This special edition of the Knowledge@HEC review focuses on the Earth’s planetary boundaries. The issue highlights HEC Paris' approach toward organizational, environmental, and societal challenges linked to the nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can develop for generations to come. The review showcases research and initiatives aimed at informing and empowering businesses, policymakers, and future leaders. We highlight the multidisciplinary approaches in the school's research, teaching, and action, inviting HEC Paris students, graduates, professors, entrepreneurs, and donors to share their visions of a more sustainable future. "Aligning Business with Planetary Boundaries" will be officially launched at the HEC Climate Day on May 22. Meanwhile, you can find the pdf here.
Top-quality research and teaching are essential to understand growing inequalities which hinder the urgently needed ecological transition, to interrogate the ESG factors, and to leverage theory and the most ambitious empirical methods. To do so, HEC scholars work with public and private regulators, peers from leading European academic institutions, CEOs and administrators to develop, test, and evaluate novel strategies, policies and practices designed to tackle inequalities in their field. In this Knowledge@HEC issue, we share academic knowledge and highlight professional experiences on those topics. Find the pdf of that issue here.
Blended teaching, learning by doing, virtual classrooms, simulation games... Pedagogy at HEC Paris is reinventing itself, with professors experimenting with new ways to train and coach the leaders of tomorrow in a changing and challenging environment. Regularly, Knowledge@HEC will share stories and insights about pedagogical innovation, via interviews with our professors, program directors, chief digital officer, and digital learning staff. They explain their new teaching practices, how they integrate technology to best enhance the learning experience and open up new opportunities for HEC Paris.
During this historical moment of transition to a more sustainable world, HEC Paris has a responsibility to help business stakeholders transform the challenges around this transition into opportunities – opportunities to maximize both economic and social value, notably by being more innovative and impactful. It is time to revisit existing organizational theories and rethink the way we teach business in terms of social utility. Find the newsletter of this Knowledge@HEC Journal here.
This month’s newsletter focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and pinpoints work carried out by HEC Paris’ Society and Organizations Center. Its research aims to show how a company will be ahead of its competitors when focusing not only on economic gain, the first pillar of competitive advantage, but also how it aligns its values and operations to contribute to a better society while preserving the natural environment. Taking care of our planet, its limited resources and people has therefore become an essential component of a firm’s legitimacy, the second pillar of competitive advantage. Finding solutions to our planet’s over-exploitation, and unequal access to multiple services is a source of good – and of growth.
