HEC in the press

European voters are under assault from disinformation unleashed on Facebook and Messenger, as well as other parts of the media giant’s empire, such as WhatsApp and Instagram, writes HEC Paris Professor of European law Alberto Alemanno, in an op-ed for Politico. 

“When you look at the voting pattern of the right, and the populist parties of Europe in general, you can clearly see that they seem to resist this call—which is very much coming from the establishment—to govern or stamp some authority on Big Tech,” says Alberto Alemanno, a professor of EU Law at HEC Paris

Peter Todd, Dean of HEC Paris, explains in an interview for Valor Economico, that to better prepare students, schools need to train them to critical thinking. 

In the Le Parisien interview, Bannon spoke of the importance of opposing Macron’s “globalist vision” for ever-deeper integration and federalisation of EU member states and called the election “a referendum on him and his vision for Europe”.

Even Bannon’s choice of destination, the luxury Bristol Paris hotel, sits just over a hundred metres from where Macron holds office in the Elysée palace, France’s presidential residence.

“This has to do with the narrative that has played out for the past few weeks, where these elections have been presented as a referendum on Europe,” said Alberto Alemanno, professor of EU law at HEC Paris business school and founder of pro-EU group The Good Lobby, in an interview with RFI. 

HEC Paris' Associate Professor of entrepreneurship Etienne Krieger shares six ingredients to successful entrepreneurs' success, in an op-ed for Forbes. 

Alberto Alemanno, professor of EU law at HEC Paris, discusses the upcoming EU elections and a potential trade war between the U.S. and Europe in an interview with CNBC. 

HEC Paris runs an online-only Master’s in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The Grande Ecole school has over 40 years’ experience training entrepreneurs, with startup education now more popular than ever, but the online element is a departure from tradition. 

Marc Vanhuele, HEC Paris associate dean, says he wanted to “reach a broader and even more international audience than the one we can serve on campus”. A diversity of perspectives in the classroom enriches the learning experience since masters programs in business rely on peer-learning", in an interview with MiM Guide. 

“European democracy is still, basically, the sum of the EU’s national democracies,” said Alberto Alemanno, a professor of EU law at the HEC business school in Paris who has been studying and advocating for truly transnational parties for more than two decades.

“We don’t yet have a European politics – there’s no real pan-European public opinion, no transnational political debate or dialogue on the issues that affect our common interests as Europeans – unemployment, the environment, migration, data protection. But as the need increases, it’s starting to come.”

HEC Paris' Teejana Beenessreesingh and Tricia Wilson have been chosen by US publication Poets & Quants' as two of 2019's top 100 MBA students to watch. 

Up to 30% of HEC Paris' EMBA participants are now people in their 40s or 50 who want to start their own businesses, up from less than 10% just five years ago. The online Masters in Innovation and Entrepreneurship has participants ranging in age from late 20s to their early 70s.

“People are retiring later or not retiring at all, but they want to do something different, often some business or not-for-profit venture that they’ve always wanted to do, but never had the time,” says Ron Duerksen, executive director of executive education for degree and certificate programs at HEC. “More senior people also like the interaction with the younger generation and vice-versa. Intergenerational exchange and learning benefits both the younger and the older person.”