Press releases

Cartier brings together for the first time two leading business schools to advance research on emerging business and societal challenges.

Following a four-month international recruitment campaign, Professor Eloïc Peyrache has been unanimously nominated by the HEC Board of Directors as the Director General and Dean of HEC Paris.

Professor Anne-Valérie Corboz joins HEC Paris as its new Associate Dean of Executive Education. Prof. Corboz, who has enjoyed a long and international professional trajectory in the business school arena, joins the school from Duke Corporate Education in Singapore, where she oversaw Duke’s executive education operations in Asia, India and the Middle East. Prior to joining Duke CE,  Professor Corboz held faculty and executive roles at IMD, Insead,Singapore Management University and the Boston Consulting Group, among others.

An exceptional HEC Paris Board of Directors meeting, chaired by Jean-Paul VERMÈS, President of the Board of HEC Paris, was held on the 12th of October 2020, following the resignation of Peter TODD, Dean of HEC Paris, on the 30th of September 2020, for health reasons.

The Bouygues group and HEC Paris announce the creation of the “Smart City and the Common Good” chair with the objective of contributing to thinking on major societal challenges and the contemporary world.

Through the creation of this chair, in partnership with HEC Paris, the Bouygues group aims to:

HEC Paris and Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) announce the creation of Hi! PARIS, an interdisciplinary center for research and education devoted to AI and Data Science. Hi! PARIS is the first interdisciplinary and interinstitutional center in Europe, bringing together education, research and innovation. Its declared ambition is to become a world leader in these fields within five years by answering the major challenges linked to technological transformation and its impact on companies and society at large.

HEC Paris announced on Tuesday 23rd June, 2020 the results of the Hacking Covid-19 Africa, an event entirely dedicated to the African continent organized from 19th to 21st June 2020.

Led by students and young graduates from HEC Paris, it brought together more than 400 participants from 43 countries and 165 schools around 106 projects. After a vote by the participants, 50 of them were presented to the jury.

HEC Paris announces the launch of Hacking Covid-19 Africa, an event entirely dedicated to the African continent, which will take place from 19 to 21 June 2020.

HEC Paris announces the launch of CDL Climate, - a new stream that will coordinate entrepreneurs, scientists, mentors, and investors in a structured process to increase the probability of success for high impact and scalable solutions targeted towards climate change challenges. The first session will kickstart in October 2020 with 25 climate-focused recruited startups, with a focus on continental Europe and Africa.

New research at HEC Paris finds that hedge fund activism leads to a decline in targeted companies’ market value and social responsibility performance four and five years after intervention comparatively to similar firms.