Isaac Getz
Professor
Freedom of Initiative and Innovation Management at the ESCP Europe Business School, Paris campus, France
Main Topics:
- Idea and Innovation Management
- Organizing for the Freedom of Initiative
- Liberating Leadership
- Corporate Excellence and Change
Professional Profile:
Professor at the ESCP-EAP, a business school, ranked in the world top 25 by Financial Times, for executive education, and N°1 MBA in Italy, he worked for several years in the area of Information Systems and was Visiting Professor at Cornell and Stanford Universities and at the University of Massachusetts.
Dr. Getz conducted and published research on diverse topics related to innovation, management, corporate excellence, vision, and growth. In 2000, the leading French business review l’Expansion named him among the best 8 professors of Management in Europe.
He gave executive conferences, keynote speeches and training seminars for leading speakers bureaus and management development institutions. He also led corporate seminars among others in Generali, Crédit Agricole, Thomson, Carrefour, France Telecom, and was invited for management seminars and keynote addresses among others in Cornell, Stanford, and New York Universities, University of Massachusetts, Boston College, Tel-Aviv University, Hebrew University, Norwegian and Helsinki Schools of Economics and Business Administration, LUISS Rome, IIPM India and in such organizations as The Lisbon Council (of which he is a member), Association of European Regions, Aspen Institute, Ludwig Von Mises Institute, and in innovation summits with the leading public authorities of the European Union, USA, Holland, Italy, and Africa.
In addition, Dr. Getz’s work on the idea and innovation management and his consulting on the issues of idea and innovation management and corporate change brought him into over a hundred leading companies and organizations around the world.
Dr. Getz’s work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, Le Figaro, Les Echos, Entreprise, Nouvel Economiste, l’Usine Nouvelle, Stratégies, Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Tempo, RAI, Telequattro, TV5, TV MBC, BFM, Radio Classique and other media.
Education:
- Diplôme d’Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, Université de Paris II Panthéon-Assas
- Docteur en Psychologie, Université de Paris V-Sorbonne
- D.E.A. de Psychologie Cognitive, E.H.E.S.S., Paris
- Master of Science in Management Science – Information Systems, Recanati Graduate School, Tel Aviv University
Selected Works:
- Getz I., Le vostre idee cambieranno tutto! Il valore delle piccole idee, with A. G. Robinson, Il Sole 24 Ore Libri, 2005
- Getz I., Créativité organisationnelle : Regards de l’individu, de l’entreprise et de l’économie, ed. Série Vital Roux, 2002
- Getz I., Innovate or Die: Is That a Fact?, Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol. 12, N° 3, September 2003, p. 130-136
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