Students and Faculty
Master in Sustainability and Social Innovation
Learn from HEC’s world-class faculty and interact with inspiring students from the best Universities around the world
Class Profile
Student academic background
The program welcomes talented students from leading schools across the globe. The diversity of their academic backgrounds plays a key role in the overall learning experience.
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Academic Team
Today’s world is facing huge challenges and deep transformations: global warming, shifts in global powers, resources and biodiversity depletion, rising inequalities, digital and technological disruptions and weakening social pacts. Such a context calls for radical changes to build more inclusive and sustainable business models. It is up to us not to miss these challenges and to make organizations more creative: We now have the opportunity to invent new lifestyles to reshape our cities, our working environments and our managerial approaches, and to develop new paths for our economies.
Participants coming into the Sustainability and Social Innovation program should expect to join an innovative education ecosystem that will empower them as changemakers: the program will provide them with the necessary critical thinking, hard skills and leadership skills to rethink, innovate, and shape tomorrow’s sustainable businesses and inclusive economies.
With a broad multidisciplinary approach to understand the complex challenges and forces that are shaping the global business environment, and a unique combination of theory and practice, this very intensive program enables participants to customize their curriculum and to hone their leadership skills.
François Gemenne, Academic Director, HEC Paris
 | The members of HEC faculty involved in this program are renowned researchers in their respective fields. Many of them are members the Sustainability and Organizations Center, an inter-disciplinary research group at HEC Paris which focuses on contemporary societal and environmental issues that organizations face. In addition, professors from other academic institutions as well as seasoned practitioners bring their expertise to the students. |
Faculty
HEC Paris is one of the world’s top research schools in economics and management. Our faculty push the boundaries of knowledge by producing the highest quality research. They aim to have an impact on pedagogy, management practices, public policies and society at large.
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