Faculty

Charles AYOUBI

Assistant Professor, Paris

Charles explores how organizations generate, evaluate, and diffuse innovative ideas. By combining field experiments (RCT), and observational analyses, he reveals the diverse human and organizational factors that shape innovation processes. 

His work pays particular attention to the evaluation stage, where decisions about which ideas merit further development can significantly influence an organization’s long-term success. In more recent work, Charles has been examining in particular how generative AI redefines the innovation process within organizations.

Jérôme BARTHELEMY

Professor, Paris

Jérôme’s research addresses strategic and organizational questions around performance, innovation, and organizational forms, including how individual performance translates across contexts and how organizations create conditions that support innovation.

His recent work spans topics such as the portability of individual performance, the dynamics of franchising networks, and the managerial conditions that enable serendipity—contributing to practice-relevant insights on how firms design contexts that foster both reliable execution and unexpected innovation.

Laurent BIBARD

Professor, Paris

Lauren Bibard’s work is interdisciplinary, drawing on ethics, political philosophy, gender studies, and transhumanism to engage with contemporary societal stakes that cut across conventional disciplinary boundaries.

Her current thematic focus is closely connected to the courses she teaches and leads (e.g., ethics and decision-making, philosophy and trade, behaving in public, gender–economy–politics, transhumanism), using these lenses to analyze power, responsibility, and normative questions in organizational and public life.

Laurent BOURGEON

Professor, Paris

Laurent Bourgeon studies transversal organization as an organizational framework for embedding sustainability holistically, asking what mechanisms explain its capacity to ensure alignment, impact, and collective ownership.

He also investigates how application programming interfaces (APIs) reshape organizational boundaries—transforming the firm’s perimeter of action and its position in the value chain—and what these shifts imply for coordination and strategic organization.

Fabrice CAVARRETTA

Professor, Paris

Fabrice Cavarretta’s research examines managerial paradigms and theories of action, with a focus on how managers develop reasoning frameworks under uncertainty and how these frameworks shape decision-making and action. He also conducts research related to AI, for instance in an interdisciplinary project work using natural language processing to study climate-change paradigm evolution. 

Broadly, his work sits at the intersections of complexity theory, organizational behavior, and artificial intelligence, with applications to leadership, entrepreneurship, and societal-transition paradigms.

Jean-Luc CERDIN

Professor, Paris

Arijit CHATTERJEE

Professor, Singapore

Arijit’s research focuses on grand challenges and social movements, examining how collective actors mobilize, sustain momentum, and influence organizations and institutions. His work explores the strategic and organizational implications of movement dynamics—how societal change efforts shape organizational responses, and how organizations engage with or are transformed by mobilization around large-scale issues.

Raffaele CONTI

Professor, Paris

Raffaele’s research examines how institutions shape strategic decision-making, with a particular focus on contexts related to entrepreneurship and innovation.

His work connects institutional conditions to strategic choices and outcomes, clarifying how “rules of the game” influence the opportunities, constraints, and pathways through which entrepreneurial and innovative activity unfolds.

Carole DONADA

Professor, Paris

Carole’s research focuses on the management of collaborations between large corporations and innovation structures, analyzing how partners coordinate, govern joint work, and create value in innovation ecosystems.

She also studies collaboration dynamics within complex projects involving multiple stakeholders, examining the mechanisms that support alignment, coordination, and performance when objectives, incentives, and expertise are distributed across organizations.

Olivier FOURCADET

Professor, Paris

Olivier’s research spans the cognition of strategists and the decision processes through which managers perceive, frame, and act on strategic issues.

In parallel, he studies transaction processes and strategic foresight (“futurcasting”), with a particular application to food-related contexts—examining how emerging trends and shifting value-chain dynamics shape strategic options and organizational choices.

Sam GARG

Professor, Singapore

Sam studies the CEO–board relationship and how governance processes and leadership structures can be designed to make this relationship effective and value creating.

His current projects span boards and innovation, family business boards and CEOs, governance in digital platforms, ESG governance, and how governance arrangements support venture scaling over time.

Paul GOUVARD

Assistant Professor, Paris

Paul is developing a research program on how audiences evaluate AI-generated products, drawing on organizational theory and economic sociology. This stream includes both a theoretical paper and an experimental project currently in development.

He also pursues a broader agenda on audience evaluation and innovation, including work on the co-construction of innovations and innovators (via a historical case on the invention of the guillotine in Revolutionary France), access to social benefits in Île-de-France, the effects of categorical typicality in mergers and acquisitions, and an early-stage project on the French publishing industry.

