PhD Program
Doctoral Program
Doctoral
Program
Your Gateway to an International Career in Research and Higher Education.
We welcome applicants from any field with a strong desire
to pursue an academic career and who are curious, eager to
learn and to explore new ideas.
Johan Hombert,
Director of the HEC PhD program
Key Figures
55
students from all academic backgrounds
84%
international students
44%
women
19
nationalities
+300
alumni, working in over 35 countries
89%
Join an academic career
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Marina Traversa, Finance
Congratulations to Dr Marina Traversa, Finance, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at HEC Paris on December 7, 2022.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Anicet Fangwa, Strategy and Business Policy
Congratulations to Dr Anicet Fangwa, Strategy and Business Policy, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at HEC Paris on December 6, 2022.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Jamal Sakaya, Information Systems and Operations Management
Congratulations to Dr Jamal Sakaya, Information Systems and Operations Management, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at HEC Paris on December 1, 2022.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Mingyi HUA, FINANCE
Congratulations to Dr Mingyi Hua, Finance, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at HEC Paris on October 25, 2022. Dr Hua has accepted a position as assistant professor of finance, Ivey Business School - University of Western Ontario (Canada). Visit Dr Hua's...
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The AMF awards its 2022 prize for young researchers in economics to HEC PhD Noémie Pinardon-Touati
This year, the Scientific Advisory Board of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) awards its young researcher prize in economics to Noémie Pinardon-Touati (HEC PhD and Assistant Professor in the department of Economics at Columbia University), whose research focuses on...
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PhD Freshmen at HEC Paris Tackle Important Societal Issues
10 new doctoral students joined the ranks of HEC researchers in September 2022, bringing the total number of PhD candidates to 55. HEC PhD Program Director Johan Hombert kickstarted the opening day of the first year’s HEC experience, which included warm words of greeting...
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Noémie Pinardon-Touati, HEC PhD graduate in Finance, 2022, wins the 2022 EFA Best Paper by Young Researchers
Congratulations Noémie! The European Finance Association (EFA) awards HEC PhD graduate in Finance, Noémie Pinardon-Touati, the The Engelbert Dockner Memorial Prize for the Best Paper by Young Researchers her Job Market Paper.
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HEC Paris PhD Candidate Maxime Bonelli, wins the EFA Doctoral Tutorial Prize 2022
Congratulations Maxime! The European Finance Association (EFA) DT Co-Chairs awards the best paper presented at the 2022 EFA Doctoral Tutorial to Maxime Bonelli, HEC PhD in Finance.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Chhavi Rastogi, Finance
Congratulations to Dr Chhavi Rastogi, Finance specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris on August 30, 2022. Dr Rastogi has accepted a postdoc position at University of Bonn (Germany).
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Reza Alibakhshi, Information Systems and Operations Management
Congratulations to Dr Reza Alibakhshi, Information Systems and Operations Management specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris on July 8, 2022. Dr Alibakhshi has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at IE Business School (Spain)...
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Olga Ivanova, Management and Human Resources
Congratulations to Dr Olga Ivanova, Management and Human Resources specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on June 24, 2022. Dr Ivanova has accepted a postdoc position at University of Lugano (Switzerland), starting this summer.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Wei Zhao, Economics and Decision Sciences
Congratulations to Dr Wei Zhao, Economics and Decision Sciences specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on June 21, 2022. Dr Zhao has accepted a position at Renmin University - School of Economics (China) as Assistant Professor...
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Noémie Pinardon-Touati, Finance
Congratulations to Dr Noémie Pinardon-Touati, Finance specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on June 20, 2022. Dr Pinardon-Touati has accepted a position at Columbia University (USA) as Assistant Professor.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Debtanu Lahiri, Strategy and Business Policy
Congratulations to Dr Debtanu Lahiri, Strategy and Business Policy specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on June 7, 2022. Dr Lahiri has accepted a position at Nova School of Business and Economics as assistant professor, starting...
