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.
Entrepreneurs Rebuild the Places Where People Connect
Across cities, a new wave of entrepreneurs is rebuilding something we’ve lost: spaces for human connection. Known as tiers-lieux, these inclusive civic spaces blend work, culture, and community, driving innovation through recomposition.
Lessons From the US Cannabis Industry: Designing Sustainable Supply Chains From the Ground Up
The U.S. cannabis industry offers a live model for building supply chains that embed equity, transparency, and sustainability.
Without Alliances Geopolitics Will Break
When politics break your supply chain, building trust across borders is your best defense.
Can Leaders Still Rely on the Old Global Playbook?
As globalization fractures into new alliances and shifting blocs, business leaders must rethink risk, opportunity, and alignment. Why does the cognitive map of globalization never hold still?
Is Loneliness the Most Overlooked Economic Risk of Our Time?
Isolation, mistrust, and disconnection are fuelling inequality, weakening democracy, and eroding the foundations of prosperity.
When Corporate Purpose Meets Shareholder Power: Governance Lessons from the Ben & Jerry's–Unilever Conflict
This award-winning case study shows that when a purpose-driven brand inside a global conglomerate turns activism into strategic risk, governance structures—not intentions—determine who ultimately holds power.
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.