Xavier PAVIE

Teaching Professor
department: Public & Private Policy
Campus de Cergy
+33 (0)1 34 43 36 21
Management – Sustainable development – Business Ethics & Business Philosophy – Entrepreneurship
Biography

Xavier Pavie is a Professor at ESSEC Business School, Academic Director Master in Management (Grande Ecole) Asia Pacific, Program Director at Collège International de Philosophie, Director of the iMagination Center, Director of Management of Responsible Innovation advanced program for executive, Research Associate at the IREPH (Research Institute in Philosophy) Paris-Nanterre University and Responsible of the track Philosophy of Responsible Innovation with ICP (Institut Catholique de Paris). He holds a Master in Management and Master in Philosophy, a Ph.D. in Philosophy, and a Habilitation à la direction de recherches (The highest university-granted and higher education-sanctioned degree obtained post PhD). He graduated from the International Teachers Programme (HEC Paris) and Global Colloquium participant-centered learning (Harvard Business School).

After spending nearly fifteen years in various organizations (Nestlé, Unilever, Club Méditerranée) in marketing and innovation roles, he joins ESSEC Business School in 2008 as Director of the Institute for Strategic Innovation. In this context, he develops several Chairs including the Chair for Innovation in Services.

In 2012, he creates the iMagination Center whose activities are centered on imagination, innovation and transdisciplinarity for responsible innovation. Through iMagination Week (for Bachelor, Master and Executive students), the center helps the managers of today and tomorrow to understand the world in motion while making them actors of the world to build. In 2015, iMagination Week receives the Prize for Pedagogical Excellence. In 2017 iMagination week is recognized as one of the most innovative pedagogical method across disciplines by AASCB and The Reimagine Education Awards, Wharton – QS Stars

His research activities have, since 2008, addressed the notion of responsible innovation an innovator with the lenses of philosophy and spiritual exercices. In 2011, he is in charge of defining responsible innovation with the support of an international network of universities (sponsored by the European Commission). In 2014, he is appointed President of the evaluation commission “Innovation-Regulation-Governance” of the French National Agency for Research as part of Horizon 2020. 

His years spent in Asia have helped him to focus his research on responsible innovation with a look beyond the European framework. This has notably resulted in the development of several cases around responsible innovation with NGOs, whether in the Philippines (Gawad Kalinga), Cambodia (Pour un Sourire d'Enfant et Passerelles Numériques), Malaysia (Dignity). and in India (Auroville).

2022, Xavier Pavie has been nominated Program Director at Collège International de Philosophie with the research: Critical Philosophy of Innovation.

Xavier Pavie has published numerous books and articles in management and philosophy both academic and for a wider reading audience. Author of a thesis on the reception of spiritual exercises in contemporary philosophy, he continues to regularly publish on that topic. His book, « L’innovation à l’épreuve de la philosophie » (PUF 2018) won the Award Best Management book of the Year 2019. Last book: Critical Philosophy of Innovation and Innovator (Wiley 2020) and Exercices spirituels philosophiques (PUF 2022).

Visiting professor at Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania) in 2015 and 2016, he regularly taught at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), the Hautes Etudes de Gestion in Geneva (Switzerland) and LaTrobe University (Australia).

Xavier Pavie was recognized among the most influential personalities in the world in the Education category (LinkedIn Top Voices -n ° 5-)

Certificates

  • 2022: Global Colloquium participant-centered learning (Harvard Business School United States of America)
  • 2012: International Teacher Program (HEC Paris France)

Diplomas

  • 2020: Habilitation Direction Recherche (Highest university-granted and higher education-sanctioned degree obtained post PhD) (Université Paris X Nanterre France)
  • 2011: PhD in Philosophy (Université Paris X Nanterre France)
  • 2010: Master in Philosophy (Université Paris X Nanterre France)
  • 2000: BA in Philosophy (Université Paris X Nanterre France)
  • 1998: Master in International Marketing (ICD Business School France)
  • 1996: BA in Marketing & Commercial (Négocia France)
Career
Other Academic Appointments
    • 2022 – Now : Chaired Professor (Collège International de Philosophie France)
    • 2021 – 2022 : Academic associate director Master in Management Singapour (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2019 – Now : Track Head Philosophy and Strategy for Responsible Innovation with Institut Catholique de Paris (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2016 – 2022 : Academic Director Grande Ecole Asia Pacific (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2016 – Now : Co-Chair Operation Management track Asia Pacific (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2014 – 2015 : Visiting Professor (Kaunas University of Technology Lithuania)
    • 2012 – Now : Director of advanced Certificate Management of Responsible Innovation (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2011 – 2023 : Director of iMagination Center (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2008 – 2012 : Director of Institut Service Innovation & Strategy (ESSEC Business School France)
Full-time academic appointments
    • 2014 – Now : Associate Teaching Professor (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
    • 2008 – 2014 : Teaching Professor (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
    • 2003 – Now : Research Associate at the IREPH (Research Institute in Philosophy) (IREPH France)
Professional appointments
    • 2006 – 2008 : Worldwide Marketing Director (Club Méditerranée France)
    • 1998 – 2006 : Brand Development Manager (UNILEVER France France)
    • 1994 – 1998 : Category Manager Junior (Nestlé France France)