Stefan GRÖSCHL

Professor, Paris

Stefan’s research explores leadership and sustainability, including work on women on boards and their role in shaping ESG policies and practices within banks in Sub-Saharan Africa. He also examines how social support can empower women leaders to navigate gendered career paradoxes.

In parallel, he investigates resilience strategies among high-performance age-group triathletes and their spillover effects at work, as well as the contexts, policies, and migration arrangements that can leverage circular migration of skilled workers to scale vocational and technical skills training that promotes young women’s employment and green job creation.

Ha HOANG

Professor, Paris

Ha’s work lies at the intersection of entrepreneurship and strategy, with a focus on collaborative strategies between new ventures and incumbents and on the dynamics of collaboration and competition.

Her research also examines parent organizations and employee ventures, leveraging data on representative French start-ups. At the individual level, she studies founder identity and entrepreneurial transitions from a career perspective, including work on professionals engaging in entrepreneurial activity.

Ruthanne HUISING

Professor, Paris

Ruthanne’s research is motivated by the persistent challenge of achieving organizational compliance with regulations, standards, and ethical or social expectations. She studies the work and professions that shape how compliance is understood and practiced within and across organizations.

Within organizations, she examines how prosocial demands are translated and implemented, highlighting issues of expertise and power. Across organizations, she studies governance processes and the organized spaces where stakeholders and professional communities negotiate the meaning of compliance and develop resources to support it.

Srividya JANDHYALA

Professor, Singapore

Srividya’s research examines how national and international institutions shape firms’ global strategies and the risks and opportunities they face when operating across borders.

She also studies how the rules that govern foreign investment are established and evolve across countries, shedding light on the geopolitical, institutional, and policy processes that structure cross-border investment environments.

She is the author of “The Great Disruption: How Geopolitics is Changing Companies, Managers, and Work” (Cambridge University Press).

Pooyan KHASHABI

Professor, Paris

Pooyan’s research examines the strategic organization of firms, particularly in knowledge-intensive industries, and how organizational choices shape the creation of competitive advantage.

He studies how firms structure technological and human capital and how both internal and external forces affect organization design and strategic outcomes.

Jung Won LEE

Professor, Paris

Jung Won's research focuses on the psychological antecedents and consequences of interpersonal networks. Her interests include the cognitive characteristics linked with advantageous network positions in the workplace, as well as utilizing networks closely related to job performance. 

Jan LEPOUTRE

Professor, Paris

Jan’s research focuses on the commercialization and diffusion of new technologies and the (non-)emergence of new markets, in particular related to breakthrough technologies. 

Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, and grounded in economic sociology and organizational theory, his current research focus is on the role of time and time compression in deep tech venturing and industrial innovation. 

Anca METIU

Professor, Paris

Anca studies how workers collaborate to solve problems, and to create and transfer knowledge, both in collocated and distributed teams. In current projects, she focuses on communication processes, as well as on new forms of work such as playfulnesss and nomadism. She uses mostly qualitative methods to gain a deep and nuanced understanding of the complexity of people, organizations, and the contexts in which they evolve.  

Maren MICKELER

Professor, Paris

Maren’s research investigates what drives employees to collaborate and share knowledge within organizations, with an emphasis on understanding the conditions that enable effective teamwork and the barriers that inhibit collaboration.

Using experiments and quantitative methods, she studies how firms can leverage technology to manage teams, stimulate innovation, and improve performance—identifying actionable levers that organizations can use to strengthen collaboration at scale.

Elisa OPERTI

Professor, Paris

Elisa’s research examines how collaboration and rivalry networks shape innovation and strategy. Her work shows that inter- and intra-organizational ties can expand recombination while creating trade-offs, and that affiliations and internal networks influence technology entry, patent evaluation, job mobility, and performance.

Her current agenda focuses on exogenous drivers of network change and heterogeneous network returns. She studies how shocks (financial crises, policy or enforcement disruptions) rewire networks and who benefits most (including gender differences), across settings such as entrepreneurial ecosystems in France and Finland, the music industry, and Italian regions and industries where enforcement actions against organized crime disrupt local exchange networks and reshape firms’ strategic and innovative behavior.

Judy QIU

Assistant Professor, Paris

Judy studies how people navigate their work relationships through the lenses of gender and narcissism. This stream of research examines how gendered relational norms shape women and men’s workplace attitudes, as well as the process and consequences of interacting with narcissists at work. 

