PhD Program

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...

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.

This special issue of Knowledge@HEC aims to show the excellence and diversity of the research conducted by HEC Paris PhD candidates and alumni.

Congratulations to Dr Emilien Macault, Economics and Decision Sciences specialization, who successfully defended his Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on December 7, 2021.

Congratulations to Dr Claudia Schulz, Strategy and Business Policy specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral Dissertation at HEC Paris, on December 6, 2021.

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Congratulations to Dr Elena Lizunova, Strategy and Business Policy specialization, who successfully defended her Doctoral dissertation at HEC Paris, on April 6, 2021.

Congratulations to Dr Fei Gao who received this Tuesday the prestigious HEC Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award for his research in developing marketing interventions to influence consumers judgment, choice, and behaviors.

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.

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.

Read why Arnaud Cudennec decided to pursue a PhD and why he decided to join the PhD program at HEC Paris

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Univeristy of Bristol (UK) as Assistant Professor.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Congratulations to Romain Boulongne who received this Wednesday the prestigious HEC Foundation Doctoral Thesis Award for his original approach of ambiguity within organizations.

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...

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...

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...

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).

The HEC PhD Program congratulates Professor Boris Vallée on his recent nomination as Torstein Hagen Associate Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School.

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.

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.

Congratulations to Dr Romain Boulongne who successfully defended his thesis on June 28, 2019. Romain will join IESE Business School (Spain) as Assistant Professor.

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) -...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.