Articles
Tech & AI
Strategy & Leadership
Giving Humans the Final Say Can Make AI Decisions Worse
When algorithms outperform experts, human oversight may protect legitimacy... but it may also simply restore the errors AI was meant to correct.
Brands & Behaviors
Changing Your Habits Depends on Context, Not Just Motivation
Using machine learning, Anastasia Buyalskaya reveals how long it takes to form a new habit. Her research could reshape how businesses build lasting behavior change.
Geopolitics & Public Affairs
AI and Sovereignty: The Geopolitical Power of Submarine Cables
Two HEC Paris researchers, Olivier Chatain and Jeremy Ghez, reveal how AI geopolitics is turning undersea cables into critical fault lines in a fragmented world economy.
Economics & Finance
High-Visibility Tasks Fuel Employee Motivation
In firms facing intense competition for talent, task allocation can become a lever for career growth, retention, and performance.
Sustainability & Society
Global Sustainability Reporting Lacks Real Convergence
When TotalEnergies boasts compliance with sustainability reporting standards, is it true or false? HEC professors Hervé Stolowy and Luc Paugam provide some answers.
Why Pharma Firms Withhold Trial Results Despite Regulation
Why clinical trial data play a critical role in public health, but many pharmaceutical companies hold back? Peer pressure, competition, and weak enforcement, say Vedran Capkun and Yin Wang.
Why Jobseekers Shift from Specialist to Generalist
When prestige is low or futures are unclear, jobseekers broaden their skills instead of doubling down, says Roxana Barbulescu.
When Staying Too Long Hurts Your Sales Career
Research by Dominique Rouziès, Bertrand Quélin and Michael Segalla shows that experience-related pay peaks after 3.4 years in sales, urging a rethink of career development and incentives.
