Knowledge@HEC
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -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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HEC Paris Honors Pioneer of Stakeholder Theory with Honorary Doctorate
March 22, 2024 13:27 - 19 minutes - 28.1 MBEver since he published “Strategic Management”, Edward Freeman has been at the forefront of a theory that stakeholders are interconnected. For his collective body of work, the economist from Darden School, Virginia, received an Honorary Doctorate from HEC Paris, adding his name to the 48 illustrious scholars on the HEC Honoris Causa list. The March 4 ceremony was followed by several thousand spectators, both live and on line. Freeman’s visit to the Jouy-en-Josas campus was the occasion to di...
AI Can Level Global Playing Field
February 23, 2024 11:09 - 32 minutes - 50.4 MBUnlike the steam engine or the birth of the Internet, AI and LLMs (such as ChatGPT) do not need expensive hardware for access. Hence, a universalization which Carlos Serrano underlines in this wide-ranging podcast. He’s Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Economics in the Department of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC Paris. With his colleague Professor Thomas Åstebro, he organized a groundbreaking AI & Entrepreneurship Workshop at HEC, inviting top researchers and business exp...
New Odyssey 3.14 Adds Social Rights and Sustainability to Business Model
November 29, 2023 16:53 - 35 minutes - 386 MBHEC 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 better invest in business models that promote innovation and sustainability. The result is a book which entered its third edition in September, entitled “(Re)invent Your Business Model with Odyssey 3.14”. The two academics describe these three pillars and 14 directions which have evolved significantly in t...
New Research Underlines Great Divide between E.U. and its Citizens
October 17, 2023 16:26 - 50 minutes - 556 MBHow 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 permanent European Citizens Assembly to bring E.U. voters and their representatives closer together. The HEC professor also explores how lobbies can become a force for promoting social change. He also points out structural problems within the E.U. which are stymying the continent’s youth. Finally, Aleman...
FTX Scandal Reflects Complex Dance between Off-Chain Practices and Blockchain Accounting
August 28, 2023 08:49 - 33 minutes - 340 MBThe 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 of cryptocurrencies and the on-chain features that underpins its entire existence. It also reveals the impact of off-chain factors involved in blockchain operations. Recent research by professors Dane Pflueger (HEC Paris), Martin Kornberger (Vienna University) and Jan Mouritsen (Copenhagen Business S...
Creative Destruction Lab Tackles AI, Geopolitics and Ethics in Historic Toronto Session
July 20, 2023 12:00 - 48 minutes - 486 MBAround 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, mentors, researchers and academics. There were equally hard-hitting exchanges on AI, geopolitical shifts in innovation and the advancement of humanlike intelligence. HEC Paris sent a strong delegation to Canada to exchange on its growing involvement in this objective-based program for massively scalabl...
Decisions Under Uncertainty: Lessons for Future Black Swans
July 04, 2023 09:06 - 30 minutes - 308 MBOn 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 Professor Itzhak Gilboa. Last year, Itzhak was ranked by Stanford University in the world’s top six theoretical economists. His main interest is in decision under uncertainty and decision models whereby uncertainty can’t be quantified. That is called non-Bayesian decision models – as opposed to the Bayesian approach...
How the Global Shipping Industry Evades Corporate Responsibilities in the 2.0 Age
June 01, 2023 09:54 - 40 minutes - 411 MBHEC 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 groundbreaking research Vuillemey reveals how this industry – which handles over 80% of global trade flows – uses flags of convenience and limited liability to flout international and moral law. This has repercussions on the environment and basic human rights. In a long interview, Vuillemey outlines his approac...
HEC PhD Graduate Revolutionizes Health Practices in D.R.C.
April 28, 2023 17:36 - 41 minutes - 424 MBDoctor 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 graduate from HEC Paris describes the managerial tools he's been using to transform treatment in health centers in remote parts of the DRC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
#MeToo and the American Boardroom
March 29, 2023 18:11 - 28 minutes - 285 MBIt’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 movement had on US companies and their boards of directors? HEC Paris Assistant Professor Crystal Shi examined the behavior of over 2,000 American firms to gauge the evolution in policy and attitude of investors and board members in their respective companies. Shi and two fellow academics at New York’s St...
