Press releases

HEC Paris is stepping up its ecological transition strategy with the launch of its new Climate & Business Transition certificate and its first Climate Days conference.

On Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 May, the 12 start-ups of Hectar Accelerator Season 2 took part in their bootcamp.

Jean-Paul Agon, Chairman of L'Oréal and a graduate of HEC Paris, has just been unanimously appointed Chairman of HEC Paris at an extraordinary board meeting. Agon succeeds Jean-Paul Vermès, whose term in office has come to an end after six years.

The HEC Foundation and HEC Paris, driven by the conviction that higher education has a key role to play in making the world a more peaceful place, have created “HEC Imagine Fellows”, a unique scholarship program intended for students from war-torn countries. The scheme was launched thanks to an exceptional donation from Adrien Nussenbaum, co-founder and joint-CEO of Mirakl and graduate of HEC Paris, and will welcome its first students to the school’s campus at the beginning of the 2022 academic year.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, the Women’s Forum for the Economy & Society, in partnership with Procter & Gamble (P&G) and the HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center, launches the second edition of WomenEntrepreneurs4Good. After the success of the first edition, our coalition joins forces once again and doubles the scale of the programme, designed to encourage women’s entrepreneurship and accelerate the transition to a green economy.

Alberto Alemanno, Professor of Law at HEC Paris Business School and Founder of The Good Lobby, has been awarded as Social Innovation Thought Leader of the Year at the World Economic Forum #DavosAgenda. He is the only academic rewarded in this category this year.

4 years after joining Station F and supporting nearly 50 startups, the L'Oréal Accelerator - the L'Oréal Beauty Tech Atelier – will now propose a joint program with the Incubateur HEC Paris to extend its support and connect the best of Beauty Tech with the best of Entrepreneurship.

Eight leading business schools have joined together to acknowledge the climate crisis and collaborate to support business leaders who will act to address the climate emergency. 

The Future Investment Initiative (FII) Institute, a global non-profit foundation with one agenda: Impact on Humanity, has today announced projects with world-class universities and the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal to make an impact on humanity.

The Women’s Forum, Procter & Gamble, and HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship announces the 9 most promising green projects for the first edition of the WomenEntrepreneurs4Good initiative.