Podcasts by Knowledge@HEC
Grasp today’s economic, social and business issues with research and analysis brought to you by our HEC Paris Business School Professors. Widen your perspectives with recognized experts from different disciplines through a series of talks. Expanding knowledge, Enhancing responsibility: this is our engagement to our podcast listeners.
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New Odyssey 3.14 Adds Social Rights and Sustainability to Business Model from 2023-11-29T16:53:10
HEC Professors Laurence Lehmann Ortega and Hélène Muzikas have been working together for over 15 years on a business framework they call Odyssey 3.14. This strategy helps guide companies to...
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New Research Underlines Great Divide between E.U. and its Citizens from 2023-10-17T16:26:29
How can the E.U. respond to the growing clamor for more citizen participation in its institutions? In a wide-ranging podcast, the Jean Monnet Professor in EU Law, Alberto Alemanno, proposes a perma...
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FTX Scandal Reflects Complex Dance between Off-Chain Practices and Blockchain Accounting from 2023-08-28T08:49:12
The FTX cryptocurrency scandal illuminates the critical caveats to the world of blockchains. Since December 2022 and the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman Fried, this affair has rocked the world...
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Creative Destruction Lab Tackles AI, Geopolitics and Ethics in Historic Toronto Session from 2023-07-20T12:00:36
Around 1,200 participants congregated in Toronto for the first in-person CDL Super Session in four years. The two-day event featured intense exchanges between startups from the 24 CDL streams, m...
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Decisions Under Uncertainty: Lessons for Future Black Swans from 2023-07-04T09:06:41
On the eve of the 11th annual D-Tea (promoting Dialogues between Theory, Experimental findings and Applications of decision-making, hence the acronym), we talk to its co-organizer Profe...
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How the Global Shipping Industry Evades Corporate Responsibilities in the 2.0 Age from 2023-06-01T09:54:06
HEC Associate Professor Guillaume Vuillemey explores how the maritime shipping industry has evolved in the past 40 years to systematically evade its corporate responsibilities. In his groundbrea...
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HEC PhD Graduate Revolutionizes Health Practices in D.R.C. from 2023-04-28T17:36:14
Doctor Anicet Fangwa's work on health centers and stillbirths in the Democratic Republic of Congo could save millions of lives by better managing health practices throughout Africa. The PhD gra... Listen
#MeToo and the American Boardroom from 2023-03-29T18:11:59
It’s been over five years since #MeToo began to draw global attention to the sexual abuse and harassment women have been subjected to in the workplace. But just what impact has this protest move...
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Pourquoi l’apprentissage du savoir-être à l’école peut transformer la vie from 2023-02-10T08:32:25
Et si, en enseignant l’empathie et la coopération à de jeunes garçons, l’école pouvait transformer des vies ? Dans une recherche cosignée par Yann...
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Devenir un leader de l'ESG : le chemin parcouru par Schneider Electric from 2023-01-17T10:01:32
Gilles Vermot Desroches est in...
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What Social Factors Get Measured in Corporate ESG Frameworks? from 2022-12-20T10:17:52
Why is the SOCIAL element of Environmental, Social and Governance performance (ESG) neglected or ignored? Three HEC academics have joined forces with an S&P Global researcher on ESG to bette...
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Research and Policymaking: Conference Debates Governance in Crisis Period from 2022-11-22T15:40:17
Top personalities from the political and academic worlds, including Pascal Lamy, Peter Altmaier, John Denton and Merit Janow, were amongst the 17 speakers at a September 29 conferenc...
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As COP27 Gears Up, an HEC Student and an Academic Confront Points of View from 2022-11-03T17:57:26
The COP27 summit begins on November 6 in Sharm al Sheikh, Egypt, exactly a year after COP26 in Glasgow. A year is a long time and challenges have piled up: a world divided by war in ...
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Efficacy of Citizen Mobilization for Refugees – from Middle East to Ukraine from 2022-06-30T10:29:17
As Europe faces postwar records in forced migration from the east and south, ad hoc citizen groups have been sprouting up to ease the hardships of their new homelands. To illustrate ...
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HEC Research Points to AI Solutions to Prevent Miscarriages of Justice from 2022-04-15T15:39:11
In the United Kingdom, more than 700 Post Office workers were wrongfully convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting between 2000 and 2014. That was the result of a fault in Horiz...
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Ukraine/Russia: the Energy Factor from 2022-03-10T17:16:53
Finance professor and executive director of the HEC <...
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Meta/Facebook and Data Privacy: a Clash of Cultures & Generations from 2022-02-16T15:50:09
HEC Paris Assistant Professor in Marketing, Listen
Activist Short Sellers and their Narratives: Bringing Down Business Giants With Aristotle from 2022-02-03T11:36:36
Activist short sellers are controversial hedge funders that some are calling the modern day Robin Hoods of the business world, others are denouncing as unethical profiteers. Most eco...
