HEC in the press

In an interview for The Guardian, HEC Paris European Law Professor Alberto Alemanno, comments: “We can expect national leaders to offer very different interrogations of the (pandemic rescue package for European economies) agreement. Several major issues remain open and need to be hammered down, notably the rescue fund’s sourcing.”

Anne-Laure Sellier, an associate professor of marketing at HEC Paris Business School, has done follow-up research on clock and event time. She’s found that people who live with event time feel more in control of their lives, while clock-timers feel the world as a disconnected and more chaotic place, because events are not related to one another or controlled by human agency or will, but by their time, and can be shuffled and rescheduled without regard to one another.

HEC Paris alumni, Lucille Collet (Master’s in Management) and Camille Zivré (MBA), have organized a hackathon on April 10th-12th, in partnership with Sciences Po Paris and Ecole Polytechnique. 

The Hackathon will bring together the three schools’ stakeholders, engineers, entrepreneurs, researchers, experts, and available resources to find new solutions to fight the coronavirus pandemic and mitigate its short and long terms effects on society.

HEC Paris has launched four key initiatives for its students and alumni in response to the Covid 19 pandemic, among which are free webinars and a hackathon, writes America Economia. 

European MBA programs enjoy some of the highest employment rates and salary increases in the world, while they also score highly for global mobility, with graduates frequently launching high-flying careers overseas, writes Find MBA. 

HEC Paris has been ranked among the 10 best European MBAs for employability by the publication. 

Across Europe, more and more companies are changing their production chains to manufacture disinfectants, masks or respirator components, writes South African outlet Web 24. 

“In times of crisis, there are always companies to take advantage of the situation, but the current context is very specific. The very wide confinement makes the production system difficult to mobilize. Profiting from the crisis is therefore also more difficult”, comments HEC Paris economics Professor Jeremy Ghez.

Andrea Masini, Associate Dean of HEC Paris' MBA programme, explains in an interview for Fortune En Español that since GMAT and GRE examination centers have temporarily been closed in certain countries, and in order not to slow down the admissions calendar, the school is encouraging candidates to apply and send their test results later on.  HEC Paris currently runs oiver 100 distance online classes to 3,000 students. 

Who’s really to blame for the current situation? This is the closest experience to war ever experienced by the vast majority of European citizens. If the temptation is to blame the European project itself, that would be a mistake. Despite mounting expectations, the truth is that the EU itself cannot do much about a health emergency, writes HEC Paris Professor of European Law Alberto Alemanno in an op-ed for Euronews. 

Certainly those at HEC Paris feel strongly about ESG. When a manifesto was started 18 months ago, about 400 out of the school’s 1,000 grande école graduates signed it to declare that they would not work for a company that wasn’t engaged in reducing its ecological footprint. The number of signatories has since grown to more than 35,000 to include those outside HEC, which includes a sustainability and disruptive innovation track on its MBA, as well as a number of electives, writes Bloomberg Businessweek.   

HEC Paris Professor Rodolphe Durand and Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business Mark DesJardine found that hedge fund activism leads to a decline in the market value of targeted companies and a decrease in the performance of social responsibility goals four and five years after the third parties intervened in these companies compared to similar firms that weren’t on the radar of activists, reports Institutional Investor.