A department groups together professors who share complementary expertise in their discipline. Instruction and curriculum are developed and coordinated for all ESSEC programs in these departments under the management of the department head, who is chosen by his or her colleagues. ESSEC currently has eight departments.
The Management Department furthers education and research on the human, organizational and strategic challenges faced by companies. The department brings together a wide range of expertise in order to address corporate issues from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Its main working themes and areas of research focus on:
• Strategic analysis process and implementation of decisions
• Ethical dilemmas and social responsibility in a globalized world
• Human resources management: techniques and practices
• Entrepreneurial challenges and stages in the entrepreneurship process
• Relationship between strategic challenges and organizational concerns
The department has 31 full-time faculty and 17 part-time lecturers.
ISIS (Institute for Service Innovation and Strategy) has three chairs:
• The Chair in Innovation and Services, created in partnership with CSC and EDF, it aims to enhance knowledge of the following key areas: strategic services management, stimulation of product and process innovation, and harmonization of production chains.
• The La Poste Chair in Strategic Services Management, created in 2009, centers on the challenges of service provision in a globally competitive environment and on the specific characteristics of public service companies.
• The ESSEC Sodexho Chair in Innovation and Quality of Daily Life focuses its research and coursework on the major factors involved in improving the quality of life as well as the role played by innovation, workplace motivation and other issues.
Institute's website
The Leadership and Diversity Chair, supported by Air France, Deloitte and L’Oréal, is designed to create a center of excellence regarding the various facets of workplace diversity and offer leading-edge coursework to some 20 Chair students, with the aim of preparing future managers for the complex situations they will have to face.
Chair's website
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