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No one is equipped to address the new world challenges being faced in Kinshasa (and other megacities). Neither the best CEOs in the world, nor the world’s best academics, nor the best scientists. We therefore need to listen to, and include, the voices of the places where critical sustainability ...

For the third consecutive year, students from HEC Paris joined forces with local residents, entrepreneurs, and municipal representatives from Les Mureaux to tackle some of society’s most pressing challenges. This Inclusion & Social Business course led by HEC’s Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot, is a hands ...

How can we rethink our economic systems and the role of businesses within planetary boundaries? This is the question underlying François Gemenne’s fundamental course on global issues, which had its introductory lecture on August 29. For this 2024 academic year, the first class for the new students ...

In collaboration with the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation, the S&O Purpose Center is publishing The Central Role of Culture in Purpose-Based Business report, the fruit of the 2024 Purpose Day's teaching and results. Over 200 leaders from various sectors gathered to discuss ...

How can organizations address inequalities and foster inclusion? This is the renewed challenge that the HEC S&O Inclusive Economy Center will strive to meet with the help of its new academic director Brian Hill, and two young researchers Octavio de Barros and Bariscan Yalcin who have just joined the ...

A new chapter begins for the S&O Institute as it celebrates its 15th anniversary with a significant shift: the “S” in its name is evolving from Society to Sustainability (the “O” for Organizations remains unchanged), and Rodolphe Durand is handing over the academic directorship to Marieke ...

 As the climate crisis continues to transform the global economy, this partnership is set to provide HEC Paris MBA students with the necessary tools and knowledge to lead in a climate-conscious world. HEC Paris is partnering with ClimateCAP, an initiative founded in 2016 by the Center for Energy ...

For the fifth time in as many years, new HEC Paris students began their undergraduate (L3) studies in the French Alps of Chamonix. Between August 21-24, 375 students from across France, as well as from Côte d’Ivoire and Morocco, gathered in Europe’s most extensive mountain range to explore their ...

Refugees and global migration; access to health; social connectivity. These were just a few of the issues explored at the second HEC Inclusion Day, organized by the Sustainability & Organizations Institute (S&O). This annual event showcases research on the intersection between social issues ...

Are corporate leaders moral architects? Is corporate purpose a signal meant to assuage stakeholder concerns and enable productive cooperation? ? What is value and how it is created? These were just a few of the questions explored by some of the world's leading experts in stakeholder theory invited ...