Strategy
What can businesses learn from social entrepreneurship initiatives?
Lessons in how companies can achieve both social and financial goals
ARTICLES WITH TAG: society
Sustainability
Business for good: what place does social impact have in corporate value creation?
What place does social (or societal) impact have in corporate value creation?
Leadership
ESSEC Knowledge Review: Building a better world Together
In this special issue, discover the insights of ESSEC professors on how we can use the challenges our world is facing to build a better world.
Leadership
Taking the lead in making a difference: the role of business schools
How can business schools contribute to making a difference in society?
Innovation
ESSEC Knowledge Review: Artificial intelligence and the technological transformation
ESSEC professors provide insight into how artificial intelligence and the technological transformation will impact society.
Society
Culture in the time of coronavirus
Stoyan Sgourev discusses the implications of coronavirus for the cultural industry.
Innovation
Artificial Intelligence and Its Possible Applications
What is artificial intelligence? AI is rather hard to define, because researchers don’t seem to agree on what that concept should or should not include. In this video, Arnaud de Bruyn, professor of marketing at ESSEC Business School, not only introduces the notion of deep neural networks but also talks about the revolution their advent triggered, reflecting on the possible applications arising from their use.
Economy & Finance
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is a trending topic and we constantly hear in the medias about success stories of famous people such as Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, among many others. But do we really know what an entrepreneur is? It seems that opinions on the subject are as many as the reasons that make an entrepreneur successful. The word "entrepreneurship" comes from the French verb "entreprendre" which means "to undertake". To truly understand, we have to study the key actors of the economy further.
Strategy
SUSTAINING CORPORATE VOLUNTEERS ENGAGEMENT: A NEW COUNTERINTUITIVE APPROACH
What are the factors explaining that some employees sustain their volunteering commitment over time?