As we step into 2025, the HEC UK team wishes you a year filled with exciting projects, remarkable successes, and—just as important—plenty of laughter and meaningful connections! This is a time for fresh beginnings and bold ambitions and we look forward to seeing how we can grow together as a community in the months ahead. Why not start the year on the perfect note—with laughter, connections, and a bit of sparkle? Join us on January 23rd for our Winter Party, where we’ll be stepping back in time to celebrate in true Roaring 20s style. It’s the perfect chance to shake off the winter blues, reconnect with old friends, and build new connections! Book your tickets here.
Wishing you all a fantastic year ahead! We can’t wait to catch up with you all in 2025!
Kind regards,
Your HEC in the UK Team
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Step back in time for an unforgettable evening and join us for a night of elegance and intrigue. Our secret bar will transport you to the heart of a Prohibition-era speakeasy, where the gin flows and the jazz swings. Indulge in classic cocktails, enjoy live entertainment, and soak up the vibrant energy of the Roaring Twenties. Make sure you are part of this dazzling 1920s soirée—it's a night you won't want to miss!
HEC UK Governance and Art Clubs: Good Governance, Great Impact: Joining Arts Charity Boards
Tuesday 21st January- 8:30am
IN PERSON
Join us for a breakfast and discussion with RIAC, a new charity connecting professionals who want to become trustees and non-executives with UK arts & culture organisations looking for new and more diverse talent to fill posts. We are delighted to welcome RIAC’s chair Anna Rowe and RIAC mentor Sir Vernon Ellis about the RIAC process and how you can get involved:
HEC UK Wine Club: Wine Tasting with Château Cantemerle and Château Grand Corbin
Thursday 30th January -7:30pm
IN PERSON
We are delighted to welcome Marion Millaire for a very special evening with Château Cantemerle and Château Grand Corbin! Join us for a very special tasting with Bordeaux Grands Cru and discover more about the domain's development, where the team focus on allowing the terroir to reveal its true character.
Great at what you do, and yet your career is stalled? Then, you're probably missing a strong power base. As long as you will remain invisible to the people who matter, your efforts won't be recognized as they should. Join this workshop to accelerate your career with a strong power base and learn how to quickly create the power base you need to open doors - even when you hate networking!
Join us for an engaging evening dedicated to finance, where expertise meets opportunity. This exclusive event will bring together a dynamic cohort of Executive MBA participants specializing in finance, alongside industry professionals and thought leaders amongst our alumni.
HEC Life Project: Webinar - The age of the insecure overachiever
Tuesday 4th February - 12pm (UK)
ONLINE
Success without fulfilment is the ultimate failure", says author, coach and speaker Tony Robbins. If this is true, most overachievers are destined to fail in the final analysis, because their drive to success is fueled by fear and insecurity, rather than love and inspiration. It takes great self-awareness and a healthy dose of courage for someone to acknowledge that their drive is one of not enough-ness. Not smart enough. Not good enough. Not competent enough. Not accomplished enough. If you are courageous enough to admit that part of what has fuelled you until today is insecurity, and if you would like to do something about it, come join this workshop and we will shift your way of being to one of inner and outer greatness!
HEC UK Geopolitics Club: The Chinese in North America from 1850 to WW2, the prelude to a fraught relationship
Tuesday 11th February - 8:30am
IN PERSON
We are delighted to invite you to a panel and breakfast with Hugo Wong (H.93) on the inspiring story of Chinese migrant workers, rejected by the USA and determined to build a new community in Mexico
HEC UK Data Club: AI and Energy: balancing innovation with sustainability
Thursday 20th February - 6:30pm (UK)
IN PERSON
Join us for an engaging panel to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy, addressing the challenge of driving innovation while maintaining sustainability. Featuring three distinguished experts, the discussion will delve into:
HEC Life Project: Webinar - Ditch your "to do" list!
Friday 14th March - 12pm (UK)
ONLINE
When we want to make real changes, we need to change in a different way! We're often stuck in our to-do lists and they can feel neverending and all consuming. Worse, they stop us from making the big changes that we so often want. We feel "too busy" to even think about it. Luckily, it's not a lot of time that we need, it's simply a different kind of "to do" list. Who do you need TO BE to make the changes you want? Your "to be" list is so much more powerful than your "to do" list.
HEC Paris in Le Pari des Alumni! Discover our HEC network initiatives in the 2nd edition of Le Pari des Alumni, a UK network federating Alumni of French universities living in the UK for networking & solidarity. Read here.
LA NUIT DE LA FRENCH TECH LONDON 2025 - Wednesday 29 January - 6:30pm at IMAX Science Museum Join us at the prestigious IMAX Science Museum in Central London for an amazing evening filled with healthcare top insights, AI startups showcase and cocktail networking, highlighting AI progresses and promises in Healthcare. REGISTER HERE.
HEC PARIS NEWS
SAVE THE DATE - BOOK LAUNCH 'Leadership Landmarks' with Marc Beretta
Thursday 30th January at 6:00pm - Labs Hogarth House
3rd edition of the Purpose Day, hosted by HEC Paris Institute Purpose Center and the Oxford University Center for Corporate Reputation
Tuesday 11th February at Hôtel de l'Industrie, Paris
This year’s theme, Corporate Purpose: Navigating Dissent, brings a unique focus on the tensions that challenge purpose-driven organizations. Throughout the day, we’ll examine how companies can foster authenticity and trust as they address internal and external pressures. We’ll explore the role of dissent in shaping a credible corporate purpose. Book your ticket here.
Reinventing Relations with Dialog, written by Valerie Gauthier, Associate Professor at HEC Paris
Clear and accessible, this illustrated book offers solutions to enable every one of us to establish or re-establish a new dialogue, even if it has been brutally cut off, in the private sphere as well as in the professional environment. Based on thirty years of cross-disciplinary research and practice in small and large companies, the Savoir-Relier method helps to radically reconsider human relations with genuine, generous and generative behaviors that build trust and positively impact the quality of work and life. Discover more.
ORGANISE YOUR CORPORATE EVENT AT THE UK HOUSE
In need of inspiration for a board meeting, teambuilding event or an offsite for your company? Come at the HEC UK House! We would be delighted to host you and your team for a tailor-made event in our beautiful facilities in the heart of London!
Excellent location
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Fully equipped rooms
Flexible space
Catering options on demand
Whether you’re looking for a small, intimate space for a meeting, or a larger space for a conference or event, we have the perfect space for you!
Participate in enriching HEC students' life by welcoming students during their learning expeditions in London, sharing your experiences and challenges, as well as hiring or mentoring new talents!
Join a supportive and team of 40 active volunteers that organise 100+ events each year. Gain exclusive access to the HEC network and enjoy connecting and developing new projects with us!
Everything is possible at the HEC UK House! Whether you wish to come in the lounge in between meetings, book a meeting room, organise an event or become a corporate sponsor, get in touch with our team to discuss your next project with us!
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