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Claire Linares, Marketing
Congratulations to Dr Claire Linares, Marketing specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on June 3, 2022. Dr Linares has accepted a position at the University of Navarra, IESE Business School, starting September, 2022.
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AQR Top Finance Graduate Award recognizes HEC PhD Noémie Pinardon-Touati amongst the most promising finance PhD graduates in 2022
Congratulations to Noémie Pinardon-Touati, one of the 6 winners of the 2022 AQR (Applied Quantitative Research) Top Finance Graduate Award. This prestigious prize rewards the six best students in finance in the world selected by a jury of absolutely top academics in the...
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2021 HEC FOUNDATION - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD
Congratulations to Dr Junli Zhao who received this Wednesday, March 16, 2022, the prestigious HEC Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award 2021 for his research in intermediation in financial markets.
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HEC Paris PhD students got talent!
This special issue of Knowledge@HEC aims to show the excellence and diversity of the research conducted by HEC Paris PhD candidates and alumni.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Emilien Macault, Economics and Decision Sciences
Congratulations to Dr Emilien Macault, Economics and Decision Sciences specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on December 7, 2021.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Claudia Schulz, Strategy and Business Policy
Congratulations to Dr Claudia Schulz, Strategy and Business Policy specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on December 6, 2021.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Martin Hétu, Strategy and Business Policy
Congratulations to Dr Martin Hétu, Strategy and Business Policy specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on August 30, 2021. Dr Hétu has accepted a postdoc position at the University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, starting...
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PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE, JUNLI ZHAO, FINANCE
Congratulations to Dr Junli Zhao, Finance specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on August 12, 2021. Dr Zhao will join City University of London, Bayes Business School on September 1, 2021.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Yang Ding, Accounting and Management Control
Congratulations to Dr Yang Ding, Accounting and Management Control specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on July 8, 2021. Yang will join 'Ecole de Management Léonard De Vinci - EMLV ' (France), as Assistant Professor from next...
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Laure Lelasseux, Management and Human Resources
Congratulations to Dr Laure Lelasseux, Management and Human Resources specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on June 29, 2021. Laure will start a postdoc position at IESEG School of Management (France) from next September.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Xucheng Shi, Accounting and Management Control
Congratulations to Dr Xucheng Shi, Accounting and Management Control specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on June 22, 2021. Xucheng will join the ESSEC Business School as assistant professor from next September.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Alican Mecit, Marketing
Congratulations to Dr Alican Mecit, Marketing specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on June 15, 2021. Alican will join the Skema Business School as assistant professor.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Elena Lizunova, Strategy and Business Policy
Congratulations to Dr Elena Lizunova, Strategy and Business Policy specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral dissertation at HEC Paris, on April 6, 2021.
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HEC Paris PhD student, Martin Hetu, receives the 2020 Dissertation Research Grant by The Strategic Management Society (SMS)
Martin Hetu is a HEC Paris PhD Student in Strategy and Business Policy and works on “The Impact of Intellectual Property Institutions on Cross-Border Market Entry and Inventor Mobility" with his supervisor, HEC Professor Denisa Mindruta.
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PhD Dissertation Defense, Ashkan Faramarzi, Marketing
Congratulations to Dr Ashkan Faramarzi, Marketing specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral dissertation at HEC Paris, on December 14, 2020. Ashkan joined the ESDES - Lyon Business School as Assistant Professor.
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Interview with Arnaud Cudennec, HEC PhD 2020, Strategy and Business Policy
Read why Arnaud Cudennec decided to pursue a PhD and why he decided to join the PhD program at HEC Paris
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AoM Career Division, Arnon Reichers 2020 - Best Student Paper Award
Congratulations! The AoM Career Division, Arnon Reichers 2020 Best Student Paper Award goes to HEC PhD Olga Ivanova and her co-author, HEC Professor Roxana Barbulescu, for their paper "Specializing Generalists: Job Rotations, Managerial Learning, and Promotions".
