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Philippe Silberzahn is Associate Professor at EMLYON Business School. He is also a Research Fellow at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France and a visiting lecturer at HEC Paris, CEDEP, EPFL/HEC Lausanne, and Solvay Brussels School of Business and Economics.
His research interests lie at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. He studies how businesses deal with radical uncertainty. He explores the role and actions of entrepreneurs and innovators in this process of markets and organization creation, and how large organizations manage strategic surprises and disruptions. He has authored and co-authored five books in French and English on entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy as well as many academic articles on these topics.
As a consultant and management educator, he has worked with companies including AXA, Renault Group, Royal Canin, Alcatel-Lucent, Saint-Gobain, TOTAL, and EDF. Prior to his academic career, he had over twenty years of industry experience as an entrepreneur and CEO, having participated in the creation or acquisition of four high technology firms, and as an international consultant in India, China, Europe and the US. From 2004 till 2009, he was a Research Associate at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
