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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.

Research insights from HEC Paris faculty

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.

5 minutes
Sam Aflaki

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?

10 minutes
Jeremy Ghez

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. 

5 mn
Marieke Huysentruyt, Yann Algan

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.

Nils Plambeck

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

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