Introduction
Associate Professor of Strategy, she is co-founder of the S&O Institute (Sustainability & Organizations), aiming at developing at HEC a new way of thinking about the role of business in society.
She co-founded the HEC Chair “Social Business / Enterprise and Poverty” (2008) that became recently the Inclusive Economy Center. She cro-created also the HEC Master in Sustainable Development (2003).
Her research focus is on reverse innovation; she’s studying the processes through which social businesses and Base of the Pyramid business models can be a lever for innovation and strategic rene
Expert
my research focuses on the Social responsibility of firms: how they can design innovative business models and transform themeselves, embedding the Social dimension of ESG in their strategy, and leverage social innovation as a driver for innovation and strategic renewal.
I am also building innovative executive education programs, to train executives from many different countries (in Africa, Middle East, India and Europe) on sustainability issues, to help them become sustainable leaders, driving system change (these can be online or face2face programs)
Fields of expertise: Education, Financing for inclusive development, Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion, Reduction of inequalities / equity / poverty eradication, Social change / social transformations, Social innovation / public sector innovation / policy innovation, Sustainable Development Goals