Philippe N. Baumard, Ph.D.

Visiting Professor,
Stanford School of Engineering
Dept of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Stanford University
Durand Building 028A - MC 4035
Stanford, CA 94305-4035 USA
Office: (650) 723 3389
Cell (US): +1-415-341-4189

pbaumard@stanford.edu

Philippe Baumard is Visiting Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation at Stanford University Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. A Research Associate with Ecole Polytechnique's Center for Management Research (Crg), in Paris, his work focuses on the transformation of R&D organizations and thrust acceleration of innovation processes. At Stanford, Philippe is leading a collaborative research effort to analayze and anticipate the behavioral patterns of adoption of geo-secured and geo-localized global information infrastructures, in a collaboration between Stanford GPS Lab, the CRG of Ecole Polytechnique and University Paul Cezanne. Philippe is also currently involved with other global research initiatives at UC Berkeley's Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, where he studies failures of learning in large-scale anthropocentric and natural disasters.

Education

B.A., Industrial Economics, Univ. Aix-en-Provence II, 1990
M.Sc., Social Sciences, EHESS – Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 1991
M.Sc., Management, Univ. Paris-Dauphine, Paris, 1991
Ph.D., Strategic Management, Univ. Paris-Dauphine, 1994 (with Oxford-Paris Chancellors Fellowship, which allowed the pursuit of a PhD at three universities: Oxford, UTS Sydney, NYU Stern)

Positions Held

2007 - 2010 Ecole Polytechnique Centre de Recherche en Gestion, Paris
2004 - 2007 Institute of Public Management and Territorial Governance, Aix-en-Provence
2004 - 2006 Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
1999 - 2004 IAE Aix-En-Provence, Graduate School of Business
1998 - 1998 Visiting Faculty, Stern School of Business, New York University
1997 - 1998 Professor, University of Versailles
1995 - 1997 Assistant-Professor, École Supérieure des Affaires Université de Paris-XII
1994 - 1995 Adjunct Faculty, Université de Paris-Dauphine
1993 - 1994 Visiting Scholar (Ph.D), Stern School of Business, New York University
1992 - 1993 Visiting Scholar (Ph.D), University of Technology, Sydney
1991 - 1992 Visiting Scholar (Chancellor’s Grant), Nuffields College, Oxford University

 

External Service and Assignments

• Director of Research, ESLSCA Paris, and Lecturer, Ecole de Guerre Economique, Paris.
• Ad hoc reviewer: Academy of Management Review , Human Relations, Organization Science, Sage (book reviews), Elsevier (book editorial reviews), Academy of Management Meetings
• Prime Minister’s Office of Planning (France), Secretary of the Economic Intelligence Commission (1992-1994) and co-author of governmental white-report.

Current Research and Interests

• Tacit Knowledge, Organizational Failures and Façades
• Innovation Management
• Coopetition

Selected Papers and Publications

• "Learning strategies in coopetitive environments", in: F. Le Roy, S. Yami (Eds), Coopetition: Winning strategies for the 21st century: Northampton, MA: Edward Edgar Publishing, 2008.
• “What Lies Behind Facades and How do Organizational Façades lie? A study of Mess, Inertia, and Fraudulence.”, avec Eric Abrahamson, in: W.H. Starbuck, G. Gerard P. Hodgkinson (Eds.), Handbook of Organizational Decision Making, Oxford University Press, march 2008
• “Machine Foreknowledge”, in: P. Naim, O. Pourret et B.G. Marcot (Eds), Bayesian Belief Networks: A Practical Guide to Applications, New York: Wiley, 2008.
• Starbuck, W.H., Barnett, M.L., Baumard P., “Payoffs And Pitfalls Of Strategic Learning”, Journal Of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008.
• Baumard P. and W.H. Starbuck , « Is Organisational Learning a Myth », Advanced Institute of Management Research / Economic & Social Research Council, London, October 2006.
• Baumard P. and Starbuck W.H. (June 2005),”Learning From Failures: Why It May Not Happen”, Long Range Planning .
• Managing Imaginary Organizations , with Bo Hedberg and A. Yakhlef (Eds.), Oxford : Elsevier Science, 2003.
• Tacit Knowledge in Organizations , London : Sage, June 1999.
• “From Information Warfare to Knowledge Warfare: Preparing for the Paradigm Shift”, in Col. Alan D. Campen, USAF, Douglas H. Dearth and R. Thomas Goodden (Eds.), Cyberwar: Security, Strategy and Conflict in the Information Age, Fairfax , Virginia : Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA).
• “Organizations in the Fog: An Investigation into the Dynamics of Knowledge” in B. Moingeon, A. Edmondson (Eds.), Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage, London : Sage, 1996.
• “Tacit Knowledge in Professional Firms”, in Syed Shariq, Rory Chase (Eds.), Special Issue of Journal Knowledge Management on ”Dynamic Knowledge: Flows and Interactions Across Geography of Space, Time and Tacitness", June 2002.
• “From Noticing to Making Sense: Using Intelligence to Develop Strategy”, The International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Vol. 7, Iss. 1, New York , Summer 1994.

Honors and Awards

• Prize for Excellence, Saint Cyr l’Ecole & Aix-En-Provence , Military Academies (1983, 85)
• Oxford University and Sorbonne Chancellors Ph.D. Fellowship awarded in 1991-1993
• Ph.D. Dissertation Award (Ministry of Technology & Research, France, 1994)
• National Innovation Laureate, Artificial Intelligence (ANVAR, 2000)