Bénédicte FAIVRE TAVIGNOT

Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot is Associate Professor of Strategy (education track faculty).

She is co-founder and Executive Director of the S&O Institute (Society & Organizations Institute), aiming at developing at HEC a new way of thinking about the role of business in society, be it through teaching or research.

She co-founded the HEC Chair “Social Business / Enterprise and Poverty” (2008) and the Master in Sustainable Development (2003). She also co-founded the Action Social Business, an incubator of social innovation involving firms together with public institutions and civil society organizations.

She is board member of different foundations (Air Liquide Foundation, Schneider Electric Foundation, Bouygues Immobilier Foundation) and belongs to the Ethical Committee of La Croix Rouge

She is board member of a media company, and president of the board’s CSR committee. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of Standard&Poors Sustainable Finance, and also of the ESG club of IFA (‘Institut Français des administrateurs’).

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 (University Lyon 3). She worked before 15 years in the consulting industry, in Eurequip Consulting Group, and in Philips as a controller.

She graduated from HEC (1988).