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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 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 ...

With its challenges, 2020 has been a truly rich year for HEC in the UK - supporting the community, developing innovative and interactive actions with students & alumni, while achieving a digital transformation and adapting to an unusual context.  With 100 events offered to over 3000 alumni in the UK ...

HEC’s third Impact Career Fair once again united students from all programs as leading companies highlighted potential career opportunities designed to impact society. This edition focused on sustainability and ways HEC graduates and firms can unite to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges. 

HEC Paris, ESCP and Maison Cartier formalized a groundbreaking partnership on January 29, 2021, by launching a Chair devoted to researching societal challenges and new business practices. The Turning Points Chair will be codirected by HEC’s Anne Laure Sellier and ESCP’s Ben Voyer who will provide ...