital economies, in an interview with CNBC.
Letting EU countries re-establish borders was wrong in the first place. Border controls – as well as selective quarantine regimes – reflect an artificial, misleading attempt at resorting to nationality as the dividing line between the healthy and unhealthy, writes HEC Paris' European law professor Alberto Alemanno, in an op-ed for The Guardian.
Vogue India recommends HEC Paris' "Building Leadership Skills" course. The publication writes: "a good leader is self-aware and confident. Take this course by HEC Paris to develop rational skills and self awareness."
