HEC in the press

Marjo Jarvinen, Global Marketing Director of Executive Education at HEC Paris, discusses how generational changes are affecting the workplace. She links the movement towards freelancing with a strong desire to be able to balance professional and private lives and explains why so many millennials want greater autonomy and flexibility.

The London School of Economics has partnered with HEC Paris to allow students to spend a semester abroad. The aim  is to equip students with critical and analytical skills, enabling them to deal with the challenges that managers face in today’s highly complex and fast-moving global business environment.

Paris is now the up-and-coming place for tech entrepreneurs due to the new French Tech Visa, a large amount of venture funds, incubators such as Station F and its high quality universities and business schools, such as HEC Paris.

HEC Paris alumnus and founder of Fursan, Ibrahim Al-Haidos discusses his own personal success story and that of his elegant and innovative range of luxury handbags. Fursan's flagship boutique in Doha has been hugely successful as ladies from all over the world make the trip to Qatar just to visit. He is now looking to make the luxury bags available in New York, Milan, London and Paris.

HEC Paris alumnus Matthew Hart founded his own healthcare technology startup—Soter Analytics—after a full-time MBA. His first product, SoterSpine, helps to reduce the causes of muscular skeletal injuries in industry employees by 70% by combining wearable tech with big data analytics.

Researchers from HEC Paris, INSEAD, Singapore Management University and University of Technology Sydney have concluded that novelty and usefulness are not congruent when it comes to crowdfunding. Although crowdfunding pledges are augmented when a project is said to be useful or novel separately, claiming that it is both reduces the amount of pledges by 26 percent.

Researchers from HEC Paris, INSEAD, Singapore Management University and University of Technology Sydney have arrived at the startling conclusion that novelty and usefulness are not viewed as synergistic when it comes to crowdfunding. While crowdfunding pledges are boosted when the project is said to be useful or novel separately, claiming that it is both reduces the total amount of pledges by 26 percent.

In 2009, HEC Paris became one of the first higher education institutions to offer reading material, alongside videos and other online content, through Apple’s iTunes U educational network. Now, professors at Guanghua School of Management have started distributing course materials to all their students via WeChat, the group messaging app created by Tencent, and several other management schools have also started using paperless resources. All HEC Paris course packages are now entirely paperless.

New statistics on student placements gathered by HEC Paris business school have revealed that London remains a location of choice, and continues to provide desirable career opportunities for those enrolled on the school’s MSc Finance (MIF) and Masters in Management (MIM) with Finance specialization programmes, despite the uncertainties caused by the Brexit vote. 41% of students found placements in London in 2017, on par with 42% in 2016.

Alberto Alemanno, HEC Professor of European Law and Regulation,  writes about the necessity for effective and proactive citizen lobbyists to tackle issues of political disillusionment and to allow the public to have its say.