Driving change
A campus that innovates and accelerates
For over a century, HEC Paris has been shaping visionary, inspired leaders, connected to the world and ready to drive change.
Today, as the world evolves faster than ever, tomorrow’s decision-makers must be educated through a multidisciplinary approach that bridges management with major technological, environmental, and social transformations.
To achieve this, students must be increasingly exposed to geopolitical and societal challenges, learn to “speak the language” of science — from AI and deep tech to climate — while cultivating experimentation and an entrepreneurial mindset. To remain one of the world’s leading business schools, HEC Paris is evolving into a School of Management, Social Sciences, and Technology.
Through its many centers of expertise, HEC will foster dialogue among researchers, students, businesses, policymakers, and citizens to design concrete solutions rooted in real-world insights and stakeholder needs.
As a genuine incubator of ideas, startups, and innovations, HEC is also reinventing itself as a living laboratory for transformation, empowering its community to imagine and accelerate the development of new economic
models.
Supporting this ambition means helping HEC drive innovation and economic development that will create shared and sustainable prosperity for France, Europe, and beyond.
HEC places innovation at the heart of its new fundraising campaign strategy. Artificial intelligence is both a technological revolution and a pedagogical revolution. Professors use AI to personalize learning paths, stimulate students’ creativity, and strengthen their capacity for critical analysis.
HEC students will enter a professional world in which AI is used in all its dimensions, and they must be able to prompt expertly, assess its limitations appropriately, and understand its ethical implications.
They now navigate across all disciplines—management, social sciences, and technology. This means learning to speak the language of data scientists, engineers, public decision-makers, and entrepreneurs.
HEC is becoming the school that tackles the world’s major challenges by training its students to develop concrete, responsible, and sustainable solutions. They are introduced to the constant dialogue between theory and practice, and to immersive experiences that transform the way they understand the world and fuel their desire to take action even before graduating.
Located at the heart of the new HEC Campus, the future Decision-Making Theater perfectly embodies this ambition. This real-time decision-evaluation space will be available to students, professors, and corporate partners.
HEC ensures that 100% of its students are exposed to real-world entrepreneurship through dedicated programs focused on launching or taking over start-ups or businesses, deep tech, or short pedagogical formats designed to develop an entrepreneurial mindset among all first-year Master’s students.
The School’s mission is indeed to train decision-makers capable of identifying problems, designing concrete and innovative solutions, and deploying them at scale—regardless of the professional path they choose.
"At HEC, we nurture minds capable of connecting knowledge, understanding the world, and imagining solutions to tomorrow’s greatest challenges."
Our projects
Discover the projects and programs at the heart of our #HEC Campus Of The Future campaign, aimed at building a campus that innovates and accelerates. Together, with your support, we can turn ambitious ideas into tangible achievements.
