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AI Trading Algorithms Can Make Markets Less Competitive

July 3rd, 2026
7 minutes
Jean-Edouard Colliard, Thierry Foucault, Stefano Lovo

AI-driven trading can blunt competition and even lift prices in financial markets. 

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

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

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

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