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Research Points to Gender Diversity as Motor for Innovation and Growth from 2021-12-17T10:36:14
Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj has spent decades analyzing women for leaders...
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Major HEC Report Spotlights Smart City Impact from 2021-12-06T15:49:07
Just days after the conclusion of the 2021 Listen
Inflation Rears its Ugly Head: Why? And What Could be the Impact? from 2021-11-17T16:41:42
The upswing in inflation figures on both sides of the Atlantic, called “reflation”, continues to worry governments and the general public. But what is behind these inflationary pressures? What a...
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Special Edition: HEC Grande Ecole Students Plunge into Environmental Issues in Chamonix from 2021-10-15T13:47:43
For the second time ever, HEC’s first year students began their school career with the off-campus “Purpose & Sustainability” seminar. 370 freshmen converged on the Alpine village of Chamonix...
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Economic Perspectives for Germany after September’s Federal Vote from 2021-10-08T09:52:16
The September 26 federal elections in Germany have been earmarked as one of its most important in the past two decades. For a start, it signals the end of Angela Merkel’s tenure as Chancellor, afte...
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Olivier Sibony Makes Noise with Breakthrough Study on Human Judgment from 2021-10-01T07:42:24
HEC Professor of Strategy (Education Track) Olivier Sibony joins forces with...
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"The World is Watching El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experiment" from 2021-09-21T10:23:39
On September 7, El Salvador became the world’s first nation to make the cryptocurrency bitcoin legal tender across the country. This bold initiative from the tiny Central American...
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« Créer des passerelles entre la recherche et la politique » from 2021-09-08T08:46:28
Jean-Noël Barrot, professeur associé à HEC Paris et député des Yvelines à l’Assemblée nati...
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Scrutinizing Truth Distortion Through a Marketing Lens from 2021-08-25T12:48:50
HEC Paris associate professor of marketing, Anne-Sophie Chaxel, describes her recent Listen
The Caster Semenya Case: Perceptions of Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Human Rights and Sports Politics from 2021-07-22T15:28:52
For the 32nd Olympic Games, one of South Africa’s modern icons, 800-meter champion Caster Semenya, will not be making the trip northwards. She has been barred from the Tokyo Olympics where she h...
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French Court Overrules Ban on Cannabidiol Sales from 2021-07-12T16:13:38
A year after the EU’s Court of Justice ruled that none of its member states can outlaw the sale of the non-psychotic compound Listen
« L' achat de MGM va permettre à Amazon d'alimenter le trafic sur sa plate-forme généraliste » from 2021-06-28T09:31:56
Il y a un mois, Amazon fait un coup d'éclat spectaculaire, en annonçant l’achat du studio hollywoodien MGM pour plus de sept milliards d’euros. Quelles conséquences pour le monde du cinéma et so...
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Revealing and Countering AI Bias from 2021-06-24T16:01:35
A large body of empirical evidence points to bias in access to credit. This is stigmatizing women, ethnic minorities and consumers from certain geographical zones. Nowadays, algorithms and machine-...
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Attack on Pfizer Vaccine Reflects Dangers of Influencer Marketing from 2021-06-22T11:44:20
An unknown advertising agency calling itself Fazze last month offered thousands of US dollars to social media influencers last month to smear the Pfizer vaccine. Two prominent influencers in Ger...
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Is the Belarus Air Intervention the Ultimate Test of EU Foreign Policy? from 2021-06-03T13:32:22
The forced landing of a Ryanair airplane and the subsequent arrest of two Belarusians on May 23 has sparked a major diplomatic crisis between EU and US authorities and the Minsk government, a...
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Will NFTs Disrupt The Future Of The Art Market? from 2021-04-29T08:37:59
Why do non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have the potential to disrupt the art market? This new investment phenomenon came to light when an animated GIF of Nyan Cat, which is a meme of a flying pop-...
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The Microeconomic Impact of Different COVID-19 Lockdown Strategies from 2021-04-23T12:01:35
On March 31, 2021, French president Emmanuel Macron announced a four-week national lockdown, throwing the country into a similar situation slightly over a year ago. This time though, not all busine...
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Quelles solutions pour lutter efficacement contre le changement climatique ? from 2021-04-01T15:39:21
Cinq ans après la signature de l'Accord de Paris sur le climat et alors qu'en France, un projet de loi Climat très contesté arrive en débat à l’Assemblée nationale, la communauté internationale ne ...
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GameStop: Hedge Funds vs Amateur Traders from 2021-02-16T14:24:03
Is the GameStop Affair a collective action revolting against major hedge funds, or is it just another form of speculation by amateur investors also aiming to become rich? In the course of one week,...
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Is Big Pharma Transparent Enough? from 2021-02-01T14:25:43
Are the efforts of transparency by the pharmaceutical industry sufficient to regain the trust of the world population? The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world hostage since March 2020, yet there ...
