Press releases

No firms from Europe’s largest PE markets, UK & France, made it into the top 20 of the HEC – DowJones 2022 MidMarket Buyout Performance Ranking.

HEC Paris Business School and DowJones have released the results of this year’s Large Buyout Performance Rankings, which show the top 20 private equity firms based on all buyout funds raised between 2009 and 2018. The top three companies in the Top 20 global firms are TA Associates, followed by Veritas Capital and Francisco Partners.

Building on the success of the Master of Science and Technology (MScT) in Data Science for Business, HEC Paris and École Polytechnique are forging ahead with their partnership and determination to combine their expertise. The two institutions will launch the Data & Finance Double Degree in the academic year starting September 2023. This program merges the Data Science for Business MScT and the Master in Finance from HEC Paris in a world first for data science applied to finance.

With program based at STATION F, Meta, in partnership with L'Oréal Groupe in France, wants to encourage the development of a creative and inclusive metaverse ecosystem, by supporting French entrepreneurship. Applications are open until November 20th 2022.

HEC Paris, one of the world’s top ten business schools, has today announced that it has launched a new MasterTrack Certificate (MTC) with Coursera, one of the largest online learning companies in the world. The new MTC, entitled Leading Innovation With Creativity, will see HEC Paris’s students learn to incorporate design thinking and creativity into everyday business practices and drive innovation at any stage of business growth - from developing an idea to leading a company.

Serco Europe, a space industry leader with over 40 years’ experience in supporting the space sector announces a partnership with the prestigious French university HEC Paris to bring Space Data at the heart of the school’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship centre.

The HEC Paris Alumni Association has presented the conclusions of its White Paper on Biodiversity in which it calls on the combined efforts of private enterprise and investors, the public authorities and civil society. The report has been officially presented to the French Ambassador for the Environment, Sylvie Lemmet, and will soon be submitted to negotiators ahead of COP15.

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.