HEC in the press

We might not be able to control our emotions towards robots metallic but fear not. We perform all the better as a team for it, writes HEC Paris Professor Sangseok You in an op-ed for Workplace Insight. 

HEC Paris Professor Anne-Laure Sellier's latest field study suggests that one-shot de-biasing training can significantly reduce the deleterious influence of cognitive bias on decision making. The results of her paper "establish a clear link between cognitive bias reduction training and improved judgment/decision-making abilities in a high-risk managerial context" , she writes on Forbes. 

Starting this fall, HEC Paris, the highly ranked elite haute ecole for business, is teaming with cooking school L’atelier des Chefs to serve up a foodie option, a double degree that is France’s first professional degree in cooking for Master in Management students, writes American publication Poets & Quants. 

A team led by Giada Di Stefano of HEC Paris found that people in a technical training programme who were asked to sit quietly and reflect on what they had learnt for 15 minutes tended to perform about 23 per cent better when tested on those skills than those who did not reflect.

Alberto Alemanno, professor of EU law and policy at the HEC Paris business school, comments on the “unprecedented politicisation” of the confirmation process of prospective EU commissioners, in an interview for the Financial Times. 

Macron “is a bit of a paradox in France, but he is the only credible leader right now” said HEC Paris affiliate professor Jeremy Ghez, in an interview for CNBC. 

American publication Poets & Quants presents an overview of HEC Paris' MBA class of 2021. 

HEC Paris jumped two spots in this year's Forbes' international MBA ranking to rank second among international two-year programs with a five-year gain of $79,761. It is one of the more affordable two-year programs in the world at a cost of $70,400. Class of 2018 graduates had the highest median base salary ($127,410) and highest median signing bonus ($28,943) of any international program. Only eight U.S. programs saw higher median base and median signing bonuses. Amazon employed the most graduates, followed by consulting firms McKinsey & Company and Bain & Company.

The dilemma of whether artificial intelligence and robotics will replace our jobs or rather create new ones and make us more competitive is key to the global labor market, writes HEC Paris MBA student Divyabh Tyagi, in an op-ed for Forbes Mexico. 

HEC Paris business school has partnered with cookery school L’atelier des Chefs to launch France’s first professional degree in French cooking for its Master in Management students. This new double degree is a direct response to the increasing demand of the school’s students interested in developing a career in the catering – hospitality sector, writes America Economia.