Business has entered a challenging and volatile new world full of uncertainties, where competitive advantages cannot be protected over time any longer. High-level executives and managers from both international and Chinese companies involved in strategic planning need to understand how to compete with new players, leverage on digital technologies in order to disrupt well-established traditional industries. 

Professor Gérard de Maupeou, Director for Academic Affairs at HEC Paris, will discuss the scarcity of natural resources, the demographic challenges and societal concerns that can jeopardize entire business ecosystems, and threaten their survival. How can enterprises respond to these unprecedented challenges? The new framework, which has already been implemented in a handful of the world's leading companies, is solution-oriented strategic innovation for sustainability.

The seminar is free of charge and will be delivered in English.

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Speaker:

Professor Gérard de Maupeou

Professor Gérard de Maupeou teaches strategy and is responsible for the academic development and delivery of several open-enrolment programs within HEC Executive Education. He is the Director for Academic Affairs, HEC Executive Education International Programs.

Gerard de Maupeou spent his career in various international groups and industry sectors, such as heavy steel manufacturing, banking, general contracting, the agro industry and telecommunications. Within several subsidiaries of the French company France Telecom, he held various senior management positions, such as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, Senior V.P International Development, Head of Direct Marketing, etc.

His fields of expertise cover business and corporate strategy, change management, mergers and acquisitions, process optimization and business controlling. In addition to his academic work with HEC Paris, Gerard de Maupeou is a Senior Partner in a strategy consulting firm, where he has been advising, among others, a major French events company as well as numerous professional unions.

Gerard de Maupeou graduated from Sciences Po Paris and holds a HEC Paris Executive MBA.