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The Region and its partners support through this program the major players in a more inclusive and sustainable Parisian economy.

S&O Center partner and co-sponsor of the Movement for Social*Business Impact, VEOLIA dedicates itself to social entrepreneurship strategy and sustainable development through its unique entity, 2EI VEOLIA. Innovation Project Director and HEC Paris Alumnus, Benoit Ringot, along with CEO of 2EI VEOLIA, Eric Lesueur, explain how the interdisciplinary team addresses various aspects of sustainable city development. 

For the third time in three years, an HEC Paris professor has bagged a Case Centre Award for a bestselling case study. Professor of Finance Denis Gromb won the 2018 prize in the Finance, Accounting and Control category for “Prada’s Hong Kong IPO”, a study he co-wrote with Associate Professor at ESCP Europe, Alberta Di Giuli. 

On September 18, 2017, Nobel laureate Eric Maskin became the latest recipient of the HEC Paris Honoris Causa Professor Award, a title which recognizes the works of exceptional heads of states, professors and business leaders. Accepting the award as a “wonderful honor”, the pioneer in mechanism design and implementation theory proceeded to describe his application of mechanism design on current electoral systems to a packed audience at the HEC campus.

Dr. Cathy Liu Yang, Assistant Professor at HEC Paris, has won the Paul E. Green Award for her article “A Bounded Rationality Model of Information Search and Choice in Preference Measurement”, published in the April 2015 issue of the Journal of Marketing Research.

Since 1995, the “Industrial Excellence Award” (IEA) competition benchmarks European competitiveness in the industrial and service sectors. This competition focuses on Strategy Deployment, that is, how organizations align distributed activities and knowledge to achieve common strategic goals.

The pathway to reduce emissions and to limit global warming to 2°C will require substantial investment in clean energy technology. During the event: “The 2°C Challenge, Climate is our Business” – co-organized by HEC Paris, its SnO Center and HEC Alumni on October 1st 2015 – students, professors, and business partners met for a workshop entitled Green Finance.