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On November 7, HEC Students for Sustainability welcomed guest speaker Darius Seiller for its first Climate Nights event. This series aims to foster an institution-wide commitment to environmental issues. A June 2018 alumnus, Darius Seiller is the co-founder and CEO of emerging sustainability ...

“Thanks to you, destinies are changing!” At a soirée held by the HEC Foundation on November 8, Eloïc Peyrache, Associate Dean for HEC Paris Grande Ecole, was quick to praise the organization’s recent work. The event brought together donors and members of the “HEC ecosystem” (professors, students and ...

The United States : Improbable Decline, Impossible Resurgence is the latest work by HEC Professor Jeremy Ghez. Its publication by V.A. Editions coincides with the November 2018 midterm elections which see the Democrats regain Congress and President Donald Trump’s Republicans consolidate their grip ...

Young RIMOWA CEO Alexandre Arnault was one of several guest speakers invited to exchange in an HEC-LVMH event devoted to answering the challenges of innovation, digitalization and disruption in the luxury industry. “Reinventing luxury in the age of new entrepreneurs” was the theme of Arnault’s ...

At the start of October, six HEC Paris students – including three interns – teamed up with legal experts, anthropologists, designers, business executives, software publishers, engineers and communications advisers, for an “Ideation Sprint” organized by French international technology consulting firm ...

The Society & Organizations (S&O) Center and the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EPVA) recently teamed up with Action Tank Social and Business for a plenary focused on impactful investing. This movement seems to promise both financial return and a meaningful impact. But how can it bridge ...

Magali Delmas is Visiting Professor at HEC’s Center for Society & Organizations (S&O). She is the Director of the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance and Professor of Management at the Andersen School of Management in California. In late September, Delmas was invited to the ChangeNow ...

A year after launching its plan of action for the growth and transformation of French businesses (PACTE), the National Assembly has adopted the bill on first reading. But what responsibilities will businesses now have when it comes to the demands and needs of contemporary society? Will their ...

The mining of rare metals and the development of artificial intelligence are at the very heart of the current advancements in new technology and renewable energy. But are they a threat to our world? This tension is central to the two works that took home the three literary prizes awarded by ...

Over 6,000 activists, investors, corporates, cities, entrepreneurs and spectators converged on Station F for the international ChangeNOW summit devoted to “scalable solutions to our most urgent global issues”, concerning pollution, energy, education, social responsibility and business. The central ...