HEC in the press

Olivier Sibony, a former leader of McKinsey & Co.'s corporate strategy practice and now an affiliate professor at HEC Paris, says that while many companies have detailed processes in place for making lower-level decisions, ones made at the higher level can be subject to more gut-based instincts.

While NYU Stern was unveiling its first purely digital degree, across the Atlantic in France, the first cohort of students were graduating from an online-only masters in innovation and entrepreneurship at HEC Paris.

The course shows that students are not necessarily coming from further afield, but rather they appreciate the flexibility of online study, says Marc Vanhuele, professor of marketing, who teaches on the course at HEC Paris.

Columbia Business School's Professor Paul Ingram and Mitali Banerjee, of HEC Paris, examined the role that creativity and social networks played for artists, in relationship to the level of fame they achieved. In a 2018 paper, they relayed their findings—including that for successful artists, making friends may be more important than producing novel art.

According to Andrea Masini, Associate Dean and head of the MBA program at HEC Paris, "online MBA models do represent a threat to MBAs as such, because the level of connection reached in the face-to-face formats is greater, as well as the depth with which the managerial skills are developed "

HEC Paris and the five founding partner schools of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (É-le Polytechnique, ENSTA ParisTech, ENSAE ParisTech, Télécom ParisTech and Télécom SudParis) sign a cooperation agreement, representing the first step towards the creation of an ambitious, multidisciplinary academic alliance in the fields of Technology and Business Innovation.

Matt Symonds, co-director of CentreCourt, conducted a Q&A with Ryan Thomas, a Canadian who graduated from HEC Paris four years ago, and who currently works as a robotics engineer at Amazon. They talked about swinging a lasso, team-building at a military training camp, and how an MBA led to an unforgettable Punjabi wedding.

The world’s far-reaching technological shift was a factor in the break-up of the 115-year-old Danish family-owned business Maersk, according to Professor Philippe Pelé-Clamour, HEC Paris adjunct professor specialised in executive education.

The next European elections can change the rules of the game in the European Union and destabilize Brexit negotiations, writes HEC Paris European Law Professor Alberto Alemanno, in an article for Forbes Mexico. 

“The next European Parliament won’t have a clear majority as a result of the European elections,” comments Alberto Alemanno, European law professor at HEC Paris, in an interview with CNBC. 

Andrea Masini, Associate Dean of the MBA program at HEC Paris, explains that the school does not wish to be a "mass producers of MBA graduates". An argument to attract students is the promise of 'personalized' programs, and this is due to many reasons. One of them is to guarantee incredible networking opportunities and exclusive recruitment for the candidates when they finish the program.

At HEC Paris, the number of participants has experienced a 20% growth since 2017, and Latin American students now represent 12% to 15% of the MBA enrolment.