We invite you to explore in this section a selection of the research carried out by our more than 350 researchers. Get inspired by their answers, which are rooted in our faculty’s strategy of sustainability, diversity and digitalisation (3D).
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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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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. … Read more - 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 … Read more - Climate Policy Risk and Asset Prices in Switzerland
February 2023 | Do Swiss investors care about the risks of the ecological transition? - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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.” - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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%? - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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, … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more - 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 … Read more
- Improving CSR Reporting and reducing greenwashing – a new approachIn their paper ‘The end of greenwashing? A Renewed Infrastructure for CSR Information in the New Normal‘?’, Janet Su, PhD and Prof. Gaia Melloni, both … Read more
- Evaluating the effectiveness of Urban Low Emission ZonesThe Issue Until electric cars become commonplace, vehicles with internal combustion engines will remain a major contributor to air pollution. The UN predicts that some … Read more
- Multimodality, ridesharing, and collaboration: Operations optimization and the future of transportationLike 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 … Read more
- Business by design: The value proposition challengeDeveloping a new business idea is notoriously difficult. Start-up failure statistics are discouraging – some 90 per cent of all new ventures fail, about 40 … Read more
- Tales of the unexpected: understanding risk at the extremesBusiness as usual is the normal state affairs, and the world that managers and policymakers operate within most of the time. Occasionally, however, that world … Read more
- Time is money: calculating lead time value in SCMDeciding optimal supply chain lead times involves calculating a number of difficult tradeoffs. New research makes that calculation a lot easier, allowing firms to gain … Read more
- 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 … Read more - How to Harness Open Technologies for Digital Platform AdvantageOpen Technologies: Why businesses should play “the Digital Commons Ecosystem Game” The issue The next steps of digital transformation will definitively be driven thanks to … Read more
- Left in the dark: Why transparency isn’t always best for institutionalizing corporate responsibilityTransparency is usually seen as integral to corporate responsibility best practice. It allows closer scrutiny of those firms claiming CR credentials. But, if we want … Read more
- How the Camorra is cleaning up: A grubby tale of entrepreneurial talent gone to wasteGuido Palazzo, professor of business ethics, highlights a case where entrepreneurial ingenuity has turned environmentally and socially toxic, threatening the health and economic welfare of … Read more
- The Facebook effect: How Facebook browsing shapes the consumer decision making processMarketers are well aware that social media sites can play a role in influencing consumers, whether it is through product endorsement or building customer loyalty, … Read more
- Business by design: The value proposition challengeDeveloping a new business idea is notoriously difficult. Start-up failure statistics are discouraging – some 90 per cent of all new ventures fail, about 40 … Read more
- Improving the performance of bond portfolios by combining machine learning and economicsFrom healthcare to marketing, IT to transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning are disrupting the business world. Financial services is no exception. Making more sense … Read more
- Connected watches and privacy: risks, dangers and data protectionThe issue While devices such as wearable activity trackers or connected watches contribute to a better quality of life, they also raise serious privacy issues. … Read more
- ChatGPT in the world of workIn 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 … Read more
- 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.”
- How to Harness Open Technologies for Digital Platform AdvantageOpen Technologies: Why businesses should play “the Digital Commons Ecosystem Game” The issue The next steps of digital transformation will definitively be driven thanks to … Read more
- 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 … Read more
- How some websites spy on usThe Issue – Thousands of popular websites covertly harvest personal information typed into forms without users’ consent When you’re filling in a form on a … Read more
- Regulating digital technologies: Lessons from the GDPRThe Issue – regulating digital technologies Regulators are increasingly enacting laws and putting forward policy guidelines and regulatory proposals for digital markets and the European … Read more
- Motivation matters: The importance of intrinsic motivation in behavioral change app designDesigning a mobile app to help create lasting changes in behavior is a difficult challenge. New research suggests that a measure of motivation – the … Read more
- Effective data Management in a digitally driven worldIn 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 … Read more
- 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 … Read more - Pricing and restoring natural capital: a case study on mining and vegetationNatural 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 … Read more
- 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. … Read more - ChatGPT in the world of workIn 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 … Read more
- Swissjobtracker.ch: a new online index of the job market evolutionThe 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 … Read more
- Wealth inequality: Parental influence on attitudes to financial risk takingThe Issue Wealth inequality is a major global issue – the richest 10% of the world’s’ population hold some 75% of all wealth. One important … Read more
- 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.”
- Gaming the system: improving fairness in matching marketsThe Issue – Designing fair markets While price is the main mechanism for allocating goods and services in a free market economy, there are some … Read more
- How some websites spy on usThe Issue – Thousands of popular websites covertly harvest personal information typed into forms without users’ consent When you’re filling in a form on a … Read more
- 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%?
