Press releases

The 2024 HEC Paris-Dow Jones Large Buyout Performance Ranking reveals 16 US private equity firms occupying the top 20 spots. 

The French and German business schools HEC Paris and ESMT Berlin have joined forces with the aim of advancing innovative computing technologies, such as quantum computing, semiconductor technologies, advanced neural networks, unconventional computing, and high-performance computing. The international business schools are hosting their first joint “Next Generation Computing stream session” as part of the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) – a nine-month program that supports seed-stage, science-based ventures working in cutting-edge areas – at the TUM Campus in Heilbronn, Germany.

The results of this year’s HEC Dow Jones Large Buyout Performance Rankings have just been released, which show the top 20 PE firms based on all buyout funds raised between 2011 and 2020. For the first time, more than half of the top 10 firms have raised more than $10 billion during this period.

As a committed player in Impact Finance, Accuracy has reaffirmed its commitment to contribute to discussions on responsible financial issues alongside the HEC Center for Impact Finance Research.

HEC Paris Business School and the HEC Foundation have announced a 10 million Euro gift from ION Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Italian entrepreneur Andrea Pignataro, to establish the ION Management Science Lab within the Deep Tech Center at the HEC Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute.

The HEC Foundation’s fundraising campaign, launched in June 2019, is the largest ever by a French higher education institute, totaling over €200 million thanks to the generosity of HEC’s donors. The money has already been invested in pursuit of HEC’s public-interest mission, financing equal opportunities, education programs and research as well as to step up HEC’s transformation process.

HEC Paris, a globally renowned business school, has renewed its strategic partnership with Qatar Foundation (QF) for an additional ten years.  This agreement reinforces both institutions’ commitment to developing the region’s future business and public sector leaders, in line with the goals of the Qatar National Vision 2030.  

After almost ten years at the head of Vienna University of Economics and Business’s (WU) Executive Academy, Barbara Stöttinger has been appointed as HEC Paris’ new Dean of Executive Education. She brings with her over 25 years of experience in executive education, which she will put to good use in the school's ExEd programs and initiatives. She takes over from Anne-Valérie Corboz, who will continue to teach leadership at HEC Paris.

The third edition of the ranking reveals a more balanced and competitive global venture capital landscape, with international firms challenging the dominance of U.S. companies.

The Institute for Deep Tech Innovation (DEEP) at ESMT Berlin and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI) at HEC Paris are partnering to advance Europe’s technological sovereignty. Supported by the Dieter Schwarz Stiftung, in collaboration with TUM Campus Heilbronn and Campus Founders, they are launching a cutting-edge program focusing on next generation computing within Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies.