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Climate & Earth
All students in our flagship degree programs are exposed to key sustainability challenges to design business strategies that are in line with planetary boundaries.
Our flagship program: the Climate and Business Certificate
Launched in 2022, the certificate won the won the Bruno Roux de Bézieux Award (Fondation HEC Prize) prepares students for navigating the complexities of climate change and the transition towards net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from a business and societal perspective.
The certificate directed by Daniel Halbheer (Academic Director) and Igor Shishlov (Executive Director), includes five building blocks – understanding, transforming, financing, experiencing and leading – that together form the basis for becoming agents of change to achieve net zero GHG emissions and limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C as recommended by climate science. High-profile inspirational speakers from academia, companies, financial institutions, governments, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are giving talks.
This year, the participants got the choice to choose 3 differents tracks:
- Campus de la Transition : to participate in the daily life of an ecological shared housing project (vegetarian and local food, collective kitchen and spaces, gardening, conviviality…) and to discover the various research-action projects conducted at the Campus (mobility, low tech…)
- Schneider Electric: to solve real world decarbonization challenges faced by the company focused on recyclability and repairability by design.
- Nexans: evaluation of several solutions for “hard to decarbonize” activities and specifically its cable laying vessels
More about the Climate & Business Certificate
A COLLECTION OF CASE STUDIES
We are promoting good practices by the publication of case studies.
Montrennoble
Flourishing Sustainable City in France. Montrennoble is the story of a fictitious city that is striving to become a smart city
Colas
Sunny Road Ahead to Innovation. Colas, a world leader of road construction and transport infrastructure services, launched the first-ever experimental solar-panel paved road that produces electricity in 2015
Total
From Oil to Renewable: Major Shift or 'Total' Greenwashing?. In this case study, Bob, a senior engineer, and a hardcore Oil & Gas (O&G) fan, meets his former colleague Kiran who is deeply committed to Renewables Energies (RE).
Desso
Circular Magic? Carpets Reborn at Desso, a leading European premium carpet brand that was acquired by Tarkett, a floor-covering company in 2015
The Milky Way
A Journey Towards Moo-dern Sustainable Dairy Farming. Anna, a marketing manager on the verge of a career shift contemplates the challenges faced by European livestock farming.
Master in Management - Specializations
Climate & Business Certificate
Energy & Finance Certificate
Master in Sustainability and Social Innovation
Enormous challenges and deep transformations such as global warming, changing global powers, resource depletion and technological disruptions are shaping what businesses can and cannot do. As a result, developing radically innovative, sustainable and impactful business models is becoming an increasingly central preoccupation for executives whose expertise in sustainability is more and more valued by firms.
The Sustainable and Disruptive Innovation Specialization addresses this preoccupation. It empowers students to become a game-changer by providing the tools and the mindset to implement changes in business and innovation.
The CDL is a seed-stage program where MBA students have the opportunity to work as a consultant for one of the climate-orientated startups in CDL-Paris. It focuses on innovation areas such as renewable/alternative energy, power storage, infrastructure, transportation, carbon/methane sequestration, select water, ocean and food initiatives aligned with climate solutions, and geo-engineering. The stream operates from CDL-Paris (HEC Paris) and CDL-West (Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia).
For the nine months of the program, students gain first-hand experience in all aspects involved in founding a company innovation and benefit from close interactions with real, early-stage technology ventures and potential investors.
HEC Summer School offers diverse, intensive one to two-week programs for young professionals and students who wish to develop their interpersonal skills or refine their expertise in cutting-edge domains.
Business and Climate Change: a forward-looking program to acquire a good command of sustainable issues, climate and energy policies as well as geopolitics of climate and resources. Participants get an in-depth understanding of how corporations are all affected by climate change and how their access to capital markets and their ratings are being impacted and challenged by new energy business models and socio-economic shifts.
Executive Education Programs
Lifelong Learning for professionals and companies to have an impact and to help transforming organizations for an environmentally sustainable future.
Executive Education Programs
Strategizing sustainable business transformation
Piloter la transformation vers le développement durable
