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Taieb Hafsi

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Qualifications: Ph.D Harvard graduate school of business administration Boston, MA Business administration Master’s Degree Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA science in management Ingenieur Degree National School of Meteorology

Biography

Taïeb Hafsi is the Strategy and Society Professor of strategic management at HEC Montreal. He published extensively books (42) and articles (over 100), dealing with strategic management and change in situations of complexity, and received several related awards. In 2000 he received a lifetime recognition for teaching excellence. He has conducted consulting for many North American organizations, and for several governments. In 2018, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. He holds a Master's of science degree in management, from the Sloan school of management, at MIT, and a Doctorate in business administration, from the Harvard Business School.

Areas of Expertise

Management

Research Interest

Strategic Decision Making

Taïeb Hafsi, «The Strategic Decision-Making Process in State Owned Enterprises», Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1981. 

Entreprise publique et politique industrielle, McGraw-Hill, Paris, 1984. (158p.), ISBN2-7042-1085- 

La diversification par fusion et acquisition, Gestion, Vol. 12, no 3, 1987. 

Strategic Issues in State-Controlled Enterprises, Jai Press, Connecticut, 1989, (339p.). ISBN 0-89232-803-7. 

With C. Demers, Le changement radical dans les organisations complexes : le cas d'Hydro-Québec, Gaétan Morin, 1989, (310p.) ISBN 2-89105-325-7. 

Gérer l'entreprise publique, Office des presses universitaires, Alger, 1990, (348p.) Codification 4-01-1720. 

Collaboration with Marcel Côté, La gestion stratégique d’entreprise, concepts et cas, Gaétan Morin, Boucherville, Canada, 1991. 

  • Corporate (and business) strategy 
  • State-Owned enterprises strategy-making  
  • Managing large, diversified, complex systems,  
  • Corporate governance 
  • Organization theory and strategy implementation  
  • National development strategy 
  • Entrepreneurship 

1991 

Prize Pierre Laurin 

The best Research 

1990 

published in the Canadian journal of administrative sciences  

Award for the best article 

Best teacher award 2000 

2001 

Prize François-Albert Angers 

The best pedagogical book, for T.Hafsi, F. Séguin and J-M. Toulouse, La stratégie des organizations: une synthèse, Editions transcontinental

2001 

Alma lepage Prize 

The Best case on a Woman manager for Ghislaine Desrosiers et l’OIIQ 

2004 

CJAS 

Best paper award for a paper 

2008 

Best paper published by an Academician, published in Public Administration Review, award by the American Society of Public Administration, for “The Changing nature or public entrepreneurship”, with Luc Bernier, Public Administration Review, Vol.67,3: 488-503; 2007.  

Best paper the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher 

2007 

with Jad Bitar, Management Decision 

First Commendable best paper award for “Strategizing through the capability lens: sources and outcomes of integration” 

2009 

Quebec. Prize: 10,000$. 2009. For: La stratégie des organizations: de l’analyse à l’action, publié par Montréal: Editions Transcontinental (publié avec F. Séguin et C. Demers) 

Best business book award 

2010 

Presented jointly by Hafsi, T., Xu Liang, Wenjing Lin, Kangxiong Yu et Li Ya 

Honorable mention for best paper presented at ASAC 2010, for “Emotion management in radical change: A preliminary study of earthquake power restoration 

2016 

Encyclopédie de la stratégie »,dirigée avec F. Tannery, J-P. Denis et A-C. Martinet 

Prix 2016 du « meilleur ouvrage de recherche en management de la FNEGE-EFMD 

1998 

Coopers, Lybrand Prize 

The best book in business for the book : La capacité de changement : la comprendre et la mesurer, written in collaboration with C. Demers 


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