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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

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 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

Why CEOs Can No Longer Ignore Social Cohesion

What if social cohesion became the next competitive advantage—linking risk management, resilience and innovation?

7 minutes
Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot

What Leaders Can Learn from Art and from Van Gogh

Noticing is a leadership skill. Van Gogh makes it unavoidable, and Daniel Newark turns it into practice.  While most leadership programs emphasize decisive action, clear communication, and reducing ambiguity, Daniel Newark offers a different approach

Daniel Newark

How Activist Short Sellers Move a Stock

A target price may overshoot reality, but it still hits the stock quickly. New research shows that one number can accelerate market impact.

7 minutes
Alexandre Madelaine, Luc Paugam, Hervé Stolowy

Who Will Win the Tug-of-War Between Europe and Big Tech?

Italy’s fine against Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) puts privacy design under antitrust scrutiny. Evidence suggests regulators should measure who is harmed, and design targeted remedies. 

7 minutes
Klaus Miller, Daniel Brown

When Oscar Nominations Make Audiences Harsher

A new study shows that “quality signals” can backfire: Academy Award nominations can lower viewers’ ratings by raising expectations.

7 minutes
Michelangelo Rossi, Felix Schleef

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