Julien Lévy
Julien Lévy is Associate Professor (Education Track) and the Director of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center at HEC Paris. He is Head of the Chair AXA Digital strategy and big data. Julien has completed extensive studies in philosophy and political sociology (Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris), is a graduate of Science-Po and HEC, and earned a PhD in management from HEC. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in Dartmouth and a Visiting Researcher at the University of California in Berkeley.
In 1998 he became an Affilaite Professor Professor (since Associate Professor) at HEC and started the first electronic marketing course in France, together with Jacques Lendrevie.
In 2002 he was made Director of the 3rd year specialization in e-business, the "Management and New Technologies" Major coordinated in partnership with Télécom ParisTech, that became the Major Digital in 2015.
In 2011 he helped create and was appointed head of the E-business Chair in "Digital Innovation for Business", sponsored by five Internet entrepreneurs: Jacques-Antoine Granjon (founder and CEO of vente-privee.com), Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet (founder and CEO of PriceMinister), Xavier Niel (founder of Free and Vice Chairman of the Board), Steve Rosenblum (founder and CEO of PIXmania.com) and Marc Simoncini (Meetic founder and CEO).
In this capacity, he established and has since run the "Digital Entrepreneur" Certificate, an English language program for graduates from HEC, dealing with e-business and start-ups.
In 2014 he helped create and became head of the AXA Digital Strategy and Big Data Chair. In this role he set up and co-directed the "Digital Transformation" Certificate, focusing on the challenges of e-business in large corporations.
In 2015, he is appointed Director of the newly created Digital Center at HEC, the task of which is to coordinate chairs and programs in e-business: elective courses, Académies, Major, Certificates. After its fusion with the Entrepreneurship Center, he is now the head of the HEC IDEA Center that coordinates the chairs, the programmes and the initiatives of the Grande Ecole, MBA and Executive Education that deal with innovation, digital, data, entrepreneursip, and that includes the HEC incubator at Station F.
He is the co-director of the MBA Specialization Digital Innovation and the head of various programmes in Executive education such as Data For Managers.
His educational initiatives focus on learning by doing: the classwork is reduced and redesigned, and more emphasis is placed on “mentored challenges” during which participants learn by doing (e.g. using a brief to develop a functional offer in three weeks). This approach has been tested and developed over several years and shares commonalities with design thinking and lean management methods.
Julien Lévy is a consultant in marketing strategy and digital strategy and his current research focuses on digital transformation and the impact of data science and artifical intelligence on business and organizations.
With Jacques Lendrevie he is co-author of Mercator, the bestselling French language marketing manual. Each year he edits and writes Netexplo Trends Report, the study on digital innovations.
