Curriculum Vitae

Felix Papier is professor for operations and supply chain management at the ESSEC Business School in Paris, France (top 8 European business school according to the Financial Times). His research and teaching focuses on supply chain and operations strategy, circular economy, supply chain due diligence, purchasing and service management, and sustainable and humanitarian operations. 

He has published in academic and professional journals such as Operations Research (OR), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), Production and Operations Management (POM), European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), Journal of Operations Management (JOM), Harvard Business Review Germany/France and regularly presents his research at international conferences in Europe, Asia, and the United States (INFORMS, MSOM, POMS, EURO/IFORS). 

He has been the Academic Director of the ESSEC & Mannheim Executive MBA (2015-2017) and Dean of Academic Programs (Directeur Général adjoint) at ESSEC from 2017 to 2022.

In 2022/23, he was at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as visiting faculty. In 2006, he was at the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) as a research scholar. In 2001, he completed part of his graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 

Before joining ESSEC, he has worked for several years as a strategy and operations management consultant for McKinsey & Company. He has performed numerous assignments in strategy formulation, purchasing, and supply chain management, serving international clients from the automotive, pharmaceutical, and agri-food industries.

Work Experience

• Full Professor for supply chain management, Operations Management Department, ESSEC Business School, France (2017-)

  • Chairholder, ESSEC Global Circular Economy Chair (2023-)

  • Dean of Academic Programs (Directeur Général adjoint) and Director of the ESSEC Grande Ecole (2017-2022)

• Associate Professor, ESSEC Business School, France (2013-2017)

  • Academic Director of ESSEC Executive MBA programs (2015-2017)

• Assistant Professor, ESSEC Business School, France (2011-2013)

• Management consultant, McKinsey & Company (2008-2010)

  • Industries: Automotive, pharmaceutical/chemical, agri-food

  • Topics: Operations strategy, product development, purchasing, growth strategy

• Supply chain consultant, Thonemann GmbH, Germany (2004-2005)

  • Industries: Telecommunications, high tech, logistics

  • Topics: Supply chain management, capacity planning, inventory planning

Education

• PhD in operations research, University of Cologne, Germany (2005-2008)

• Master of Science in information systems, University of Muenster, Germany (2001-2003)

• Bachelor of Science in information systems, University of Muenster, Germany (1998-2001)

International Experience

• Visiting scholar, Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles (2022-2023)

• Research exchange, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (2006)

• Graduate student exchange, University of Illinois at Chicago (2001-2002)

Doctoral Supervision

• Dr. Milad Keshvari Fard (co-supervision with Laurent Alfandari), graduated September 2018

• Dr. Baolong Liu (co-supervision with Pietro De Giovanni), graduated September 2018

• Dr. Jose-Benedicto Duhaylongsod (co-supervision with Ayse Onçuler), graduated April 2019

• Dr. Yanlu Zhao (co-supervision with Laurent Alfandari), graduated September 2020

Academic Publications - See also my Researchgate profile with all my papers available for download

• "Forced Labor in Labor Supply Chains - Contracting and Information Asymmetry" (with C. Tang, J. Parappathodi), working paper (July 2023)

• "Collaboration between an Airline and Railways to Reduce the Cancellation-Risk of Waitlisted Passengers and Improve Seat Utilization" (with V. Ramani), working paper (March 2023, under revision)

• "Dynamic Capacity Allocation under Lost Sales and Service Dependent Demand" (with G. Kumawat and D. Roy), working paper (August 2021, under revision)

• "Market Thickening for Real-Time Matching in Online Food Delivery Platforms" (with Y. Zhao and C.P. Teo), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2024)

• "Reference-Dependent Preferences in Flat Penalty Service Level Contracts" (with J.B. Duhaylongsod, A. Onçuler), Journal of Operations Management (2023)

• "Remanufacturing of Multi-Component Systems with Product Substitution" (with B. Liu), European Journal of Operational Research (2022)

• "Budgeting in International Humanitarian Organizations" (with M. Keshvari Fard, I. Ljubic), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2021)

• "The Effect of Social Preferences on Sales and Operations Planning" (with U. Thonemann), Operations Research (2021)

• "An Approach for Managing Operating Assets for Humanitarian Development Programs" (with M. Keshvari Fard and M. Eftekhar), Production and Operations Management (2019)

• "How Supplier Economies of Scale Drive Supplier Selection Decisions" (with F. Badorf, S. Wagner, K. Hoberg), Journal of Supply Chain Management (2019)

• "Competition and Coordination in a Three-tier Supply Chain with Differentiated Channels" (with Y. Lan and Y. Li), European Journal of Operational Research (2018)

• "Managing Electricity Peak Loads in Make-to-Stock Manufacturing Lines" (single author), Production and Operations Management (2016),

