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Following on the EU Commission announcement that it will adopt a Communication on tackling disinformation online, Alberto Alemanno filed today a complaint to the European Ombudsman alleging that the current EU approach to counter fake news - as epitomised by the EU Disinformation Review - violates ...

HEC Paris’ Society and Organization Center (SnO) and the Movement for Social*Business Impact (MS*BI), convened for a March 6 meeting between all six major corporate donors to share the fruits of their research in building a new type of capitalism. Representatives from Danone, Schneider Electric ...

Since 2016, Sushil Reddy, an Indian student from MSc Sustainability & Social Innovation (SASI), has been powering his custom-made bicycle in his homeland, the U.S. and France. His aim? To convince skeptics that solar energy is the future. The energy engineer is releasing an eBook to recount his ...

Four HEC students arrive in London on Friday March 9 hoping to take top spot in the 10th Hult Prize, the world’s largest student competition for the creation of new social businesses. They will be vying with 55 other teams in the Regional Finals over the March 9-11 weekend, with the winners ...

Almost 200 HEC students are expected for a week of conferences, workshops and debates centered on global geopolitics and international relations. Kicking off on March 5, the inaugural Diplomacy Week is to culminate with a Model United Nations focused on “The Challenges of Development in the 21st ...

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 ...