Strategy and Business Policy

The Strategy and Business Policy Department is home to over 30 professors: 18 Tenure Track Faculty, 11 Education Track Faculty, 2 Affiliate Professors and 1 Senior Research Fellow across our two campuses, in France and Qatar. Department professors have diverse backgrounds; tenure-track faculty have disciplinary doctoral training in sociology, organization theory, applied and experimental economics, data analytics and computational social science from leading universities worldwide. Research interests are eclectic, including broad micro and macro areas. The department research productivity is at par with top Management departments in the United States in Strategy A-journal publications. The department has 16 doctoral students and a vibrant research-oriented culture. The department also hosts the Society & Organizations Institute and runs several Strategy programs across the school, including in the MSc in Strategic Management, the MBA Program, the PhD Program, and the EMBA and TRIUM EMBA Programs.

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Feb 09, 2023

HEC Paris and Dow Jones Global Ranking 2022 Reveals a Stronger Presence of European PE Firms

HEC Paris Business School and Dow Jones have released the new annual Large Buyout Performance Ranking, compiled by Professor Oliver Gottschalg of the HEC Strategy and Business Policy Department. The ranking shows the top 20 private equity firms based on all buyout funds...

Dec 13, 2022

2022: A "Grand Cru" for Research Impact

HEC Paris is ranked the top business school in Europe by the Financial Times, and research impact is part of the ranking’s factors. Indeed, HEC Paris is one of the world’s top research schools in economics and management, and our faculty aim to have an impact on pedagogy...

Oct 11, 2022

Major Influx into HEC’s Researcher-professor Community in 2022

HEC Paris welcomed 11 new research professors to its faculty ranks for this new academic year, one of the richest pickings in years. The top-class scholars join seven of the school’s nine departments, swelling HEC’s total of professor-researchers to 120.

Jun 04, 2022

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...

Mar 18, 2022

Georg Wernicke Awarded for Work on Gender and Ethnicity

Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Policy at HEC Paris, Georg Wernicke, was conferred the 2022 Best Paper Award from the German Academic Association of Business Research (VHB), for his exploration of the role of gender and ethnicity in the reputational penalties...

Feb 28, 2022

Two HEC Professors Win Prestigious “Case Method Oscars” in 2022

For the first time in its 32-year history, the Case Centre, a leading independent case-publishing platform, has rewarded not one, but two, HEC academics in the same year for their outstanding case work in 2021. Professors Rodolphe Durand and Denis Gromb were recognized in...

Dec 21, 2021

HEC Academics Enjoy Rich Exchange with Station F Startuppers

More than a dozen of HEC’s top faculty members paid a visit to Station F in early December as part of a learning expedition to the world’s biggest startup campus. This was designed to further solidify the strong ties between the business school and this hub of incubating...

Dec 15, 2021

HEC Data Day Returns with Groundbreaking Multidisciplinary Research

The fourth Data Day saw a welcome return to in-person presentations and conversations. 21 months after its previous edition, this hybrid event involved 150 practitioners, researchers and students gathered in the Jouy campus’ T Building. The 2021 edition saw lively...

Oct 15, 2021

7 Professors Join HEC Paris in 2021, with a Focus on AI

A total of seven new professors have reinforced the ranks of HEC’s world-class academic staff. Allow us to introduce you to the seven arriving on campus: Yann Algan, Pablo M. Baquero, Julien Grand-Clément, Armin Steinbach, Klaus M. Miller, Matthew Yeaton and Aluna Wang...

Oct 04, 2021

HEC Academic Makes Noise with Study on Flaw in Human Judgment

HEC Professor of Strategy (Education Track) Olivier Sibony joined forces with Nobel-laureate Daniel Kahneman and legal scholar Cass Sunstein to publish Noise, a monumental work on human error. The trio thus reinvents a term for this variability of judgment which pervades...

Dec 06, 2021

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.

Apr 07, 2021

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.

Aug 30, 2021

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...

Feb 01, 2021

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.

Mar 18, 2021

Teaching “Sustainable Development Goals” Game at HEC Paris to train our leaders

The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) game is taught at HEC Paris. Also known as the Global Goals, the 193 member states of the United Nations agreed in 2015 to achieve them before 2030. The SDGs are a plan of action consisting of 17 goals and 169 concrete targets...

Nov 25, 2020

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

Oct 01, 2020

Elie Sung Wins the 2020 TIM Best Dissertation Award

This year’s winner of the Best Dissertation Award in the Technology & Innovation Management (TIM) Division at the Academy of Management Conference is Elie Sung, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Business Policy at HEC Paris.

Sep 29, 2020

New Research by Tomasz Obloj Accepted in the Strategic Management Journal

Tomasz Obloj, Associate Professor of the Strategy and Business Policy Department at HEC Paris, has his latest paper accepted for publication in the Strategic Management Journal.

Sep 24, 2020

Ankur Chavda Finalist for an Outstanding Dissertation Award

The Strategy and Business Policy Department at HEC Paris is proud to announce that Assistant Professor Ankur Chavda has been shortlisted for the 2020 Strategic Management (STR) Division Wiley Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award at the Academy of Management.

Aug 27, 2020

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.

Jul 01, 2020

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.

Jun 23, 2020

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.

Jun 23, 2020

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.

Oct 17, 2019

12 New Research Academics Arrive at HEC Paris

The October 3 Faculty Day featured welcome speeches for a dozen academic figures who join the ranks of HEC research professors, now numbering a total of 120. Faculty & Research Dean Jacques Olivier and Dean Peter Todd greeted the new staff members.

