Isabelle Lescent-Giles- PhD Economic History, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne
- Professor (Full) at Hult International Business School San Francisco Campus United States
Isabelle Lescent-Giles
- PhD Economic History, University of Paris IV-Sorbonne
- Professor (Full) at Hult International Business School San Francisco Campus United States
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Introduction
Isabelle Lescent-Giles is Professor of Strategy and Family Business at Hult International Business School, San Francisco Campus. Isabelle's research, consulting and mentoring activities focus on helping large family businesses adapt and remain entrepreneurial over time, leveraging values, human capital and a triple bottom line approach; she also mentors next-generation leaders, helping them build skills and align career goals. She is currently working with Dennis Jaffe on the '100-Year Families study", with a forthcoming book on how Centennial family businesses practice social impact and align Profit, People, Planet ; and a Hult research project on drivers of innovation in family business
Current institution
Hult International Business School San Francisco Campus United States
Current position
- Professor (Full)
Education
June 1985 - June 1989
Publications
Publications (16)
Today’s competitive environment increasingly calls for organizations and their employees to align competencies and individual capabilities for ambidexterity. Ambidexterity is defined as the need to exploit competencies while allowing for innovative potential. The role of human capital development, and specifically understanding how existing human r...
The creation of the European Economic Community in 1957 triggered a long and painful process of economic integration, at first from the bottom up, through increased exchanges of goods, people and capital, then from the top down, with a renewed move towards common standards from the late 1970s. The euro was the most visible sign of increasing harmon...
LachaudFrédérique, Lescent-GilesIsabelle, and RuggiuFrançois-Joseph, eds. Histoires d'outre-Manche: Tendances récentes de l'historiographie britannique. Paris: University of Paris-Sorbonne Press. 2001. Pp. 357. n.p. ISBN 2-84050-185-6. - Volume 34 Issue 3 - Jeremy Black
Britain was probably one the first nations to have encountered the benefits and dangers of globalising markets and production. The phenomenon of globalisation did not start with the wave of international merger of the 1980s, or even with the Americanisation of Europe in the 1950s and 1960s. Globalisation was a long term process, consisting in a suc...
Economic relations between Britain and France in the twentieth century attracted relatively little attention from politicians, academics and businessmen alike. The stormy relationship between de Gaulle and the successive British governments of the 1960s, or François Mitterrand’s fascination with Margaret Thatcher’s eyes and mouth have been more doc...
Review of Herve Joly's book
http://www.persee.fr/doc/hes_0752-5702_1998_num_17_1_2212_t1_0216_0000_9
Résumé Les élites industrielles s'intègrent progressivement à l'establishment britannique entre 1880 et 1914, portées par le poids des entreprises plus que par l'importance de leurs fortunes personnelles. Dans l'entre-deux-guerres, elles s'ancrent dans l'Establishment en dépit de la professionnalisation des chefs d'entreprise et de l'élargissement...
This article tries to assess the environmental impact of the First Industrial Revolution in XVIIIth an XlXth Century Britain through the example of the West Midlands, cradle of the modern iron and steel industry. The study confirms the Dickensian picture of fumes, fires and factory chimneys towering above long rows of working class housing, but als...
