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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 ...

From August 21 to 24, all the new students from the Master in Management were in Chamonix for the "Purpose and Sustainability" seminar. The objective? To enable them to understand the challenges of the ecological and social transition, and to question the purpose of their mission and collective ...

HEC Professor Rodolphe Durand and Veolia CEO Antoine Frérot recently published “A Broader Vision of Business: Toward a New Narrative”, the English adaptation of their 2021 work “L’entreprise de demain” (Flammarion, 288 pages). The work seeks to lay the foundations for a new narrative on business.

The 14th Edition of the Medici Summer School in Management studies was held on HEC Paris campus from June 12th  to 17th, 2022. Hosted this year by the S&O Institute and co-organized with the Bologna Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management, the school gathered 25 selected PhD students from ...

One of the most keenly anticipated annual research gatherings returned to its 100% in person format on May 13, as HEC Paris hosted top academics to debate over topics as diverse as migration, business models for the circular economy and the CEO gender approval gap. Keynote speakers at the seventh ...

Since 2015, the Society & Organizations Institute (S&O) have been coordinating informal monthly meetings to discuss some of the latest research by its 60 academics, HEC doctoral students and visiting scholars. Recently, S&O invited practitioner guest Bradley C. Birkenfeld to share his remarkable ...

For the first time in its decade-long history, the annual EIASM Workshop on Top Management Teams (TMT) and Business Strategy Research was hosted by HEC Paris at its Jouy-en-Josas campus. Considered one of the most important platforms for strategic leadership research events in Europe, the March 31 ...

The book "En quête de sens: dialogue entre dirigeants et futurs dirigeants" (In search of meaning: dialogue between leaders and future leaders), published on March 16 by Dunod, is a choral work in which 12 inspiring leaders and 11 young talents share their personal experiences. The former confide in ...

HEC Paris continues to enrich its Académies curricula with a new program devoted to understanding  the erosion of biodiversity due to human activity and exploring ways the private sector can help preserve Earth’s sustainability. In January 2022, the school inaugurated the program which included eye ...

In the wake of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), HEC Professor of strategy Laurence Lehmann-Ortega along with her academic team shed a new light on companies and initiatives working in favor of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals with the launch of a new website: ...