Pierre Dussauge is a Professor of Strategic Management at HEC Paris. He holds a Masters in Management degree from HEC and earned a Ph.D. in Management Science from Paris-Dauphine University. He was a visiting professor of Corporate Strategy and International Business at the Ross Business School of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) from 1991 to 2003; he has also had teaching assignments at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), at IESE (Barcelona, Spain), at INCAE (Costa Rica), at the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad), at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China), etc.

Pierre Dussauge is the author or co-author of several books in the field of strategic management, including Strategor (Dunod, 2016, 7th edition), the leading French language strategy textbook. He is also the author of many articles published in academic or practitioner-oriented journals. For the last few years, his research has focused on the topic of global strategic alliances.

In addition to his academic work, Pierre Dussauge has been a consultant or a management educator with a number of firms in Europe and in the US.

Laurence Lehmann-Ortega is an Affiliate Professor of Strategic Management at HEC Paris. A graduate of HEC Paris, she holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Aix en Provence. After having first worked as a consultant in strategy, she now focuses on teaching and research, with an emphasis on strategic innovation, notably business model innovation. Among other publications, she is a co-author of Strategor (Dunod, 2016, 7th edition), the leading French language strategy textbook.