Pourquoi l’apprentissage du savoir-être à l’école peut transformer la vie
February 10, 2023 08:32 - 32 minutes - 331 MBEt si, en enseignant l’empathie et la coopération à de jeunes garçons, l’école pouvait transformer des vies ? Dans une recherche cosignée par Yann Algan, professeur d'économie et doyen associé de l'ensemble des programmes pré-expérience à HEC Paris, les résultats sont sans appel. Ce spécialiste du bien-être au sein des organisations nous livre le bilan d’une recherche unique qu’il a menée pendant 33 ans auprès d’enfants à risque de décrochage venant de quartiers pauvres de Montréal. Retrouv...
Devenir un leader de l'ESG : le chemin parcouru par Schneider Electric
January 17, 2023 10:01 - 24 minutes - 272 MBGilles Vermot Desroches est ingénieur de formation. Mais c’est au cœur de la stratégie et de l’innovation de Schneider Electric qu’il a piloté les actions de développement durable de Schneider pendant les 25 dernières années. Il répond à nos questions sur sa compréhension des critères de notation de l’ESG et partage ses observations de l’évolution des tendances de la question de l’impact, de la responsabilité de l’Europe dans ses efforts stratégiques et des manières de mesurer l’ESG. Mais, t...
What Social Factors Get Measured in Corporate ESG Frameworks?
December 20, 2022 10:17 - 27 minutes - 279 MBWhy 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 better understand this negligence. They have published a landmark report on how ESG frameworks cover this issue – or don’t. “What Gets Measured” also suggests ways to ensure that what gets measured, in the authors’ own words, “matters for businesses, the people and the communities they impact”. For, ignoring s...
Research and Policymaking: Conference Debates Governance in Crisis Period
November 22, 2022 15:40 - 49 minutes - 500 MBTop 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 conference at HEC Paris on constitutionalism. Over three intense sessions, the policy-makers and professors of law explored reforms in governance of public goods. The HEC Paris conference went beyond constitutionalism to explore the failures of transnational governance, policy responses and current free market dynamics i...
As COP27 Gears Up, an HEC Student and an Academic Confront Points of View
November 03, 2022 17:57 - 27 minutes - 281 MBThe 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 Europe, where the world sees an acceleration of climate changes and global warming has beaten all modern records. In this light, Knowledge@HEC discusses the 12-day summit’s agenda and objectives with two guests: Igor Shishlov, Academic Co-Director for HEC’s Climate & Business Certificate; and Shiraz Moret-Bailly,...
Creating Social Value Through Hybridization
September 01, 2022 08:36 - 25 minutes - 262 MBBertrand Quélin is professor of Strategy and the holder of the Bouygues-HEC Paris Chair in ‘Smart City and the Common Good’. He has been spearheading research on ways public bodies and private companies partner up to create both social and economic value. We discuss how the partnerships rely on a form of hybridization relying on three mechanisms: contractual, institutional and the ability to regularly partner up with public authorities. Read more on Knowledge@HEC Hosted on Acast. See acas...
Efficacy of Citizen Mobilization for Refugees – from Middle East to Ukraine
June 30, 2022 10:29 - 13 minutes - 135 MBAs 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 this, HEC Assistant Professor David Crvelin publishes a detailed study on the rapid and effective response of German citizens to the unprecedented wave of migrants in 2015. A lesson of integration for all Europe? Read more on Knowledge@HEC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HEC Research Points to AI Solutions to Prevent Miscarriages of Justice
April 15, 2022 15:39 - 20 minutes - 204 MBIn 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 Horizon, a Fujitsu computer system used by the UK Post Office. How can AI solutions be developed to detect and prevent such intelligent anomalies? To answer these questions and more we have turned to HEC Professor of Accounting and Management Control, Aluna Wang. She is also chairholder at Hi!PARIS Center on Data Anal...
