Supporting academic excellence
ESSEC Business School’s mission is to create and disseminate cutting-edge knowledge with the aim of training pioneering thinkers and influential leaders. But it also strives to clarify the way forward for companies and organizations, and be a driving force for progress in society.
The ESSEC Foundation helps ESSEC’s teaching faculty achieve these goals by:
- Presenting annual awards for outstanding research and innovative teaching methods
- Supporting research development to promote the creation and sharing of knowledge
- Facilitating the reception of visiting professors from prestigious academic institutions around the world
Highlights
On September 22, the annual ESSEC Foundation ceremony took place at the Hotel Potocki in Paris. A solemn and moving event which brought together the ESSEC community in its diversity around equal opportunities and academic excellence.
1st edition for the Capitaine Chomel de Jarnieu Prize
This year exceptionally, the ESSEC Foundation welcomed Major General Pierre-Joseph Givre for awarding the Capitaine Chomel de Jarnieu Prize to Cheer Up, a student association reflecting humanism, one of the strong values held by ESSEC.
Created on December 11, 2019 in tribute to Romain Chomel de Jarnieu (E08), who died for France in Mali, this prize rewards a project carried by an ESSEC student within an association or structure in favor of a human commitment to service of people in difficulty.
Cheer Up, which has been working since 2003 to help young people with cancer and hospitalized, wins this award thanks to its ICARE project, which offers first flights to 12 patients each year.
Academic Excellence Awards
In its new RISE strategy, ESSEC makes a strong commitment: to become the school of reference to accompany and positively influence the way to answer the questions and the new needs of companies, organizations and society. It is in response to this ambition that the Foundation honored this year 7 professors for the excellence of their teaching and their research: Chrystelle Richard, Florence Cavelius, Cristina Terra, Laurence Lescourret, Rémi Triolet, Jeroen Rombouts and Laurent Bach.
Social grants to support equal opportunities
Scholarship students were also honored and officially received their social scholarship during the evening. ESSEC mission is to let its excellent training to be accessible to all talented students, without their financial resources constituting an obstacle. Through its #Together approach, one of the pillars of its new strategy, the school is continuing its commitment to equal opportunities. It also plans to welcome a growing number of scholarship students by 2023, and will strengthen its diversity system with oral double calls for scholarship candidates from the 2022 entrance exams.
« ESSEC is among the best French academic institutions in terms of research, if the criterion is the number of academic publications produced by the faculty each year. The research of our teachers also feeds the daily content of the courses, and provides to our students the level of reflection and mastery of management sciences that they need for their professional development. »
Michel Baroni, Doyen de l’ESSEC
This award reflects the preferences expressed by nearly 2,000 students and participants of the ESSEC group. This year, the prize was awarded to Arthur GAUTIER, Assistant Professor at ESSEC in the Department of Law and Business Environment, and Executive Director of the Philanthropy Chair, as well as Head of the French Fundraising Certificate.
“I am very touched to receive this award from the ESSEC Foundation.
It is a very important mark of recognition for me, because it comes from our students, whose learning and well-being I consider a priority in the strategy of any higher education institution. This award has a very special significance because of the unprecedented period we have all been going through for almost two years.”
Arthur GAUTIER
Assistant Professor, department of Law and Business Environment
From the list of the 10 favorite faculty members over a 5-year period, the jury selected Junko TAKAGI on the basis of her course evaluations and involvement for ESSEC
Junko TAKAGI
Teaching Professor, Department : Management
This year, this award was assigned to Anastasios Dosis for the conception, the pedagogical direction and animation of an original and innovative pedagogical experience : « Teaching Managerial Economics ».
Anastasios DOSIS
Associate Professor, Department : Economics
This award recognizes the academic rigor and relevance for managerial practice that led to the publication of an article.
The Research Award is awarded to two laureates:
- Harris KYRIAKOU for the paper entitled “The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Data Network Effects for Creating User Value”
Published in Academy of Management Review (2021)
Co-authored with Robert Wayne Gregory, Ola Henfridsson and Evgeny Kaganer
- Ioana LUPU for the paper entitled “’Feeling in Control’: Optimal Busyness and the Temporality of Organizational Controls”
Published in Organization Science (2021)
Co-authored with Joonas Rokka
Harris KYRIAKOU
Associate Professor, Department : Information Systems, Decision Sciences and Statistics
Ioana LUPU
Associate Professor, Department : Accounting and Management Control
Awarded every two years, this prize recognizes the quality of the research results produced by a PhD student in their thesis.
