HEALTH, FOOD & SPORTS

The future is a source of opportunity and progress. Those chairs are interested in the 21st century economy and 

pay special attention to show how the concept of quality of life will shape the economy of the 21st century. 

Health, Sports and the relationships between these subjects are all areas covered by our Chairs. 

ESSEC Chair of Innovation in Health (previously Chair of Therapeutic Innovation and Chair of Health Systems)

In September 2019, the Chair of Innovation in Health and the Chair of Health systems merged. The Innovation and Health Chair is a teaching and research chair. Its historical partner is Sanofi Genzyme. The Chair’s educational objective is to train business leaders capable of:

The Chair offers two options of 75 hours of lessons each:

The Chair also develops research programs on the explanatory factors of health costs and the diffusion of health innovation, the methods of evaluating health strategies, the competition in health insurance, the use of big data methods for the analysis of health insurance data, the choices made by patients in health systems.

The Chair has become an academic place of excellence for all actors in the health ecosystem.

ESSEC Sports Chair

The Chair aims to train future leaders in sports business and provide them with an understanding of sport as a complex global industry with multiple stakeholders, and of current trends such as new funding models, digital, and e-sports. At the same time, the Chair also develops future leaders across different industries through “lessons learned” from sport, ranging from the development of individual strengths and values to the effective leadership of groups and teams

Food Business Challenges Chair

Today, most of the leaders of agri-food companies believe that the current systems will no longer be effective in ensuring the economic and societal objectives assigned to them, the first of which is to feed the world population while protecting the planet. ESSEC Business School and four leading food companies, Axéréal, Bel, Lesaffre & METRO, have decided to combine their skills and their expertise to create this new Chair. The objective of the chair is to train and to inspire the future industry leaders with an innovative mindset and a strong willingness to conduct the transition of Food Business with sustainable and reliable transition solutions. Together with partners and affiliates, we strive to reinvent tomorrow's food networks and businesses. The chair program is designed to provide participants with in-depth understanding of the food ecosystem, both from a human perspective and a technological point of view. It will also provide several approaches and tools to design and build the “transition for food and earth”.