Knowledge@HEC

President Donald Trump's dismantling of American Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs is happening at breakneck speed. His Executive Orders label DEI policies as "illegal and immoral forms of discrimination”. HEC scholars Matteo Winkler and Marcelle Laliberté scrutinize this shift of narrative which is challenging certain constitutional rights. They share their research on this seismic shift which, they say, could undermine the very essence of American - and by ricochet, European – societies and their notion of equal rights. Read the highlights here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Japan's “super-aged society” (over 28% of its population aged 65 or above) and the US' “aged society” (around 16% over 65) pose new challenges to the retirement period. And they're set to rise. Just how do these two countries answer them? HEC professor Lisa Baudot plunges us into her new research through the eyes of CEO retirees from accounting's Big Four. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“I just make the time to read a book and it gives me this burst of fire in the belly to give me another two or three hours of creativity or productivity.” This cry of passion by author Robin Sharma is a call to arms four HEC researchers have heard throughout their respective careers. Gilles Deleuze, Norbert Elias, Sherry Turkle and E.O. Wilson are so many references inspiring our academics in their devotion to further their disciplines. They share their passion for books in this first Breakthroughs podcast of 2025. Find the written highlights in Knowledge@HEC here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The questions of language, culture and merit have long intrigued researchers. HEC accounting professors Daniel Martinez and Keith Robson share the challenges these issues pose for diversity and equity. Professor Robson describes the cultural notions like language that favor the progression of elite groups in service firms in the UK. Whilst Associate Professor Martinez joins with fellow-researchers Javier Husillos and Carlos Larranaga to challenge the monolingual hegemony of English in academic publishing. This, he claims, affects non-native speaking academics' very identity and puts them in a position of subservience. Find the written highlights in Knowledge@HEC here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HEC research academic Craig Anderson has been exploring the impact of “awe” on Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, and well-being for over a decade. The specialist in affective science recently published a paper on culture and awe, comparing the emotional approach of Americans and Chinese to this phenomenon. Anderson's research was at the heart of a 2023 National Geographic documentary “Operation Artic Cure” which traces the use of awe to alleviate PTSD in veteran soldiers. The American academic shares his insights into a new science reshaping policies in sustainability, marketing and health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This summer's eruption of violence in the UK has renewed searching questions on the role social media plays in our society. It has also accelerated calls for new or revamped regulation of the country's social media platforms, encapsuled in the UK's Online Safety Act. But online violence does not confine itself to politicized and stigmatized communities. For the past 12 years, HEC Professor Kristine de Valck has explored the presence of direct, cultural and structural violence in an online community that few researchers would imagine: the British electronic dance music community. Kristine shares her decade-long research on such leisure-oriented communities, also observed on Reddit, Twitch and Discord platforms, and suggests ways to mitigate such brutalization of online consumers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Notre série du podcast Breakthroughs fête ce mois-ci les événements sportifs de l'été avec un programme hors-série dédié au lancement d'un nouveau électif sport et commerce pour les étudiants. Intitulé « Sport & Business », ce programme de six mois comprend un travail théorique, puis de terrain en partenariat avec le club de football professionnel Racing Club de Lens (présidé par Joseph Oughourlian, un alumnus d'HEC). Le professeur Luc Arrondel dirige les contenus académiques de l'électif. Ce chercheur partage avec nous son approche pédagogique centré sur l'économie du foot. Puis, dans la deuxième partie du podcast, nous suivons le premier rassemblement de l'Economie du Sport dans lequel HEC Paris, Bpifrance et EY ont uni les acteurs clés de l'écosystème sportif. Etaient présents pour HEC, des dirigeants, des étudiants et des alumni pour des séances dédiées à la recherche, à l'enseignement et à l'action de l'école de commerce dans ce secteur florissant. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

2024 marks 20 years since the birth of social media. Since then, it has become a major communication force in the lives of teenagers' lives - a 2024 Pew survey claims that 93% of American youth use it, for example. Unsurprisingly, research on its impact has followed suit. But just how reliable are the conclusions in this new field of studies? In April 2024 HEC professors Tina Lowrey and L.J. Shrum co-signed a research paper with their former doctoral student Elena Fumagalli (H18), showing conflicting findings on the negative and positive effects of social media on youth. They warn against major policies and lawsuits founded on inconclusive studies and contradictory scientific research. Professors Lowrey and Shrum share with Breakthroughs their empirical study to try to make sense of a subject matter inflaming public debate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ever 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 discuss his stakeholder vision with a prism of the 21st century. This is an exceptional Breakthroughs podcast, recorded for Knowledge@HEC. Find the written highlights on Knowledge@HEC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Unlike 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 experts from different disciplines and backgrounds to discuss how to bridge the gap between research and business. Key points included the transformation of risk management for machines and how, in the words of Serrano, industry practitioners are generally thinking ahead of academics. That, and much more in this frank and often personal podcast exchange. Find the written highlights on Knowledge@HEC here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When trying to figure out the outcome of a given situation, or the fallout of a sudden event, is it better to reason by analogies and resort to past experience or to think ahead and apply probabilistic reasoning? Researchers present a new mathematical model on making decisions in uncertain circumstances, which takes into account both modes of reasoning.Find the written highlights on Knowledge@HEC here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 the past decades. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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, Alemanno's research with fellow academic Elie Sung pinpoints the oft-neglected impact of lobbies on judicial courts by interest groups– which are having devastating effects on societal issues like women's and LBGTQI+ rights. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 School) sheds light on the FTX and other scandals that are unfolding. Their December 2022 publication in the European Accounting Review, explores the issues of governance, organizing, and trust that buttress blockchain accounting. Speaking from the HEC campus near Paris, Pflueger challenges the notion some have that blockchain technology does not need intermediaries like accountants to function.Read the summary on Knowledge@HEC here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, 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 scalable, seed-stage companies. A Breakthroughs special brings you an extended program highlighting the key exchanges during this third in-person Super Session. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 which assigns probabilities based on experience or best guesses. Itzhak questions these axioms, or self-evident truths. He believes his research can help answer unforeseen crises, called black swans, like the war in Ukraine, health pandemics or the climate crisis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 approach of this industry and its links to what some are calling the “dark side of globalization”. The exchange is followed by an on-the-ground report from ChangeNOW 2023 Summit on its analysis to the shipping sector.Read the summary on Knowledge@HEC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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.

