Articles
Sustainability & Society
Overlooking Vulnerability Can Harm Everyone, Including Your Business
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.
Geopolitics & Public Affairs
Most Firms Say ‘Sustainability’ — But Lobby Against It
Research by Professor Alberto Alemanno shows how corporate lobbying often contradicts climate goals — putting ESG credibility and stakeholder trust at risk.
Brands & Behaviors
Circular Business Models Reduce Waste and Boost Profit
A growing number of companies claim to be going green - but how many are tackling the waste problem at its root? HEC professor Daniel Halbheer provides some answers.
Tech & AI
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.
AI and Sovereignty: The Geopolitical Power of Submarine Cables
Two HEC Paris researchers, Olivier Chatain and Jerely Ghez, reveal how AI geopolitics is turning undersea cables into critical fault lines in a fragmented world economy.
Economics & Finance
Beyond Retention: Firms Position Roles as Career Launchpads
Research from Raphaël Levy reveals how task allocation shapes talent development, retention, and performance in high-pressure professional firms.
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.
Strategy & Leadership
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.
