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46 graduates from the MSc Sustainability and Social Innovation (SASI) of HEC Paris decided to create a ‘sustainability agency’ after their common university experience. Not simply a story of an ordinary consulting startup, this is one of a genuine collective adventure. 

For only the second time in its 11-year-history, HEC’s S&O Center hosted the annual Medici Summer School in Management Studies. The weeklong event, co-organized with MIT and the Bologna Business School, is designed for doctoral students and young researchers.

The HEC class on Inclusive & Social Business organized a meeting with Lucile Cornet-Vernet, founder of La Maison de l’Artemisia, as part of their work on inclusive models to provide access to health for all. 

June 7, 2019 marked the occasion for the first annual MBA Diversity conference organized by Women in Leadership Society president Amanda Moritz, MBA student Luis Raúl Martínez, and the LGBT+ student society from HEC Paris. DELTA aims to shake up management and HR strategies in order to make diversity and inclusion one of the main priorities for firms.

The fifth S&O Research Day featured 21 presentations and three keynote speeches in a whirlwind exchange over two days. Organized by HEC Professor Georg Wernicke, the May 23-24 event was notable for its diversity, high-powered insights and motivation.

A workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) : New Legal Tools, Litigation and Smart Contracts was organised on April 18 at HEC Paris with members of the Law & Tax Department and the S&O Center.  

Witold Henisz has been a key figure at The Wharton School for the past two decades. The Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management has been researching ways for corporations to find, build and maintain relationships with their external stakeholders.

HEC’s Master in Sustainability and Social Innovation (SASI) reached its 2019 climax when over 50 mainly SASI students, accompanied by a staff member and an academic, spent 10 days in the East African nation of Rwanda. The historic visit coincided with the nation’s 25th annual commemoration of the 1994 genocide.

Will AI and Robotics take your job or do they  make you more skilled and generate alternate types of employment?  The first panel of the ‘AI, Robotics & Work’ Conference at HEC Paris on March 12, intended to answer these questions.

The second panel discussion moderated by Sangseok You, HEC Paris professor was given by 3 business practitioners, Shirine Maher, Co-founder @EdzoAi;  Guillaume Lerouge, Director @LaJavaness, Gautier Virepinte, Senior Manager@ KPMG on the business opportunities of AI application and on-going practice with corporations.