Felix PAPIER

Professor
department: Operations Management
Campus de Cergy
+33 (0)1 34 43 31 35
Operations Management – Supply Chain Management – Scheduling, Queueing and Location Optimization – Manufacturing & Service Science
Biography

Felix Papier is a Supply Chain Management Professor in the Operations Management Department at ESSEC Business School since 2011 and Holder of the ESSEC Global Circular Economy Chair. His research and teaching focuses on supply chain and operations strategy, sustainable and socially-responsible operations, circular economy, supply chain due diligence and information sharing in supply chains, and humanitarian operations. He has been the Academic Director of the ESSEC & Mannheim Executive MBA (2015-2017) and the Dean of ESSEC Pre-Experience Programs (2017-2022).

He has published in several academic and professional journals such as Operations Research (OR), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), Production and Operations Management (POM), Transportation Science, European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), and Harvard Business Review Germany/France and presented his research at international conferences in Europe, Asia, and the United States (INFORMS, EURO, MSOM, POMS). In 2001, he completed part of his graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and in 2006, he visited the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology as a Research Scholar. In 2022/23, he was Visiting Faculty at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Before joining ESSEC, he worked for several years as a strategy and operations management consultant for McKinsey & Company. He has performed numerous assignments in strategy formulation, purchasing management, and supply chain management, serving international clients from the automotive, pharmaceutical, and agricultural industries.

Diplomas

  • 2008: Ph.D. in Operations Research (University of Cologne Germany)
  • 2003: Master of Science in Information Systems (Université de Münster Germany)
  • 2002: Graduate student (University of Illinois United States of America)
  • 2001: Bachelor of Science in Information Systems (Université de Münster Germany)
Career
Other Academic Appointments
    • 2023 – 2024 : Chaired Professor of ESSEC Global Circular Economy (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2017 – 2022 : Dean of pre-experience programs (ESSEC Business School France)
Full-time academic appointments
    • 2017 – Now : Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2012 – 2017 : Associate Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
    • 2011 – 2012 : Assistant Professor (ESSEC Business School France)
Professional appointments
    • 2008 – 2010 : Management consultant (McKinsey & Company Germany)
    • 2005 – 2006 : Supply chain consultant (Thonemann GmbH Germany)
Other appointments
    • 2006 : Research visit (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) China)

Awards

  • 2017 : Best Paper Award, POMS « College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management » for the article « A Policy for Managing Operational Assets to Minimize Deprivation Costs » (with Milad Keshvari, ESSEC PhD, and Mahyar Eftekhar, Arizona State University).
  • 2013 : Top 10 rated professor, ESSEC Foundation Teaching Award (Fondation ESSEC)
  • 2012 : Top 10 rated professor, ESSEC Foundation Teaching AwardTop 10 rated professor, ESSEC Foundation Teaching Award (Fondation ESSEC)

Grants

  • 2001 : Ambassadorial Scholar (Rotary International Foundation, United States of America)

Journal articles

Book chapters

Presentations at an Academic or Professional conference

Thesis co-director

  • 2020 : Exploring and Optimizing Data-Driven Service Operations (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2013 – 2019 : Behavioral studies on individual and group decisions in supply chain planning (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2014 – 2018 : Dynamic modeling in sustainable operations and supply chain management (ESSEC Business School France)
  • 2012 – 2018 : Four essays on allocation problems in supply chain management (ESSEC Business School France)
Services
    • 2017 – Now: Member of the Conseil des Etudes (CentraleSupélec France)
    • 2014 – 2017: General secretary and elected member of the ESSEC Senate (ESSEC Business School France)
Research activities
  • Member of an academic association
    • 2011 – Now: Member of INFORMS
    • 2011 – Now: Member of POMS
    • 2011 – Now: Member of EURO StochMod
Professional activities
  • Consulting
    • 2009 – 2010: Referee, business plan competition NUK, Cologne, Germany
Theses
  • 2013 : DUHAYLONGSOD Jose Benedicto (ESSEC Business School), Thesis co-director, Behavioral studies on individual and group decisions in supply chain planning
  • 2012 : KESHVARI FARD Milad (ESSEC Business School), Thesis co-director, Four essays on allocation problems in supply chain management
  • 2014 : LIU Baolong (ESSEC Business School), Thesis co-director, Dynamic modeling in sustainable operations and supply chain management
  • 2020 : ZHAO Y. (ESSEC Business School), Thesis co-director, Exploring and Optimizing Data-Driven Service Operations