No human being has ever seen that much technical progress in the span of 60 years. We, the people of the western world, are fortunate enough to live in incommensurable comfort. Be it at work or at home, technological...
The scene could not be more striking. Right in the middle of March, Krabi airport, Thailand’s tourist jewel, is half deserted. Every tourist roaming the halls waiting for their flight is wearing a mask. A shopkeeper...
The World Championships is a major event of the track and field season, yet this year’s was terrible. Doubts had been raised ever since Qatar was chosen to host the games. Almost every criticism made of the Qatari...
Hegel counted five arts. They were architecture, sculpture, painting, music and poetry, ranked from the most material to the most expressive one. As the technical innovations of the twenty-first century came about, the...
Who doesn’t look at people like Elon Musk or Xavier Niel with admiration and envy? In a world where everything revolves around speed and technological progress, start-ups have become the El Dorados of our days. It comes...
Every year in January, HEC welcomes the Carrefours, the biggest career fair of the year. This year it snowed but we braved the weather to interview students about the labor market.
What’s interesting is that we call someone « bovine » when they look stupid. For, in Westerners’ imaginary bestiary, the cow gets the short end of the stick. The sheep and the snake have a biblical status, the lion and...
Among the mind-boggling collage of posters covering our campus, there is one that has queerly stood out over the past week, inviting you all to “Holi”. Pushing the colour palettes of campus printers to their limits, it...
A social network – in the truest, offline sense of the word – is a curious thing. In a recent lecture on Leading Organisations in Business, my class was shown various maps of social networks in organisations...
Are mined diamonds going to die? Are diamonds really forever? They can certainly last eternally, but they can’t be dug endlessly. Therefore, the diamond industry faces a dual challenge. How to sell more diamonds to an...