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AQR Top Finance Graduate Award goes to HEC PhD candidate Huan Tang
Congratulations to Huan Tang, one of the winners of the 2020 AQR Top Finance Graduate Award. This prestigious prize rewards the six best students in finance in the world selected by a jury of absolutely top academics in the field of financial economics.
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PhD Thesis Defense, Huan Tang, Finance
Congratulations to Dr Huan Tang, Finance specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on August 27, 2020. Huan joined the London School of Economics as Assistant Professor.
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PhD Thesis Defense, Rahul Anand, Strategy and Business Policy
Congratulations to Dr Rahul Anand, Strategy and Business Policy specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on August 27, 2020. Rahul will join the Aarhus University (Denmark) as Assistant Professor.
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PhD Thesis Defense, Ana Scekic, Marketing
Congratulations to Dr Ana Scekic, Marketing specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on August 25, 2020. Ana will join the Erasmus University Rotterdam as assistant professor.
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PhD Thesis Defense, Fan Wang, Economics and Decision Sciences
Congratulations to Dr Fan Wang, Economics and Decision Sciences, who successfully defended his Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on July 13, 2020. Fan will join the ESSEC Business School - Singapore as assistant professor.
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PhD Thesis Defense, Veronica Cappelli, Economics and Decision Sciences
Congratulations to Dr Veronica Cappelli, Economics and Decision Sciences, who successfully defended her Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on July 13, 2020. Veronica will join the Stanford University as postdoc researcher.
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PhD Thesis Defense, Paul Gouvard, Strategy and Business Policy
Congratulations to Dr Paul Gouvard, Strategy and Business Policy, who successfully defended his Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on July 1, 2020. Paul will join the University of Lugano (Switzerland) as Assistant Professor.
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PhD Thesis Defense, Zilu Shan, Accounting and Management Control
Congratulations to Dr Zilu Shan, Accounting and Management Control, who successfully defended her Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on June 24, 2020. Zilu will join the University of Bristol (UK) as Assistant Professor.
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PhD Thesis Defense, Saverio D. Favaron, Strategy and Business Policy
Congratulations to Dr Saverio Dave Favaron, Strategy and Business Policy, who successfully defended his Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on June 23, 2020. Saverio will join the Skema Business School (KTO research centre) as Assistant Professor.
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PhD Thesis Defense, Arnaud Cudennec, Strategy and Business Policy
Congratulations to Dr Arnaud Cudennec, Strategy and Business Policy, who successfully defended his Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on June 23, 2020. Arnaud will join the Hong Kong Polytechnic University ("PolyU") as assistant professor.
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PhD Thesis Defense, Pekka Honkanen, Finance
Congratulations to Dr Pekka Honkanen, Finance, who successfully defended his Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on May 26, 2020. Pekka will join the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia as Assistant Professor of Finance.
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PHD THESIS DEFENSE, Fei Gao, Marketing
Congratulations to Dr Fei Gao, Marketing, who successfully defended his Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on May 6, 2020. Fei will join the Bentley University (USA) as Assistant Professor.
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Two HEC Paris PhD alumni selected amongst The World’s Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors by Poets&Quants
PhD Thesis Defence, Thomas Rivera, Economics and Decision Sciences
Congratulations to Dr Thomas J. Rivera, Economics and Decision Sciences, who successfully defended his Doctoral thesis at HEC Paris, on March 4, 2020. Thomas joined the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University as Assistant Professor.
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2019 HEC Foundation - Doctoral Thesis Award
Congratulations to Romain Boulongne who received this Wednesday the prestigious HEC Foundation Doctoral Thesis Award for his original approach of ambiguity within organizations.
