S&O: HEC Hub of resources on Sustainability
Our offer to the HEC community
Established in 2009 as a pioneering entity within HEC Paris, the Sustainability & Organizations Insitute is an interdisciplinary institute, fostering a community of researchers, business leaders, organizations and individuals deeply committed to serving a sustainable and just transition. As we believe that economic actors are powerhouses to achieve this goal, we advocate for a responsible creation, a sharing of economic value, and a decarbonized economy that serves both human and planetary well-being.
Our purpose is to reinvent business through promoting sustainability and unleashing human potential.
In this page, you will find at a glance what S&O offer to the HEC community (faculty, students and staff) and how it supports them.
S&O: Hub of Resources
S&O is a financially self-sustaining hub of resources. It is the cornerstone of HEC’s outreach on Purpose & Sustainability through:
- Academic influence: top-notch academic publications, science popularization (through a collection of impact reports), awarded case studies…
- Attractiveness for students and faculty including bonuses for top scholars’ recruitments
- Research funding: research budgets, Phd scholarships, post-docs recruitment, databases financing, visiting professors grants...
- Pedagogical innovation:
- Dedicated to all HEC programs master's degree (SASI), MBA track (TSDI), executive programs
- Contribution to core curriculum permeation: pedagogical engineering, case writing, funding of teaching assistants/study trips/renowned speakers…
- Contribution to students and staff projects
- Raising awareness on societal issues through conferences
S&O supports research
PhD Visiting Scholarship
For doctoral students visiting top universities (Submit your proposal)
Research funding
To support projects linked to S&O topics (data collection, translation, editing), finance F budgets, acquire new databases, ... (Submit your request for funding)
Visiting professors
A budget and an office to receive top academics working on S&O topics (Submit your proposal)
S&O supports the pedagogy
Pedagogical innovation funding
For a case writer, a teaching assistant, an innovative project on our topics (Submit your project)
Learning experience support
To finance a study trip for students, find/finance an impactful speaker (Submit your project)
Research funding
To support projects linked to S&O topics (data collection, translation, editing), finance F budget, acquire new database, ... (Submit your request for funding)
PhD Visiting Scholarship
For doctoral students visiting top universities. Condition being that the study subject is linked to S&O themes (Submit your proposal)
Medici Summer School in Management Studies
An opportunity to participate to a one-week doctoral program, co-sponsored and organized yearly in turn by S&O Institute HEC Paris, MIT Sloan and Bologna Business School, destined for 25 selected doctoral students and young researchers around the world in organization theory and related fields (economic sociology, management studies, strategy)
S&O Research Day
A two-day event gathering yearly the S&O network of 50-60 academics for 20 paper presentations and 2-3 keynote speeches on our topics
THINK
Access to HEC professors' research (to help for thesis work for example)
Access to Conferences that mix academics and practioners and Research Seminars to deepen knowledge on S&O topics
TEACH
25+ programs/year for 2500+ students trained per year, such as...
| L3 | The Purpose and Sustainability Track (learning expedition, hands-on experience, community service, Planetary boundaries course, ...) |
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| L3 Academies |
Biodiversity |
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M1 and M2 Electives |
Purpose Game |
| Certificates opened to Masters, MBA, and Executive |
Inclusive & Social Business Certificate |
| M2 | Major in Sustainability & Social innovation (SASI) |
| MBA | Sustainable and Disruptive Innovation Track |
| Executive Education | Executive certificates: LEAD Campus: Sustainable Leadership in Africa, Change Management & Leadership for Sustainability, Sustainability Essentials. Executive short program: Sustainable Transition Management Executive MSc Master: Innovation and Entrepreneurship (100% online) Custom Programs: Leadership and Sustainability coming soon CLARITY |
ACT
S&O communicates on student events and initiatives
through its internal and external networks, social media and newsletters (Example: The Earth Week organized by the ESP'R environmental students association)
S&O supports financially student projects
linked to pedagogy (Example: The HEC United students association, that contacts HEC Alumni by travelling around the world)
S&O mobilizes its corporate network
for the SASI students business projects (Example: The MSc SASI (Master in Sustainability and Social Innovation))
Jobs (RampUp)
S&O offers students jobs such as teaching assistantship, work on case study, translation & proof reading, on our topics
- HEC Insights - Transition series conferences: Lunchtime lectures by external speakers providing a deeper understanding of the major environmental and societal issues of our time and debating on solutions to the ecological and human crises we are experiencing
- Workshops such as La Fresque du Climat and Atelier 2 tonnes
- Impact reports and Fact Sheets to better understand the stakes
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S&O Events 2024
S&O Days
- March 5 (Paris): Purpose Day
- May 2 (Paris) : Inclusive Economy Day
- May 22 (HEC campus): Climate Day
It gather researchers, practitioners and representants of our partner companies for a day of presentations, panels and debates
S&O Research Day
June 22-23 (HEC campus): The 9th edition of the S&O Research Day, led by Professor Georg Wernicke
Stay tuned for the 2024 edition
Medici Summer School in Management Studies
June 23-28 (Bologna, Italy): One-week doctoral program, co-sponsored and organized yearly in turn by S&O Institute HEC Paris, MIT Sloan and Bologna Business School, destined for 25 selected doctoral students and young researchers
S&O Contact and Networks
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