Ukraine/Russia: the Energy Factor
March 10, 2022 17:16 - 42 minutes - 430 MBFinance professor and executive director of the HEC Energy and Finance Chair, Jean-Michel Gauthier, spoke to us on March 3, one week after Russia invaded Ukraine. Jean-Michel is a veteran of the energy business. As a partner at Deloitte, he moved to the energy consulting industry for 16 years, before joining HEC Paris’ finance department in 2006. The dramatic events developing in Ukraine lead us to discuss with Jean-Michel a key factor behind the conflict: the question of energy. Not just th...
Meta/Facebook and Data Privacy: a Clash of Cultures & Generations
February 16, 2022 15:50 - 16 minutes - 167 MBHEC Paris Assistant Professor in Marketing, Klaus Miller, analyzes the February 3 Facebook/Meta stock market plunge. What exactly does it tell us about private data on internet and its links to the advertising world? We meet Klaus on February 8, the very day he and five co-researchers self-published “The Impact of the GDPR on the Online Advertising Market”. This book focuses on Europe’s GDPR and how it affects online publicity. We exchange in Klaus’ apartment in Versailles, near the HEC cam...
Activist Short Sellers and their Narratives: Bringing Down Business Giants With Aristotle
February 03, 2022 11:36 - 33 minutes - 343 MBActivist 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 economists, however, recognize their short selling as a vital part of an efficient and liquid market. HEC academics Hervé Stolowy and Luc Paugam, with their coauthor Yves Gendron, from Université Laval in Quebec, spent three years researching the reports short sellers write on companies they suspect of nefarious act...
Research Points to Gender Diversity as Motor for Innovation and Growth
December 17, 2021 10:36 - 30 minutes - 308 MBDr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj has spent decades analyzing women for leadership roles. Shortly after joining HEC Qatar as Associate Professor in Gender Diversity and Entrepreneurial Leadership, she published her third book “Futureproof Your Career”. We caught up with the prolific academic at the 2021 Women’s Forum in Paris to discuss cognitive diversity, her research on Asian communities and leadership, teaching entrepreneurial leadership at HEC, and much more. Read more on Knowledge@HEC Ho...
Major HEC Report Spotlights Smart City Impact
December 06, 2021 15:49 - 17 minutes - 174 MBJust days after the conclusion of the 2021 Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) in Barcelona, HEC Paris Professor Bertrand Quélin and HEC Paris graduate Isaac Smadja publish a key study of six award-winning smart cities across the globe. The 238-page eBook is the result of a partnership between Bouygues & HEC in the context of the school’s Smart City & the Common Good Chair. We exchange with Professor Quélin about the advantages of, and challenges to, tomorrow’s cities. Hosted on Acast. S...
Inflation Rears its Ugly Head: Why? And What Could be the Impact?
November 17, 2021 16:41 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MBThe 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 are the consequences of this 13-year-high in the euro zone (4.1% in October); and 30-year record surge in prices in the United States? To find out what caused these increases and to analyze what could happen in the future, we’ve turn to two HEC academics whose research is linked to the inflation questi...
Special Edition: HEC Grande Ecole Students Plunge into Environmental Issues in Chamonix
October 15, 2021 13:47 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBFor 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 for a physically and intellectually intense three-day seminar devoted to the major environmental and social challenges the world faces. This podcast reflects the intensity of the experience and the lessons drawn from it. Read more
Special Edition: HEC Grande Ecole Students Plunge into Environmental Issues in Chamonix
October 15, 2021 13:47 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBFor 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 for a physically and intellectually intense three-day seminar devoted to the major environmental and social challenges the world faces. This podcast reflects the intensity of the experience and the lessons drawn from it. Read more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Economic Perspectives for Germany after September’s Federal Vote
October 08, 2021 09:52 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBThe 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, after 16 years at the helm of Europe’s largest economy. To comment on this landmark vote, its uncertain outcome, and economic outlook, we turn to Armin Steinbach, HEC professor in law. Steinbach is ideally placed to comment: prior to his September arrival at our business school, he spent over a decade a...
Olivier Sibony Makes Noise with Breakthrough Study on Human Judgment
October 01, 2021 07:42 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBHEC Professor of Strategy (Education Track) Olivier Sibony joins forces with Nobel-laureate Daniel Kahneman and legal scholar Cass Sunstein to publish Noise, a monumental study on a little-known – yet pervasive - flaw in human error. The trio thus reinvent a term for a variability of judgment pervading decision-making at all levels and in all fields. In an exclusive interview, Olivier shares insights into a groundbreaking work that has shot into bestseller lists worldwide. It comes a day aft...
