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French economist Alain Grandjean joined HEC students and academics for a 90-minute exchange co-organized by Pour un Réveil Ecologique. The campus event with the cofounder of Carbone 4 was part of an S&O series devoted to society’s ecological and social transition.

Valerie Charolles is a researcher at the Institut Mines-Telecom Business School and associate researcher at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Anthropology of the Contemporary (CNRS-EHESS) She has published four papers, including ‘Le libéralisme contre le capitalisme’ in which she describes the ...

On October 11-12, 2019, the Society and Organizations (S&O) Center of HEC Paris and the Alliance for Research in Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) hosted the first “S&O ARCS Workshop” that gathered leading researchers and practitioners at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris to foster international ...

A year after creating the Joly Family Endowed Chair in Purposeful Leadership, HEC Paris launches its three-year sense and leadership program, destined for the entire HEC Grande Ecole 2019 intake. A pioneering effort aimed at sensitizing participants to values that have become crucial to the world of ...

Members of the Sustainability & Organizations Center at HEC Paris recently responded to an appeal by Shift Project, aiming to ‘teach all students about climate and ecological issues’. Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot and Rodolphe Durand take the opportunity to outline the School’s involvement, and to ...

The first "SASI Ideas Festival" will take place from September 2 to 20, 2019: three weeks of conferences, workshops and visits for new students of the MSc Sustainability and Social Innovation (SASI). Jeremy Ghez, HEC Paris affiliate professor and scientific director of the SASI Master, describes ...

46 graduates from the MSc Sustainability and Social Innovation (SASI) of HEC Paris decided to create a ‘sustainability agency’ after their common university experience. Not simply a story of an ordinary consulting startup, this is one of a genuine collective adventure. 

For only the second time in its 11-year-history, HEC’s S&O Center hosted the annual Medici Summer School in Management Studies. The weeklong event, co-organized with MIT and the Bologna Business School, is designed for doctoral students and young researchers.

The HEC class on Inclusive & Social Business organized a meeting with Lucile Cornet-Vernet, founder of La Maison de l’Artemisia, as part of their work on inclusive models to provide access to health for all. 

June 7, 2019 marked the occasion for the first annual MBA Diversity conference organized by Women in Leadership Society president Amanda Moritz, MBA student Luis Raúl Martínez, and the LGBT+ student society from HEC Paris. DELTA aims to shake up management and HR strategies in order to make ...