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Welcome to my personal website. I am 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 this process, with a particular focus on evaluation, the pivotal bridge between idea generation and successful implementation. Through collaborations with organizations such as NASA, Zapier, MIT Solve, and Procter & Gamble, I investigate how innovation is being transformed by AI technologies, remote work dynamics, and the evolution of expertise and social preferences. I combine field experiments, applied econometrics, and economic modeling to uncover the incentive structures and mechanisms that govern how innovation is produced and diffused across universities, corporations, scientific funding agencies, and research institutions.
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 Mathematics (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 on to pursue a Ph.D. in Economics of Innovation at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, before joining LISH as a postdoctoral research fellow.

Email: charlesayoubi13[at]gmail[dot]com