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On March 11th, HEC Paris hosted its 5th annual edition of Energy Day. 150 HEC Paris students, alumni and keynote speakers from leading companies such as ENGIE, EDF, Deloitte, Google and SNCF were there to discuss who will energize the future, while analyzing current strategies, new business models ...

After the Panama Papers revelations, Mirko Hayat, affiliate professor in law and tax at HEC Paris, considers that this massive leak of offshore financial records will fast track an existing trend toward tax transparency in countries known as tax havens. This could, in turn, lead to more tax entering ...

HEC Paris Professor Alberto Alemanno says civic movements like ‘Nuit Debout’ are good for democracy but, in order to have their voice truly heard, need a professional leg-up in the form of citizen lobbying. An organization he is involved in (The Good Lobby) and a book he is writing aim to pair up ...

Sebastian Becker, Professor at the Accounting and Management Control department at HEC Paris; has been named by Poets&Quants as one of the "40 Most Outstanding B-School Profs Under 40 in the World". The listing recognizes educators from elite institutions who excel in both the classroom and research ...

HEC Paris announces the nomination of Chinese entrepreneur Wang Shi, founder and chairman of China Vanke, as the French business school’s International advisor. 

A senior HEC Paris professor Denis Gromb has been appointed Associate Editor of the Rand Journal of Economics . As its new editor, Gromb will oversee the publication’s support and encouragement of research in the behavior of regulated industries, the economic analysis of organizations, and more ...

During the second edition of the international entrepreneurship summit on HEC Paris' campus, the majority of participants made a beeline for workshops pertaining to financing a start-up, the most popular was a session on how to connect with VCs. 

Accompanying students in launching a start-up is at the heart of HEC Paris’ digital entrepreneurship track. On 31 March during its first ever start-up launch pad pitching sessions, several teams of budding entrepreneurs had a chance to pitch their ideas to a jury of potential partners, VCs and ...

The Strategic Management Journal  (SMJ) has named HEC Paris Professor Olivier Chatain as its new Associate Editor. The lecturer in Strategy and Business Policy will hold a leading role within the publication, currently the world’s leading mass impact journal for research in strategic management.

On March 15th and 16th, 90 HEC Paris Master’s students from Affiliate Professor Olivier Younès’ "Inside Venture Capital" course were to act as Venture Capitalists to convince a jury of senior partners from numerous investment funds to invest in a chosen IT or biotech start-up. Top VCs from Banexi ...