HEC Paris - Certificates - Social Business

		Frédéric Dalsace Associate Professor of Marketing at HEC, Frédéric Dalsace is the holder of the Social Business Chair. A HEC graduate, he also holds an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School and both an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Management from INSEAD. Most of his research concentrates on inter-organizational issues such as outsourcing, product development, and buyer-seller relationships, but Frédéric is also working on non-traditional branding strategies. Frédéric Dalsace has more than 10 years of experience in the business world. He has worked in the sales and marketing departments of several industrial companies such as Michelin and CarnaudMetalbox (packaging), both in Europe and in Japan. Before returning to Academia, he was a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company for more than three years.

		Dr. Mostak Ahmmed An expert in microfinance and Social Business, Dr; Mostaq Ahmmed is the Deputy Chief Operating Officer of ASA International. He is also founder of the Paris-based Social Business Think Tank - International Center for Microfinance and Social Enterprises (ICMSE), which is creating and promoting Social Businesses in Bangladesh by building linkage programs with Corporate Businesses and Microfinance Institutions. Dr. Mostaq Ahmmed has a Masters Degree of Social Sciences from Dhaka University in Bangladesh, a Masters Degree in International Relations and European Politics from the University of Liege, and a Ph.D. in International Relations from Washington University, St. Louis, USA. He has written many reviews and articles on various issues regarding development policy, poverty and micro finance.

		Jérôme Auriac Jérôme Auriac is the founder and CEO of Be-Linked, Business & Community Intelligence. After five years in sales and marketing for the editorial group Wolters Kluwer, Jérôme became the commercial director of Novethic (a resource center for CSR issues and Sustainable Development) in 2001. In 2003, he joined the agency Manifeste as associate director. Specialized in sustainable development and business-NGOs partnerships, he created the website wwo.fr, the first online database with information about NGos to facilitate public-private partnerships. In 2008, he founded Be-linked, Business & Community Intelligence, a consultancy firm specialized in business and civil society organizations relationship.

		Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot Executive Director of the Social Business Chair is also Academic Director of the HEC Sustainable Development Specialized Master, which she co-created in 2003. She has been member of the steering committee for a "Responsible Campus" at HEC since 2005 and coordinator of the sustainable development committee. She is also in charge of developing research projects and new teaching modules and events focused on sustainability in various HEC programs. Before coming to HEC, she worked for 10 years in consulting and training for Eurequip Consulting Group, and as an entrepreneur. Prior to that, she worked for 5 years as a controller in PHILIPS after having spent one year working for a humanitarian organization in Chile. She graduated from HEC in 1988.

		Bernard Garrette HEC MSc (1985), HEC Ph.D. (1991), Bernard Garrette is Professor in the Strategy and Business Policy at HEC. His research interests focus on strategic alliances between firms. Author of several books and numerous articles, he has been a visiting professor at the London Business School (1997 and 1999) and at the University of Cambridge (1995-1996). He has also worked as a consultant (Senior Practice Expert in Corporate Finance and Strategy) with McKinsey & Company in 2000-2001. In 2004, he received HEC’s Pierre Vernimmen Teaching Award, endowed by BNP-Paribas. Bernard Garrette holds the Atos-Origin Chair on “Growth Strategies and Integration Management”, created in 2006.

		Laurence Lehmann-Ortega HEC (1993), Laurence first worked as a consultant in strategy, where she helped global clients in the retail, luxury goods and building material industries to develop and refine their strategy. Since 2006, she holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Aix en Provence. Her research focuses on strategic innovation, that is to say business model innovation, especially in incumbent firms in mature and low tech industries. In this context, she deals with business model innovation as a response to sustainable development constraints and its consequences in multinational firms, in particular the learning process and the questionning of mental schemes. She is currently an Affiliate Professor at HEC Executive Education.

		Ivan Le Mintier Ivan Le Mintier is the founder of ICTHYS, and has spent more than 20 years in the fast consumer good industries, with positions in sales, marketing, and executive management. He has notably worked for international firms such as Nestlé, Danone and Yoplait mostly overseas. He has become an expert in the field of innovation and nutrition for emerging economies, as well as in the development of business activities and in strategies for growth building. Since 2004, he is actually assisting blue chip companies to build Social Business projects in Asia and Africa. He has been working in particular with danone.communities fund since early start and, as such, is closely associated to their "social business" approach. In 2010, he is starting two new projects in Vietnam and in the Middle East. Ivan is convinced that through developing new economic models today we can help development in poor countries tomorrow, uniting the best in the economic and social fields... He is a graduate of ESLSCA Business School Paris and co founded in 2009 with some volunteers an ngo called "artisans of hope", dedicated to small-scale social businesses.

		Rachel Maignan Upon joining Crédit Coopératif in 2003, Rachel Maignan joined ESFIN GESTION, a pioneering capital investor involved in Socially Responsible Investment. At the heart of this team, Rachel is in charge of investing in social businesses which succeed in finding the right balance between their social purpose and their economic viability. Over the years, Rachel has acquired a specific knowledge in the selection of different types of social businesses, regardless of their legal form (cooperatives, companies with employee shareholding, associations) and has developed skills in financial engineering. Rachel began her professional life by managing a team of financial analysts and spent seven years focused on granting loans to small and medium-sized companies in France. She graduated from Paris Dauphine University with a Master in Bank & Finance.

		Laurence Moret After completing a Masters in Finance at Paris IX Dauphine, and an MBA at Nicholls State University (La), Laurence Moret became and financial journalist from the press agency ACP-Telpresse. In 1993, she moved towards a career in the banking sector, which she knew well from her experience as a journalist, by joining the marketing service of Cortal Bank (now Cortalconsors) to recruit new clients for savings products and the stock exchange... She joined Credit Cooperatif in 2001 at which time they were creating their United Alternative Financing Project in order to develop the united finance sector at the very heart of banking and France itself. In this capacity Laurence represents Credit Cooperatif at the Surveillance of Nef and Sidi Council, at the Finansol Societies Administration Council, for which she is the official representative, and at the Sicav Choix Solidaire Adiminstrative Council. Alongside this, she gives regular classes at HEC Paris and at Lyon's School of Management on the subject of united finance.

		David Ménascé David Ménascé is Vice President of First&42nd, a consulting firm on CSR issues. Definition of CSR strategy, integration of sustainable development issues into business models, and implementation of stakeholders‘ dialogue programs are his main areas of interest. Having previously worked in the New York office, David now works in Paris. He collaborates with the publishing house Editions Hermes, where he has founded a book collection on sustainable development and corporate responsibility and is also an editor of the Revue Française de Gestion. In addition, David Ménascé is the founding Director of BOPOBS, a think tank working on “strategies of the Base of the Pyramid” and new social businesses. He graduated from HEC and from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris.

		Charles-Edouard Vincent After graduating from Polytechnique and l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Charles-Edouard Vincent completed his studies at Stanford University, California, where he obtained a Master of Science in Engineering Management. He began his career at Netscape in 1996, and subsequently spent 10 years working in sales and marketing positions in the industry with Netscape, Sun-Microsystems and SAP. In 2005, he joined Martin Hirsch at Emmaüs, France, to put in place their D3E environmental policy (which deals with electrical/electronic equipment waste) and dealt with the issues Emmaüs faced within the economy. In 2007, he founded a system of social integration - Emmaüs Defi, which offers employment to people living in emergency sheltered accommodation. In less than 3 years, the system has created 70 jobs. Charles-Edouard Vincent is the General Manager of Emmaüs Défi and an Affiliated Professor at HEC.