Gerges-Yammine Rand | ESCP Business School

Gerges-Yammine Rand

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship

Department : Entrepreneurship
Campus : Paris

Rand Gerges-Yammine is an Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship at ESCP, Paris Cam-pus. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Innovation & Entrepreneurship group at Im-perial College Business School. Prior to joining ESCP, she was a Research Associate at Im-perial College, where she worked on an EU-funded research study titled "Networking for Innovation." Her research revolves around interfirm collaboration in open contexts, networking behav-iours of tech entrepreneurs in ecosystems, and entrepreneurial response to uncertainty and extreme crisis situations. Rand also has a particular interest in topics revolving around digital entrepreneurship, inter-organizational networks, open innovation, arts entrepreneurship, and creativity. Preceding ESCP and Imperial, she was a visiting scholar at SCANCOR at Stanford Universi-ty.

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Rand Gerges-Yammine is an Assistant Professor in Entrepreneurship at ESCP, Paris Cam-pus. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Innovation & Entrepreneurship group at Im-perial College Business School. Prior to joining ESCP, she was a Research Associate at Im-perial College, where she worked on an EU-funded research study titled "Networking for Innovation." Her research revolves around interfirm collaboration in open contexts, networking behav-iours of tech entrepreneurs in ecosystems, and entrepreneurial response to uncertainty and extreme crisis situations. Rand also has a particular interest in topics revolving around digital entrepreneurship, inter-organizational networks, open innovation, arts entrepreneurship, and creativity. Preceding ESCP and Imperial, she was a visiting scholar at SCANCOR at Stanford Universi-ty. She was also involved with Stanford’s school, where she participated in an extensive one-year program on Design Thinking. In addition to academia, Rand convenes Design Thinking workshops and consults for high-growth start-ups in tech, creative industries, and luxury, primarily in Silicon Valley, London, and Paris. Rand holds a PhD in Management from EMLYON Business School. During her PhD studies, she received several grants and awards, including a grant from the National Science Founda-tion, a grant from the American Foundation (Allyage) to fund her stay at Stanford Universi-ty, as well as the Best Reviewer Award from the Academy of Management.

PUBLICATIONS

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15 publications

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

BUREAU, S., A. WHITAKER, R. GERGES-YAMMINE

Regaining control in troubled times: Art Thinking as a method in a PUCA world

ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-19-EN

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., C. PINGAL

Building the fundraising gender gap in Europe: Why can’t women entrepreneurs find investors?

ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-21-EN

Academic Articles

2023

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., A. TER WAL

Firm exit from open multiparty alliances: The role of social influence, uncertainty, and interfirm imitation in collective technology development.

RESEARCH POLICY, 52 (4), 104705

Conference Proceedings

2021

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., A. TER WAL , N. MALHOTRA

Transitioning to Circles That Matter: How Entrepreneurs Navigate Networking Arenas to Build Social Capital

Danish Research Unit on Industrial Dynamics (DRUID)

ESCP Impact Papers

2021

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., A. MOHIL

Will there be innovation after now? Rethinking innovation after the Covid -19 crisis

ESCP Impact Papers, 2021-17-EN

Conference Presentations

2020

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., A. TER WAL, N. MALHOTRA

Transitioning to Circles That Matter: How Entrepreneurs Navigate Networking Arenas to Build Social Capital

Strategic Management Society

Conference Proceedings

2020

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., A. TER WAL, N. MALHOTRA

How Entrepreneurs Navigate and Create Networking Arenas to Build Social Capital

Academy of Management (AOM)

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