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Overlooking Vulnerability Can Harm Everyone, Including Your Business

December 19th, 2025
Octavio Augusto de Barros

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.

11 minutes
Marieke Huysentruyt

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.

Marieke Huysentruyt, Yann Algan

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?

Hi! PARIS

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. 

HEC Paris Sustainability & Organizations Institute

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.

14 minutes
Daniel Brown

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.

9 minutes
Isaline Rohmer

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