• "Supply Allocation Under Sequential Advance Demand Information" (single author), Operations Research (2016)

• "Syngenta Uses a Cover Optimizer to Determine Production Volumes For Its European Seed Supply Chain" (with P. Comhaire), Interfaces (2015)

• "Capacity Rationing in Rental Systems with Two Customer Classes and Batch Arrivals" (with U. Thonemann), Omega (2011)

• "Capacity Rationing in Stochastic Rental Systems with Advance Demand Information" (with U. Thonemann), Operations Research (2010)

• "Queuing Models for Sizing and Structuring Rental Fleets" (with U. Thonemann), Transportation Science (2008)

• "On the Convexity of Loss Probabilities when Arrivals occur in Batches and Servers are Heterogeneous" (with R. Wolff, U. Thonemann), Operations Research Letters (2007)

Ongoing Work

• "Barriers to Circularity - Unraveling Challenges in Sustainable Supply Chain Practices" (with A. Guzmán-Rivera, S. Jarzebowski, I. Dalewska-Mądra)

• "The Impact of Incentives on Aggregate Forecasting in Sales and Operations Planning" (with J.B. Duhaylongsod, A. Onculer)

• "Heuristics for Call-Center-Based Scheduling of Field Visits" (with Y. Zhao)

• "Preferences for Decision Thresholds in Complaint Predictions" (with P. Moder, K. Hoberg)

• "Dynamic Capacity Growth in Scale-Ups" (with Y. Li, R. Mogre)

Professional Publications

• “Collaboration in Humanitarian Operations in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic”  (with M. Keshvari Fard), in: Global Logistics and Supply Chain Strategies for the 2020s: Vital Skills for the Next Generation, Editors: R. Merkert and K. Hoberg, 2023, Springer, Berlin

• "Chaînes d'approvisionnement : trop complexes pour être sûres ?", Les Echos, 2022 (with C. Tang)

• "Les entreprises européennes devront passer au crible l’ensemble des activités de leurs sous-traitants et des sous-traitants de leurs sous-traitants", Le Monde, 2022 (with C. Tang)

• "Is Your Supply Chain Susceptible to Forced Labor?", Industry Week, 2022 (with C. Tang)

• "A Better Way to Fix Forced Labor", Barron's, 2022 (with C. Tang)

• "Comment gérer la complexité de la supply chain", in: Complexité et Organisations, Editors: E. Morin and L. Bibard, 2018, Eyrolles, Paris, in French

• "Supply Chain Management" (with U. Thonemann), in: Begriff der Logistik, logistische Systeme und Prozesse, Editor: H. Tempelmeier, 2018, Springer, Berlin, in German

• "The Supply Chain Technology Revolution?", ESSEC Knowledge and LinkedIn Pulse (March 2016)

• "Comment Gérer la Complexité de la Supply Chain - How to Manage Supply Chain Complexity", Harvard Business Review France (November 2014), in French

• "Y a-t-il une Manière Chinoise de Faire du Lean Management?" (with W. Feng), Harvard Business Review France (July 2014), in French

• "Will there by a Chinese Way of Managing Lean?" (with W. Feng), professional working paper (March 2014)

• "Einkauf in unsicheren Zeiten - Procurement in Unsecure Times" (with T. Makowski, F. Walter), Harvard Business Review Germany (May 2012), in German

Teaching

• Environmental and Social Challenges in Operations (MiM Grande Ecole, Master in Strategy & Management of International Businesses)

• Supply Chain Management from a Consulting Perspective (Master in Strategy & Management of International Businesses)

• Operations Management core course (MiM Grande Ecole)

• Supply Chain Responsable et Durable (Executive Education)

• Markov Decision Processes and Applications to Operations Management (PhD)

Miscellaneous

• Member of INFORMS, POMS, and EURO Stochmod

• Member of the Conseil des Etudes, Ecole CentraleSupelec (2017-2022) 

• Best Paper Award, POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management (with M. Keshvari Fard, M. Eftekhar, 2017)

• General secretary and elected member of the ESSEC Senate (2014-2017)

• Member of the working group on the relationship of Supply Chain Management and Purchasing, ASLOG (2016)

• Among the Top 10 rated professors in the ESSEC Foundation Teaching Award (2013, 2014)

• Advisor strategic projects, ESSEC Management Generale (2011-2015)

• Participant, Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, Harvard Business School (2012)

• Founding Member of the Business Analytics Research Initiative, BARI, 2012

• Co-organizer ESSEC/UTK Global Supply Chain Forum, Western Europe Meeting, Paris (2011, 2012)

• Referee, business plan competition NUK, Cologne, Germany (2009-2010)

• Ambassadorial Scholar, Rotary International Foundation, Chicago (2001-2002)

 Languages: German, English, French