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Tributes for HEC Professor Denis Gromb have flooded in from colleagues, academics and former students worldwide, following the news that the Antin I.P. Chair Professor of Finance passed away on October 30. He was one of the most impactful and respected scholars in his field of corporate finance. On ...

Denis Gromb, Professor of Finance at HEC Paris, passed away on Sunday October the 30th. It’s impossible to overstate how wonderful it has been for us all, faculty, students, and staff, to work with Denis. The HEC Paris Finance Department conveys its deepest sympathy to Denis' wife and daughter, and ...

HEC Paris welcomed 11 new research professors to its faculty ranks for this new academic year, one of the richest pickings in years. The top-class scholars join seven of the school’s nine departments, swelling HEC’s total of professor-researchers to 120.

Professor Armin Steinbach has been awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Studies by the European Commission. Armin will hold the Chair in EU Law and Economics until 2025.

The 2022 D-TEA (Decision: Theory, Experiments & Applications) was historic in two ways: as a tenth anniversary marking HEC’s expansion into a crucial economic field. And as a moving homage to one of the event’s pioneers, Professor David Schmeidler, who passed away on March 17, 2022.

The European Commission has published a pool of individuals eligible for appointment as arbitrators and trade and sustainability experts in bilateral disputes under trade agreements with third countries. Armin Steinbach is one of the selected individuals following an assessment of an independent ...

Entitled “The New EU Instruments For The Protection Of The Rule Of Law: Towards A Techno-managerial Strategy?” (MEDROI), this research project led by Arnaud Van Waeyenberge, HEC Paris Professor of European Union Law and Roïla Mavrouli, CNRS PostDoc Research Fellow, and gathering a consortium of six ...

Itzhak Gilboa, Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC Paris, has been ranked 6th theoretical economist in the world in a study by Stanford University.

L’Oréal International Research Chair Yangjie Gu has been nominated by Poets&Quants as one the 2022 top MBA professors thanks to the “dynamic” and “energizing” learning environments she brings to the classroom. P&Q relies on student testimonies to publish their annual list. “Yangjie brought real ...

Exactly a year after their research paper was published by the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Professors Matteo Winkler and Giovanna Gilleri outlined the key points in “Of Athletes, Bodies and Rules: Making Sense of ‘Caster Semenya’”. The paper deconstructs narratives used by adjudicators to ...