News List | HEC Paris

April 2019

Sustainability & Organizations Institute

HEC Students Visit Africa’s Startup Hub

HEC’s Master in Sustainability and Social Innovation (SASI) reached its 2019 climax when over 50 mainly SASI students, accompanied by a staff member and an academic, spent 10 days in the East African nation of Rwanda. The historic visit coincided with the nation’s 25th annual commemoration of the ...

Apr 24, 2019

The School

Jeremy Ghez in World Top 40

Jeremy Ghez has been chosen as one of the 40 top under-40s professors in 2019 by Poets & Quants.

Apr 24, 2019

The School

Hands-on Crisis Simulation Exercise Goes International

HEC Crisis Challenge coordinated the second edition of its student-led crisis simulation on April 11-12 in a high-pressure exercise involving six business schools. 66 students, divided into 14 teams, grappled with four crisis scenarios with four going through to a media-centered final.

Apr 23, 2019

The School

Strong Showing in QS Ranking for Executive MBA

HEC Paris and its International Executive MBA degree earned a perfect score for career outcomes in the 2019 QS ranking aiming to identify business schools doing most to enhance the employability of their graduates. The worldwide classification, released April 16, saw HEC rise eight places up the ...

Apr 19, 2019

PhD Program

Research Seminar with PhD Alumni on Social Media for Management Academics

by Thomas Roulet, HEC PhD 2014, senior lecturer at University of Cambridge, Judge Business School and ranked 5th in the Thinklist of most influencing academics in social media published by BathCBOS.

Apr 18, 2019

The School

Crawling, Walking and Talking to HEC TEDx Success

For the third time since TED was conceived in 1984, HEC Paris students organized a TEDx event, choosing “Crawl, Walk, Talk” as the 2019 theme. The April 5 gathering was played out in front of a privileged crowd which witnessed 14 students, academics and entrepreneurs share personal journeys from “it ...

Apr 18, 2019

Sustainability & Organizations Institute

Impact of AI and Robotics on the labor market

Will AI and Robotics take your job or do they make you more skilled and generate alternate types of employment? The first panel of the ‘AI, Robotics & Work’ Conference at HEC Paris on March 12, intended to answer these questions.

Apr 18, 2019

Sustainability & Organizations Institute

Does AI aim to build a better world for humans? Challenges and Opportunities

The second panel discussion moderated by Sangseok You, HEC Paris professor was given by 3 business practitioners, Shirine Maher, Co-founder @EdzoAi; Guillaume Lerouge, Director @LaJavaness, Gautier Virepinte, Senior Manager@ KPMG on the business opportunities of AI application and on-going practice ...

Apr 17, 2019

Panel 3 - AI, robotics and work - Gratadour

Sustainability & Organizations Institute

Are you sure your AI is working as it should? Insights from the front lines

Do we have the tools to ensure that AI is working as it was meant to and, if not, fix it? The third panel of the ‘AI, Robotics & Work’ Conference at HEC Paris on March 12, ‘Organizational structure & Governance’, intended to answer these organizational stakes.

By Paul-Marie Carfantan

Apr 17, 2019

Executive Education

How digital transformation impacts companies

Our latest Executive Horizons survey reveals that engaging all stakeholders in the process, developing a culture of failure tolerance, and sharing knowledge are among the most effective ways of keeping up to speed in the digital economy. But how is digital transformation really impacting companies?

Apr 15, 2019