Articles
Strategy & Leadership
Why Hard Work Isn’t Enough: The Role of Chance in Career Success
Career success reflects not just effort, but how everyday chance events shape opportunities and visibility.
Economics & Finance
Marie Sushka's research legacy across banking, governance and private equity
The American academic kept returning to the same question: what do financial structures actually do once they are tested against evidence?
What Every Family Business Leader Should Learn from Mathieu Lustrerie
CEO Régis Mathieu blends creativity, legacy, and relational leadership to prepare a successful family business succession.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Sustainability & Society
Can Entrepreneurship Really Empower the Most Vulnerable?
Despite decades of programs to democratize entrepreneurship, many vulnerable groups remain underrepresented. HEC Paris research invites a rethink.
“Exceptional” floods: what if the real scandal was our lack of preparedness?
Recent floods in France reveal a double reality: a climate that is intensifying storms, and a society that continues to behave as if all this were still accidental.
Geopolitics & Public Affairs
Workplace Experience Determines Voting Patterns Far More than France's Political Fault Lines
This new policy paper shows that trust, recognition, and belonging at work influence political attitude and help explain support for radical parties.
Tom & Josette: Reinventing childcare through intergenerational micro-nurseries
Astrid Parmentier and Pauline Faivre co-founded an intergenerational model of nurseries located in retirement homes to address the issues of capacity and recruitment in the early childhood and elderly care sectors.
La maison de la Conversation: Here we treat the ailment of the century!
Isolation, mistrust, social fracture: loneliness is the crisis of our time. Xavier Cazard turns it into a lever for social cohesion and public health, fostering conversation between citizens, one neighborhood at a time.
