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Marco

Balzano

Management

Marco Balzano

Management

marco.balzano@skema.edu

Marco Balzano is PhD Student attending a double PhD programme between SKEMA Business School and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research interests deal with strategic imitation, competitive dynamics, organisational agility, and digital innovation.

He was awarded an MSc cum laude in Strategic Management at the University of Trieste.

Research interests: strategic imitation, competitive dynamics, organisational agility, digital innovation.

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Caroline

Boulos

Management

Caroline Boulos

Management

caroline.boulos@skema.edu

Caroline is passionate about the Strategic Management of Innovation in firms.

For her PhD thesis, she is focusing on knowledge protection and the use of different IP protection mechanisms for firms to enhance their innovative activities.

Caroline holds a master’s degree in International Business from Grenoble Ecole de Management and an MSc in Research in Management and Innovation from Université Côte d'Azur and SKEMA Business School.

Her double bachelor’s degrees were in Financial Management and European Business. She is doing her doctoral research with affiliation with KTO and Gredeg research centers.

Manon

Desjardins

Management

Manon Desjardins

Management

manon.desjardins@skema.edu

Manon is currently a PhD candidate in Environmental Economics and Management at SKEMA Business School.

Her research focuses on the role of companies in allocating resources while complying with environmental policies. She holds an M.Sc.A. in Industrial Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal and a master’s degree in Engineering from IMT Mines Albi.

Research interests: Fiscal and environmental policies; global environmental governance; greening value chains

Léonie

Gallois

AI in Operations Management

Léonie Gallois

AI in Operations Management

leonie.gallois@skema.edu

Leonie joined the PhD joint programme between SKEMA Business School and KU Leuven.

She focuses on scheduling problems, both theoretical and computational aspects. Before this, she got her degree of Distributed Systems and Big Data Engineer at INSA Toulouse, a five-year generalist engineering school in France.

She also holds a master of science in Operations Research and Optimisation from Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France. During her studies she had the opportunity to work on a scheduling problem under Laurent Houssin and Christian Artigues at LAAS CNRS, Toulouse, France.

She is a finalist of the master thesis prize 2022 in Operations Research and Decision Making from ROADEF with her work on convex optimisation at ONERA, the French national office for aerospace research studies.

She is a member of Surfrider Foundation Europe, an environmental friendly association which acts locally and at the European institutions level.

Jean-Charles

Grand

Finance and Accounting

Jean-Charles Grand

Finance and Accounting

jeancharles.grand@skema.edu

Jean-Charles Grand is former student of ENSAE ParisTech.

He is currently doing a PhD in finance at SKEMA Business School (in partnership with the Université Côte d'Azur). His thesis, which focuses on country risk, is supervised by Michel-Henry Bouchet and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes.

He also studied psychology, law, and criminology at the University of Paris VIII.

He worked as a quantitative analyst for almost eight years in risk management for banks and insurance companies.

Mehdi

Ibn Brahim

Management

Mehdi Ibn Brahim

Management

mehdi.ibnbrahim@skema.edu

Mehdi is interested in attraction of human capital for new ventures. More specifically, his research relies on experiments to explore how joiners evaluate employment opportunities in the online labour market.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane and a master’s degree in management from Nova School of Business and Economics.

Research interests: strategic human capital, entrepreneurship, decision making, experiments

Diego

Jimenez

AI in Operations Management

Diego Jimenez

AI in Operations Management

diego.jimenezbustame@skema.edu

Diego is a PhD candidate in the joint programme between SKEMA Business School and KU Leuven. He is also an electrical engineer from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile, with a master of science in Electrical Engineering from the same university.

He also worked as a consultant engineer in Chile, where he developed several projects related to operational, planning, and economic studies in power systems.

Diego has participated in three scientific publications, being the corresponding author in one of them.

His current interest is in the fields of optimisation under uncertainty, data-driven optimisation, and bilevel optimisation.

He also is an active practitioner of Capoeira Angola, a brazilian cultural expression.

Natalia

Jubault Krasnopevtseva

Management

Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva

Management

natalia.krasnopevtseva@univ-cotedazur.fr

Natalia is PhD candidate at the Université Côte d’Azur/ SKEMA Business School (France) in management.

Her PhD thesis explores issues of leadership for safety in complex environments, in particular in the context of the nuclear industry.

Since 2020, she is research and training assistant of the European Leadership for Safety Education (ELSE) project, funded by the European Union, aiming to develop a new research-based approach for education in the domain of safety leadership.

Her research interests include leadership, organising in high-risk environments, resilience, mindfulness, organisational attention, and qualitative methodology.

Giannina

Lopez Altamirano

Management

Giannina Lopez Altamirano

Management

giannina.lopezaltamirano@skema.edu

Giannina is a PhD candidate in Business Administration–Management at SKEMA Business School.

Her research focuses on responsible innovation in startups in developing countries as an engine for sustainable and responsible development.

She holds a master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Esan university and a master’s degree in Research in Management and innovation from SKEMA Business School and Université Côte d’Azur

Research interests: Generation of ecosystems and policies to support sustainable businesses, Sustainable and responsible innovation and entrepreneurship, Responsible and sustainable entrepreneurial mindset.

Shu Kai

Finance and Accounting

Shu Kai Lu

Finance and Accounting

shukai.lu@skema.edu

My name is Shu Kai (you can call me Kai) and I currently love conducting research on options. Specifically, my work involves option implied information, with a focus on implied volatility.

