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HEC Lausanne welcomes its new students under the banner of innovation
“HEC Onboarding Days” to integrate students into their new environment, familiarize them with HEC values and make them aware of the major challenges of our century; a bilingual…
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Buzz around ChatGPT
No need to introduce ChatGPT, the new technological star that talks to you as a human would via Whatsapp or Telegram. Whatever the subject, the flow of its…
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Quelles sont les retombées économiques de la culture lausannoise subventionnée ?
[article disponible en français] Les résultats de l’étude du CREA démontrent le rôle essentiel de la culture pour l’économie du Canton de Vaud. La culture lausannoise subventionnée génère…
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Importance of our connection to nature to engage in pro-environmental actions
Almost three planet Earth would be needed if everyone lived like the Swiss population. The imbalance between Switzerland’s higher ecological footprint and our planetary boundaries has existed for…
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Pricing and restoring natural capital: a case study on mining and vegetation
Natural resources often come for free to the companies that use them. Natural resources have a large economic value. For example, pollination enables between US$235 and US$577 billions…
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Immersive virtual reality helps to promote pro-environmental behavioural strategies
The issue The main challenge of the 21st century is to reduce greenhouse gas emission. The adoption of pro-environmental behaviours contributes to tackling climate change. Most of the…
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Improving CSR Reporting and reducing greenwashing – a new approach
In their paper ‘The end of greenwashing? A Renewed Infrastructure for CSR Information in the New Normal‘?’, Janet Su, PhD and Prof. Gaia Melloni, both at HEC Lausanne…
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Innovation for Happiness, a pioneering program at HEC Lausanne
Exploring the different dimensions of happiness, understanding what makes us happy in order to reinvent our way of life, the way companies and start-ups are managed, and their…
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The diminishing CO2 impact of Swiss real estate investments
Greenhouse gas emissions from buildings owned by Swiss real estate investment vehicles fell by around 10% in 2021 on the previous year. According to the second annual study…
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Improving the performance of bond portfolios by combining machine learning and economics
From healthcare to marketing, IT to transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning are disrupting the business world. Financial services is no exception. Making more sense of factor investing…
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Connected watches and privacy: risks, dangers and data protection
The issue While devices such as wearable activity trackers or connected watches contribute to a better quality of life, they also raise serious privacy issues. When you wear…
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L’UNIL se dote d’un centre d’expertise dédié aux extrêmes climatiques
[article disponible en français] Unique en Suisse, l’ECCE (Expertise Center for Climate Extremes) sera lancé le 1er mars par la Faculté des hautes études commerciales et la Faculté des…
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HEC Lausanne launches its research center to respond to our society’s major challenges
The Faculty of Business and Economics (UNIL) pursues and strengthens its commitment to sustainability with its new “HEC Research Center for Grand Challenges” (RCGC). Relying on the multitude…
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ChatGPT in the world of work
In this new podcast, let’s discuss this subject which is on the forefront with Yash Raj Shrestha, our assistant professor at HEC Lausanne. Yash’s combination of technical computer…
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HEC Lausanne introduces French-English bilingualism as a free choice in its Bachelor programs
The HEC Faculty of the University of Lausanne will offer, as of the beginning of the 2023 academic year, French-English bilingualism for its Bachelor’s degree programs in economics…
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Climate Policy Risk and Asset Prices in Switzerland
February 2023 | Do Swiss investors care about the risks of the ecological transition?
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Two professors at HEC Lausanne imagine a new way to learn a foreign language
One of the most stimulating ways to learn or improve a foreign language is to immerse into articles or videos that relate to topics we are passionate about.…
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Swissjobtracker.ch: a new online index of the job market evolution
The swissjobtracker.ch platform is the result of a collaborative effort between HEC Lausanne at the University of Lausanne, KOF at ETH Zurich and the private company x28 AG,…
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Wealth inequality: Parental influence on attitudes to financial risk taking
The Issue Wealth inequality is a major global issue – the richest 10% of the world’s’ population hold some 75% of all wealth. One important factor is stock…
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The causal effects of public policy on individual behavior
“As a result of covid, the job market has changed. […] we have to choose our future job.”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of Urban Low Emission Zones
The Issue Until electric cars become commonplace, vehicles with internal combustion engines will remain a major contributor to air pollution. The UN predicts that some 70% of the…
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180 seconds to talk about research popularization
Maud Goutte, PhD Student in Finance at HEC Lausanne, SFI and MT180 UNIL finalist & Quentin Gallea, researcher and lecturer at Enterprise for Society and Social Media contents…
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Gaming the system: improving fairness in matching markets
The Issue – Designing fair markets While price is the main mechanism for allocating goods and services in a free market economy, there are some situations where the…
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How to Harness Open Technologies for Digital Platform Advantage
Open Technologies: Why businesses should play “the Digital Commons Ecosystem Game” The issue The next steps of digital transformation will definitively be driven thanks to open technologies hardware…
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How much of a risk are we taking with smart homes?
