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Between June 9 and 11, HEC Paris hosted the 2020, 2021 and 2022 Commencement Ceremonies, an unprecedented event which united over 5,000 graduate students. Witnessing the graduations on the Jouy-en-Josas campus were 7,000 guests, professors and HEC staff. The historic triple ceremony thus brought ...

For the 11th time in 12 years, HEC Paris has been ranked world’s best Master in Finance (MiF) by the Financial Times. The school’s academic staff, led by MiF directors Olivier Bossard and Alexei Ovtchinnikov, have combined dynamic teaching with hands-on experience to guarantee their students leave ...

Following the climax of its second CDL (Creative Destruction Lab) Climate program, HEC Paris officially launched its new European CDL “Space Stream” program at an HEC Demo Day on June 7. This seed-stage aims at “building a bridge between space industries in North America and Europe” - a first global ...

On June 7, 2022, the HEC Alumni Association officially releases its most ambitious publication yet on biodiversity and business. Led by Christine Rodwell (H.92), David Vaillant (H.98) and a team of young and passionate alumni, “Biodiversity: A Call for Decisive Action” is a clarion call to the ...

For the first time in its history, HEC Paris took top spot in the F.T. Custom, Open-enrolment and Combined classifications, published today. After being ranked in the top 10 schools consistently over the past half-dozen years, HEC has anchored itself firmly among the world’s best Executive Education ...

Since 2015, the Society & Organizations Institute (S&O) have been coordinating informal monthly meetings to discuss some of the latest research by its 60 academics, HEC doctoral students and visiting scholars. Recently, S&O invited practitioner guest Bradley C. Birkenfeld to share his remarkable ...

HEC’s CDL (Creative Destruction Lab) Climate program reached its fourth-round climax on April 19 - a historic moment for the seven startups retained after a grueling mentorship program. Following another intense six-hour session with their mentors, they were invited to the program’s first in-person ...

Unilever CEO since 2019, Alan Jope has stamped his leadership qualities on the consumer goods business by facing head-on the world’s social and environmental challenges. The charismatic Scotsman was the latest guest at the HEC Talks forum to provide insight into his approach to purposeful leadership ...

At the latest HEC DiversiTALKS, political scientist and LGBTIQ+ activist Rémy Bonny denounced the “dramatic” situation for the millions of Ukrainian refugees who have poured into Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. His organization estimates that as many as 100,000 of these are LGBTIQ+ ...

Every year, the HEC UK Office organizes a Learning Expedition to London for 100 students 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 ...