Isabelle SOLAL

Assistant Professor
department: Management
Campus de Cergy
Entrepreneurship – Organizational Behavior
Career

Diplomas

  • 2019: Ph.D. in Management, Organisational Behaviour Area (INSEAD France)
  • 2008: Master in Business Administration (with distinction) (INSEAD France)
  • 2000: LLM in European Law (with distinction) (Collège d’Europe Belgium)
  • 1999: Master of Private Laws (with distinction) (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne France)
  • 1999: LLB – Law with French law (upper second class honors) (King’s College University United Kingdom)
Career
Full-time academic appointments
    • 2020 – Now : Assistant Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2019 – 2020 : Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (INSEAD France)
Professional appointments
    • 2010 – 2012 : Head of Integrity & Compliance (FIFA T.M.S., GmbH Switzerland)
    • 2008 – 2009 : Associate (McKinsey & Company France)
    • 2004 – 2006 : Senior Associate, International Dispute Resolution (Baker Botts LLP United Kingdom)
    • 2000 – 2004 : Associate, International Dispute Resolution (Shearman & Sterling LLP United States of America)
Distinctions

Awards

  • 2023 : Finalist for OMT Responsible Research Award, for the paper, ‘Not My CEO’: Employee Reactions to the Threat of Female Leadership,” with Steffen Brenner, Copenhagen Business School & Georg Wernicke, HEC Paris, awarded by the Academy of Management 2023 (Academy of Management, United States of America)

Grants

  • 2014 : INSEAD Alumni Association Fund (INSEAD, France)
  • 2014 : INSEAD-Wharton Alliance, PhD student exchange grant (INSEAD, France)
Research

Journal articles

Presentations at an Academic or Professional conference

Teaching
Other activities
Services
    • 2017 – 2019: Area representative to INSEAD’s PhD Contact Group (INSEAD France)
    • 2015 – 2019: INSEAD IRB Committee (INSEAD France)
Research activities
  • Organization of a conference or a seminar
    • 2015 – 2015: Organizing Committee, Wharton-INSEAD Doctoral Consortium
  • Member of an academic association
    • 2013 – Now: Academy of Management
    • 2013 – Now: American Sociological Association
  • Reviewer for a journal
    • Reviewer for Academy of Management; Administrative Science Quarterly; Organization Science; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Strategic Organization
Professional activities
  • Member of a professional association, of an expert group or of a board of directors
    • 2002 – Now: Member of New York State Bar