Technology and Innovation

November 04th, 2022

Future of Finance: How Are New Technologies Reshaping the Sector?

The advent of digital technologies has created a very new and vastly different financial landscape. Today's buying and selling of securities is conducted mostly by computer programs that react within nanoseconds – faster than any human could – to the subtlest market fluctuations. In a new report published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Professor of Finance Thierry Foucault comes to grips with how technologies are fundamentally changing the way banks, brokers, exchanges, and dealers do their work, and what it means for investors, for privacy and income inequalities.

By Thierry Foucault

Technology and Innovation

September 08th, 2022

Actual Trust in Virtual Worlds: Opportunities and Challenges for Companies Operating in the Metaverse

We Zoom, we email, we chat in Teams… a host of online tools and apps help us connect with colleagues and customers, wherever they are in the world. Exciting new opportunities for collaboration come in the form of immersive and fully configurable virtual worlds. But first, can we find ways of tackling the uncertainties and distrust people harbor about these online environments?

GS1 France Chair Professor

Information Systems and Operations Management

Technology and Innovation

May 11th, 2022

When Design Thinking Clashes With the Existing Business Culture

Increasingly firms are seeking new methods to stimulate creativity in a fast-moving business climate. Many turn to design thinking — but with mixed results. New research by HEC Paris Professor Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini and RISE Senior Researcher Lisa Carlgren sought to find out why this practice is successful for some companies and less so for others. A culture clash may be at the heart of many difficulties.

By Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini

Technology and Innovation

December 13th, 2021

Manufacturing Innovation Drives Pharma Sales

New evidence shows that drugmakers can protect profitability by making process improvements to cut costs and strengthen the resilience of critical supply chains in the face of political pressure to ‘reshore’ operations and shortages of key ingredients amid coronavirus.

By Dimitrios Andritsos

Technology and Innovation

November 10th, 2020

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How Tech Firms Influence the US Supreme Court to Shape Innovation Policies

Building on the long tradition of innovation research that examines changes in firms’ rate and direction of innovation, the research by HEC Paris Professor Elie Sung aims to help further our understanding of firms’ innovation strategy by examining their actions in nonmarket arenas along with their market strategies. Elie Sung has examined how firms and the courts jointly shape patent policy and how in turn those policies shape firms’ innovative activities. This research participates to a long-lasting debate on the relationship between patents and innovation, and strongly contributes to the economics of innovation and to the nonmarket strategy academic literature.

By Elie Sung

Technology and Innovation

August 31st, 2020

How Much Consumers Value Data Privacy: Evidence from Online Borrowers

HEC Paris Ph.D. student Huan Tang was rewarded the 2020 AQR Top Finance Graduate Award. This prize rewards the six best finance Ph.D. graduates in the world. Huan works on the value that consumers place on the privacy of information in online bank lending platforms, under the supervision of Johan Hombert, HEC Paris professor of finance. In this interview, Huan explains what her latest research brings to the field of data privacy in online banking and FinTechs.

Ph.D. Student

Finance

Technology and Innovation

August 19th, 2020

Space Industry Faces Deep Transformations Post-COVID-19

The image of a Falcon rocket topped by the Crew Dragon capsule designed and manufactured by private company SpaceX as part of a NASA mission, has struck world public opinion in May 2020. Like its landing in the Gulf of Mexico a few weeks later, in early August. It illustrates the profound changes that have affected the space industry in recent years. In this article, Professor of international business law Lucien Rapp describes the transformation of the space industry and the strategies developed to enter the space market, as well as the challenges of its privatization for the future of the industry.

Professor

Tax and Law

Technology and Innovation

May 29th, 2020

4 Lessons From Bringing Design Thinking Into a Business

Design thinking has been hailed as the latest strategy to gain a powerful competitive edge in both innovation and processes. But to be successful, it must involve a major cultural and organizational shift. Two researchers and Thales Chief Design Officer share the lessons from their analysis of bringing design thinking to technology giant Thales.

By Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini

design thinking Thales Bordeaux - Thales

Technology and Innovation

June 17th, 2019

How Experimentations Help Innovation Ecosystems Emerge: the Case of the Hydrogen Energy

Major advances in complex technologies require the cooperation of a broad range of parties – a whole business ecosystem. Professors Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini (HEC Paris) and Florence Charue-Duboc (Ecole Polytechnique Paris) studied the case of the nascent hydrogen energy ecosystem to investigate how experimentation contribute to the emergence and consolidation of the ecosystem itself, and the characteristics of such experimentation.

By Sihem Ben Mahmoud-Jouini , Florence Charue-Duboc

Technology and Innovation

March 28th, 2019

How HEC Paris Professors Enhance Their Research and Courses Using a Data Visualization App

In the following interview, two researchers at HEC Paris, Professor of Marketing Peter Ebbes and CNRS Research Professor Emmanuel Kemel, explain how they use the web apps R and Shiny*, to visualize results of data analysis, to help students in understanding the formulas used for those analysis, and to help disseminate the research among academics and practitioners.

CNRS Research Professor

Economics and Decision Sciences