Xavier Pavie

Biography

 Professor at ESSEC Business School, he is Director of the iMagination Center and Research Associate at the IREPH (Research Institute in Philosophy).  He holds a Master in Management, a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Université Paris Ouest and he graduated from the International Teachers Programme (HEC Paris). After spending nearly fifteen years in various organizations (Nestlé, Unilever, Club Méditerranée) in marketing and innovation roles, he joins ESSEC Business School in 2008 as Director of the Institute for Strategic Innovation & Services. In this context, he develops several Chairs including the Chair for Innovation in Services with CSC, Bouygues, BMW and EDF, the Sodexo Chair for Quality of Daily Life and the La Poste Chair for Management of Services. In 2014, he creates the iMagination Center whose activities are centered on imagination, innovation and transdisciplinarity. Through iMagination Week (for Bachelor, Master and Executive students in Cergy, Singapore and La Défense), the center helps the managers of today and tomorrow to understand the world in motion while making them actors of the world to build. In 2015, iMagination Week receives the Prize for Pedagogical Excellence. Xavier Pavie is the Academic Director of several programs in executive education including the Certificate for Strategic Management and Services (MSIS) which he developed in 2008 aiming at training managers to address the issues of innovation in a service economy. His teachings around innovation, services and marketing are aimed at both undergraduate and executive level students and concern various sectors including health, banking and insurance, telecommunications, aeronautics, media and agribusiness. His research activities have, since 2008, addressed the notion of responsible innovation. In 2011, he is in charge of defining responsible innovation with the support of an international network of universities as part of a project sponsored by the European Commission. In 2014, he is appointed President of the evaluation commission “Innovation-Regulation-Governance” of the French National Agency for Research as part of Horizon 2020. Xavier Pavie has published numerous books and articles both academic and for a wider reading audience and regularly contributes to Harvard Business Review, Les Echos, La Tribune. Author of a thesis on the reception of spiritual exercises in contemporary philosophy, he continues to regularly publish on that topic. Visiting professor at Kaunas University of Technology (Lituanie) in 2015 and 2016, he regularly teaches at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and the Hautes Etudes de Gestions in Geneva (Switzerland).

Research Interest

 Innovation strategies, Marketing and Management of Services. Innovation and Responsibility.