This last day opens doors on the link between identity and power, looking into meaningful and purposeful actions for leadership and emphasizing the ethical dimension of leadership. From a theoretical angle of different models of leadership to an experience of leadership in the corporate, army and sports environments, students will be incentivized to look inside themselves, reflect and draw conclusions about their own leadership capabilities.

In search for meaning and the value of sense, the fourth day showcases the 8th Annual Sustainable Business Conference. It is a platform to share and examine the effort and lasting changes brought about across the globe. As leading organizations turn to sustainability, thousands of business opportunities have opened up. Changing our future with sustainable initiatives is a task wrought with obstacles, and sustainability is the forum to learn from the many existing success stories (and those...

The day starts with a conversation: over two hours of one on one discussion addressing personal and intimate issues on the basis of Theodore Zeldin's Oxford Muse questions. The contact established and the discussions lead to an inner experience of savoir-relier_ or the capacity and will to build sensible and positive relationships between entities (people, ideas, fields, jobs, cultures, generations…) that are inherently different, opposite or antagonistic, hence encouraging diversity and...

The day is devoted to exploring how sport and the values attached to it can be a means to explore and improve leadership in organizations: self-discipline, self-awareness, the capacity to test and push one’s limitations, motivation, energy, determination, anticipation; all such skills, mindsets, attitudes linked with sports and more will be addressed. The aim is to establish and understand the possible link between individual, interpersonal and group performance or how to exert/act upon one’s...

The first day is dedicated to diversity and how it affects leadership in organizarions. After an introductory keynote by Theodore Zeldin, students explore new ways to make of diversity an asset for leadership in organizations with the supportof the US Embassy in France and their outreach project involving companies such as Microsoft, Alcatel-Lucent, Lafarge, Euronext, BNPParibas, Bristol Meyers.;Diversity is a key factor of leadership development for organizations. Students are exposed to...

The Visions of Leadership Chair of HEC organized a five day seminar on March21-25 2011. It gathered around 350 students from the MBA and the Grande Ecole students. Five days of intensive leadership training with one theme each to drive the leadership development of MBA students. Conferences, interviews, reflections, debates and workshops inveil a process of learning and growing one's understanding of leadership skills. Speakers include US Ambassador Charles Rivkin, philosopher Theodore....