Strategy and Entrepreneurship Research Seminar Series is organised by the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Department at NEOMA Business School. The Seminar Series aims to generate intellectual insights by interacting with top scholars in the field.

The seminars are open to all NEOMA faculty and external scholars.

For registration or further questions, please contact Margherita CORINA, margherita.corina@neoma-bs.fr ou Jihye YEO, jihye.yeo@neoma-bs.fr.

2025-26 Seminars

(updated regularly)

• TBC

2024-25 Seminars

• Franco Malerba (Emeritus Professor, Bocconi University) – “Pre-Entry Experience and the Heterogeneity of Startup Performance in Nascent Industries: Evidence from the Artificial Intelligence Industry, 1980–2014”.
• Professor  Nicolai Foss, Copenhagen Business School – “CEO Divorce, Psychological Stress, and Firm Performance: Gender Effects and Consequences for Wages and Mobility”
• Professor Anne Jacqueminet, ESSEC Business School – “Environmental Disclosure and Analysts’ Recommendations” (paper co-authored with Emanuele Bettinazzi).
• “The present and the future of entrepreneurship research and practice in the development arena “. Research workshop co-organised with NEOMA area of excellence, The World we Want. In collaboration with Women Entrepreneurship research alliance, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, and Symbiosis international University, Pune, India.
  
  • Sophie Bacq, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship and Coca-Cola Foundation Chair in Sustainable Development at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland. Field Editor at Journal of Business Venturing.
  • Samuel Adomako, Associate Professor of Strategy at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. Associate editor of Business Strategy and the Environment.
  • The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group, funds, supports and accelerates the transition to a fairer and more sustainable world.
  • Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), a pioneering impact investment group entirely dedicated to financing and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups in Sub-Saharan Africa.

• Editor’s talk - Professor Mario Daniele Amore, Bocconi University, Associate Editor for Management Science and the Journal of Corporate Finance and Professor Andrea Fosfuri, Bocconi University, Associate Editor for Management Science and member of the editorial board for the Strategic Management Journal.

• Professor Mickaël Buffart, Stockholm School of Economics. “Riding the Waves or Swimming Against the Tide: How Firms Manage Forces of Regulatory and