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September is always a particularly intense month on the HEC Campus, with the return of students. This year, the back-to-school period has been long awaited by everyone, both staff and students, after months of online classes. Scholarship students have had the opportunity to meet some key figures and ...

This spring, the HEC Foundation launched HEC Village with the support of the School, a project focused on quality of student life and part of the campus renovation and modernization project. The first milestone of this multiyear project has been achieved: €500,000 of donations and commitments ...

Olivier Combastet (MBA.86), founder and CEO of asset management firm Pergam, has been at the head of the Campaign Committee since 2017 and has successfully steered Impact Tomorrow through its first phase of fund raising. Having reached the mid-way point of the campaign at €200M, he is now handing ...

It was with deep sadness that we paid tribute on Monday July 5 to Philippe Foriel-Destezet (H.58), one of the most prominent entrepreneurs of the HEC community and a generous patron of the HEC Foundation. The founder of Ecco in 1964, which he merged with the Swiss company Adia in 1996 to form Adecco ...

To celebrate the end of the academic year, the HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center showcased the finest entrepreneurial successes of its community via Demo Day, a unique TV show. Thanks to the generosity of HEC Foundation donors, we were delighted to participate in certain projects and ...

Since the Covid crisis, there have been many collective initiatives among HEC Paris graduates, within a given class or in one of the clubs of the Association. In just two months, the Generation Share club raised nearly €57,000 for the School's students!

2020 was an unusual year for us all, of course, but it did reveal the full extent of the solidarity of our community towards the Foundation, the School and its students. In our annual report, see how HEC Foundation donors, volunteers and patrons stepped up to support students and finance new ...

For the 44th edition of the HEC Foundation Awards, we decided to innovate and propose a digital ceremony to honor and reward the very finest work by the students and professors of HEC Paris. This new format was a big success, bringing together more than 115 participants!

During their first week, the new MBA students who were awarded merit-based scholarships came together to celebrate their success and discuss with Jean-Yves Fillion (MBA.92), Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas USA, Chairman of Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) for the Americas et membre ...

As everyone else, we had to adapt during this exceptional period. Even if we could not get together physically, many events could be maintained or even created in video conference!  We suggest you discover some of them below: