Initiated by several classmates, we launch an inclusive fundraising campaign on behalf of the H.93 class and beyond, learn more about the Society and Organizations Centre (SnO) and class fellow Rodolphe Durand H.93:

To make a "one-off" gift, please click on the "Donate" button on top of the page. To support on a long term (each month), please contact Barbara de Colombe, HEC Foundation : decolombe@hec.fr.

Organizations and firms face today numerous challenges: climatic constraints, social inequality, technological disruption, ecological aspirations, ethical imperatives, liberalization and regulation, and more. HEC has therefore decided to make these new challenges central to its research and teaching, with the aim of helping to change managerial practices. SnO Center brings together forty professors and doctoral students to meet these challenges (See the SnO page). SnO’s mission statement is to contribute to our understanding of these phenomena and to prepare future generations of managers to lead in these complex environments.

Rodolphe Durand (H.93, PhD.HEC.97) academic director SnO Center:

Professor at the «Strategy and Business Policy» department, academic director of  Grande Ecole’s Msc in Strategic Management, holder since 2010 of the «Business and Sustainability» Chair at HEC Paris, in 2008 Rodolphe set up the Society and Organizations research center, of which he is today the Academic Director. The winner of several international awards, he has published numerous works including «The Pirate Organization» (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 –in French at Bord de l’Eau Editions, 2010 with JP Vergne) and  «Organizations, Strategy, and Society»   (Routledge, 2014 –in French “La Désorganisation du Monde” at Bord de l’Eau Editions, 2012). His primary research interests concern the social and institutional sources of competitive advantage and performance, and the legitimacy of management in the new contexts of capitalism.

Other contact related to SnO: Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot (H.88, Phd Lyon 3 2012), executive director

Affiliate professor in Strategy, Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot is the Academic Director for the specialised Masters course «Sustainable Development Management» which she launched in 2003 and internationalised in 2010. She also jointly created the «Social Business, Enterprise and Poverty» Chair of which she is the Executive Director. Her work focuses on societal innovation and reverse Innovation as factors for strategic renewal.

What can be done with… 

Research:

4.000 € = Purchase or treatment of Big Data sources

6.000 € = 1 SnO PhD student visiting a top US university for a year

8.000 € = MOOC Support and assistantship or website creation

20.000 € = one edition of the Medici Summer School with MIT and Bologna University

Teaching:

30.000 € = organization of the "2° challenge" on oct 1st, to mobilize the whole HEC Community on climate

50.000 € = 200 Grande Ecole tutored individually about their values and professional project 

50.000 € = 650 students benefiting from a 3 days welcome seminar animated by Euforia (Peer to peer training involving students and teacher to interact) 

50.000 € = 25 students from Grande Ecole involved in social entrepreneurship projects (and spending 2 months on the field)

100.000 € = creation of  "Sustainable Globstrat", a business simulation that integrates the social and environmental dimensions of business