Danone’s CEO had to leave his position under the pressure of increasingly powerful and influential activist hedge funds. With their controversial tactics aimed at maximizing shareholder profit, they undermine sustainability practices, which they …

Kristine de Valck is Director of the HEC Paris PhD Program and Associate Professor of Marketing. Together with Digital Learning Project Manager, Caroline … a pedagogy course to HEC Paris PhD students. She explains the method and challenges of training future professors to …

More than a decade ago, the euro area went through a sovereign debt crisis, in which governments of Southern Europe faced high borrowing costs compared with countries in the north of the euro area. Ultimately, such high borrowing …

… increasingly transcend national borders and escape the reach of national regulators. For such issues, who should set the rules about the responsibilities of corporations? How can corporations …

Major advances in complex technologies require the cooperation of a broad range of parties – a whole … Florence Charue-Duboc (Ecole Polytechnique Paris) studied the case of the nascent hydrogen energy ecosystem to investigate how …

As the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), the system of supervision for Euro Area banks centered on the European Central Bank (ECB), is now well into its fifth …

… century? A new paper by Alyssa Rusonik, PhD student at the Finance department of HEC Paris, investigates one of the greatest economic mysteries of the Renaissance. Although only in the second year of her …

Like other markets, the luxury sector must cope with the inexorable shift toward digitalization, the challenges of sustainable development, and an explosion …

Do international sanctions that are imposed with the intention to improve the human rights situation in the targeted country always lead to better human rights? …

… as a core course, Ethics and Sustainability is now one of the most successful courses in the HEC MBA program. Through a lively combination of … surveys, see how this course leads students to question their own beliefs, gain an understanding of other points of …