- Motivation matters: The importance of intrinsic motivation in behavioral change app designDesigning a mobile app to help create lasting changes in behavior is a difficult challenge. New research suggests that a measure of motivation – the … Read more
- Changing behavior: Harnessing the power of social influenceWhether it is trying to increase the welfare of citizens through public policy, or adapting organizational culture to a new business environment, changing behavior is … Read more
- 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 … Read more
- How the Camorra is cleaning up: A grubby tale of entrepreneurial talent gone to wasteGuido Palazzo, professor of business ethics, highlights a case where entrepreneurial ingenuity has turned environmentally and socially toxic, threatening the health and economic welfare of … Read more
- War and peace: The case for power sharingThere has long been an association between politics and violence. Factional disagreements can often lead to prolonged violence. At the same time, there is apparent … Read more
- The DNA of war: Deciphering the economic causes and consequences of conflictWhen we think about the consequences of war we tend to think about the immediate casualties, the lost lives and the injured. Yet war also … Read more
- The diminishing CO2 impact of Swiss real estate investmentsGreenhouse gas emissions from buildings owned by Swiss real estate investment vehicles fell by around 10% in 2021 on the previous year. According to the … Read more
- Improving the performance of bond portfolios by combining machine learning and economicsFrom healthcare to marketing, IT to transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning are disrupting the business world. Financial services is no exception. Making more sense … Read more
- Climate Policy Risk and Asset Prices in SwitzerlandFebruary 2023 | Do Swiss investors care about the risks of the ecological transition?
- Wealth inequality: Parental influence on attitudes to financial risk takingThe Issue Wealth inequality is a major global issue – the richest 10% of the world’s’ population hold some 75% of all wealth. One important … Read more
- 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 … Read more
- Small numbers, larger mistakes: How number bias affects investor informationAdvice and information provided by stock analysts, such as target prices and recommendations, have a powerful influence on investor decisions. However, new research shows that … Read more
- Beyond life expectancy: A different approach to comparing the impact of life saving measures on future demographicsMaking accurate predictions about population trends is difficult. However a good grasp of demographic trends is also essential both for policymakers and many companies. Changes … Read more
- Tales of the unexpected: understanding risk at the extremesBusiness as usual is the normal state affairs, and the world that managers and policymakers operate within most of the time. Occasionally, however, that world … Read more
- Immersive virtual reality helps to promote pro-environmental behavioural strategiesThe 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. … Read more
- Linkedin for job-seekers : from research to practical insightsProfessor Franciska Krings, expert in workforce diversity and discrimination at HEC Lausanne (UNIL), met Robin van Känel, Director of Ricochets, an agency in Lausanne specialized … Read more
- Changing behavior: Harnessing the power of social influenceWhether it is trying to increase the welfare of citizens through public policy, or adapting organizational culture to a new business environment, changing behavior is … Read more
- The Facebook effect: How Facebook browsing shapes the consumer decision making processMarketers are well aware that social media sites can play a role in influencing consumers, whether it is through product endorsement or building customer loyalty, … Read more
- Importance of our connection to nature to engage in pro-environmental actionsAlmost 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 … Read more
- Pricing and restoring natural capital: a case study on mining and vegetationNatural 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 … Read more
- Improving CSR Reporting and reducing greenwashing – a new approachIn their paper ‘The end of greenwashing? A Renewed Infrastructure for CSR Information in the New Normal‘?’, Janet Su, PhD and Prof. Gaia Melloni, both … Read more
- The diminishing CO2 impact of Swiss real estate investmentsGreenhouse gas emissions from buildings owned by Swiss real estate investment vehicles fell by around 10% in 2021 on the previous year. According to the … Read more
- Climate Policy Risk and Asset Prices in SwitzerlandFebruary 2023 | Do Swiss investors care about the risks of the ecological transition?
- Evaluating the effectiveness of Urban Low Emission ZonesThe Issue Until electric cars become commonplace, vehicles with internal combustion engines will remain a major contributor to air pollution. The UN predicts that some … Read more
- Left in the dark: Why transparency isn’t always best for institutionalizing corporate responsibilityTransparency is usually seen as integral to corporate responsibility best practice. It allows closer scrutiny of those firms claiming CR credentials. But, if we want … Read more
- Short, simple and assured: Making integrated reporting payIntegrated 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 … Read more
- Multimodality, ridesharing, and collaboration: Operations optimization and the future of transportationLike 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 … Read more
- How the Camorra is cleaning up: A grubby tale of entrepreneurial talent gone to wasteGuido Palazzo, professor of business ethics, highlights a case where entrepreneurial ingenuity has turned environmentally and socially toxic, threatening the health and economic welfare of … Read more
- War and peace: The case for power sharingThere has long been an association between politics and violence. Factional disagreements can often lead to prolonged violence. At the same time, there is apparent … Read more