Training 1988 Doctorate in Management Science, University of Paris-Dauphine, PSL, France WORK EXPERIENCE Academic positions main 1998 – Current Professor, ESSEC Business School, France 1993 – 1997 Associate Professor, ESSEC Business School, France 1990 – 1993 Assistant Professor, ESSEC Business School, France Other academic affiliations 2022 – 2025 Head of Management Department, ESSEC Business School, France 2019 – 2021 Dean, SolBridge International School of Business, South Korea SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS Awards and distinctions 2022 Hamid Bouchikhi Chair in Managerial Innovation at Woxsen University 2021 Member of THINKERS 50 RADAR CLASS OF 2021 2014 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, awarded to the best MIT article Sloan Management Review on Planned Change and Development published from fall 2012 to summer 2013, for his article “Making Mergers Work” (with J. R. Kimberly) Best Professor in Organizational Development 2011, Global Excellence in Human Resources Awards, India 2009 Grand Prix de l’Economie PME