Articles
Overlooking Vulnerability Can Harm Everyone, Including Your Business
Drawing on insights from HEC Paris faculty, Octavio de Barros, postdoctoral researcher maps how businesses can respond to vulnerability without defaulting to control, charity, or silence.
World Day of Social Justice: Why Value Sharing Can’t Wait
In an era of rising inequality and inflation shocks, companies are becoming frontline actors in shaping social justice.
Trust Is the Invisible Infrastructure of Prosperous Societies
Trust underpins economic performance, social mobility, and democratic legitimacy, yet remains largely invisible in public decision-making.
What Becomes Core to Learning If AI Does the Work for Students?
As generative AI becomes ubiquitous in students’ daily work, how can higher education ensure they integrate these technologies into their learning without outsourcing judgment?
What the Homeless Taught Us About Dignity
They had neither the words nor the gestures at first. Yet, confronted with extreme hardship and social distress during outreach patrols in the Paris metro, Pierre and Syndou discovered that rebuilding human connection is within everyone’s reach.
India Summit Asks If AI Can Scale Without Breaking Trust or the Climate Budget
On the eve of the New Delhi Summit researchers and policymakers debate in Paris on how to scale AI under tight constraints of energy, data, and ethics.
How a Fascination with the Human Brain Pushed Raphael Certain to Rethink Neurodegenerative Care
From the neuroscience lab to startup execution, the founder of Clarity is building a new approach to Alzheimer’s treatment, driven by what matters to him, and to society.
What If Social Capital Became Our Common Rallying Cry?
Confined to academic debate and too heavily loaded to mobilize public opinion, social capital nevertheless remains a powerful concept that could become a unifying banner for social and democratic cohesion.