Sep 11, 2019

Welcome to the new PhD 2019 cohort

We are happy and proud to welcome our new 12 high potential PhD students to our campus (9 nationalities and all from top schools) who started their PhD journey last week. They were welcomed both by PhD fellow students, staff, professors and the HEC Foundation who is the...

Aug 30, 2019

SASI Ideas Festival: four questions for Jeremy Ghez

The first "SASI Ideas Festival" will take place from September 2 to 20, 2019: three weeks of conferences, workshops and visits for new students of the MSc Sustainability and Social Innovation (SASI). Jeremy Ghez, HEC Paris affiliate professor and scientific director of the...

Jul 10, 2019

Medici Summer School Marks Interaction Between Science and Culture

For only the second time in its 11-year-history, HEC’s S&O Center hosted the annual Medici Summer School in Management Studies. The weeklong event, co-organized with MIT and the Bologna Business School, is designed for doctoral students and young researchers.

Jun 28, 2019

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.

Jun 27, 2019

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) -...

Jun 10, 2019

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

Jun 12, 2019

Frank Debates Over Cutting-edge Research at S&O

The fifth S&O Research Day featured 21 presentations and three keynote speeches in a whirlwind exchange over two days. Organized by HEC Professor Georg Wernicke, the May 23-24 event was notable for its diversity, high-powered insights and motivation.

May 29, 2019

Q&A with Witold Henisz: Exploiting Big Data for a Financial Revolution

Witold Henisz has been a key figure at The Wharton School for the past two decades. The Deloitte & Touche Professor of Management has been researching ways for corporations to find, build and maintain relationships with their external stakeholders.

May 28, 2019

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.

Apr 24, 2019

Jeremy Ghez in World Top 40

Jeremy Ghez has been chosen as one of the 40 top under-40s professors in 2019 by Poets & Quants.

Apr 18, 2019

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.

Dec 11, 2018

How can emerging industries secure state support?

by Rodolphe Durand, Professor of Strategy and Business Policy and Panikos Georgallis, HEC PhD 2014, Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam (UvA)

Apr 01, 2019

The Perils and Promises of AI and Robotics

For the fourth S&O’s Annual Conference, HEC academic Mitali Banerjee organized a high-caliber conference on the impact of AI and robotics on work and society. Participants enjoyed lively debates led by representatives from the business community, research centers and...

Feb 12, 2019

S&O Launches New Tool to Measure Social Responsibility Impact

In February, HEC’s S&O research center unveiled groundbreaking proposals to standardize social impact measurements for industry, development agencies, consultancy firms and NGOs.

Feb 07, 2019

First Cohort Sails through Pioneering HEC Paris’ Online Master

14 months after its launch, the groundbreaking M.Sc. in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, MSIE, saw its first cohort successfully complete HEC’s first 100% online degree program.

Jan 25, 2019

2019 Data Day Marks New Initiatives

Braving the January 22 snowstorms, around 100 academics, students, company representatives and sponsors attended HEC’s second on-campus Data Day, a wide-ranging conference devoted to the impact of data on research, education and society.

Dec 04, 2018

How Can Impact Investment Satisfy both Societal and Business Needs?

2018 has seen renewed interest in impact investment and its potential for growth in expanding the capital available to address social & environmental issues. On October 10, the annual plenary session co-organized by HEC’s S&O Center, the NGO Action Tank Entreprise &...

Nov 22, 2018

HEC Paris Welcomes New Researchers and Professors

This 2018-19 academic year saw the arrival or confirmation of nine academic figures to swell the numbers HEC researchers to 118. At the September 27 Faculty Day, Dean Peter Todd and Faculty & Research Dean Jacques Olivier welcomed the academics, many of whom are known for...

Oct 03, 2018

Congratulations to Joao Albino‐Pimentel, HEC PhD 2016, for his first article published in SMJ

Firm non‐market capabilities and the effect of supranational institutional safeguards on the location choice of international investments

Apr 05, 2016

HEC Paris Professor Olivier Chatain appointed Associate Editor of the SMJ

The Strategic Management Journal (SMJ) has named HEC Paris Professor Olivier Chatain as its new Associate Editor. The lecturer in Strategy and Business Policy will hold a leading role within the publication, currently the world’s leading mass impact journal for research in...

Sep 11, 2015

HEC Paris Welcomes New Professors

The first week of September saw seven new faculty members join HEC Paris from around the world. Having trained in some of the most renowned Ph.D programs and business schools, including LBS, Carnegie Mellon University, Tilburg University and INSEAD, the new members of the...

Apr 24, 2015

Reaching the rich world’s poorest consumers – HBR article by Muhammad Yunus, Frédéric Dalsace, Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot and David Menascé

In their article ‘Reaching the rich world’s poorest consumers’ (Harvard Business Review, March 2015), Frédéric Dalsace, professor of marketing and Social Business, Entreprise and Poverty chair professor at HEC Paris, Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot, affiliate professor of...

Sep 30, 2014

HEC Paris Welcomes New Professors

For the 2014-2015 intake, 15 new faculty members have joined HEC Paris. Trained in the best Ph.D programs, they come from different countries, and prestigious business schools (MIT, Wharton, McGill, Bocconi, etc…). This reflects the diversity of thought and culture, the...

Feb 20, 2014