Prof. Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot is affiliate professor of strategy. She is Executive Director of the SnO Center (Society & Organizations Center), aiming at developing at HEC a new way of thinking about the role of business in society, be it through teaching or research. She is also the Executive Director of the HEC Chair “Social Business / Enterprise and Poverty”, which she co-founded (in 2009), as well as the HEC Paris Master of Science in Sustainable Development (in 2003). Her research focus is on reverse innovation; she’s studying the processes through which social businesses and Base of the Pyramid business models can be a lever for innovation and strategic renewal. She received her PhD in Management Sciences in 2012. She worked before 15 years in the consulting industry, in Eurequip Consulting Group, and in Philips as a controller; after a one year humanitarian experience in a slum of Chile. She graduated from HEC (1988).