The PhD thesis is award to Yanlu ZHAO for his thesis : “Exploring and optimizing data-driven service operations”
Thesis supervisor : Félix PAPIER et Laurent ALFANDARI
Yanlu ZHAO
Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Technology & Operations Management
The ESSEC Foundation Awards for the school’s teaching faculty are the result of intensive collaboration between the Dean’s Office, the Foundation and ESSEC’s management team.
The ESSEC Foundation Awards
The Foundation’s awards for ESSEC’s teaching faculty are the result of intensive collaboration between the Dean’s office, the Foundation and ESSEC’s management team.Created in 2014, the ESSEC Foundation awards have met their objective of increasing the visibility of ESSEC’s teaching achievements. They also reflect alumni ambitions to support the school’s policy - initiated 20 years ago - to internationalize and renew its teaching staff, and align teaching resources with the challenges faced by the school.
The Teaching Excellence Award
Categories: ”Permanent Teaching Faculty” and “External Course Lecturers” These awards reflect the choices of students and executive education program participants, and are approved by a committee composed of a director, the dean and vice-dean of faculty, the deans of academic programs and executive education, two representatives of the Foundation and two student representatives.
The “Daniel Tixier” Learning Experience Award
An annual award that honors a professor or lecturer who imparts an original learning experience. ESSEC’s educational objective is reflected in its mission, to train pioneering thinkers and influential leaders to clarify the way forward for companies and organizations, and be a driving force for progress in society.
Learning objectives are aligned with ESSEC’s mission and emphasize the learning of concepts and methods, and the relation of theory to practice, but also highlight the management of complexity and uncertainty, and the integration of social, environmental and ethical issues.
ESSEC’s “3i” strategy is founded on three pillars: innovation, involvement and internationalization. Innovative educational methods are therefore fundamental in fulfilling the school’s mission - and implementing its strategy.
The ESSEC Foundation PhD Award
Presented every two years, the award jointly recognizes a PhD student and their thesis supervisor for a thesis defended the previous year.
All ESSEC PhD holders who meet the following criteria are eligible:
- The thesis was successfully defended the year preceding the award
- The thesis supervisor is a member of ESSEC’s permanent teaching faculty
- The PhD holder has chosen an academic career following the thesis process.
All eligible applications are examined by ESSEC’s PhD committee, which presents a shortlist of 5 nominees to the jury. The PhD committee is guided by ESSEC’s 3i strategy, assessing doctoral research on the basis of excellence and innovation, impact and internationalization.
The ESSEC Foundation Research Award
This award recognizes recent publication of an article (no more than two years preceding the award) that stands out for its academic rigor and strong impact on management practice in the widest sense. Priority is given to articles published in leading academic journals (classed in categories 0+, 0 and 1 in the ESSEC Research Center’s ranking).
The award emphasizes practical impact, in contrast to other research incentives where the practical aspect can be secondary. Implications for the business world relate to the improvement of management, forecasting or process management methods, and improved organization of companies and other entities, or of society as a whole. Improvements should translate into benefits that are tangible or intangible, measurable, or at the very least perceptible.
White Papers
The Foundation funds two white papers for a total of €10,000 each over two years. Research or teaching projects, they should be in line with ESSEC’s “3i” strategy, develop research and teaching excellence and enhance the school’s international reputation. Projects can be on an individual or group basis. In the latter case, the project leader must be a permanent member of ESSEC faculty.
“ESSEC’s teaching faculty is at the heart of an outstanding intellectual production in the area of organizational management. Their output is thorough, innovative and relevant for decision makers in both the public and private sectors, shedding light on fundamental managerial and economic issues.”
“ESSEC’s Philanthropy Chair is a means of building dialog between academic research and philanthropic activity, which until now have stood in isolation from one another. It also brings to the table a European perspective, previously lacking in understanding a sector that’s fast-growing, but still needs structure - especially in France.”
“Thanks to their cutting-edge research our PhD students – who are future ambassadors set to teach at leading international institutions - contribute directly to the improvement of management practices, as well as to ESSEC’s reputation.”
“We’ve chosen to support ESSEC’s academic staff, who for us are instrumental to the school’s development - both in France and internationally.”
Aurore Lebon-Desroche (E97) and Philippe Desroche (E95), donors
fondation@essec.edu
