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In 2020, the Society &Organizations Institute (S&O) marks 12 years of research on the notion of an inclusive global economy with the report “Inclusive Business: What it is and Why it Matters”. This third S&O report studies the roles of the private and public sphere, as well as civil society, in ...

The second 2020 HEC Paris Earth Week brought together around 2,000 students, staff members, academics and outside visitors in virtual exchanges focusing on the environmental challenges ahead. The 12-day event was deemed a resounding success, paving the way for a third edition in 2021.

The 2020 Race to Zero campaign mobilized academics, business professionals and militants in a 11-day November series of virtual dialogues on climate-related issues, climaxing with the November 19 Finance Day. Organized by the U.N., its director Sagarika Chatterjee invited Rodolphe Durand, academic ...

For the second time in a year, HEC Paris hosts Earth Week, a student-driven event designed both to promote social and environmental initiatives; and to debate over programs for sustainable development and ecologically-friendly businesses. Despite the challenges of this second lockdown, the ESP’R ...

Faced with the climate emergency, it is the responsibility of business schools to include environmental challenges and the protection of biodiversity in their curriculums. Last July, HEC Paris was ranked at the top among its peers in the list of “the most ecofriendly schools” prepared by Le Figaro ...

In the second of a series of online seminars, HEC Paris invited Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus for an hour-long exchange on bouncing back after the COVID-19 health crisis. Led by Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot,  Executive Director of HEC’s Society & Organizations Institute (S&O), the Q&A with HEC students ...

HEC Paris invited Best Buy’s Executive Chairperson Hubert Joly to the first in a series of online seminars, organized by the Society & Organization Institute (S&O). In a wide-ranging Q&A led by S&O Academic Director, Rodolphe Durand, Joly shared a candid vision of the unprecedented human crisis ...

In February 2020, the HEC Paris campus welcomed a week-long event on the topics of sustainable innovation and responsible business, organized by the student association Esp’R. The 1,500 students living on campus were invited to conferences and workshops to reconsider the way they consume and change ...

The second of the three-tiered Purposeful Leadership program featured 10 business leaders who shared with HEC’s first-year students their professional and personal quests towards purpose. In a high-wire act, these top entrepreneurs described with candor and emotion their bumpy and inspirational ...

Sodexo CEO Denis Machuel helped bring down the curtain on the three-month freshman course in a closing ceremony featuring 381 students, 18 tutors and a top academic team from the S&O Center. The event also featured wisely words from program backer Hubert Joly and the students’ top essays devoted to ...