Welcome to my personal website!

I am a currently an Assistant Professor at ESSEC Business School since September 2024. Before that I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH).

My research focuses on understanding the complete innovation process, from initial ideation to market application. I study how individual characteristics, expertise, and backgrounds shape each critical stage of the innovation process, with a focus on the evaluation process which serves as a pivotal bridge between idea generation and successful implementation. Through collaboration with diverse organizations such as NASA, MIT Solve, Procter & Gamble and others, I study how the innovation process is being transformed with new AI technologies, remote work dynamics and the evolution of individual expertise and social preferences. 

I employ a variety of methodologies in my research, including field experiments, applied econometrics analysis, and economic modeling, to systematically investigate the underlying processes and incentive structures that govern innovation production and diffusion. My studies span diverse organizations, from universities and corporations to tech firms, scientific funding agencies, and national research institutions like NASA, providing insights into how organizations can more effectively manage innovation processes and integrate new technologies such as generative AI in the process .
Please see my research page for more information.

My academic journey began in France, where I completed a double degree between Centrale Paris and ESSEC Business School, followed by a master's degree in Maths (Probabilities and Statistics) at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) and a master's degree in Economics at Université Paris Sud. After a couple of years of experience in the energy industry and in strategy consulting I went to pursue a Ph.D. in Economics of Innovation at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, before joining LISH as a postdoctoral research fellow. 

Email: charlesayoubi13[at]gmail[dot]com