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Last year has been marked by two crucial international conferences to decide the future of the planet and life on it. The U.N. climate change conference, COP27, at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, which closed on November 20 and the U.N. biodiversity conference, COP15, at Montreal (from December 7 to 19).c

What Gets Measured: Social factors coverage in corporate ESG frameworks is a new report published by Professors Marieke Huysentruyt, Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot, Leandro Nardi, from the S&O Inclusive Economy Center with the collaboration of S&P Global Rating-Sustainable Finance with Bruce Thomson.

HEC’s 2022-2023 academic year kicked off with talks by a host of outstanding guest speakers largely devoted to the world’s most pressing environmental and societal issues. In the context of geopolitical tensions and climactic uncertainty, both student associations and academics invited specialists ...

The need to tackle climate change has created massive challenges for businesses and policymakers. The Climate Days organized on the HEC campus on May 30th and 31th brought together actors from the corporate, political, and academic world as well as the civil society to discuss potential solutions to ...

For the second consecutive year, the S&O Institute's Purpose Center is renewing and expanding its program for HEC Paris majors and MSc students. This atypical course is based on a "companionship" approach, i.e., pairs composed of an HEC alumnus and a student, who share their questions and deepen ...

From August 21 to 24, all the new students from the Master in Management were in Chamonix for the "Purpose and Sustainability" seminar. The objective? To enable them to understand the challenges of the ecological and social transition, and to question the purpose of their mission and collective ...

HEC Professor Rodolphe Durand and Veolia CEO Antoine Frérot recently published “A Broader Vision of Business: Toward a New Narrative”, the English adaptation of their 2021 work “L’entreprise de demain” (Flammarion, 288 pages). The work seeks to lay the foundations for a new narrative on business.

The 14th Edition of the Medici Summer School in Management studies was held on HEC Paris campus from June 12th  to 17th, 2022. Hosted this year by the S&O Institute and co-organized with the Bologna Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management, the school gathered 25 selected PhD students from ...

One of the most keenly anticipated annual research gatherings returned to its 100% in person format on May 13, as HEC Paris hosted top academics to debate over topics as diverse as migration, business models for the circular economy and the CEO gender approval gap. Keynote speakers at the seventh ...

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 ...