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Biography

Philippe Gabilliet has been an Associate Professor in Organizational Behaviour and Management at ESCP Europe since 1995. Specialized in Future Studies, Leadership Development and Business and Management Issues in emerging countries, he is involved in ESCP Europe’s Executive MBA programme activities in North Africa and Eastern Asia. He also teaches on various ESCP Europe Executive Education Programs and teaches at the CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris), at HEC Geneva (Switzerland).
Philippe Gabilliet is Dean and Academic Director of the European Executive MBA and the Full-Time MBA. He is also programme director of the "Leading and Motivating" and "Becoming a Manager" executive programmes. Another important aspect of his activity is corporate university training for French and multinational groups such as : Sanofi-Aventis, Société Générale, Auchan, EDF, Areva, Arcelor-Mittal and KPMG.
In the mid 1980s, before pursuing an academic career, Dr. Gabilliet was a co-founder and associate in a business consulting firm, Forces Vives, specializing in assisting medium and large companies in sales management development and business change implementation. In the 1990s he worked at executive level for a major national insurance company (CNP Assurances).
He is the author, or adaptor, of several books in the field of management and professional development, including :

• Comportements organisationnels, Pearson Education, 2006 (translated and adapted from Robbins & Judge, Organizational Behaviour)
• Management : l’essentiel des concepts et des pratiques, Pearson Education, 2004 (translated and adapted from Robbins & DeCenzo, Fundamentals of Management)
• Savoir anticiper : les outils pour maîtriser son futur, ESF Editeur, 1999.
• Se former soi-même. Les outils de l’autoformation, ESF Editeur, 1997.

Professor Philippe Gabilliet is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Bordeaux). He holds a Doctorate in Management (with honors) and a Postgraduate Degree in Advanced Political Analysis.
Philippe Gabilliet was born in Bordeaux (France) in 1958. He is married and has two daughters.

Discover Philippe Gabilliet's video on chance and success (in French).

Current research

Philippe Gabilliet has carried out research in various fields. Over the past three years, the main topics he has addressed have been:

New patterns of anticipation in regard to executive decision-making.
His major contribution, as developed in his doctorate thesis, is an “anticipatory model”, which aims at a better understanding of how executive actors project themselves in the “future dimension” through a complex process combining memory, imagination and decision-making through real-life individual and collective situations. This model is currently being applied and regularly improved within real-company executive structures.

The transfer of managerial models from Western to Eastern corporate environments.
With a true passion for Far Eastern civilization, he is involved in most of the ESCP Europe projects and developments regarding China.  He is currently doing research – in partnership with Chinese academic structures - on the various aspects of human resources management (talent retention, executive development) team motivation and cultural change practices in European companies located in mainland China.

Discover Philippe Gabilliet's video on chance and success (in French).

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