Organized by

• Patrick Haack (University of Lausanne)
• Lionel Saul (University of Lausanne)
• Ekaterina Stepaniak (University of Lausanne)

Sponsored by

• HEC Research Center for Grand Challenges

• Enterprise for Society

Partner

• armasuisse

Confirmed Experts

• Ali Aslan Gümüşay (LMU Munich)
• Estefania Amer (University of Lausanne)
• Nicky Dries (KU Leuven)
• Alex Fergnani (Higher Colleges of Technology)
• Mark Healey (Alliance Manchester Business School)
• Quentin Ladetto (armasuisse)
• Ewa Lombard (Montpellier Business School)
• Anette Mikes (Oxford)
• Natalie Slawinski (Gustavson School of Business)
• Amanda Williams (IMD Lausanne)

Patrick Haack
University of Lausanne

Patrick is a Professor of Strategy and Responsible Management in the Department of Strategy, Globalization and Society at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne. He serves as the Director of the HEC Research Center for Grand Challenges and is an International Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. Patrick’s research interests center on the organizational adoption and implementation of CSR as well as the application of experiments and formal models to the study of strategy and organizational processes. A major focus of his current research relates to the conceptual and empirical exploration of legitimacy, a crucial antecedent of social and institutional change. In this context, he is examining legitimacy dynamics in the fields of tax avoidance, anti-corruption, and human rights. One of his emerging research streams is the study of “intergenerational discounting,” a psychological tendency to perceive a desired result for future generations as less valuable than an equivalent result for the present generation.

Ekaterina Stepaniak
University of Lausanne

Ekaterina Stepaniak is a PhD candidate and Graduate Assistant at HEC Lausanne, in the Department of Strategy, Globalization, and Society. With a Master of Science degree in advanced research in social and affective psychology from the University of Geneva, Ekaterina is investigating topics at the intersection of psychology and management. Her research interests revolve around the delegitimization of inequalities, the implications of diversity and inclusion practices, and the experiences of individuals with intersectional identities in professional settings. Currently, her studies focus on advancing the multilevel theory of legitimacy: her project examines the mechanisms underlying the delegitimization of gender inequalities in managerial roles and its effects on collective action intentions.

Ali Aslan Gümüşay
LMU Munich

Ali Aslan Gümüşay is professor of Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Sustainability at LMU Munich and head of research group Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Society at the Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society Berlin. His research focuses on (1) values, meaning and hybridity in entrepreneurship, (2) grand challenges, sustainability and new forms of organizing, (3) digitalization, management and innovation as well as (4) impact, scholarship and futures. It has been published in outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Theory, and Research Policy.
Prior, Prof. Gümüşay was a Visiting Research Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, a senior researcher at the University of Hamburg, a research fellow at Vienna University of Economics & Business, the principal investigator of the DFG network “Grand Challenges & New Forms of Organizing”, and a DAAD Prime Fellow. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he also worked as a Lecturer in Management at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. Before his DPhil from Saïd Business School, he was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.

Estefania Amer
University of Lausanne

Estefania Amer is a senior lecturer and researcher at HEC Lausanne. Her research interests are in the areas of the integration of sustainability into business practices, corporate reputation, stakeholder integration, and the key competencies in sustainability that managers need to tackle sustainability challenges, including the futures thinking or anticipatory competency. She has published in Business&Society, Journal of International Management, and Strategic Organization. She is also an expert in the integration of sustainability in education, the Head of Education at HEC Lausanne’s Grand Challenges Research Center, and a member of the Education Division at the Competence Centre in Sustainability (University of Lausanne).

Alex Fergnani
Higher Colleges of Technology

Alex is a (strategic) foresight researcher and executive educator. He currently serves as Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Business Administration at Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi. He obtained his Ph.D. in Management and Organization (focus: corporate foresight) at NUS Business School. He conducts research on corporate foresight, corporate strategy, and foresight theories and methods. Thanks to his contribution to the field of organizational foresight, he was awarded numerous awards, including the President fellowship by the Singapore government, the Fetzer scholarship by the Academy of Management, and a honorary research fellowship by Strathclyde Business School. His research has been published in the journals Academy of Management Perspectives, Harvard Business Review, European Business Review, Futures, Futures & Foresight Science, Foresight, and World Futures Review, among other outlets. Alex regularly gives foresight workshops globally and has advised and trained dozens of public and private organizations on their foresight capabilities. Topics of expertise include scenario planning, foresight methodology, strategic management, metamodernism and philosophy of science.

Mark Healey
Alliance Manchester Business School

Mark Healey is Professor of Strategic Management and Head of the Innovation Management and Policy Division at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK.  His research focuses on managerial and organizational cognition, particularly the role of cognition and emotion in strategic adaptation. Mark’s research has appeared in some of the world’s leading management journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and Strategic Management Journal. His research has featured regularly in the business press, including The Financial Times, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review.  He has advised senior leaders and executive teams in various sectors, from financial services to advanced manufacturing, on the challenges of thinking and acting strategically in a changing world. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Studies and has served on the editorial boards of other leading journals, winning several awards for his services to the scholarly community.

Ewa Lombard
Montpellier Business School

Ewa Lombard is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Decision-Making at Montpellier Business School. With a background in cognitive neuroscience of emotions and memory, she is known for her expertise in neuroscience and psychology of financial decision-making. Ewa’s current research focuses on decisional processes that lead to sustainable outcomes, for both current and future generations. These encompass future thinking, strategic foresight, and intergenerational decision-making, as well as communication for pro-environmental actions, ethical decision-making in finance, the use of collective intelligence through play-and-work, and (organizational) purpose. She teaches Future Thinking and Neuroscience of Finance, loves to give conference talks and scenario workshops, and writes hard science-fiction in her spare time.

Anette Mikes
Oxford

Anette Mikes is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Oxford Saïd and a Governing Body Fellow at Hertford College. Anette is recognised as a Thought Leader by Harvard Business Publishing (2023) and holds an honorary Fellowship – as the 2023 MISUM Fellow – at the Stockholm School of Economics’ Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets. Anette was the 2017 laureate of the ACA Prize of the University of St-Gallen for her contributions to the field of risk management and financial governance. Between 2014-2019, she was a professor at HEC Lausanne, teaching risk management, management control and accounting for sustainability. Formerly at Harvard Business School, she launched (with professors Robert Kaplan and Dutch Leonard) the Harvard executive education programme ‘Risk Management for Corporate Leaders’. Her research documentary on a man-made disaster (‘The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission’) won the Most Outstanding Short Film Award at the Global Risk Forum in Davos in August 2014. The latter project signifies her continuing interest in man-made disasters, and her current research project (‘Values at Risk: Management Accounting in the Age of Corporate Purpose’) focuses on the interface between risk management, business ethics and management control.

Amanda Williams
IMD Lausanne

Amanda Williams is a research fellow at IMD Business School. Her research lies at the intersection of sustainability and social-ecological systems. She studies how organizations understand global sustainability issues and develop corporate sustainability strategies that align with global targets. She approaches her work from a systems theory perspective and works with qualitative research methods. To co-create desirable futures, she works closely with practitioners and integrates insights from the natural sciences to consider management scholarship and practice in light of the safe and just operating space.