Every December for the last few years, Poets&Quants has asked deans and others at the top B-schools around the world to share their plans for the coming year. This year, after the trauma of a worldwide pandemic and its economic reverberations, as well as the resounding cultural repercussions of racial reckoning in the United States, more were eager to share their visions for the coming year than ever before.
At HEC Paris, Interim Dean Eloïc Peyrache hopes his school and others will “unleash the magic,” making sure that they are “part of the solution.” “We will do so,” he says, “by investing even more in research” to help “change the world, be it around AI, climate change, or new modes of leadership.”