Associated Research Chairs & Institutes
Chaire CSC - Innovation & Services
Created in partnership with CSC and EDF, this chair aims to enhance knowledge of the following key areas: strategic services management, stimulation of product and process innovation, and harmonization of production chains.
Chair La Poste - Strategic Management in Services
Created in 2009, centers on the challenges of service provision in a globally competitive environment and on the specific characteristics of public service companies.
Chair in Innovation and Quality of Daily Life
This chair 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.
The Leadership and Diversity Chair, supported by Deloitte and L’Oréal, is designed to create a center of excellence regarding the various facets of workplace diversity and responsible leadership and offer leading-edge coursework to some 20 Chair students every year, with the aim of preparing future managers for the complex situations they will have to face.
This Chair is a partnership between the University, PSA and 3 institutions for higher education and and research: Ecole Centrale de Paris, ESSEC Business School and Supélec. This partnership allows the chair to cover multidisciplinary and complementary topics and affectively address the complex questions that arise when talking about the future of the automotive industry in the context of development of electromobility and hybrid vehicles. Its structure allows the chair to convene around the fields of science, engineering, economics, management science and social science.
The ambition of ESSEC’s Change Management chair is to understand the phenomena and mechanisms of change in different societal and economic environments. The chair conducts research on the effects of change within the realms of business, government and society in general.