2002 Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (qualification to supervise research), University of Paris Dauphine (France)
1996 International Teachers’ Program, London Business School (UK)
1993 Ph.D. in Economics, Ecole Polytechnique (France) Dissertation on Coordination, Incentives and Organizational Models: The Management of Information Systems in Banking. Thesis Jury: Prof. Aoki (Stanford), Prof. Kogut (Wharton), M. Lévy-Garboua (Managing Director, BNP), Prof. Moisdon (École des Mines), Prof. Ponssard (École Polytechnique & CNRS, Advisor), Prof. Tanguy (École Polytechnique & INRA).
1990 M.S. in Applied Mathematics - Joint diploma from University Paris Dauphine, Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines (France).
Research Areas
Areas
Strategic control: corporate governance, management control, value creation concepts, design of incentive systems, design of balanced scorecards…
Project management in high tech industries (IS, automobile, biotech)
Management education: evolution of business schools, university reforms in Europe, accreditation
Sectors
Banking, Automobile, Higher Education, High Technology
- Responsible for the coaching of participants’ strategic projects in “Management Général International” (Advanced Management Program) - 1997/2000
- Responsible for the Entrepreneurial Projects in the ESSEC Mannheim Executive MBA - since 2000
- Academic Director, modules designer and teacher in many company specific programs: Caisses d'Epargne, Eurodisney, France Telecom, Groupama-GAN, SNCF, Philips, AGF, Alcatel, Cegetel, Renault, Canal+, Safran, Essilor, KPMG...
“Bologna: Far from a model, just a process for a while…”, 2nd Workshop on the Process of Reform of University Systems, Venice, Italy, May 4-6, 2006
Affiliations and Academic Responsibilities
Member of the Editorial Board of the review Management & Avenir
Reviewer for the Revue Française de Gestion, Annales des Mines - Gérer & Comprendre, Management & Avenir
AACSB - American Association of Collegiate School of Business
- Member of the Initial Accreditation Committee from July 2003 to June 2006
- Member of the Accreditation Quality Committee since June 2006
- Chair of the Accreditation Quality Committee, since June 2007
- Co-founder in 2005 and Chair of the European Affinity Group, since 2006
- Responsible for the ESSEC Group’s AACSB accreditation project, 1996-1997
- Advisor of the University of Frankfurt, Germany (accredited in December 2004)
- Chair of the Peer Review Teams for Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (China, 2007), China Europe International Business School (China, 2008), University of Virginia Darden, USA (2008), Georgetown University, USA (2009)
- Peer Review Team Member for Grenoble Ecole de Management, France (2003), Vlerick Gent Management School, Belgium (2004), University of Frankfurt, Germany (2004), Université de Laval, Canada (2005), Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management, USA (2008)
EQUIS Accreditation (European Foundation for Management Development) Member of Peer Review Teams for Griffith University, Australia (2006), ICN, France (2006), Ceram, France (2006)
Visiting Researcher at
- Stanford University (Department of Economics) in 1992,
- Ecole Polytechnique (Laboratoire d’Econométrie) in 1997/1998 and 1998/1999,
- Harvard Business School (Life Science Program) in 2001/2002.
- Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney, 2005/2006
Member of the ESSEC…
- Research Center Scientific Committee from September 1996 to June 1998,
- Pedagogical Committee from September 1998 to June 2000,
- Doctoral Committee from September 2000 to June 2002.
- Member of the thesis jury of Sanjeevan Bajaj (Referee, March 1998, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India), of Gerald Lang (Referee, 1999, CRG, Ecole Polytechnique), of Benoit Cret (Referee, Sciences Po Paris, 2007), of Coam Tu (Referee, Econometrics Lab, Ecole Polytechnique, 2008) - Co-Advisor of Benoit Senaux, 2002-2007 (ESSEC Doctoral Program) - Co-Advisor of Diane-Laure Arjaliès, since September 2006 and of Afshin Mehrpouya (ESSEC PhD)
Consulting & Other Activities
Consulting in strategic planning and control for various companies
Member of the Supervisory Board of cHeer Up (not for profit organization) and of Ecole de Paris du Management
Professional Experience
Director of ESSEC (Grande Ecole) and Dean for MBA Programs, 2002-2005
(4 programs: ESSEC MBA, MBA in Luxury Brand Management, MBA in Hospitality Management and ESSEC MANNHEIM Executive MBA – 2400 participants/year).