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 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 Stern School of Business identified 37 MeToo events in the year after the Harvey Weinstein scandal. They then looked for any abnormal market return based on the boardrooms' gender structure and culture. Finally, the researchers studied the costs of the companies' gender-inclusive or -exclusive cultures.Read the summary on Knowledge@HEC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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.Retrouvez le résumé de l'étude, en anglais sur Knowledge@HEC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gilles 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, tout d'abord, le Directeur de la Citoyenneté et des Relations institutionnelles à Schneider retrace les étapes clés de la stratégie ESG de la société depuis 1998.Ce podcast coïncide avec la signature d'une Convention de Mécénat entre Schneider Electric, HEC Paris et la Fondation HEC. Ce partenariat a pour ambition d'accroître la compréhension et les avancées des entreprises face aux défis environnementaux et sociaux face à la nécessité d'une transition équitable vers une économie décarbonée et inclusive.Retrouvez l'article résumé en anglais sur Knowledge@HEC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 social concerns like workers' rights in the supply chain can have serious consequences, as France's gilet jaunes (Yellow Vests) movement illustrated. Read more on Knowledge@HEC. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 in the past decade. It set out to propose reforms in multilevel governance of public goods at worldwide, European and national levels. In this way, the organizers, HEC professor of EU Law and Economics Armin Steinbach and Emeritus professor at EUI Florence, Ulrich Petersmann, hope to develop academically innovative research and concrete policy proposals for policymakers. This, they believe, will encourage policymakers to implement new approaches to address the growing number of these governance and constitutional failures the world is currently experiencing. The results of the three sessions at HEC are to be published in the form of a book in 2023. Read more on Knowledge@HEC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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, co-president of Esp'R, an HEC student association devoted to sustainability and social economy.Read more on Knowledge@HEC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bertrand 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 acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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.

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 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 Analytics and Artificial Intelligence.Read more on Knowledge@HEC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Finance 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 the pipelines that bring Europe 40% of its natural gas and much of its oil – but also the knock-on effects on all energy sources that prop up our global economy. He helps us understand what role energy is playing in this ongoing conflict and where these upheavals could lead the entire planet. Read more on Knowledge@HEC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HEC 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 campus. This is a wide-ranging discussion on personal data and the advertising industry, including the researcher's insights on ad blockers on news websites and their impact on our reading habits.Read more on Knowledge@HEC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 activities. They link these narratives to the linguistic tools “ethos”, “pathos” and “logos”, first dreamt up by Aristotle in 350 B.C.E.. In the podcast, Hervé and Luc also share their unique exchanges with three of these sellers, people who rarely reveal their operations.Read more on Knowledge@HEC Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just 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. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 question. Associate Professor Eric Mengus specializes in monetary and macro-economics. His colleague, Associate Professor Gaetano Gaballo is a researcher in the same domains, and he's also worked for seven years as a senior economist at the Banque de France. In mid-October, they reflected on a wide range of issues linked to reflation.Read more Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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.

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, 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 as a government official and adviser in the Ministries of Finance and of Economic Affairs and Germany's Parliament. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HEC 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 after the publication of the book's French edition. And weeks before the arrival of Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's visit to HEC on October 7, to accept the title of “Honoris Causa Doctor”. The interview was recorded on May 6, 2021. Film extracts: 12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda.This podcast was recorded on September 30, 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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.

Jean-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 enregistré le 13 juillet 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HEC 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 that hydroxychloroquine can eliminate the symptoms. They discovered that the more controversial these statements are, the more people seem to adhere to them… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 of testosterone, what's called “hyper-androgyny”. Winkler and fellow academic, Doctor Giovanna Gilleri, published a 40-page study deconstructing the controversy and what it reflects on the law, sports politics, transgender sexuality… and the West's sometimes uncomfortable position on femininity in the Global South. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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.

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 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 for more information.

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-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 justice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 like Facebook, Instagram and Youtube to “play their part” in ending such disinformation campaigns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, 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.

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-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 Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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.

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 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 droit à HEC Paris, dont une recherche récente porte sur l'efficacité des marchés carbone en tant qu'instruments de régulation pour lutter contre le changement climatique. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, 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 mechanics behind the GameStop affair. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns already underway. HEC Paris professor Professor Vedran Capkun tells us why transparency is critical in this current context. He explains what the outcome of the production of these vaccines represents for the pharmaceutical industry. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 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 more information.