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Almost 300 people participated in the second edition of the HEC Alumni’s Festival Life Project, devoted this year to the theme “The Future of Work Belongs to Optimists”. Conferences, speed-coaching, networking, workshops and high-velocity roundtables featured over the two days in early April. It ...
In its inaugural year, CDL-Paris hosted an Apprentice Module on Climate, featuring up-and-coming high school pupils from across Canada. The topic was in keeping with this year’s Creative Destruction Lab program, CDL Climate, a nine-month certificate where HEC students work with ventures devoted to ...
In a historic break from the Vatican’s past, Pope Francis named the first-ever woman, Nathalie Becquart (H92), to a voting post in the Synod of Bishops. As the body’s undersecretary, Becquart will thus be able to discuss and vote on key doctrinal issues during the Catholic Church’s Synod, set for ...
Every year, the HEC UK Office organizes a Learning Expedition to London for 170-200 student-entrepreneurs from the HEC Startup Launchpad. This program works like an accelerator, designed to help student entrepreneurs launch their startup within 10 weeks.
This year, the trip took place virtually on ...
On March 24 & 25, the HEC in the UK office organized the first HEC virtual world tour with the support of other HEC representative offices all over the world. For this first edition, students from the Strategic Management Programme enrolled for a virtual trip to Abidjan (Ivory Coast), London (UK) & ...
An unprecedented 13 awards were attributed by the HEC Foundation for outstanding academic work from the school’s students and professors in 2020. The March 23 event was the 44th edition of the annual event, but the first-ever digital ceremony. Highlights included the Honorary Award, given to the ...
Over the March 12 weekend, the Hi! Paris Center further marked its interdisciplinary research commitments through an inaugural hackathon, the Center’s first Data/AI event baptized Hi!ckathon. 35 teams, involving three to seven HEC and IP Paris students each, sought to build a business project around ...
Six months after opening, France’s new scientific research hub, Hi! Paris, launched its first-ever series of webinars with an uncompromising debate on the challenges of bias in machine learning algorithms, as well as the hotly debated issue of data privacy*. Four top researchers from HEC Paris and I ...
How has the COVID-19 crisis and its economic and social consequences shifted the boundaries of gender in the workplace? In its third debate of the year, the HEC DiversiTALKS conference series involved 10 professionals and academics to discuss online this crucial and sensitive question. This ...
HEC Paris students and staff members were treated to a spectacular dance and parade as the weeklong HEC Asia Week reached its climax on February 25. The traditional outdoor show marked the Chinese New Year and brought together students from all the HEC community. Almost 400 people had followed the ...
