Roxana Barbulescu is a professor at HEC Paris who studies how organizations develop, move, and retain talent in changing environments. Her work focuses on careers, skills, and internal mobility, with a strong emphasis on implications for leaders managing workforce transformation.
She studies how firms match people to roles and how career experiences shape advancement. Her recent research uses AI and machine learning to analyze job histories and job descriptions, uncovering skill profiles often invisible in traditional HR data.
Building on this work, she collaborates with companies and combines large-scale data with field research to examine how internal mobility and training investments influence retention and workforce development. Her research offers practical ways to redeploy talent, build skills, and make better use of existing capabilities in times of change.
She teaches leadership, career development, and workforce transformation in executive education. Her teaching has received international recognition, and she contributes to outlets such as The Conversation, Les Echos, and Forbes.
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