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The month of May saw HEC Paris lead a turbo-charged drive to enrich its investment in Africa-related programs, certificates and sensitization campaigns. This included the fourth edition of Africa Days, featuring the likes of Carlos Lopes, Rebecca Enonchong and Thione Niang. This was followed by a ...

The sixth edition of the HEC Paris Business Game (HBG) saw 130 students from 53 universities in 30 countries compete in a two-day real-life case situations. This challenging event is designed to develop the abilities and know-how of students in designing cases which will make a positive difference ...

Digitization and carbon reduction were at the heart of a landmark April 1 exchange between HEC students and Schneider Electric CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire. Invited for the first time ever by Esp’R and HEC Débats, Tricoire was assertive and frank in answering probing questions from students who have ...

Almost 300 people participated in the second edition of the HEC Alumni’s Festival Life Project, devoted this year to the theme “The Future of Work Belongs to Optimists”. Conferences, speed-coaching, networking, workshops and high-velocity roundtables featured over the two days in early April. It ...

In its inaugural year, CDL-Paris hosted an Apprentice Module on Climate, featuring up-and-coming high school pupils from across Canada. The topic was in keeping with this year’s Creative Destruction Lab program, CDL Climate, a nine-month certificate  where HEC students  work with ventures devoted to ...

In a historic break from the Vatican’s past, Pope Francis named the first-ever woman, Nathalie Becquart (H92), to a voting post in the Synod of Bishops. As the body’s undersecretary, Becquart will thus be able to discuss and vote on key doctrinal issues during the Catholic Church’s Synod, set for ...

Every year, the HEC UK Office organizes a Learning Expedition to London for 170-200 student-entrepreneurs from the HEC Startup Launchpad. This program works like an accelerator, designed to help student entrepreneurs launch their startup within 10 weeks.

This year, the trip took place virtually on ...

On March 24 & 25, the HEC in the UK office organized the first HEC virtual world tour with the support of other HEC representative offices all over the world.  For this first edition, students from the Strategic Management Programme enrolled for a virtual trip to Abidjan (Ivory Coast), London (UK) & ...

An unprecedented 13 awards were attributed by the HEC Foundation for outstanding academic work from the school’s students and professors in 2020. The March 23 event was the 44th edition of the annual event, but the first-ever digital ceremony. Highlights included the Honorary Award, given to the ...

Over the March 12 weekend, the Hi! Paris Center further marked its interdisciplinary research commitments through an inaugural hackathon, the Center’s first Data/AI event baptized Hi!ckathon. 35 teams, involving three to seven HEC and IP Paris students each, sought to build a business project around ...