Awards

  • 2021 : iMagination Week is the winner of the Responsible Campus Award 2021: “Pedagogy for a sustainable society”. (Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche)
  • 2019 : Best Management Book of the Year 2019 for “L’innovation à l’épreuve de la philosophie” by FNEGE (Fondation Nationale pour l’Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises)
  • 2017 : Top Voices LinkedIn in Education 2017 (n°5 worldwide)
  • 2017 : Finalist of the The Wharton – QS Reimagine Education Award 2017 for iMagination Week
  • 2017 : iMagination Week rewarded “Innovations That Inspire” by AACSB 2017
  • 2015 : Prix Daniel Tixier de l’innovation pédagogique pour l’iMagination Week

Journal articles

Books

Book chapters

Conference Proceedings

Presentations at an Academic or Professional conference

Book editor

Published cases

Interviews: radio – TV – press

Prefaces of a book

Press article, video or other popular media

Management

  • 2019 – Now : Philosophy and Strategy for Responsible Innovation (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2019 – Now : Sustainability bootcamp (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
  • 2019 – Now : Philosophy and Strategy for Responsible Innovation (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
  • 2018 – Now : Innovation (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2018 – Now : Innovation Entrepreneuship and Sustainability (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
  • 2017 – Now : Innovation (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2016 – Now : Innovation (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
  • 2015 – Now : Service Management (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2015 – Now : iMagination Week (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2012 – Now : iMagination week (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2012 – Now : Philosophy and Strategy for Responsible Innovation (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
  • 2012 – Now : Philosophie et stratégie pour l’innovation responsable (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2008 – Now : Philosophy and Strategy for Responsible Innovation (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
  • 2008 – Now : Innovation (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
  • 2008 – Now : Innovation (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
  • 2008 – Now : Innovation (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2008 – Now : Innovation (ESSEC Business School Singapore)
  • 2008 – Now : Innovation (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2014 – 2015 : Service management (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2013 – 2015 : iMagination Week (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2008 – 2014 : Service management (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2011 – 2012 : Service management (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2008 – 2011 : Internationalisation of services (ESSEC Business School France)
Research activities
  • Editorial Board Membership
    • 2015 – 2015: Editorial board membership – Procedia
  • Member of an academic association
    • 2010 – Now: Member of SFP (Société Française de Philosophie)
    • 2010 – Now: Member of ONPHI (Organisation Non-Philosophique Internationale)
    • 1973 – Now: Member of APPEP (Association Professeur de Philosophie)
Professional activities
  • Consulting
    • 2010 – Now: Elaboration and deployment of innovation process; Creation of marketing strategies ; Commercial Agility improvement recommendations through innovation ; Business Model innovation policies recommendations (from product to service); Innovation process construction through design thinking
Theses
  • 2011 : Castanie Julie (ESSEC Business School), Thesis director, Intégration de l’innovation responsable dans le processus d’innovation des entreprises de grande consommation – Mastère Spécialisé Stratégie Management International Business
  • 2010 : Docher Christine (ESSEC Business School), Thesis director, Bailleur/preneur: vers une possible convergence d’intérêt ? -Mastère Spécialisé Management Urbain Environnement et Service
  • 2009 : Marroc Audrey (ESSEC Business School), Thesis director, “Le fournisseur comme source d’innovation” – Mastère Spécialisé Logistique et Management de la Supply Chain
  • 2009 : Verbrugghe Olivia (ESSEC Business School), Thesis director, The Eco-advantage : how procurement business services could implement sustainable development practices to become a real opportunity and added value for the whole benefit of a company in the agrifood sector ? – Mastère Specialisé Gestion Achats Internationaux