"The World is Watching El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experiment"
September 21, 2021 10:23 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MBOn 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 state is dissected by HEC Professor in Finance Bruno Biais, who has written several top research papers on cryptocurrency. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
« Créer des passerelles entre la recherche et la politique »
September 08, 2021 08:46 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBJean-Noël Barrot, professeur associé à HEC Paris et député des Yvelines à l’Assemblée nationale, allie son engagement politique avec ses recherches dans le domaine de la finance. Il a remis un rapport au gouvernement le 29 juin dernier, où il développe des propositions pour aider la France à sortir de la crise sanitaire. Dans cet entretien, Jean-Noël Barrot nous explique comment il parvient à combiner utilement ses travaux de recherche et son rôle de parlementaire. Ce podcast a été enregis...
Scrutinizing Truth Distortion Through a Marketing Lens
August 25, 2021 12:48 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBHEC Paris associate professor of marketing, Anne-Sophie Chaxel, describes her recent study on truth distortion in the COVID-19 era. Using marketing techniques like the Stepwise Evolution of Preferences Chaxel and fellow academic Sandra Laporte, used such tools to see how people respond to controversial statements linked to the virus – when they’re delivered by popular personalities. They enrolled 1,400 American workers and asked them to respond to allegations that COVID-19 is man-made and tha...
The Caster Semenya Case: Perceptions of Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Human Rights and Sports Politics
July 22, 2021 15:28 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBFor 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 had hoped to defend a crown she won in 2012 and 2016. We discuss with Associate Professor Matteo Winkler the legal, sociological and ethical implications of this legal decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, or CAS. It targets women athletes like Semenya who are born with naturally high levels ...
French Court Overrules Ban on Cannabidiol Sales
July 12, 2021 16:13 - 14 minutes - 13 MBA year after the EU’s Court of Justice ruled that none of its member states can outlaw the sale of the non-psychotic compound cannabidiol (CBD), France’s highest appeals court overturned a decision banning its sale on French territory. Associate Professor Daniel Martinez analyses the June 26 decision in the light of his long research on cannabis-related questions in Colorado. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
« L' achat de MGM va permettre à Amazon d'alimenter le trafic sur sa plate-forme généraliste »
June 28, 2021 09:31 - 10 minutes - 10 MBIl 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 son économie ? Directeur du MS Médias, Arts et Création à HEC Paris, Thomas Paris analyse la portée de cet événement. Il a récemment cosigné avec Philippe Chantepie « L’économie du cinéma », publié par La Découverte. Ce podcast a été enregistré le 9 juin 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...
Revealing and Countering AI Bias
June 24, 2021 16:01 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBA 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-learning techniques could be unintentionally exacerbating this bias. HEC Associate Dean for Research, Christophe Pérignon, describes these challenges - and new techniques he has developed to reduce bias impact. These techniques can be applied in banking, insurance, hiring, fraud detection and justic...
Attack on Pfizer Vaccine Reflects Dangers of Influencer Marketing
June 22, 2021 11:44 - 6 minutes - 6.1 MBAn 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 Germany and France, respectively, refused to share its allegations with their hundreds of thousands of followers. HEC Assistant Professor, Andreas Lanz, analyzes this new online affair in the light of his extensive research on influencer markets. He called on both governments and major content networks...
Is the Belarus Air Intervention the Ultimate Test of EU Foreign Policy?
June 03, 2021 13:32 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBThe 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, as well as sanctions. But just how effective are these measures? HEC Professor Alberto Alemanno shares his analysis of the stand-off and its reflections on EU foreign policy. Recorded on June 1, 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Will NFTs Disrupt The Future Of The Art Market?
April 29, 2021 08:37 - 7 minutes - 6.63 MBWhy 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-tart cat, sold for more than $500,000 US Dollars. Shortly after, musician Grimes sold her digital art for more than $6 million US Dollars. HEC Paris Associate professor of finance Christophe Spaenjers, explains how NFTs work and why they have become such big news for the investment world. Hosted on Ac...
