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Jean-Paul LARCON

Emeritus Professor

Strategy and Business Policy

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Biography

Jean-Paul Larçon holds an M.Sc. degree from HEC and a Ph.D. in Management from Paris Dauphine University. He also studied Business Adminsitration at Harvard Business School. He was named an Esade Alumni of Honor in 2006. He is a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite. He is currently Senior Associate Dean for International Development at HEC Paris.

Jean-Paul Larçon was the Dean of HEC Paris from 1982 to 1989 and a founder of the Community of European Management School - todays CEMS Global Alliance.
From 1989 to 2009, he launched different initiatives in management education in Central Europe (the Baltic States & Poland), Middle East, North Africa, Federation of Russia, Central Asia (Kazakstan), and China. He was a visiting professor at CEIBS (China), Esade (Spain), the GSOM of St Petersburg State University (Russia), NHH Bergen (Norway), Tsinghua SEM (China), and WUT School of Business (Poland).
Jean-Paul Larçon is a Board member of Baltic Management Institute and the Chairman of the Council of Warsaw University of Technology Business School. Senior Associate Dean for International Development, HEC Paris
He was awarded the Regalia of Doctor Honoris by Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania).

His current research and teaching interests are around international strategy and emerging markets multinationals.

Scientific articles

L'identité de l'entreprise, un facteur clé de survie

Direction et Gestion, 1979, n° 3, (in coll. with R. REITTER)

Il faut moderniser les structures et les systèmes de gestion des grandes municipalités

Gestion, Montréal, 1978,

Management et bureaucratie

Gestion, Varsovie, 1977,

La formation permanente en économie socialiste

Revue Française de Gestion, 1977,

Management et bureaucratie

Management France, 1977,

Le management des grandes métropoles

Revue Française de Gestion, 1977,

Books

Structures de pouvoir et identité de l'entreprise

Nathan, Paris (in coll. with R. REITTER )

Profession patron

Flammarion (in coll. with J. Anastassopoulos )

Stratégie et politique financière

Dunod (in coll. with J. Lisimachio )

Chapters in edited books

Working papers

Case Studies

Scientific articles

Europe's Strong Suit

European Business Forum, Spring 2000, n° 1, pp 10-13, (in coll. with B. RAMANANTSOA)

La dynamique de l'Investissement Direct Etranger en Europe Centrale

Fusions et Acquisitions, November 1998, pp 12-15,

Le marketing international - Europe de l'Est : une mosaïque d'opportunités

Revue Française du Marketing, 1996, n° 160, pp 5-93,

Links between business and business education in France

IMD Report, EFMD, Bruxelles, 1986,

Books

Stratégie, structure, décision, identité : politique générale d'entreprise

Dunod (in coll. with les membres du département Stratégie et Politique d'Entreprise, sous le pseudonyme de "Strategor" )

Chinese Multinationals (Ed.)

World Scientific Publishing Company

Entrepreneurship and Economic Transition in Central Europe (Ed.)

Kluwer Academic Publishers

The Light and the Shadow - How Breakthrough Innovation is Shaping European Business

Roland Berger Foundation - Capstone (in coll. with O. Kalthoff, I. Nonaka, P. Rozenzweig, R. Lessem, K. Macharzina, R. C. D. Nacamulli, P. Nueno )

Chapters in edited books

Le savoir relier

L'École Des Managers De Demain, ouvrage collectif des professeurs du Groupe HEC, Editions Economica

Le savoir relier

L'École Des Managers De Demain, ouvrage collectif des professeurs du Groupe HEC, Editions Economica

Le savoir relier,

L'Ecole Des Managers De Demain, ouvrage collectif des professeurs du Groupe HEC, Editions Economica

Managers education, recruitment, and style

Transformations In French Business, J. Frommer, J. McCormick (Eds.), Quorum Books, New-York

Working papers

Case Studies

Education

  • Individual Studies in Business Administration, Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School - USA
  • Doctorat de 3e cycle de gestion (Ph.D. in Management), Universite de Paris IX-Dauphine, Université Paris Dauphine - France
  • International Teachers Programme, _ - Switzerland
  • Diplome Grande Ecole HEC Paris (Master Degree in Management), HEC Paris - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2012- Emeritus Professor, Strategy and Business Policy HEC Paris

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • 1988-1989 Co-Founder of Community of European Schools of Management
  • 1982-1989 Administrateur de la Fondation HEC
  • 1984-1989 President de la Commission Internationale de la Conference des Grandes Ecoles
  • 1985 Vice President Fondateur de la Fondation HEC High Tech

Conference organisation

  • Co-organisateur, "International Workshop on Strategic Management and Decision Analysis", HEC School of Management - National Natural Science Foundation of China (Management Sciences Department, Beijing), 17-19 septembre 2001, Jouy-en-Josas (en coll. avec M. Tenenhaus)
  • Awards & honors

    • 2012 BNP Paribas Pierre Vernimmen Teaching Award