Teaching

Current Courses at SKEMA Business School 

Entrepreneurship

Course coordinator, lecturer  (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

Class size: around 1700 students

This course introduces the fundamental concepts at the basis of entrepreneurship. We use a combination of lectures and team projects to explore and apply theoretical frameworks and methodologies in different industry and company situations. For instance, we explore methods for understanding how to identify a potentially innovative entrepreneurial idea, how to analyze its feasibility from a new business venture point of view. Basic mastery of these tools has relevance to everyone seeking a career in business as a manager, an entrepreneur or a consultant.

Strategic Management of Innovation

Course coordinator, lecturer  (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

Class size: around 80 students

Innovation is a fundamental ingredient for competitiveness and economic growth. Innovation, and particularly technological innovation, is inherently difficult, uncertain and risky. Some organizations are routinely more innovative than others whereas most of companies investing in new technologies fail to translate them into successful products and services. The course aims to understand these dynamics, to analyze industrial change and to equip students with an appreciation of the relevant skills needed to manage innovation at strategic level.

Design Thinking

Lecturer (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

Class size: around 60 students

This course aims at introducing students to design thinking. Companies such as Nestle’, Intel, Accenture, and Airbnb just to name a few ones, are increasingly using design thinking and looking for employees with such a training in order to foster innovation and ultimately increase productivity. Design thinking can be defined as a constructive and collaborative process that relies on the power of observation, synthesis, searching and generating ideas, critical thinking, feedback, visual representation, creativity, problem solving, and value creation. Using a practical hands-on approach combined with recent research-based insights, this workshop will support students in the sketching, conception and early development of a solution to a societal challenge. By addressing the challenge, students will go through & experience the 5 phases of the design thinking process, i.e. emphasize, define the problem, ideate, prototype, and test.

Past Courses at ICN Business School and École des Mines Nancy

Creative Process for Business Development ( 2017, 2016, 2015, ICN BS, MSc)

Corporate Strategy (2015, 2016, 2017, ICN BS, BBA)

Economics of Innovation (2016, 2017, École des Mines Nancy)

International Trade Techniques (2015, 2016, 2017, ICN BS,MSc)

Statistics (2015, 2016, 2017, ICN BS, Master Grande école)

Strategic Innovation (2016, 2017, ICN BS, Master Grande école)

Market Analysis and Business Opportunities ( 2015, 2016 ICN BS, MSc)

Organizational Design (2015, ICN BS, MSc)

Past Courses at EPFL

Economics of Innovation (EPFL, MSc)

Principles of Microeconomics (EPFL, MSc)

Technology Policy for Climate Change (EPFL, PhD)

ISI Master students at SKEMA Business School, Spring 2019