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Prix Nobel d’économie : quel impact sur la recherche et la société ? from 2020-12-14T08:34:04
Le Prix Nobel d’Economie 2020 a récompensé Paul Milgrom et Robert Wilson de l’université de Stanford pour leurs recherches sur les enchères. Dans cet entretien, Jean-Edouard Colliard, professeur de...
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In Trust We Believe from 2020-12-09T15:28:01
Is trust the key to a more inclusive world? In this two-part podcast, HEC Paris professor Hélène Löning first defines trust as the foundation that touches different aspects of our lives and clarifi...
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EU Deadlock : Will the EU Economic Recovery Plan Fail? from 2020-11-24T14:12:19
Poland and Hungary continue to oppose the rule of law mechanism linked to the European Union’s seven-year budget, which includes the 750-billion euro recovery fund to tackle the economic recession ...
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2020 U.S. Presidential Elections: Where is America Headed? from 2020-11-05T22:45
On November 5, 2020, as the U.S. presidential election comes to a close, HEC Paris professors Jeremy Ghez and Chantal Carleton, and HEC Paris MBA candidate Megan Scullion, analyze the balance of po...
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2020 US Presidential Elections from 2020-10-09T16:53:14
With less than one month to go before the US Presidential Election Day, will American voters place priority on economic recovery above how the COVID-19 health crisis was managed? Before COVID-19, t...
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Relaunching the French Economy from 2020-09-10T21:42:59
The French government recently announced a 100-billion euro "France Relance" stimulus plan to revive the local economy from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. HEC Paris professor of Economics, To...
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Terrorized by a virus? Time for a mental shift. from 2020-07-23T11:26:38
How to lead positive change within organizations in order to adapt to the coronavirus crisis, and yet continue to inspire and motivate people under such highly uncertain circumstances ? Mathis Schu...
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The Future of Energy Transition from 2020-07-23T11:18:16
The COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity for us to rethink our current energy system. Jean-Michel Gauthier, professor and Executive Director of the Energy & Finance Chair at HEC Paris, explains ...
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The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) During A Crisis from 2020-07-23T11:13:20
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed companies under the microscope for how well they respond to the needs of a diverse set of stakeholders. HEC Paris professor of Strategy & Business Policy, Georg...
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Vers des business models plus durables ? Partie 2 from 2020-07-23T11:10:01
Quel peut être le rôle des dirigeants et managers, en tant que véritables pilotes de l’économie? Hélène Löning, Professeur Associé à HEC Paris donne des clés pour gérer le court terme, le moyen ter...
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Etre dirigeant d'entreprise, face à la crise : Partie 1 from 2020-07-23T11:05:39
Quel peut être le rôle des dirigeants et managers, en tant que véritables pilotes de l’économie? Hélène Löning, Professeur Associé à HEC Paris donne des clés pour gérer le court terme, le moyen ter...
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Leading Change Through Education from 2020-07-23T11:01:21
A call for change will be necessary in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. HEC Paris professor Jeremy Ghez emphasizes on the role of higher education in preparing tomorrow’s leaders for the disruptive...
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Dealing with Severe Uncertainty from 2020-07-23T10:57:53
HEC Paris professor Brian Hill defines severe uncertainty and clarifies how to make good, responsible and informed decisions under conditions of extreme incertitude such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Decision-making During A Crisis from 2020-07-23T10:52:42
The COVID-19 health crisis has a critical bearing on decision-making biases that may potentially influence the decisions we take today and in the future. Analysis by HEC Paris professor Anne-Sophie...
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AI, Robots & The Future of Work in Times of COVID-19 from 2020-07-23T10:43:48
The coronavirus pandemic has placed millions of employees under lockdown. Digital technology and new ways of working across time and space, become more critical. Sangseok You, HEC Paris professor o...
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Coronavirus: Making A Difference Through Social Media from 2020-07-23T10:36:16
As social distancing becomes the new normal, social media rally distant communities worldwide in moments of hope and inspiration. HEC Paris professor Kristine de Valck tells us how critical social ...
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The Role of the European Central Bank in Supporting the Economy Through COVID-19 from 2020-07-23T10:32:49
The European Central Bank unveiled a 750-billion-euro aid in support of the European economy hit by the coronavirus pandemic. What are these measures set to achieve? Analysis by HEC Paris Professor...
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Coronavirus: How are European National Leaders Failing Their Citizens in the Fight Against COVID-19 from 2020-07-23T10:13:20
The coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic is an opportunity for a more coordinated Europe, yet each country continues to act alone. Analysis by Alberto Alemanno, HEC Paris Professor of EU Law & Public ...
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COVID-19: Microeconomic Impact. from 2020-07-23T10:00:03
HEC Paris Associate Professor of Economics Tomasz Michalski explains the microeconomic backlash of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how economic networks will be affected.