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Hamid Bouchikhi

Hamid Bouchikhi is a professor at ESSEC. His research focuses on managerial innovation, organizational identity and entrepreneurship. He has been published in national and international academic journals. He received the prize for the best research in SME management (France, 2009) and the MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize (2014). In 2021, he was named by Thinkers 50 as one of 30 influential management thinkers. He has significant experience training managers and executives. He has taught at Keio University in Tokyo and at University Putra Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur. He was Dean of SolBridge International School of Business (South Korea) and member of the Special Commission on the Development Model (CSMD) appointed by the King of Morocco.

THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS

Leadership

Creating the career you want: the customized workplace

by Hamid Bouchikhi

Employees today are looking for more than a job - they want a career, and a career tailored to their life plan. This is where the concept of the “customized workplace” comes in.

Sustainability

The other side of the global environmental conversation

by Hamid Bouchikhi

Professor Hamid Bouchikhi spoke with ESSEC Knowledge LIVE to discuss COP 23 and the critical role entrepreneurs must play in a more sustainable future.

Leadership

Angela Merkel or how high you can go with a low profile

by Hamid Bouchikhi

Angela Merkel never fit the description of the typical charismatic leader destined for greatness. Professor Hamid Bouchikhi outlines some of the reasons she’s shaped history anyway.

Leadership

Travis Kalanick or when an entrepreneur becomes a burden to his business

by Hamid Bouchikhi

Management Professor Hamid Bouchikhi paints Travis Kalanick’s fall from grace as an example of the entrepreneurial Icarus Paradox.

Innovation

Disruptive Innovation: Good for Business, Bad for Politics

by Hamid Bouchikhi

How Donald Trump’s Interpretation of Disruptive Innovation Might Precipitate his Downfall

Sustainability

China Urgently Needs More Responsible Entrepreneurs

by Hamid Bouchikhi

These actors have the power to reverse the ecological and social consequences of China’s growth-at-any-cost policies.

Society

For an African entrepreneurial area

by Hamid Bouchikhi

Prof. Hamid Bouchikhi, Director of the ESSEC Impact Entrepreneurship Center, asserts that for an African entrepreneurial area to materialize requires in-depth work with the younger generations. Because innovative entrepreneurs are, for the most part, young graduates from higher education, the mental setting up of an African entrepreneurial area calls for massive encouragement of infra-African student mobility...