CAVARRETTA Fabrice

Fabrice Cavarretta is a professor in Management and Entrepreneurship at ESSEC Business School. He was trained at Ecole Polytechnique (BA Math), Stanford/ENSTA (Ms CS), Harvard (MBA) and INSEAD (PhD). He teaches mainly the Leadership and Entrepreneurial Manager course in master programs, coordinates the PhD Entrepreneurship seminar, and recently developed Corporate Venturing course for executives. Prof. Cavarretta's research focuses on the various paradigms Entrepreneurs and Managers use to develop new ventures. He has 12 years of operational management experience, including stints as division General Manager in a large media/telecom firm and founder of a social network start-up.

• 2021 : Habilitation to Supervise Research (HDR) in Management (Université de Lille, France)
• 2008 : Doctorat, Management (DMSP) (Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL University, France)
• 2008 : Ph.D. in Management (Organizational Behavior) (INSEAD, France)
• 1996 : Master of Business Administration (Harvard Business School, United States of America)
• 1991 : Master of Science in Computer Science (École Nationale Supérieure des Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), France)
• 1989 : Master in Computer Sciences studies (Counted as 1/2 MS degree as Exchange for ENSTA, Non Credit for Stanford) (Stanford University, United States of America)
• 1988 : Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics (École Polytechnique, France)

• 2000 : Sky diver certification (Aube Parachutisme, France)
• 1989 : National War College (reserve) (École de Guerre, France)
• 1986 : Private Pilot License (Air France (aéro club), France)
• 1985 : Officer Commission : Infantery Platoon Leader (École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM Saint-Cyr), France)

Full-time academic appointments

• 2014 - Present : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)
• 2008 - 2014 : Assistant Professor (ESSEC Business School, France)

Other Academic Appointments

• 1990 - 1991 : Instructor Computer Science (Lycée Buffon, France)
• 1987 - 1988 : Instructor Mathematics (École Polytechnique Féminine (EPF), France)

Professional appointments

• 2001 - 2003 : Founder/CEO (IPROPI.COM, France)
• 1998 - 2000 : Managing Director BOL FRANCE (Joint-Venture with BERTELSMANN A.G.) (Vivendi Universal, France)
• 1996 - 1997 : Division Director, Consumer Internet Access (CEGETEL) (Vivendi Universal, France)
• 1992 - 1994 : Production Manager (Schneider Electric, France)
• 1991 - 1992 : Technology Department Director (Schneider Electric, France)
• 1989 : Software Engineer (Oracle Corp., United States of America)

• 2018 : Excellence Initiative Paris//Seine 2018: full funding for a postdoc in AI on Entrepreneurial Beliefs (CY Cergy Paris Université, France)
• 2006 : Fellowship to the Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe Institute
• 1994 - 1996 : Arthur Sachs Scholarship for Harvard Business School

• 2014 : Outstanding Contribution by an Early Career Academic award, Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE), Research Exchange Conference 2014, for the paper "Too Much of a Good Thing? Resource Effects in New Ventures"
• 2011 : BPS (Business Policy and Strategy) Distinguished Paper Award at the 2011 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, for his article, “The Dangers of Deep Knowledge: New Ventures in the U.S. Solar Industry” (co-written with N. Furr and S. Garg).
• 2011 : Excellent Paper Award at the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference (AIE 2011) for his article entitled, “Too Much of a Good Thing? Contradictory Resource Effects in New Ventures.”
• 2010 : Kauffaman Firm Survey Best Paper Award at the 2010 Academy of Management Conference (Montreal, Canada, 6-10 August 2010), for his paper, “Too Much of a Good Thing?: Resource Effects In New Ventures,” (co-written with N. Furr, 2009).
• 2001 : Le Nouvel Economiste, 2001: selected among “the 50 leaders of tomorrow”
• 1999 : TASA (Headhunter), Finalist for the “Best Manager of the Year” award
• 1985 : Competitive Examination Entrance ENS Ulm Mathematics: ranked 11th Nationwide (École Nationale Supérieur (ENS), France)

