“Over five years, the Impact Tomorrow campaign has significantly amplified HEC’s capacity to support its entrepreneurs. Today, with #HECcampusofthefuture, we aim to go much further by equipping students and learners with the means to design concrete and innovative solutions to the world’s key challenges, and to deploy them at scale in the service of sustainable prosperity. Thank you all, individuals, companies, and foundations, for supporting this mission."

"2025 marks the beginning of a new cycle for HEC Paris with New Responsibilities: a strategy calling us to illuminate debate, inspire leaders, change destinies at scale, and become a school of practical solutions. Innovation and entrepreneurship are essential to delivering on this promise. Through the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute, one of Europe’s top four startup ecosystems, our community engages with the major economic, technological, and social challenges of our time, transforming ideas into impactful initiatives. As we broaden access to education, deepen interdisciplinary collaboration, and prepare the campus of the future, we reaffirm our mission to empower bold founders and responsible leaders. Our entrepreneurial spirit remains a powerful driver of transformation. By bridging research, market expertise, and entrepreneurial practice, we nurture the next generation of founders who not only create economic value but also strengthen cohesion in a fragmented society. As we publish this Activity Report, we do so together—with our students, faculty, entrepreneurs, staff, alumni, experts, and partners—continuing to build a school that not only understands the world, but helps change it."

"The alumni community of HEC Paris stands proudly behind its entrepreneurs. Whether it is at ideation, creation or growth stage, or even when it comes to move on from an entrepreneurial venture, there is an opportunity to meet and learn from alumni peers, investors, mentors and talents. 5 years ago, we launched HEC Ventures to support new ventures. This initiative supports 22 companies from various sectors, with the commitment of 350 investors most of which are alumni. Entrepreneurs fuel the pages of HEC Stories magazine and continue to inspire pride and admiration across our community, and thanks to the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute, they are now supported and visible across the spectrum from social entrepreneurship to deep tech. The HEC community keeps showing up to its reputation of daring and changing the world"

"With the creation of HEC Institute, HEC Paris has taken a decisive step to better address the major transformations shaping our economies and societies. By bringing together thematic centers around the Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Sustainability & Organizations, Hi! PARIS, or Family Business and beyond, we have designed a structure that fosters dialogue across disciplines and bridges academic excellence with real-world action. HEC Institute are built around a simple yet demanding ambition: think, teach, and act. They are places where rigorous, interdisciplinary research is developed, where knowledge is translated into innovative teaching and executive education, and where ideas are tested through concrete initiatives alongside entrepreneurs, corporates, and public actors. Within this ecosystem, the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute plays a central role by turning research and insight into ventures, experimentation, and scalable solutions. Together, the Institutes form a collective platform that enables HEC Paris to transform knowledge into impact and responsibility into action."

“HEC loves entrepreneurs. We believe innovation is very important, so we help startuppers to create companies, we help to scale — but we also support companies who are trying to innovate, to disrupt their own markets. The HEC Paris Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute brings together centers of expertise dedicated to different types of entrepreneurships, empowering students not just to make things happen, but to dare to make it bigger.”