A second stream explores when and why people overlook unethical behavior. This work investigates the psychological foundations of excusing dishonesty and identifies mechanisms that contribute to the intentional sharing of misinformation and “fake news.

Aarti RAMASWAMI

Professor, Singapore 

Les recherches de Aarti portent sur les systèmes utilisés pour identifier, sélectionner et développer les talents de gestion et de direction ; ainsi que le leadership ; le mentorat ; le DEI ; la culture ; la créativité.

David SLUSS

Professor, Paris

David researches new leader development, newcomer socialization (on-boarding), and other professional transitions through the lens of relational identity and identification.  

Isabelle SOLAL

Professor, Paris

Isabelle studies how gender influences resource allocation decisions and the way audiences interpret events, leading to inequality in labor and capital markets 

Ashok SOM

Professor, Paris

Karoline STRAUSS

Professor, Paris

Karoline’s research focuses on how people think about their future at work and how this shapes their behavior. She studies future work selves - people’s hopes and aspirations for who they might become - and how these future selves guide behaviors such as networking, learning new skills, or taking on new roles. She also examines how people let go of or revise their sense of who they are or want to become, for example when their work changes due to technological disruption. 

Closely linked to this, Karoline studies proactive behavior: how people initiate change in their jobs, careers, or organizations, what drives them to do so, and the outcomes for both individuals and their workplaces. Her work helps organizations better understand how to support people in engaging with change, strengthen their sense of purpose, and develop the capabilities they will need for the future.

Junko TAKAGI

Professor, Paris

Junko’s research examines diversity management in an era of diversity backlash, investigating how backlash emerges, what it signals about organizational and societal dynamics, and how it affects diversity-related initiatives.

Her work explores what backlash means for DEI—whether framed as Diversity, Equality and Integration or Diversity, Equity and Inclusion—and seeks to clarify the conditions under which organizations can sustain effective and legitimate inclusion practices.

Maurice THEVENET

Professor, Paris

Maurice’s work addresses leaders’ development, focusing on how organizations cultivate leadership capabilities and support effective managerial practice over time.

He also engages with questions at the intersection of ethics and AI in HR, examining how AI-enabled HR practices raise new ethical challenges and what governance and decision principles can support responsible adoption.

Alentina VARDANYAN

Professor, Paris

Alentina’s research examines how and why individuals collaborate and co-create with AI, focusing on the psychological mechanisms that shape these decisions in organizational settings.

She investigates how human–AI collaboration influences employee creativity and related outcomes, clarifying when AI-enabled co-creation supports novel idea generation and when it may introduce barriers or trade-offs.

Maciej WORKIEWICZ

Professor, Paris

Maciej’s research examines how organizations design structures and coordination mechanisms in contemporary work settings, with a particular focus on the interplay between organizational design choices and the changing nature of work.

Current projects center on human–AI collaboration and remote/hybrid work, investigating how organizations learn, adapt routines, and sustain performance when collaboration technologies and AI tools reshape communication, coordination, and knowledge flows.

Yann CRAMER

Professor of Management Practice, Paris

Anne-Sophie DE GABRIAC

Professor of Management Practice, Paris

No current research topics/projects were provided in the input. This profile can be updated once research themes or ongoing projects are specified. 

Noha EL ATAR

Professor of Management Practice, Paris

Noha’s research examines organizational justice, gender and social representation through art-based, performative, and visual methods, focusing on how roles are constructed, represented, and experienced in organizational and popular-cultural contexts.

Using approaches such as film, embodiment, drama, and theater, she develops an interdisciplinary perspective that bridges management, social science, and the arts—offering novel insights into fairness, power, and representation at work and in society.

Liem NGUYEN

Professor of Management Practice, Paris

Sapna REMA HARI

Professor of Management Practice, Paris

According to the input, she is not currently involved in research. This profile can be updated if research topics or projects become relevant in the future.

Julien SALAVANE

Professor of Management Practice, Singapore

Michail TOANOGLOU

Professor of Management Practice, Paris

Michail’s current research focuses on monitoring sustainability for both organizations and tourism destinations, addressing how sustainability objectives can be operationalized and tracked across multiple stakeholder groups.

His work emphasizes measurement and governance: developing indicators, dashboards, and data practices that support managerial decision-making and destination management, and that make sustainability performance comparable, actionable, and credible over time.