| | | | | A Word from the Chairman | A promising year ahead of us  As we are still at the very beginning of 2010, I would like to start by wishing each and every one of you an excellent new year. You can count on the HEC Association to be by your side throughout the year to help you with your requirements and assist you with your career development and activities or to help you establish the personal or professional contacts that you need. May all of our good resolutions turn into proud… accomplishments!
Xavier Romatet (MBA.86), Chairman of the HEC Association | | | | | | | | Association | Solidarity  Haiti: The HEC Alumni Association and the Sustainable and socially responsible development group invite you to show your support for Haiti. To help the survivors of the terrible earthquake that occurred on Tuesday 12 January, you can make a donation on CARE FRANCE's website by clicking this link. Learn more about CARE
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 Gauthier Lefevre (H.97) was kidnapped in Darfur on 22 October 2009. He was working in this war-torn region for the ICRC. The ICRC's President, Jakob Kallenberger, is calling for the unconditional release of Gauthier and one of his co-workers, Laurent Maurice, who was kidnapped shortly afterward in November. The HEC Solidarity group and the entire HEC community are thinking of Gauthier and his family, in the hopes that he will be released shortly.
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The Association on Campus  The Association Forum took place on 13 and 14 January involving, for the first time ever, groups from abroad, workshops in English and a film shown about the workshop "Professional or personal, virtual or real networks: what strategy should you adopt?" This Forum met with great success among hundreds of students who came to listen to speeches given by many different professional groups and international groups and attend the various workshops (more than 1000 visitors during the day for the various activities).
Click here to view the video on the "Networks" workshop
The event website: www.forum-asso-hec.com
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HEC Morning and the Foundation award ceremony  Jean-Paul Agon (H.78), CEO of L’Oréal, was the HEC Morning guest on 9 December. During this session, the 33rd HEC Foundation prizes were awarded.
Read the report on the Association's website
See the prizes of the HEC Foundation
Next HEC Morning session: Thursday 28 January with Martin Bouygues.
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You can also update your entry in the directory. | | | | | | | | Hommes & Commerce | Free for everyone: the most recent issue online for one month!  Exceptionally, the December 2009/January 2010 Hommes & Commerce magazine is accessible to anyone (subscribers and non-subscribers) who connects to the Association's website until 15 February.
This issue's articles include:
• Meeting with Loïc Le Meur (H.96), founder of Seesmic and the "Le Web" conference.
• First instalment of a report devoted to the theme of “meaning and work”.
• Why did governance fail? What about the post-crisis world? An analysis from the HEC Governance group.
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"Online" focus: the magazine  Subscription to the Hommes & Commerce magazine includes access to the online version. No special software is required. The content can be accessed directly from the Association's website after you connect with your login and password. You can browse through all of the same pages that are featured in the paper version, plus:
• numerous links: to directly send an e-mail to the interviewees (click on their photo) or to visit their websites (clickable tiles flash when pages are opened)
• content specific to the web version (additional information, documents, etc.)
• a "full text" search engine for each issue and for all the archives (all issues since January 2006 available).
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www.sortirdelacrise.associationhec.com The site has over 280 registered members and has received more than 115 contributions. As well as considerable discussion of the more commonly evoked possibilities, and number of more original proposals have also been put forward.
View a selection. | | | | | | | | Careers | Living and working differently The next Careers Forum will be held on Wednesday 7 April 2010, in partnership with Apple. Its theme: Living and working differently. If the world is changing, then our professional world is undergoing a revolution: what new professional attitudes should you adopt in a world where the goal posts keep moving at a dizzying rate? This Forum will be broadcast live on the Internet (registration available shortly). |
The network survey  The Careers service is launching a large-scale qualitative survey on networks. Some forty individual interviews on the topic of digital and conventional networks will be conducted among French and foreign HEC alumni, both "addicts" and "phobics"…. If you would like to take part in this survey, please contact Marine Homo (offres@mailhec.com) who will record your application.
| | | | | | | | Upcoming Network Events | From 30th January to 15th March, in the network  In the PDF available by clicking here, you will find a list of all the events scheduled from 30 January to 15 March, as included on the Association's website on 20 January. This document includes the links through which you can register directly for these events.
| | | | | | | | Organisations and Groups | The challenges of convergence  To discuss the challenges of convergence, the impact of new technologies on the value chain, and strategies and key changes in telecoms, the Advanced Technologies group invited Michel Combes, CEO of Vodafone Europe, Jean-Louis Constanza, CEO of Orange Vallée, and Pierre Barnabé, CEO of Alcatel-Lucent France to debate the topic.
Read the report published in the Hommes & Commerce magazine
View the video online on the group's wiki
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Water is the source of all things  The Geostrategy group works as a combination of five think tanks, one of the themes of which is water. It was in this framework that the group welcomed Loïc Fauchon, President of the World Water Council, whose conference provided the "resources" think-tank with additional information that was vital for its work.
Read the interview on the group's wiki
| | | | | Focus on a Wiki | The group would like to welcome you to Switzerland.  This month, Switzerland is in the spotlight. The group has 500 members and hosts some fifteen events per year. It now also organizes an annual gala, the first edition of which was held at Montreux Palace on 17 October 2009.
Of particular note: the creation of a Welcome package (in French and English) that briefly describes the main administrative formalities that all new arrivals to Switzerland have to complete. http://suisse.associationhec.com
| | | | | Direct from the Campus and the Foundation | Campus
2010 apprenticeship tax You will soon be contacted for the 2010 apprenticeship tax. This resource is essential to the continued growth of HEC. Your company has until 28 February to make its decision. Please ensure that some of your funds are allocated to HEC!
Your contacts on Campus:
Marylin Cariven (+33 (0)1 39 67 94 74)
Sabine Raingeard (+33 (0)1 39 67 71 63)
More information on the Campus website |
Video bonus When it comes to matters of hard or soft capsules, pyramids, maths and saving humanity… in short, of entrepreneurship.
For more information click here. |
Foundation
2009 results  The 2009 results for the HEC Foundation are very encouraging:
- Resources: €11.6 M (results increased nine-fold over a five-year period).
- 60% of the funds collected come from HEC alumni.
- €7.6 M were devoted to HEC's development priorities in 2009 (including 40% for grants).
- €3 M will be capitalized (capital is at €10 M).
- 50 partner companies.
- The group of Major donors has grown to 71 members (26 new members in 2009).
- The number of donors rose 60% versus 2008.
Daniel Bernard (H.69) and the rest of the Foundation team wish you a very Happy New Year!
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Once again this year the award ceremony, which was held on 20 January at the CCIP, was a tremendous success. There were four prize categories, plus a new category: the HEC-Management Prize. 