• LOI, M., FAYOLLE, A., VAN GELDEREN, M., RIOT, E., REFAI, D., HIGGINS, D. ... CAVARRETTA, F. (2022). Entrepreneurship Education at the Crossroads: Challenging Taken-for-Granted Assumptions and Opening New Perspectives. Journal of Management Inquiry, 31(2), pp. 123-134.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2020). Effort is Dead, Long Live Effort: Performance as ‘Planning for a Good Trip’. Organizational Dynamics, 49(4), pp. 100728.
• GODART, F.C., CAVARRETTA, F. and THIEMANN, M. (2016). Task Complexity and Shared Value Orientation: Exploring the Moderators of a Social Dilemma in Team Social Networks. Industrial and Corporate Change, 25(5), pp. 739-756.
• CAVARRETTA, F., TRINCHERA, F., CHOI, D.O. and HANNAH, S.T. (2016). When "It Depends" Amounts to More Than Simple Contingent Relationships: Three Canonical Forms of Inversions. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 37(6), pp. 933-945.
• HANNAH, S.T., SUMANTH, J.J., LESTER, P. and CAVARRETTA, F. (2014). Debunking the False Dichotomy of Leadership Idealism and Pragmatism: Critical Evaluation and Support of Newer Genre Leadership Theories. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 35(5), pp. 598-621.
• FURR, N.R., CAVARRETTA, F. and GARG, S. (2012). Who Changes Course? The Role of Domain Knowledge and Novel Framing In Making Technology Changes. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 6(3), pp. 236-256.
• HANNAH, S.T., UHL-BIEN, M., AVOLIO, B.J. and CAVARRETTA, F. (2009). A Framework for Examining Leadership in Extreme Contexts. Leadership Quarterly, 6(20), pp. 897-919.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (1996). Le marché des systèmes de paiements électroniques. Systèmes et Sécurité, 4(4).

• CAVARRETTA, F. (2016). Oui ! la France est un paradis pour entrepreneurs. Plon, 275 pages.

• CAVARRETTA, F. (2018). Une exploration des propriétés épistémiques des règles « clés de voûte » des entrepreneurs. In: Complexité et organisations : faire face aux défis de demain. 1st ed. Eyrolles, pp. 83-96.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2008). Quels compromis pour composer l'équipe entrepreneuriale ? In: L'art d'entreprendre. 1st ed. Pearson Village Mondial, pp. 55-64.

• CAVARRETTA, F. (2013). Task Complexity and Value Orientation: Exploring the Moderators of a Dilemma in Social Networks. In: 2013 Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings. Academy of Management.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N.R. (2011). Too Much of a Good Thing? Resources Effects in New Ventures. In: Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. Digital Knowledge at Babson, pp. 85-99.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and ROBB, A. (2009). DISTINGUISHING EXTREME VS. AVERAGE PERFORMANCE IN NASCENT FIRMS: PUTTING RISK BACK INTO ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH. In: Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference. Babson College.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2007). Impact of intrateam diversity on team performance. In: Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management. Philadelphia: Academy of Management.

