HEC in the press

Will the current heath crisis be a game-changer whose ripple effects will be long-lasting and transformational? Several analysts and politicians dispute this notion. In fact, the temptation to go back to business as usual and to reopen economies remains strong, writes HEC Paris economics and decision sciences professor Jeremy Ghez in an op-ed for Forbes. 

Government measures have come to represent a litmus test designed to measure their control of both territory and people’s mobility, their own competence in guaranteeing their citizens’ health and, ultimately, their respect for democracy. Governments have widely failed all these tests, writes HEC Paris Professor Matteo Winkler in an op-ed for Forbes. 

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.