Student Led Initiatives (COVID-19)

If any student wants to develop an initiative to help the HEC community, the HEC administration is 100% ready to help their development. They can reach out to powerful alumni networks, professionals etc. to support your ideas. If you don't want/need their help, it's ok: but don't hesitate to help

Group Meetings and Resilience
A program is has started to allow in-person support group meetings of 10 people.

If you want to interact with fellow students during the confinement, take advantage of this program and meet with each other once a week. You will be in a group with 9 others, and it will be completely anonymous to all the other groups. A room in M building is opened up for us to do this.

HEC allowing these 1 hour meetings to take place  does not allow you to have your own, separate group events.  If students continue to abuse of the rules, even this program will be shut down. This is to help each other get out of our rooms and interact with each other.

If you are interested in meeting in person with other students, email Majo at maria.olivo@hec.edu and she will let you know the details of where and when your group will meet. There is no sign-up sheet for anonymity purposes.

POC: Maria "Majo" Olivio - maria.olivo@hec.edu

Campus Quarantine Support
If you would like to volunteer to help students in total quarantine due to the virus, please sign up here. Tasks where help may be needed would be to go buying groceries at Auchan, or taking out trash-bags to the dumpsters. There will be no medical obligations - only logistical.

You will be contacted if we need your help and put in touch with a student who needs your help.

POCs:

Emric Navarre - emric.navarre@hec.edu

Michael Venditto - michael.venditto@hec.edu

Communicating What You Learned
A program is being developed where you will be asked to write a short essay on what concept(s) you've learned during your academic program, and then post in on LinkedIn. The idea being that many head-hunters/recruiters are now also confined and spend their days on LinkedIn.

POC: Amine Hammami - amine.hammami@hec.edu

Best Dressed of the Day Game
To be further developed, but another idea is to have people share their outfit of the day and everyone gets to vote on who was the best dressed. Help needed: determine the best platform for this and a deadline (some people wake up when other fall asleep.)

POC: Ining Fu - ining.fu@hec.edu

Campus Food Options
The following food services/restaurants will deliver to HEC.

Casa Street Pizza - Order at +33 6 31 31 56 37  before 17h00.

La Medina - Order at +33 1 39 56 41 24 between 12:00 – 14:30, 19:00 – 22:30, Tues through Sat (Sundays 12:00 – 14:30). Website.

If you know others, please add them!

Help needed ! Not all students can speak French, and not all restaurants speak English. If you can develop a method where students and restaurants can sync orders, we need your help. Contact emric.navarre@hec.edu with ideas.

Help needed ! If you want to volunteer to cook meals for your campus-mates, feel free to post your information and details here.

HEC will provide free food two or three times a week. A sign-up sheet will be posted on the Group Chats for each week to gauge interest and quantities to be ordered. Volunteers will then help distribute the food, along with providing time-slots for people to pick up their food and avoid congregating/rushing a single spot on campus.

Sign up for for Friday 17 April.

New Info: ''Tuesday 21: Fruits and vegetables. Sign up sheet will be posted soon.''

Some students who have cars have also made food runs for their friends. Use this to make new friends and break from isolation in confinement.

Sports
Students are permitted to borrow portable gym equipment for workouts for extended periods of time. (Ex: Yoga mats can be checked out for weeks). Contact Michael to acquire some equipment.

POC: Michael Venditto - michael.venditto@hec.edu

Financial Support
The Alumni Association will ask for donations from Alumni to be provided to the Fondation HEC to have a single scholarship fund in order to expand what has already been developed in the last week. Both the Alumni page and the HEC websites have been updated today after the telecon to include a prominent donation link for anyone who wants to donate to the fund that may help you or your classmate. Share it on your LinkedIn if you think it may help.

The idea of a work-study or internships will not be requested by the school to the alumni. This would put the alumni in an awkward situation to try to provide internships to HEC students and create a risk of favoritism in the company (would the other employee from LBS be permitted to hire their own intern?)

You are still encouraged to connect with Alumni and see if they can help you, but the school will not do this for you. The method of getting internships remains the same as before.

After a telecon with the Alumni Director today (16 Apr), I am drafting a proposal to still see if we can get direct, one-on-one alumni support to help facilitate the conversation. This is still being worked on.

Career Support
The Alumni Association will see if they can make the paid events (including the webinars) free for students during the crisis. It will be coordinated through the Career Center and communicated by the Career Center. Be patient, the Alumni Association still needs to coordinate with the Alumni and the Career Center. A lot of moving parts.

The alumni have very active clubs. For example, the Entrepreneurship Club has been active 3x a week during the crisis. These alumni clubs also have experts that can be tapped for unique events during the crisis, such as how to manage marketing during a crisis, or supply chain during a crisis. These are the experts that perhaps would be good to learn from.

HEC Pulse will be updated as well to help facilitate flash-networking during the crisis and long term networking. Students should continue to use this tool even during the crisis.

Ideas for Club Presidents:

First, consult the HEC Alumni Club listing to find the clubs that exist and that are hosting activities and see which ones are connected to your club's sector.

Then, connect with those clubs and see if they can start to include you and your club's activities to increase exposure and potentially connect you with future employers.

If there are issues, contact Janet O'Sullivan (janet.osullivan@hecalumni.fr) to see how HEC can help. The school can bring the extra muscle needed to solve any problems you may have.

Clubs & Associations
As the confinement continues and terms will be online, regardless until the end of the academics school year, Clubs and Associations should start resuming their activities.

This crisis is the perfect opportunity for this class to create something that’s never been done before. Many of you decided to take on challenges like clubs and other leadership opportunities, wanting to make a difference. Now is the chance to start from scratch and demonstrate your vision and abilities, while keeping your teams involved and active.

A few MBA students have chosen to develop their own new clubs, and others are moving their ideas online.

This Wiki is available for free to help provide an online platform for any club, such as posting information, schedules and ideas. Existing Clubs and Associations can be found here.