• CAVARRETTA, F. (2021). Beyond a Sum of Valid Knowledge: A Paradigm Perspective on Entrepreneurship. In: 6th annual Entrepreneurship as Practice Conference. Amsterdam.
• MANSOURI, J., CAVARRETTA, F., SWAILEH, W. and KOTZINOS, D. (2021). Completely Unsupervised Opinion Mining in online (professional groups’) discussions. In: Network 2021 (Sunbelt & Netsci joint conference). Indiana University.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2020). Scholars Laboring on the Way to Impact: A Paradigm Lens on Management Practice and Pedagogy. In: Academy of Management Learning and Education (AMLE) workshop on Learning and Education Strategies for Scholarly Impact. Durham.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2019). Entrepreneurship Theories vs. Entrepreneurship Paradigm: The Epistemic Properties of Pragmatic Theories of Action. In: 2019 Journal of Management Inquiry Developmental Conference and Dialogue.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2019). From Buzz to Heuristics: Epistemic Properties of Socially Calculated Managerial Rules. In: 35th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2019). What if We Took Simon Seriously? Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs' Theories of Action. In: 2019 Rationality and Management Learning and Education: Reconceiving and Reinvigorating the Role of Reason in Managerial Practice.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2018). Epistemic Properties of Theories of Action. In: 3rd Abbé Grégoire Innovation Days 2018.
• CAVARRETTA, F., HANNAH, S.T., PICCOLO, R.F. and UHL-BIEN, M. (2018). Leadership Beyond the Tipping Point: Towards Discovery of Inversions in LMX Effects. In: 2018 Workshop on Abductive Reasoning and the Role of Academy of Management Discoveries.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2018). What If We Took Simon Seriously? Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs' Theories of Action. In: 2018 Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange (ACERE).
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2018). What If We Took Simon Seriously? Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs' Theories of Action. In: 2018 Research in Managment Learning & Education (RMLE) Unconference.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2018). What If We Took Simon Seriously? Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs' Theories of Action. In: 34th European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2018.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2017). Linking Triumphs and Tragedies: Variability in Teams Outcomes and the Diversity-Performance Link. In: 2017 Academy of Management Meeting.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2017). Team Diversity and Risk. In: IESEG Entrepreneurial Teams Conference 2017.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2017). Theories of Action of Entrepreneurs. In: 2017 ​Darden Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2017). Theories of Action of Entrepreneurs. In: 2017 INSEAD Entrepreneurship Conference.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2017). Theories of Action of Entrepreneurs. In: 2017 Frontiers in MOC-TIM.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N. (2016). Too Much of a Good Thing?: Resource Effects In New Ventures. In: 2016 SMS Bolzano Extension Conference.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N. (2015). An Inquiry into the Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs' Theories of Action. In: 31st European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Colloquium 2015.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N. (2015). An Inquiry into the Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs’ Keystone Rules. In: Strategic Management Society Special Conference: From Local Voids to Local Goods: Can Institutions Promote Competitive Advantage?
• CAVARRETTA, F. and HANNAH, S.T. (2015). Leadership Beyond the Tipping Point: Discovering Inversions and Complementary Hypotheses. In: 2015 Annual Academy of Management Meeting.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2015). Linking Triumphs and Tragedies: Variability in Entrepreneurial Teams Outcomes and a Reexamination of the Link between Team Diversity and Venture Performance. In: 2015 Annual Conference of the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N. (2014). An Inquiry into the Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs’ Keystone Rules. In: Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange Conference 2014.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N. (2014). An Inquiry into the Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs’ Keystone Rules. In: Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (SEI) Workshop 2014.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N. (2014). An Inquiry into the Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs’ Keystone Rules. In: 2014 SMS Special Conference: Startup and Restart Strategies.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N. (2014). Building Theory based on Variability: Reinterpreting the Contradictions of Resources in New Ventures. In: Strategic Management Society (SMS) Special Conference in Copenhagen: Micro-Foundations for Strategic Management Research: Embracing Individuals.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N. (2014). Too Much of a Good Thing? Resource Effects In New Ventures. In: Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship (ACE) Research Exchange Conference 2014.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2013). Means, Variability, and Extremes: Reinterpreting the Role of Resources in New Ventures. In: DRUID 2013.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N. (2013). Risky Teams: Distinguishing Diversity Effects on Along-Time vs. Cross-Task Performance Variability. In: 2013 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N.R. (2013). Which Entrepreneurship Paradigm? Exploring the Properties of Keystone Rules. In: Virtues and Entrepreneurship: A Ratio Colloquium.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N.R. (2013). Which Entrepreneurship Paradigm? Exploring the Properties of Keystone Rules. In: 2013 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N.R. (2013). Which Entrepreneurship Paradigm? Exploring the Properties of Keystone Rules. In: 2nd Effectuation Research and Teaching Conference.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and SCHROEDER, T. (2012). Innovative Idea Management. In: 2012 Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2012). Performative Calculation as Process of Positive Theory Elaboration: An Exploration of Entrepreneurs' Grand Theories of Actions. In: 28th EGOS Colloqium 2012.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2012). Too Much of a Good Thing? Contradictory Resource Effects in New Ventures. In: 2nd Tilburg Conference on Innovation.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2011). Leadership Models and Theorizing Beyond the Average: Assessing Countervailing Effects. In: FACE 2011.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N.R. (2011). Means, Extremes and the Resource Curse. In: 2011 Annual Conference of the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N.R. (2011). Means, Extremes and the Resource Curse. In: BCERC 2011 - Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference.
• FURR, N.R., CAVARRETTA, F. and GARG, S. (2011). The Dangers of Deep Knowledge: New Ventures in the U.S. Solar Industry. In: West Coast Research Symposium.
• FURR, N.R., CAVARRETTA, F. and GARG, S. (2011). The Dangers of Deep Knowledge: New Ventures in the U.S. Solar Industry. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2011.
• FURR, N.R., CAVARRETTA, F. and GARG, S. (2011). The Dangers of Deep Knowledge: New Ventures in the U.S. Solar Industry. In: EGOS Annual Meeting 2011.

• CAVARRETTA, F., HANNAH, S.T., PICCOLO, R.F. and UHL-BIEN, M. (2015). Leadership beyond the Tipping Point: Toward the Discovery of Inversions and Complementary Hypotheses. ESSEC Business School.
• CAVARRETTA, F. and FURR, N. (2014). An Inquiry into the Epistemic Properties of Entrepreneurs' Theories of Action. ESSEC Business School.

• CAVARRETTA, F. (2016). La France, un petit paradis pour les entrepreneurs ? Monde des Grandes Écoles Universités Le Magazine.
• CAVARRETTA, F. (2008). Quels compromis pour composer l'équipe entrepreneuriale ? Les Echos.