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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 ...

November 20 saw “Le Salon HEC” student association organize a conference with the journalist and film director Guillaume Pitron. The students had discovered the writer last year when they awarded him the Manpower Group / HEC Paris Foundation Prize for his book "La guerre des métaux rares - la face ...

French economist Alain Grandjean joined HEC students and academics for a 90-minute exchange co-organized by Pour un Réveil Ecologique. The campus event with the cofounder of Carbone 4 was part of an S&O series devoted to society’s ecological and social transition.

Valerie Charolles is a researcher at the Institut Mines-Telecom Business School and associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Anthropology of the Contemporary (CNRS-EHESS) She has published four papers, including ‘Le libéralisme contre le capitalisme’ in which she describes the ...

On October 11-12, 2019, the Society and Organizations (S&O) Center of HEC Paris and the Alliance for Research in Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) hosted the first “S&O ARCS Workshop” that gathered leading researchers and practitioners at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris to foster international ...

A year after creating the Joly Family Endowed Chair in Purposeful Leadership, HEC Paris launches its three-year sense and leadership program, destined for the entire HEC Grande Ecole 2019 intake. A pioneering effort aimed at sensitizing participants to values that have become crucial to the world of ...