Taieb Hafsi

Taieb Hafsi

Strategy and Society Chair Professor, HEC Montreal

Taïeb Hafsi is the Strategy and Society chair professor at HEC Montreal, the business school of the University of Montreal. He teaches, mostly by the case method, various topics related to business policy and strategic change. In his research he focuses mostly on issues related to managing complex organizations, such as large diversified firms, geographically dispersed organizations, state-owned firms and governments. He has been awarded several prizes of which the 1998 Coopers-Lybrand best business book award, the 2000 Outstanding teacher award (a once in a career recognition award), the 2001 François-Albert Angers best teaching book award, the Canadian journal of administrative sciences’ 1990 and 2004 best paper awards, The Public Administration Review best 2007 article award, the 2009 Quebec publishing houses best business book award, the 2018 best strategy article of the Administrative Science Association of Canada conference, and the 2019 second best paper of the Academy of Management’s Organization and Management Theory section.

Areas of Interest:

  • Corporate (and business) Strategy
  • State-Owned Enterprises Strategy-making
  • Organization theory

Education:

  • Ph.D., Business Administration, Harvard graduate school of business administration, Boston, MA, 1981
  • M.Sc., Management, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1978
  • Ingenieur, Chemical Engineering, Algerian petroleum institute, Algiers, 1969

Experience:

  • Walter J. Somers Chair of International Strategic Management, 2002-present
  • Full Professor of Management Policy, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, 1989-present
  • Associate Professor of Management Policy, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal, Canada, 1984-1989

Latest Publications:

  • GAO, Y., H. YANG, T. HAFSI, 2019. Corporate giving and corporate financial performance: The S-Curve relationship. Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 36:687-713. (travail partagé également).
  • GAO, Y. AND T. HAFSI, 2019. How Owners Matter? An Examination of Ownership type in Corporate Disaster Relief Giving. Canadian Journal of Administrative Science. (travail partagé également).
  • BOUTOUCHENT, A., T. HAFSI, L. RAHMOUNI, 2019. Le voyage merveilleux de la Charika. Alger : Casbah Editions.
Cooperative Strategies: Performance Determinants and Implications for the MENA Region

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August, 1998

Working Papers
The Study of National Strategic Management: A Methodological Discussion

Areas of Interest: Corporate (and business) Strategy State-Owned Enterprises Strategy-making Organization theory Education: Ph.D., Business Administration, Harvard graduate... Read More

June, 1996

Working Papers
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Households and Firms in the MENA Region

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May 23, 2022

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