Olivier Chatain
Olivier Chatain

Professor of Strategy and Business Policy

About Me

Olivier Chatain is a Professor at HEC Paris in the Strategy and Business Policy Department. His research interests include business strategy, the role of firms in the public sphere, and how states and non-state actors exploit privately managed infrastructures to further their interests. He holds a PhD from INSEAD and served on the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania before joining HEC Paris. He was an invited researcher at IRSEM during the academic year 2021-2022.

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Interests
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Formal models applied to business strategy
  • Business strategy and great power rivalry
Education
  • PhD Management

    INSEAD

  • MSc in Management

    INSEAD

  • MA in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics

    Université Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne

  • Diplôme Grande Ecole

    ESSEC

My Research
My research interests include competitive strategy and the theory of value capture, the role of firms in the public sphere, and how states and non-state actors exploit privately managed infrastructures to further their interests.
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2023). Renewing the Resource-Based View: New Contexts, New Concepts, and New Methods. Strategic Management Journal.
(2022). Client-Related Factors and Collaboration between Human Assets. Organization Science.
(2019). NGOs and the Creation of Value in Supply Chains. Strategic Management Journal.
(2017). Estimating Value Creation from Revealed Preferences: Application to Value-Based Strategies. Strategic Management Journal.
Working Papers
(2023). The Ecosystem Penalty: Value Creation Technologies and Incentive Misalignment. Working Paper.
(2023). Generalized Biform Games. Working Paper.