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With a career allying diplomacy, teaching, human rights advocacy and business strategy, Michael Posner is uniquely placed to share lessons on how to bridge business and advocacy.

This 3rd episode of the HEC Bold Thinkers Podcast transports listeners to São Paulo, Brazil’s vibrant and complex megacity — a place where deep-rooted inequalities meet cutting-edge innovation, and where building bridges (literal and metaphorical) is key to a more inclusive, sustainable future. 

The case study “Nexans: Orchestrating Sustainable Business Transformation,” co-authored by Sebastian D. Becker and Rodolphe Durand of HEC Paris and Marek Reuter of EDHEC Business School, has been officially published by Harvard Business School Publishing. The case explores how a global industrial ...

The S&O Inclusive Economy Center at HEC Paris recently hosted its third Inclusive Economy Day, bringing together over 180 participants from academia, corporations, entrepreneurship, and NGOs. Despite taking place in a challenging international context, the event reinforced the center's commitment to ...

The Ethics & Sustainability Lab Studio Series, developed by Marieke Huysentruyt, Daria Mieszkielo (H.20), and Romain Briat, receives recognition for creating immersive learning environments that tackle complex sustainability challenges.

Florent Menegaux, CEO of Michelin, explains how a focus on personal development and people-profit-planet informs everything from company strategy to cross-company leadership.

Marie Ekeland, Founder & CEO of the 2050 fund explains how alignment and an open-ended approach are key to building a mould-breaking investment model focused on ‘a fertile future’.

More than 200 participants gathered at the Hôtel de l'Industrie for the third edition of Purpose Day, organized by the HEC Paris S&O Purpose Center and Oxford University Saïd Business School Centre for Corporate Reputation, to differentiate corporate purpose from CSR and explore how companies can ...

This 2nd episode of HEC Bold Thinkers Podcast delves into four critical opportunities facing Mumbai: bridging socioeconomic divides, leveraging business potential, maintaining social connections, and addressing climate change vulnerabilities. Experts highlight the city's remarkable resilience ...

The second biennial workshop of the Society for Eco-Innovation Studies hosted by HEC Paris was a timely reminder of the transformative power of collaboration and interdisciplinary research around eco-innovation. Over two days, global experts from academia, policy, and industry gathered to share ...