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Six months ago, we launched a slightly crazy project: to redefine the values and purpose of our school, with the help of the entire HEC community, before the end of the summer. Professors, students, collaborators, alumni, donors... You have all made a commitment and done your part in contributing to ...

What are our responsibilities as an institution of higher education, and more specifically, as a business school? How do we contribute to society? To answer these questions, listen to the inspiring stories of men and women who embody the impact we expect to have on individuals, society and business ...

“Our model of the world no longer seems to coincide with sustainable reality”. This observation is at the root of Rodolphe Durand’s commitment as an academic: enabling the quest for purpose and elaborating solutions to societal and business issues. In this first episode of Tomorrow Is Our Business ...

The month of May saw HEC Paris lead a turbo-charged drive to enrich its investment in Africa-related programs, certificates and sensitization campaigns. This included the fourth edition of Africa Days, featuring the likes of Carlos Lopes, Rebecca Enonchong and Thione Niang. This was followed by a ...

Almost 200 people followed the five-hour long TEDxHECPARIS centered on the intriguing theme “à point”. To answer the invitation, nine people from all wakes of life deliberated on concepts as diverse as Hokusai’s painting The Great Wave, sexism in marketing and the (board)games of life. The quality ...

The sixth edition of the HEC Paris Business Game (HBG) saw 130 students from 53 universities in 30 countries compete in a two-day real-life case situations. This challenging event is designed to develop the abilities and know-how of students in designing cases which will make a positive difference ...

Digitization and carbon reduction were at the heart of a landmark April 1 exchange between HEC students and Schneider Electric CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire. Invited for the first time ever by Esp’R and HEC Débats, Tricoire was assertive and frank in answering probing questions from students who have ...

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 ...