Join Us for the 1st Annual LVMH-INSEAD Joint Initiative Conference

We are thrilled to announce the inaugural conference of the LVMH-INSEAD Joint Initiative, a unique platform uniting academia and the luxury industry. This event will explore critical themes like innovation, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and the intersection of luxury and social sciences.

Theme: Creativity and Value Creation
Date: July 2nd, 2025
Location: Paris, France

If You Would Like to Present: Call for Submissions (due by February 26th, 2025)
We welcome contributions from researchers, educators, MBA candidates, and industry practitioners under the following formats:

• Text-Based Papers (300-500 word abstract, if abstract accepted, full paper to be submitted later)
• Podcast Episodes (300-500 word abstract and two-minute demo MP3, if abstract/demo accepted, full podcast to be submitted later)

Please send your submission to [email protected]. Decisions to be notified by March 12th, 2025

If You Would Like to Attend: Registration

• Please secure placeholder free ticket on Eventbrite (link). Given the very limited number of seats, we will recontact you with payment information as we get closer to event if you are selected (220 eur for general public, 110 eur for students)

More Information:

Frédéric Godart, Associate Professor (with tenure) of Organisational Behaviour @INSEAD

Wikipedia Page [in English]

ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7530-8577

Research profiles and Publications: Google Scholar, Academia.edu and ResearchGate.net (see the Research page for more details)

Education

2009 PhD in Sociology (Columbia University)

2002 MPhil in Social and Political Sciences (Trinity College, Cambridge University)

2001 MS in Management (Sciences Po)

Frédéric Godart is an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Organizational Behavior at INSEAD. He received his PhD in Sociology from Columbia University in the City of New York. He also holds an MPhil in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) in the United Kingdom, an MSc in Management from Sciences Po Paris, and was a student (“normalien”) at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay. In 2011, he received the French national accreditation to supervise PhD-level research (“Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” or HDR) from Paris-Dauphine University.