S&O Academic Events

Tuesday, September 7th, 2021 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Business and Climate Change
Academic: David Kanter NYU, Visiting at HEC Paris
Practitioner: Valérie Cabanes, Lawyer in international law, Member of the Advisory Board of Stop Ecocide Foundation

Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
The role of top management characteristics and personalities
Academics: Georg Wernicke, HEC Paris and Abhinav Gupta, Foster School of Business (Academic visiting at HEC )

Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
The firm's stakeholders: The role of dialogue
Academic: Julien Jourdan, HEC Paris
Practitioner: Jean Christophe Scriberras, CEO Newbridges, International Employee Relations Consulting

Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Sustainable Finance
Academic: Kornelia Fabisik,Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Practitioner: Marie Elkeland,  Founder of 2050, the first management company 100% owned by a perpetual purpose trust

Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Unusual organizations: The Sicilian Mafia and (alleged) connections with a listed firm
Academic: Eero Vaara, Said Business School, University of Oxford 
Practitioner: Olivier Pinaud, Editor-in-chief of L‘Agefi

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2022 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Smart Cities and the Common Good
Academic: Bertrand Quélin, HEC Paris
Practitioner: Special guest from Bouygues 

Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Tax evasion
Academic: Niels Johannesen, University of Copenhagen
Practitioner: Bradley Birkenfeld, UBS whistleblower, author of  “Lucifer's Banker” 

Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 – 12 p.m.- 2 p.m.
Corporate frauds and listed firms' manipulations
Academic: Zhao Wuyang, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
Practitioner: Daniel Yu, Gotham City Research

September 8th 2020
Daniel Halbheer, Associate Professor of Marketing HEC Paris:
"Pricing and Transparency to Conscientious Consumers."
Hervé Stolowy, Professor of Accounting and Management Control at HEC Paris:
"Competing for Narrative Authority in Capital Markets: Financial Analysts vs. Activist Short Sellers"

October 6th 2020
Philippe Maupas, a Consultant and a blogger and  the former  CEO of Morningstar France:
"De omnibus dubitandum (Everything must be doubted )"
Pablo Baquero, a Research fellow from Law Department HEC Paris:
"Networks of Collaborative Contracts for Innovation"

November 3rd 2020
Ludovic Phalippou, Professor of Financial Economics at University of Oxford, Saïd Business School:
"Private Equity and Employee Welfare"

December 8th 2020
Simone Ferriani, Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Bologna & Gino Cattani, Professor of Management, NYU Stern:
"Innovative form of presentation to trace the  joint intellectual/collaborative journey across key ideas : "The Legitimation Journey of Novelty"

January 12th 2021
Birgul Arslan, Assistant Professor at Rotterdam School of Management:
"The Effectiveness of Public-Private Alliances for Socially Beneficial Innovations : Evidence from Antibiotic Drug Development"
Guillaume Vuillemey, Associate Professor of Finance at HEC Paris:
"Evading Corporate Responsibilities: Evidence from the Shipping Industry

February 9th 2021
Jean-Philippe Robé, partner in the Paris office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, a specialist in Business Law:
"Property, Power and Politics: Why We Need to Rethink the World Power System"

March 9th 2021
Nauman Asghar, HEC PhD Student at Strategy Department:
"Purposeful Leadership and Innovative Behavior"
Giovanna Michelon, Professor of Accounting at University of Bristol:
"ESG Rating Agencies: from ‘arbiters of taste’ to ‘facilitators of taste’"

April 13th 2021
Yoonjin Choi, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School:
"An Employer with a Purpose: How Corporate Purpose Impacts an Organization’s Ability to Attract and Retain Talent"
Hyejun KIM, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Policy, HEC Paris:
"User Before Entrepreneur: User-motives as a Signal of Commitment"

May 26-27 2021: S&O Research Day
Key note speakers:
George Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School:
“Redefining Profit, Value, and Success”
Ruth V. Aguilera, Darla and Frederick Brodsky Trustee Professor in Global Business,Northeastern University: “Corporate Governance in Society and Organizations”
+ Presentation of 20 research Papers on S&O related  Topics

