Press releases

The “Entrepreneurship for Renewable Energies in Morocco” program was launched at Ecole Polytechnique on March 28.

HEC Paris and Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC) have joined forces to develop academic activities in Latin America and Europe.

HEC Paris and the five founding partner schools of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (École Polytechnique, ENSTA ParisTech, ENSAE ParisTech, Télécom ParisTech and Télécom SudParis) sign a cooperation agreement, representing the first step towards the creation of an ambitious, multidisciplinary academic alliance in the fields of Technology and Business Innovation.

The 2018 HEC - Dow Jones Private Equity Performance Ranking lists the world’s Top PE firms in terms of aggregate performance based on all buyout funds raised between 2005 and 2014. This ranking answers the question: “Which firm(s) generated the best performance for their investors over the past years?” The ranking draws on a comprehensive set of data on PE fund performance provided by preqin and directly from PE Firms and uses a unique methodology to calculate the aggregate performance of a PE firm based on difference performance measures for all the funds managed by this firm. The method is able to aggregate performance across vintage years and considers relative and absolute returns. In total, we analyzed performance data from 502 PE firms and the 898 funds they raised between 2005 and 2014 with an aggregate equity volume of $1.293bn.

Researchers at HEC Paris business school’s Society & Organizations Center have unveiled a social impact measurement tool that standardizes financial and impact assessment of corporate social responsibility initiatives across different industries and organizations.

Lessons learned lead to innovative new format

François Riahi, Chief Executive Officer of Natixis, Éric Labaye, President of École Polytechnique, Peter Todd, Dean of HEC Paris, Jean-Bernard Lartigue, Executive Director of the École Polytechnique Foundation and Olivier Sevillia, President of the HEC Foundation have signed a partnership to create the Business Analytics for Future Banking teaching and research chair.

Leadership 2030: Navigating the tensions, contradictions and opportunities is a senior executive certificate program offered jointly between LSE and HEC Paris to launch in July 2019. It will bring together cross-disciplinary faculty, industry practitioners, and guest speakers from both leading schools.

HEC Paris celebrates the opening of its first office for West and Central Africa, in Abidjan.

HEC Paris was victim of an anti-Semitic graffiti attack last week. The tags were discovered by students on the morning of October 12, scrawled on the walls of a study room in a student housing building. School authorities immediately took the necessary measures to begin to identify the culprits and filed an official complaint with the Versailles police authorities. Together with HEC student and Alumni associations, they expressed their condemnation and outrage at this heinous act of aggression. The following reflects the position of HEC’s administration led by Peter Todd and representatives of the campus student councils, as shared in an extraordinary Town Hall assembly on October 15.