The Microeconomic Impact of Different COVID-19 Lockdown Strategies
April 23, 2021 12:01 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBOn 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 businesses are affected in the same way. HEC Paris Associate Professor of Economics Tomasz Michalski analyzes the possible microeconomic impact of the different lockdown strategies, and its eventual long-term effects. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Quelles solutions pour lutter efficacement contre le changement climatique ?
April 01, 2021 15:39 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBCinq 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 semble toujours pas être à la hauteur du défi climatique. Pour dresser un état des lieux des solutions aujourd'hui sur la table pour réduire les émissions mondiales de gaz à effet de serre et contenir l’élévation des températures, nous avons interrogé Arnaud Van Waeyenberge, Professeur associé en dr...
GameStop: Hedge Funds vs Amateur Traders
February 16, 2021 14:24 - 4 minutes - 4.02 MBIs 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, GameStop’s stock value had catapulted to an impressive 1600% rise from its previous value. This sudden steep climb up raises questions on stock market behavior, the actions of hedge fund investors, and the trading technique of short selling. HEC Paris professor of Finance Johan Hombert explains the...
Is Big Pharma Transparent Enough?
February 01, 2021 14:25 - 5 minutes - 4.64 MBAre 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 is hope that this health crisis may be vanquished this year, thanks to the approved vaccines by pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer/BioNtech, Moderna and AstraZeneca. While there are ongoing vaccination drives, there are nonetheless doubts about these newly-developed vaccines, which compromises ...
Prix Nobel d’économie : quel impact sur la recherche et la société ?
December 14, 2020 08:34 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBLe 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 finance à HEC Paris et auteur de "Les Prix Nobel d'Economie" aux Editions Repères, nous explique les recherches récompensées, ainsi que le protocole de sélection des Prix Nobel, et leur rôle dans l’économie, la société et la perception des économistes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...
Prix Nobel d’économie : quel impact sur la recherche et la société ?
December 14, 2020 08:34 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBLe 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 finance à HEC Paris et auteur de "Les Prix Nobel d'Economie" aux Editions Repères, nous explique les recherches récompensées, ainsi que le protocole de sélection des Prix Nobel, et leur rôle dans l’économie, la société et la perception des économistes.
In Trust We Believe
December 09, 2020 15:28 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBIs 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 clarifies why this quality is so essential for a positive recovery in the post-pandemic era. She then describes the three pillars of trust that drive diversity and inclusion in our society. Professor Löning will also draw on her research about entrepreneurial ecosystems to explain trust in the specific rel...
EU Deadlock : Will the EU Economic Recovery Plan Fail?
November 24, 2020 14:12 - 7 minutes - 7.14 MBPoland 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 caused by the COVID-19 health crisis. As the EU stands at a deadlock, HEC Paris professor and expert on EU law, Alberto Alemanno, explains the rule of law mechanism and its importance in the governance of the European Union. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2020 U.S. Presidential Elections: Where is America Headed?
November 05, 2020 22:45 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBOn 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 power in American politics, the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the elections and the future of economic and foreign policy in the United States of America. This discussion was moderated by Daniel Brown, Chief Editor at the HEC Paris Corporate Communications Department.
2020 U.S. Presidential Elections: Where is America Headed?
November 05, 2020 22:45 - 1 hour - 64.5 MBOn 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 power in American politics, the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the elections and the future of economic and foreign policy in the United States of America. This discussion was moderated by Daniel Brown, Chief Editor at the HEC Paris Corporate Communications Department. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...
2020 US Presidential Elections
October 09, 2020 16:53 - 7 minutes - 7.18 MBWith 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, the US had been experiencing the longest economic expansion of its history with stock market rebound, lower unemployment rate and an increase in the average income of American households. After the virus hit the country severely, more than 20 million American jobs were lost, affecting society’s most ...
Relaunching the French Economy
September 10, 2020 21:42 - 4 minutes - 4.28 MBThe 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, Tomasz Michalski, analyzes the details of the recovery plan and its potential to restore the local economy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.