September 10th 2019
Jody Grewal, Assistant Professor of Accounting, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Business:
"Disclosure of climate change business opportunities"

Jean-Philippe Vergne, Associate Professor of Strategy, Ivey Business School, Director of Scotiabank Digital Banking Lab:
“Role-play”on blockchain and what research can be developed on crypto and blockchain + a short presentation on Scotiabank Digital Banking Lab

October 11-12- 2019
ARCS WORKSHOP Collège des Bernardins:
“Accelerating Researcher-Practitioner Collaborations in Sustainability Research”The Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) and Society and Organizations (S&O) Center at HEC Paris

November 7th  2019
Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School:
"Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire"

January 7th 2020
Loïc Bertrand and Mathieu Thoury  from IPANEMA CNRS (European research platform on ancient materials):
"Construction of the IPANEMA laboratory and networks in heritage sciences: Towards new models of interdisciplinary cooperation?"

Guilhem Bascle from Université Catholique de Louvain:
"Unintended Costs of Strategic Action: The Case of Firms’ Earnings Gamesmanship"

February 4th 2020
Albert Mensah HEC Paris, Accounting and Management Control department:
“Hardening Soft Information in Bank Lending: Evidence from Customer-generated Product Information on Twitter”
Arnaud Cudennec, HEC PhD Student, Strategy department:
"Framing of Contradictory Institutional Logics, Perceived Authenticity and Audiences’ Evaluations"

March 9th 2020
Georg Wernicke Assistant Professor, HEC Paris, SPE Department:
"Introduction to the "2030 Sustainable Development Goals Game"

April 21st  2020
Jean-Noël Barrot, HEC Associate Professor of Finance and  Member of French Parliament:
"Sectoral Effects of Social Distancing"

May 28th 2020
Shon Hiatt, University of Southern California:
"Tackling 21st Century Problems through Entrepreneurship and Innovation:A Research Agenda on the Business-Administrative State Interface"

November 13th  2018
Wooseok Jung, Assistant Professor, MHR & Roxana Barbulescu, Associate Professor, MHR, HEC Paris:
"Female Penalty or Female Premium? Gender Differences in Financial Crisis Experiences."
Magali Delmas, Professor of management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Institute of the Environment & Sustainability:
"The Green Bundle: Pairing the Market with the Planet"

December 11th 2018
Hervé Stolowy and Luc Paugam, HEC Paris Accounting Department:
" Policing Financial Markets: The Rhetorical Battle of New Whistleblowers"
Verena J. Patock, Research Fellow, S&O Institute:
"Linking Top Management Team Diversity and Corporate Social Performance: A Configurational Approach"

January 8th 2019
Julien Jourdan,University Paris Dauphine:
"Now serving Freedom Fries: the Effect of Stigma on the Political Behavior of Multinationals"
Saverio Favaron, PhD Student, HEC Paris Strategy Department:
"Too Blind to See? A field Experiment on the effect of emotions on the allocation of attention"

February 12th 2019
Héloïse Berkowitz (CNRS, TSM Research):
"Playing solo or in team: the evolution of individual & collective effectuation in the emergence of  an innovative sector."
Georg Wernicke, Assistant Professor at HEC Paris Strategy Department:
"Enemy at the Gates, Short Selling and Firm Performance on Corporate Social Responsibility:Evidence from a Natural Experiment."

March 12th  2019
Eric Zhao from Indiana University, Kelley School of Business:
"Optimal distinctiveness in CSR practices: Examining the CSR profile extensiveness and deviation among Chinese publicly listed companies."  
Paul Gouvard, PhD Student, Strategy Department, HEC Paris:
"Does IPO’s congruence to institutional investor’s impact their valuation?"

April 16th 2019
Thomas Roulet,University of Cambridge, Judge Business School:
"How to Become an Academic Influencer?"

May 23-24-2019, S&O Research Day
Key note Speakers:  
Witold Henisz, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania
Davide Ravasi, University College London
Magali Delmas, University of California Los Angeles
+ Presentation of 21 research Papers on S&O related topics