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NEWSLETTER 7 PhD PROGRAM The Scholarship Journey student, is one of the co-organizers of the positions, in spite of the uncertainties Academy of Management’s new series related to the health situation. Currently in the Pandemic ‘Thursdays with OMT (organization and there are two students on the Singapore management theory)’, which provides campus, working with our faculty. How are we to navigate the times of the information about the 2020 job market. covid-19? How are we to keep our focus on our At the traditional Poster session in December work when everything – life and death, no less Outside of the pandemic, the 2019-20 16 students presented their work, from the – pulls us away from the concentration and year has been a good one, as you’ll see in third year to those close to graduation. the doggedness necessary for scholarship? the other pages of this newsletter. A big The Dean of Faculty Michel Baroni and the When, even when we manage, we may feel accomplishment has been the financing Dean of Research Jose Miguel Gaspar were guilty about our seemingly egotistic pursuit? of 5th year students, a necessary measure present and handed the prizes. Bravo to Should we even follow this lengthy journey, given the average time to graduate, and the winners: Yingting (Marketing), Mohsen when the world grapples with urgent matters? which brings us in line with comparable (Finance), and Obinna (Management)! A programs. An important step toward the special thanks to the 3 students – Mouna, These are the questions that preoccupy creation of a Spring Methods Camp was the Arslan, and Caecilia – who volunteered their the PhD students, as reported in a survey creation of a Machine Learning course by time and energy to organize the event. conducted by the PhD office in early prof. Workiewicz; offered for the first time June. Questions of meaning that are less during the first weeks of the lockdown, the At the time this newsletter goes into print, amenable to scientific inquiry than the course attracted numerous participants, the admissions process for 2020-21 is being research questions asked in academic papers. including prominent faculty at top schools. finalized. We expect 15 students to join Questions whose answers are strongly shaped us in Fall. The improved package and the by students’ close relationships: family, Every two years, the ESSEC Foundation track record of our graduates have attracted friends, colleagues, and advisors. Questions bestows a PhD Award to the best pair – high-quality applicants, and have persuaded whose answers emerge through an internal graduate and advisor(s) – for the best most of our top choices to accept our offers. journey of reflection and introspection. dissertation and dissertation outcomes (publications). Shemuel Lampronti The Welcome ceremony is scheduled Like the PhD journey, the pandemic-driven (currently an assistant professor at Warwick on August 28th – it will be in person or one has been fraught with uncertainty University), and his advisors Elisa Operti online, pending developments on the and anxiety – this time about the state and Stoyan Sgourev were chosen this year. health situation. Do join us if you can. of the world, the fate of loved ones, A main reason for this choice was that the the ability to focus on work. But unlike three co-authored a paper published in I hope we will soon be able to the scholarship journey, the pandemic one of the best management journals. see one another in person! one was not chosen, not expected, not prepared, and, therefore, infuriating. Since the last PhD newsletter a year ago 14 students defended – all successfully Throughout Spring, the two journeys – their dissertations: 2 Accounting & Anca Metiu, progressed in a frustrating, exasperating Auditing, 2 Economics, 4 Finance, 3 Associate Dean double helix. However, students’ resilience Management, 2 Marketing, 1 Operations [email protected] was at least as strong. In most cases, the and Data Analytics. All these graduates scholarship journey, while disrupted by the have jobs (Skema Business School, EDHEC, pandemic, was not interrupted. In some KU Leuven, Audencia, Neoma Business cases, to everyone’s surprise, the pandemic School, Durham University Business journey even spurred students’ productivity, School, IIM Raipur, HUST Wuhan). sparked their insights, prompted their initiatives. Prelims were passed successfully, The network of our program, and by extension papers were completed and submitted, of our school, continues to expand, with mentorship relationships were strengthened. several PhD students having