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“How experimental research could help real world organizations address concrete social challenges”. This was the ambitious objective set by HEC’s first-ever Inclusive Economy (IE) Day, attended by academics from the world over. The April 13 event explored the challenges for researchers and ...

"Taking up the challenge of an effective, efficient and sustainable Purpose (“Raison d'Être”)" was the theme of the 2nd “Grand Forum de la Raison d'Être” organized by The Why Project on April 21 at the Palais du Luxembourg, Senate and chaired by Antoine Frérot, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ...

Philanthro-Lab was the appropriate setting for HEC Paris’ first-ever Purpose Day. The five-hour event was devoted to the research projects conducted by the S&O Purpose Center and Purposeful Leadership Chair Professor Rodolphe Durand. More than 100 people attended the March 14 event featuring ...

Inaugurated in 2021 and supported by the Joly Family Chair on Purposeful Leadership, this atypical course offers a unique experience between an alumnus or an alumna and a student in the final year at HEC. This pedagogically innovating Companionship Program helps both partners find their inner ...

One of the world’s most successful short-only hedge funders, Fahmi Quadir, was the keynote speaker at a January 26 research workshop entitled “Frauds in Capital Markets: the Role of Short Sellers”. It was jointly organized by the HEC Society &Organizations Institute (S&O) and the CFA Society France ...

Last year has been marked by two crucial international conferences to decide the future of the planet and life on it. The U.N. climate change conference, COP27, at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, which closed on November 20 and the U.N. biodiversity conference, COP15, at Montreal (from December 7 to 19).c

What Gets Measured: Social factors coverage in corporate ESG frameworks is a new report published by Professors Marieke Huysentruyt, Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot, Leandro Nardi, from the S&O Inclusive Economy Center with the collaboration of S&P Global Rating-Sustainable Finance with Bruce Thomson.

HEC’s 2022-2023 academic year kicked off with talks by a host of outstanding guest speakers largely devoted to the world’s most pressing environmental and societal issues. In the context of geopolitical tensions and climactic uncertainty, both student associations and academics invited specialists ...

The need to tackle climate change has created massive challenges for businesses and policymakers. The Climate Days organized on the HEC campus on May 30th and 31th brought together actors from the corporate, political, and academic world as well as the civil society to discuss potential solutions to ...

For the second consecutive year, the S&O Institute's Purpose Center is renewing and expanding its program for HEC Paris majors and MSc students. This atypical course is based on a "companionship" approach, i.e., pairs composed of an HEC alumnus and a student, who share their questions and deepen ...