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54 HEC Paris students enjoyed a thrilling ride in the pioneering “Have a Cause, Make an Impact” course, co-designed and executed by the school’s SASI Master’s degree and the Society & Organizations (SnO) Center. The twelve-week program is culminating in projects going well beyond the Jouy-en-Josas ...

While we live is the sixth full-length feature film by Dani Kouyaté, son of Sotigui Kouyaté, one of the greatest African actors of the 20th  century. On February 12, 2018, a snow-covered Jouy-en-Josas campus hosted the Franco-Burkinabe director, currently based in Stockholm, to share this Homeric ...

The 2018 annual convention organized by the HEC Foundation returned to the business school’s historic home of origin in central Paris on February 13. The stately building, today part of Sorbonne University on Boulevard Malesherbes, housed the business school from its founding day in 1881 until it ...

Almost 200 researchers, professors and students gathered on January 23, 2018, for HEC’s first-ever Big Data Day devoted to promoting the school’s research in Big Data and business analytics. The links between groundbreaking data research, the development of innovative teaching programs, and leading ...

Over 2,000 HEC Paris students attended the 33rd edition of the business school’s Career Fair, “Carrefours HEC 2018” on January 23-24. Most were hoping for openings towards internships, work or simply insight into the 154 companies invited on campus - companies that went from the intrepid startup to ...

“Imagine the luxury experience of tomorrow.” The slogan chosen by the world’s leading luxury conglomerate for its Inside LVMH program aptly reflected the second edition of LVMH Day with its focus on digital expansion in the luxury industry. On January 11, HEC students exchanged with 19 LVMH ...

Since 2010, HEC Paris and Kering, the French holding company of luxury goods have collaborated on an annual educational program in luxury management. The six-week program has attracted students from around the world to learn about a world ranging from haute couture fashion to watches, perfume and ...

If the challenges remain great, the opportunities offered by Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and connected production open up "fascinating avenues towards the creation of global soft-power made-in-France," according to Gachoucha Kretz, affiliate professor in the Marketing Department at HEC Paris ...

Around 600 people congregated in Paris’ gleaming Station F on November 21 for the first-ever HEC Entrepreneur Fest, a joint effort engineered by three of HEC’s Centers: Society & Organization (SnO), the Digital Center and the Entrepreneurship Center. This was a Tuesday evening devoted to the social ...

According to Philippe Limantour, Chief Innovation Officer at EY, fintechs are organizations that combine innovative business models and technology to enable, enhance and disrupt financial services. The term, which first appeared at the end of the 90s, is now a top trend in the finance industry, with ...