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Eric Arnould, Emeritus Professor, Aalto University
Eric Arnould, Emeritus Professor, Aalto University
Dr. Eric Arnould is Visiting Professor of Marketing at the Aalto University Business School. He briefly held a social science Chair in the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) at University of Southern Denmark. He has been on faculty at four European universities and several in the US. He has pursued a career in applied social science since 1973, receiving a PhD in anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1982. Aalto University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2016 that recognized his work in codifying the field of consumer culture theory and in bringing ethnography work into academic marketing research. Early ethnographic research in Benin in 1970 and in Niger in 1977-1980 inspired his approach to contemporary market mediated society.
Professor Arnould’s research on consumer culture, cultural marketing strategy, services marketing and marketing and development appears in over 90 articles and chapters in major social science and managerial periodicals and books. He has helped legitimize post positivist inquiry in marketing scholarship and codify consumer culture Current interests include sustainable business practice both in east Africa and Europe, sustainable consumption, collective consumer creativity, human branding, visual representations, and digital mobility. He is at work on a collective text on consumer culture theory.
Aharon Cohen Mohliver, Assistant Professor, London Business School
Aharon Cohen Mohliver, Assistant Professor, London Business School
Aharon Cohen Mohliver is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. His research centres on liminal practices—practices that exist in a social “grey zone” space, lying between what is socially acceptable and what is already labelled as unlawful or unacceptable by society. He studies how these practices emerge, spread, and become normalized, in contexts ranging from care homes and the prescription drug epidemic to auditors, financial markets, and startups. This stream of work aims to inform research and practice on how to design policies and interventions that reduce the risk of future harm to the firm or society. His current work expands this theme to contested social issues, examining how polarization divides audiences around competing values and standards of social acceptability—so that liminal practices are the ones violating one group’s norms while upholding the other group’s moral values. In this stream he studies the competitive equilibria in which all firms maximize profits by becoming involved in social issues that are often far removed from their actual business, how financial markets reward such deviations, and how this dynamic shapes corporate activism, stakeholder responses, firm structures and processes and, how, often, competition drives firm’s actions toward increasing the underlying polarization rather than resolving the social issue.
Aharon has published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, as well as the Journal of Business Ethics and book chapters. His work has been recognized by professional bodies in awards and nominations, including the 2024 Responsible Research in Management Award showing the relationship between physicians’ professional networks and the prescription drug epidemic. He serves on the editorial boards of the Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal and writes for wider audiences in the Financial Times, Fortune, Forbes, and Think at London Business School. Aharon holds a PhD from Columbia Business School.
Rodolphe Durand, Professor, HEC Paris
Rodolphe Durand, Professor, HEC Paris
At HEC-Paris, rodolphe (rudy) durand is the Joly Family Professor of Purposeful Leadership and the academic director of the Purpose Center. He is the founder of the Society and Organizations Institute (S&O) which he launched in 2009 and led until September 2024. Since 2010, he has been Visting Professor at NYU, UCLA, Cambridge and Oxford and Visiting Scholar at HBS. As a scholar, rudy’s primary research interests concern the normative and cognitive dimensions of firms' performance, and especially the consequences for firms of defining their purpose and coping with the current major environmental and social challenges. As a member of Boards (in listed and private firms, in non-profit organizations), impact committee, and purpose committee (comité de mission), rudy works with multiple organizations on developing, implementing, and assessing impact strategies that value a firm’s purpose and its intangible assets.
Rudy is also a prolific author of books. Most recently: “A Broader Vision of Business” coauthored with Veolia’s CEO, Antoine Frérot (Flammarion, 2022), "Strategor", leading Strategy textbook in France (9th edition, 1st edition in English -Dunod: Paris, 2024), and forthcoming at Oxford University Press a book on “Leading with Purpose for Sustained Performance.”
Adrien Fabre, Researcher, CNRS - CIRED
Adrien Fabre, Researcher, CNRS - CIRED
Adrien Fabre is a CNRS researcher at the International Research Center on Environment and Development (in Paris). He obtained his PhD in 2020 at the Paris School of Economics. Adrien works on the economics of climate change and international taxation. He conducts international surveys to study the political economy of climate policies, and economic simulations of global redistributive policies.
Ilze Kliveniece, Associate Professor, INSEAD
Ilze Kliveniece, Associate Professor, INSEAD
Ilze Kivleniece is an Associate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD (France). She holds a doctorate from HEC Paris. Her research focuses on firm boundaries, innovative organizational forms and governance that spans private and public interests as well as associated value implications.
Tobias Kruse, Economist at OECD
Tobias Kruse, Economist at OECD
Tobias Kruse is an Economist in the OECD Economics Department, where his research focuses on the evaluation of climate and environmental policies, with particular emphasis on their environmental and economic impacts. He also leads work on evidence synthesis, applying literature reviews and meta-analyses to assess the impacts of climate policies and strengthen the evidence base for policymaking. He holds a PhD in Environmental Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Hunter Jones, Assistant Professor, ESSEC Business School
Hunter Jones, Assistant Professor, ESSEC Business School
Hunter Jones is assistant professor of Marketing at ESSEC Business School. He specializes in Consumer Culture Theory research, an interdisciplinary sub-discipline of consumer behavior that draws from anthropology and sociology to study consumption. His research interests include consumer resistance movements, consumer activism, the politics of consumption, sustainability, and consumers' risk perceptions. He is on the editorial review board for Consumption, Markets, and Culture and was awarded the Franco Nicosia award in 2021 by the Association of Consumer Research. Prior to moving to Europe, he grew up in Utah, Texas, and Kansas.
Aurélien Saussay, London School of Economics
Aurélien Saussay, London School of Economics
Aurélien Saussay is an Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics in the Grantham Research Institute and the co-founder and co-Director of the LSE Green Skills Lab. He is also an Associate of LSE's Centre for Economic Performance, a member of the French Council of Economic Advisers (CAE). He held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2022-2025) and was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School in the Fall semesters of 2024 and 2025.
His research lies at the intersection of environmental, labour and macroeconomics. His main agenda focuses on the employment impacts of decarbonization, leveraging large-scale online job vacancy datasets and modern NLP techniques in particular. His secondary research stream assesses the macroeconomic impacts of climate change mitigation policies.
Georg Wernicke, Associate Professor, HEC Paris
Georg Wernicke, Associate Professor, HEC Paris
Georg Wernicke is the Dieter Schwarz Foundation Chaired Associate Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris.
His areas of expertise are topics in and the intersection of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility. Currently, Georg works on several projects on CEO activism and how CEO gender affects employees’ evaluations of their CEO.
Georg’s research appeared in leading management journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal, and won several prestigious awards, such as the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation Best Dissertation Award and the 2022 Best Paper Award by the German Academic Association of Business Research for the best article published in 2020/21.
Georg received his Ph.D. in management from the University of Mannheim and has been a faculty member at HEC Paris since 2018. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Corporate Governance at Copenhagen Business School and a visiting scholar at Northwestern University, INSEAD, and others. He currently serves on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Discoveries, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal.
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