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HEC PhD Student in Finance, Maxime Bonelli, wins the 2019 SUERF/UniCredit Foundation Research Prize
Congratulations! HEC PhD Student, Maxime Bonelli, wins the 2019 SUERF/UniCredit Foundation Research Prize, with his paper "Labor Mobility and Capital Misallocation in the Mutual Fund Industry." Maxime will present his paper at the conference at UniCredit in Milan in...
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PhD Alumni, Dr L. Mimoun receives the Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award
We are very proud to announce that Dr Laetitia Mimoun, has been chosen by the editorial team of European Journal of Marketing as a Highly Commended Award winner of the 2018 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the Marketing category. Laetitia Mimoun is...
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PhD Thesis Defence, Poonacha Medappa, ISOM
Congratulations to Dr Poonacha Medappa, Information System and Operations Management specialization, who successfully defended his thesis at HEC Paris, on August 23, 2019. Poonacha will join the Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), Tilburg University (The...
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PhD Thesis Defence, Sukhyun Kim, Marketing
Congratulations to Dr Sukhyun Kim, Marketing specialization, who successfully defended his thesis at HEC Paris, on July 19, 2019. Sukhyun will join a Korean Tech startup "Superbloke" as Chief Marketing Officer (South Korea).
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Boris Vallée, HEC PhD 2014, Nominated Associate Professor
The HEC PhD Program congratulates Professor Boris Vallée on his recent nomination as Torstein Hagen Associate Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School.
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PhD Thesis Defence, Yapei Zhang, Finance
Congratulations to Dr Yapei Zhang, Finance specialization, who successfully defended her thesis at HEC Paris, on July 2, 2019. Yapei will join the ShanghaiTech University School of Entrepreneurship and Management as Assistant Professor of Finance from summer 2019.
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PhD Thesis Defence, Accounting and Management Control
Congratulations to Dr Chiara Bottausci, Accounting and Management Control, who successfully defended her thesis on July 1, 2019. Chiara will join the University of Bristol (UK) as Lecturer.
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PhD Thesis Defence, Strategy and Business Policy
Congratulations to Dr Romain Boulongne who successfully defended his thesis on June 28, 2019. Romain will join IESE Business School (Spain) as Assistant Professor.
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2019 HEC PhD Graduates
Warm congratulations to all our 2019 PhD graduates. Ali Shantia (Information Systems and Operations Management) - Charles Boissel (Finance) - Elena Fumagalli (Marketing) - Elena Plaksenkova (Strategy and Business Policy) - Jiachen Yang (Management and Human Resources) -...
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Top 20 downloads ranking of recent papers published in Global Strategy Journal
Congratulations to Rahul Anand, HEC PhD Student in Strategy and Business Policy, Joao Albino Pimentel, HEC PhD Alumnus 2016 and HEC Professor of Strategy Pierre Dussauge
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PhD Thesis Defence, Strategy and Business Policy
Congratulations to Dr Elena Plaksenkova who successfully defended her thesis on May 27, 2019. Elena will join Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business (USA) as Assistant Professor.
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Poets and Quants - Best 40 under 40 professors, 2019
Congratulations to HEC PhD 2015 Alumnus, Lionel Paolella, for figuring amongst the 2019 top 40 professors. Lionel is lecturer at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
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Research Seminar with PhD Alumni on Social Media for Management Academics
by Thomas Roulet, HEC PhD 2014, senior lecturer at University of Cambridge, Judge Business School and ranked 5th in the Thinklist of most influencing academics in social media published by BathCBOS.
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How HEC trains future professors to design effective learning situations
Kristine de Valck, Director of the HEC Paris PhD Program and Associate Professor of Marketing teaches a pedagogy course to HEC Paris PhD students. She explains the method and challenges of training future professors to become great teachers.
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HEC PhD Dissertations
Essays in Financial Economics
This thesis contains three chapters which investigate how new developm ...
Essays in entrepreneurial finance and development
In my first paper, I study the spillover effects of removing barriers ...
Essays on User Engagement in Social Media: Understanding the Influence of Emotions
My thesis focuses on investigating the role of different aspects of em ...