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The effervescence was palpable in the corridors and cafeteria of HEC Paris’ S building on Monday January 30 where 138 students congregated for the kickoff of the Startup Launchpad they had enrolled for, designed by HEC Paris in partnership with école 42.
Graduates from the 2014-16 HEC promotions accompanied their nascent startup companies - as varied as interactive robotics for children, electromagnetic pain relievers and automobile sector applications – to the 2017 CES in Eureka Park, Las Vegas. What lessons did they draw from this Mecca for ...
HEC Paris leapt two places to third in the latest Alma Mater Index:Global Executives 2017. This index by the Times Higher Education, classifies business schools and universities in which chief executives of the world’s top-generating companies have studied.
The brand spanking new Paris-Saclay University this week launched its Seed Fund by revealing it has already amassed over 50 million euros to back start-ups by its students and researchers. The fund will be managed by Partech Ventures and Kurma Partners.
The promise by president-elect Donald Trump to deregulate on a massive scale has prompted lively exchanges in economic circles. Three experts from the sector were invited to prolong such reflection at the breakfast debate organized by HEC Paris and ViaVoice on January 12 at the Café des Editeurs ...
French politics is off to a galloping start in 2017 with the Left’s primaries set for January 22 and 29. Seven candidates hope to provide a much-needed lift to the Socialist Party after its much-criticized five-year tenure at the helm of the country. In these times of uncertainty what could be the ...
This year’s HEC Paris Dow-Jones Private Equity Rankings have just been released, revealing the private equity firms that have, over a whole decade of fund activity, generated the highest returns for investors. Oliver Gottschalg, Associate Professor of Strategy and holder of the HEC Private Equity ...
The HEC Paris MBA Entrepreneurship Specialization program came to a climax in December as eight teams pitched their business projects to business professionals, CEOs and potential Venture Capitalists. Program founder Michel Safars chose the intriguing theme “Will you find the next big idea?” The ...
The independent observatory Netexplo organized a morning conference on December 16 centered on the necessity of innovation within innovation. But how to go about it? Should business promote the right to error, attempt to hack, maximize one's intuition through Design Thinking or revolutionize ...
This year’s annual 'Les Entretiens de la Cité' conference in Lyon hosted by Fields Medal and HEC Paris Honoris Causa Cédric Villani, saw Itzhak Gilboa, Professor of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC Paris, deliver a speech on what it means to Be Human. He gleaned over the history of decision ...
