Jean-Paul Larçon
Jean-Paul Larçon holds a Master in Management from HEC Paris and a Doctorate in Management Science from Paris-Dauphine University. He was named an Esade Alumni of Honor in 2006. He is Emeritus Professor of Strategy and International Business at HEC Paris and Chevalier de l' Ordre du Mérite.
Jean-Paul Larçon was the Director of HEC Paris from 1982 to 1989 and the co-founder of the Community of European Management School - todays CEMS - The Global Alliance in Management Education.
Since 1989, he launched different initiatives in management education in Central Europe (the Baltic States and Poland), Central Asia (Kazakhstan), China, and Russia. He was a visiting professor at CEIBS and Tsinghua SEM (China), Esade (Spain), FGV - Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (Brazil), GSOM of St Petersburg State University (Russia), the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (India), NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Norway), and WUT School of Business (Poland).
Jean-Paul Larçon is the co-chair of the Board of BMI Executive Institute (Brussels and Vilnius), founded in 1999 by HEC Paris, Copenhagen Business School, Louvain School of Management, NHH Norwegian School of Economics and Vytautas Magnus University. He is a member of the Academic Council of Louvain School of Management (Belgium) since its founding.
He was awarded the Doctorate Honoris Causa by NHH Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen, Norway), Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), and Warsaw University of Technology (Warsaw, Poland).
He published numerous articles, cases, and books related to strategy and international business. His current research and teaching interests are in business strategies and alliances in emerging markets.
Julie Battilana
Julie Battilana is a professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School and social innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation + Change Initiative. Professor Battilana's research examines the politics of change in organizations and in society. She’s especially focused on organizations and individuals that initiate and implement changes that diverge from the taken-for-granted norm—that break with the status quo. She teaches on power and influence, leadership, and organizational change. She is the author of two books: “Power, for All: How it Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business” (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021) and “Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy” (University of Chicago Press, 2022, originally published in French by Le Seuil, 2020). She has articles published in the Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership Quarterly M@n@gement, Management Science, Organization, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Research in Organizational Behavior, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Strategic Organization. Her research has been featured in publications like The Boston Globe, Forbes, Huffington Post, The Guardian, and The Washington Post. She lives in Belmont, MA.