News List | HEC Paris

May 2023

HEC Academy

HEC Paris and EHL Lausanne launch Luxury Hospitality Management Summer Program

In recent years, luxury brands have recognized that providing an exceptional customer experience plays a crucial role in retaining the loyalty of their customers and in attracting new ones. They have increasingly been turning to hospitality professionals to help them achieve this specific goal.

May 12, 2023

Elisabeth Moreno and Josephine Haquet at HEC Paris

The School

Diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace: Dare to care!

As part of the annual 50th-celebration of the gender mixity at HEC Paris, a new DiversiTalks Conference took place on May 10, 2023 on the Campus of Jouy-en-Josas to discuss the place of women at work. Top Diversity-Equity-and-Inclusion-leaders from the entrepreneurial sector, large companies and the ...

May 11, 2023

Égalité des chances

"The HEC students gave me the keys to succeed"

As a high school student in Maurepas, Lucas Lamour met HEC students who came to present the PACE program of the HEC Paris equal opportunity mission. After two years of tutoring, he joined SciencesPo Paris and is now committed to opening the doors of the Grandes Ecoles to everyone. In this interview ...

May 10, 2023

Faculty & Research

How can data analytics and AI benefit society and business?

To answer this central question, Hi! PARIS research fellow Xitong Li invited five leading AI scholars and two representatives from French companies to take part in a full day workshop on AI and the digital economy. This event attracted participants from as far afield as Spain, Italy, the USA and ...

May 05, 2023

Sustainability & Organizations Institute

Inclusive Economists Hammer Out Proposals with Practitioners

“How experimental research could help real world organizations address concrete social challenges”. This was the ambitious objective set by HEC’s first-ever Inclusive Economy (IE) Day, attended by academics from the world over. The April 13 event explored the challenges for researchers and ...

May 04, 2023

HEC Paris US Office - Women's Forum Washington DC

The School

HEC Paris at the Women's Forum in Washington DC

The HEC Paris community was in Washington DC on March 30 to honor the long-lasting partnership forged with the Women's Forum. HEC Paris showed its commitment to gender equality and diversity: HEC Paris US Office Executive Director, Vincent Muzelle, and Director of Strategic Projects for the HEC ...

May 02, 2023

April 2023

MBA

Student Profile: Mouphtaou Yarou, '24

Follow Mouphtaou Yarou's journey from professional basketball player to MBA Ambassador and philanthropist. Leaving his native Benin for the US on a scholarship, Yarou overcame initial challenges to excel academically and athletically. Now, as an MBA student at HEC Paris, he balances education ...

Apr 28, 2023

Rodolphe Durand at the The Why Project vignette

Sustainability & Organizations Institute

S&O participates in the "Grand Forum of the Raison d'Être" at the Senate

"Taking up the challenge of an effective, efficient and sustainable Purpose (“Raison d'Être”)" was the theme of the 2nd “Grand Forum de la Raison d'Être” organized by The Why Project on April 21 at the Palais du Luxembourg, Senate and chaired by Antoine Frérot, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ...

Apr 28, 2023

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute

New Spring batch ready to flourish

Congratulations to the startups which made it to the Incubateur HEC Paris! The Spring batch, composed of eleven startups, has just been selected and will start their program at Station F on May 5. With unlimited access to all the resources offered at the Incubateur HEC Paris, the new startups will ...

Apr 28, 2023

Executive MBA

Why One of Asia’s Most Successful Quants Went Back to School at HEC Paris Executive MBA

After building Nomura Principal Investments’ Asian volatility operations from the ground up, Jean-Noel Payer secured seeding for his first solo fund, which he launched to the tune of $250-plus million in capital. Since then, it’s been victory after victory for the man who wrote the book on Asian ...

Apr 23, 2023