Grasp today’s economic, social and business issues with research and analysis brought to you by our HEC Paris Business School Professors. Widen your perspectives with recognized experts from different disciplines through a series of talks. Expanding knowledge, Enhancing responsibility: this is our engagement to our podcast listeners.
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Champagne Curve Shows More Consumption Does Not Improve Lives
Does improving people’s lives require ever-higher carbon emissions? François Gemenne, professor at HEC Paris and a lead author of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, joins Daniel Brown to discuss why climate disasters do not automatically produce action - and why presenting the transition as a burden can deepen climate fatigue. He explains the “Champagne Curve”, identified in his latest research: once countries reach a very high level of human development, additional carbon consumption no longer corresponds to greater well-being. Our Breakthroughs conversation explores the injustice at the heart of climate change, the outdated divide between developed and developing countries, the role of business schools and companies in “killing business as usual,” and why business leaders must treat climate change as a structural transformation of their operating environment.
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3 Jul 2026
Breakthroughs Books Episode
In this special Books episode of Breakthroughs, five HEC Paris academics share the works that nudged, shook or sharpened the way they think about research: Seungah Sarah Lee (https://www.hec.edu/en/faculty-research/faculty-directory/faculty-member/lee-seungah-sarah) with Imagined Communities (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/232489/imagined-communities-by-benedict-anderson/) by Benedict Anderson; Olivier Darmouni (https://www.hec.edu/en/faculty-research/faculty-directory/faculty-member/darmouni-olivier) with Abundance (https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Abundance/Ezra-Klein/9781668023488) by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson; Quirin Fleckenstein (https://www.hec.edu/en/faculty-research/faculty-directory/faculty-member/fleckenstein-quirin) with Predictably Irrational (https://www.harpercollins.com/products/predictably-irrational-revised-and-expanded-edition-dan-ariely?variant=32207653339170) by Dan Ariely; Michelangelo Rossi (https://www.hec.edu/en/faculty-research/faculty-directory/faculty-member/rossi-michelangelo) with Thinking, Fast and Slow (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374275631/thinkingfastandslow/) by Daniel Kahneman and The Power of Experiments (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542272/the-power-of-experiments/) by Michael Luca and Max Bazerman; and Brian Hill (https://www.hec.edu/en/faculty-research/faculty-directory/faculty-member/hill-brian) with Debt: The First 5,000 Years (https://davidgraeber.org/books/debt-the-first-5000-years/) by David Graeber. From nationalism and public capacity to behavioral economics, experiments and the human stakes of exchange, the episode is a reminder that research sometimes begins when a book makes a familiar question feel strange again.
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19 Jun 2026
Could Universities Become the New Face of Soft Power?
Universities are often seen as neutral places of learning. But are they becoming actors in their own right? In this episode of Breakthroughs, HEC Paris researcher Seungah Sarah Lee explores how geopolitics, student mobility, global rankings, and emerging South-South cooperation are reshaping higher education. Drawing on studies covering more than 500 universities across 89 countries, she discusses soft power, the dominance of the US model of financing, China's growing academic influence, the future geography of internationalization, and why the spread of university fundraising owes more to professional networks than to market forces alone. Could universities become one of the defining instruments of global influence in the twenty-first century?
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