Prior to SKEMA, I was working as a risk analyst at GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore and also as a quant at the Asian Institute of Digital Finance, NUS.

I hold an MSc Finance (first class) from Grenoble Ecole de Management (GEM) and a BSc Physics from the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Research interests: asset pricing, derivatives, computational finance

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Woodrow

Matthews

Management

Woodrow Matthews

Management

woodrow.matthews@skema.edu

Woodrow is a 3rd year PhD candidate at SKEMA Business School in the KTO Research Center. His research focuses on firm growth and funding, specifically through special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in order to go public.

He holds a Master of Research in Management and Innovation from SKEMA, a Master of Science in International Marketing and Business Development from SKEMA, and a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality and Tourism Management from Hawaii Pacific University.

Vinaya

Pai

Management

Vinaya Pai

Management

Vinaya.pai@skema.edu

Vinaya is pursuing her PhD in strategic management focusing on management of intellectual capital impacting employee mobility. Her research focuses on how human and relational capital could have differential impacts for employee mobility and mobility choices.

Prior to joining the PhD, she acquired vast experience working with international non-profit, and government agencies in India, Australia, and the U.K.

She holds a master’s in social work from India, followed by a social science research master's from University of Bristol (U.K.), and a research master's in innovation management jointly offered by SKEMA Business School and Université Côte d’Azur.   

Research interests: intellectual capital, human and relational capital, employee mobility, strategic management

Wilson

Pereira Pinto Neto

Finance and Accounting

Wilson Pereira Pinto Neto

Finance and Accounting

wilson.pereirapintoneto@skema.edu

Wilson has a bachelor's in economics and a master's in applied economics from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil.

Wilson is interested in corporate finance, financial distress, and bankruptcy. Specifically, he is focused on analysing renegotiation frictions and their impact on bankruptcy resolution.

Research interests: corporate finance, bankruptcy, financial distress, regulation

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Ana

Pizzutti

Management

Ana Pizzutti

Management

ana.pizzutti@skema.edu

Ana is a PhD candidate at SKEMA Business School in the KTO Research Centre.

Her research focuses on how to build resilience capabilities to deal with societal grand challenges, such as recovering a territory in the post-disaster.

Prior to starting her doctoral research, she worked as a project manager in the IT industry.

She holds an MSc in Information System Management from SKEMA Business School, and a Research Master in Innovation Management from SKEMA Business School and Université Côte d’Azur.

Iris

Poon

Management

Iris Poon

Management

yeetung.poon@skema.edu

Iris is a PhD student at SKEMA Business School. Her research focuses on understanding the innovation patterns of artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry.

She obtained her master’s degree of Applied Economics in Paris School of Economics upon completing her double-major degree in Economics and Finance at the University of Hong Kong.

Sreenivasa

Prabhu

Management

Sreenivasa Prabhu

Management

prabhu.sreenivasa@skema.edu

Sreenivasa is interested in exploring how inventors acquire scientific knowledge to generate successful innovations. More specifically, his research focuses on exploring the interplay between knowledge lifecycle and product lifecycle. He wants to explore how the determinants of competition and performance impact successful innovations.

Prior to starting his doctoral research, he acquired a wide range of experience in industry.

He holds a master’s in chemistry followed by a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from ESADE Business School and a research master's in Innovation Management from SKEMA Business School and Université Côte d’Azur.

Jaouad

Serghini

Finance and Accounting

Jaouad Serghini

Finance and Accounting

Jaouad.serghini@skema.edu

Jaouad works on corporate finance topics. He focuses on private equity practices: fundraising, performance, governance, regulation...

He worked as research assistant before joining the PhD programme at SKEMA Business School specialising in finance and accounting.

Prior to that, Jaouad obtained an MSc in corporate financial management and a bachelor’s degree in business administration.

Research interests: corporate finance, private equity, corporate governance

Nathan

Sorin

Management

Nathan Sorin

Management

nathan.sorin@skema.edu

Nathan is interested in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for business. More specifically, his research focuses on AI-enabled business models and the influence of creative AI on entrepreneurial creativity.

He holds a "Grande Ecole" MSc in Management from emlyon Business School and a Master's degree in Research in Management from University Lyon III.

Lijun

Xie

Management

Lijun Xie

Management

lijun.xie@skema.edu

Lijun is currently a PhD student in the Management specialisation at SKEMA.

Her research will address the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital marketing.

She holds an MSc in AI for Business Transformation from SKEMA and ESIEA, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Management from the University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas.

Yasmeen

Yaish

Management

Yasmeen Yaish

Management

yasmeen.yaish@skema.edu

Yasmeen is currently a PhD student in the Management specialisation at SKEMA Business School.

Her research will address the topic of social networks and diversity.

She holds an MSc in Research, Innovation and Management from SKEMA Business School and the Université Côte d’Azur, as well as an MSc in Human Resources and Management of Relations from IAE Aix University of Aix Marseille.

She previously worked in human resources and learning and development in various United Nation agencies.

Artyom

Yepremyan

Management

Artyom Yepremyan

Management

artyom.yepremyan@skema.edu

Artyom is interested in the use of artificial intelligence foe strategising. More specifically his research analyses the interaction of human capital and algorithms in the forecasting contexts.

He holds a master’s degree in Strategic Management from American University of Armenia and a master’s degree in Research in Management and Innovation from SKEMA Business School and University of Côte d’Azur.

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