The Issue – How do smart technologies create or alter risks in the home Smart homes may sound exciting with new technologies enabling devices that can cover everything…
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How some websites spy on us
The Issue – Thousands of popular websites covertly harvest personal information typed into forms without users’ consent When you’re filling in a form on a website, it may…
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Linkedin for job-seekers : from research to practical insights
Professor Franciska Krings, expert in workforce diversity and discrimination at HEC Lausanne (UNIL), met Robin van Känel, Director of Ricochets, an agency in Lausanne specialized in Linkedin communication,…
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Regulating digital technologies: Lessons from the GDPR
The Issue – regulating digital technologies Regulators are increasingly enacting laws and putting forward policy guidelines and regulatory proposals for digital markets and the European Union plays a…
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Taxation of multinationals: what are the new rules of the game?
HEC Podcast – Are you interested in the decisions taken at the last G7 and G20 regarding the taxation of multinationals at a minimum rate of at least 15%?
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Left in the dark: Why transparency isn’t always best for institutionalizing corporate responsibility
Transparency is usually seen as integral to corporate responsibility best practice. It allows closer scrutiny of those firms claiming CR credentials. But, if we want optimal outcomes in…
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Motivation matters: The importance of intrinsic motivation in behavioral change app design
Designing a mobile app to help create lasting changes in behavior is a difficult challenge. New research suggests that a measure of motivation – the Intrinsic Motivation Index…
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Short, simple and assured: Making integrated reporting pay
Integrated reporting provides a more holistic representation of a firm’s activities, combining key financial and non-financial information, including environmental and social details. Better still, research by Gaia Melloni…
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Changing behavior: Harnessing the power of social influence
Whether it is trying to increase the welfare of citizens through public policy, or adapting organizational culture to a new business environment, changing behavior is one of the…
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Small numbers, larger mistakes: How number bias affects investor information
Advice and information provided by stock analysts, such as target prices and recommendations, have a powerful influence on investor decisions. However, new research shows that the way the…
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The economic cycle of fear: Will panic fuel the next global recession?
As President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously once observed: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. At the tail of end of an historic bull market,…
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Multimodality, ridesharing, and collaboration: Operations optimization and the future of transportation
Like many other sectors, the world of transportation is experiencing a period of profound disruption. From the sharing economy to mobility-as-a-service, autonomous vehicles to solid state batteries, new…
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How the Camorra is cleaning up: A grubby tale of entrepreneurial talent gone to waste
Guido Palazzo, professor of business ethics, highlights a case where entrepreneurial ingenuity has turned environmentally and socially toxic, threatening the health and economic welfare of thousands of people…
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The Facebook effect: How Facebook browsing shapes the consumer decision making process
Marketers are well aware that social media sites can play a role in influencing consumers, whether it is through product endorsement or building customer loyalty, for example. However,…
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War and peace: The case for power sharing
There has long been an association between politics and violence. Factional disagreements can often lead to prolonged violence. At the same time, there is apparent evidence that the…
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Beyond life expectancy: A different approach to comparing the impact of life saving measures on future demographics
Making accurate predictions about population trends is difficult. However a good grasp of demographic trends is also essential both for policymakers and many companies. Changes in Iife expectancy…
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Effective data Management in a digitally driven world
In this Q&A, Christine Legner talks about the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (CC CDQ), the data excellence model that the consortium has produced, and the need for…
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The leadership IQ dilemma: when super smart people are perceived as ineffective leaders
General intelligence is an essential characteristic for good leadership. Research by John Antonakis and colleagues on the relationship between IQ and perceptions of effective leadership reveals that a…
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The DNA of war: Deciphering the economic causes and consequences of conflict
When we think about the consequences of war we tend to think about the immediate casualties, the lost lives and the injured. Yet war also has many debilitating…
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Business by design: The value proposition challenge
Developing a new business idea is notoriously difficult. Start-up failure statistics are discouraging – some 90 per cent of all new ventures fail, about 40 per cent of…
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Tales of the unexpected: understanding risk at the extremes
Business as usual is the normal state affairs, and the world that managers and policymakers operate within most of the time. Occasionally, however, that world is shaken by…
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Time is money: calculating lead time value in SCM
Deciding optimal supply chain lead times involves calculating a number of difficult tradeoffs. New research makes that calculation a lot easier, allowing firms to gain a more precise…