spent several Some students have taken a pro-active months in Penn State University, Emory stance about the all-too-stressful job market; University, George Mason University, IESE. e.g., Bruno Noisette, 4th year Management Others are preparing next year’s visiting The ESSEC PhD Program is supported by the Paris-Seine excellence initiative (ISITE). PhD Facts 2019-2020 August 2019 Welcome meeting for the new PhD cohort. ALEAHMAD Yosra LONG Quan SONG Yujie Management, Iranian Accounting & Auditing, Chinese Finance, Chinese BISWAS Debajyoti LONG Xin TANG Patrick Operations & Data Analytics, Indian Economics, Chinese Operations & Data Analytics, Austrian ÇELIK Hazal PARAPPATHODI Javaiz VIJAYARAGAVAN Narendran Marketing, Turkish Operations & Data Analytics, Indian Management, Indian GHOSH Rajarshi PAVLYUCHENKO Roman WANG Mo Economics, Indian Marketing, Russian Finance, Chinese LI Ang SINGH Shubham ZHANG Xiaowei Accounting & Auditing, Chinese Management, Indian Economics, Chinese October 2019 Graduation ceremony. THE ESSEC PHD PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED BY THE PARIS-SEINE EXCELLENCE INITIATIVE (ISITE) Some key moments in the PhD Program December 2019 Research Highlights in the Poster Session. Obinna Chinewubeze (Management), Mohsen Ghanadzadeh (Finance) and Yingting Wen (Marketing) congratulated for Best Paper Content, Best Paper Design, Best Paper Presentation. Visited institutions by ESSEC PhD students this year: University of Michigan, Penn State University, George Mason College, Warwick Business School, PUC-Rio de Janeiro, IESE Business School. Some conferences attended by ESSEC PhDs: AFA/ASSA Annual meeting, San Diego, Paris December Finance meeting / Eurofidai, EFA/ EEA Conference, Rotterdam, The 11th Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Hong Kong, 2019 Informs Annual Conference, Seattle, AOM Specialized conferences, Bled, Strategic Management Society, Minneapolis, EARIE 2019, Barcelona, AOM (Academy January 2020 Open Day at ESSEC. of Management) Annual Meeting 2020. THE ESSEC PHD PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED BY THE PARIS-SEINE EXCELLENCE INITIATIVE (ISITE) Alumni accomplishments Shemuel Lampronti (PhD18) Winner of the ESSEC Foundation PhD Award 2020 for his thesis ‘Multi-level networks and organizational outcomes st First virtual PhD Defense on April 1 , 2020 by Sheldon Carvalho. in the sienese context’. PhD Graduates since last newsletter Lisa Karasiewicz Baudot (PhD14) nominated Professor Runqing Wan Svetoslav Covachev of the Year at the Florida (Finance) (Finance) Central University. Assistant professor Risk Data Scientist Capital University UniCredit Bulbank, Alireza Ahmadsimab of Economics and Sofia, Bulgaria (PhD15) one of the most- Business, Beijing, China nominated junior professors at HEC Montreal. Joonsuk Kwon Sabra Khajehnejad (Economics) (Management Control) Ionela Andreicovici (PhD19), Economist Assistant Professor Nava Cohen (PhD18) and The Bank of Korea, KU Leuven, Belgium Alessandro Ghio (PhD18) Seoul, South Korea published in the Journal for Business Ethics https://link. springer.com/article/10.1007/ s10551-020-04475-8. Xiao Jia Subhadeep Datta (Finance) (Management) Assistant professor Assistant professor Bingxu Fang, Ole-Kristian School of Economics, NEOMA Business School, Hope, Zhongwei Huang Huazhong University of Rouen, France (PhD15), and Rucsandra Science and Technology Moldovan(PhD15). 2020. “The ("HUST"), Wuhan, China Effects of MiFID II on Sell-Side Analysts, Buy-Side Analysts, and Firms.” Accepted at Review Tista Kundu Sheldon Carvalho of Accounting Studies. (Economics) (Management) Postdoctoral Research Assistant Professor Associate Indian Institute of Lisa Baudot (PhD14), Centre des Sciences Management, Raipur, Zhongwei Huang (PhD15), Humaines, New Delhi, India and Dana Wallace. 2020. India “Stakeholder Perceptions of Risk in Mandatory Corporate Responsibility Wissam El Hachem Sourjo Mukherjee Disclosure.” Forthcoming at (Operations and Data (Marketing) Journal of Business Ethics. Analytics) Assistant professor https://doi.org/10.1007/ Assistant professor AUDENCIA Nantes, s10551-020-04476-7. Université Catholique de France Lyon, France © ESSEC Business School - 1173960620 - June, 2020 - Not printable file. Nhung Hoang Thi Hong Yenee Kim Bastien Buchwalter (Accounting and (Marketing) (Finance) Auditing) Assistant professor Assistant professor Assistant professor EDHEC Lille, France SKEMA Business School, SKEMA Business School, Paris, France Paris, France THE ESSEC PHD PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED BY THE PARIS-SEINE EXCELLENCE INITIATIVE (ISITE).