Sola Davide | ESCP Business School

Davide Sola

Full Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

Department : Entrepreneurship
Campus : London

Dr. Davide Sola is Full Professor of Strategy and former Director of ESCP Business School London campus. His teaching is in the strategy and Entrepreneurship area - in particular he teaches business strategy, Transformation and Entrepreneurship with a focus on Scale Ups to both graduate and post-graduate courses. Born in Italy Dr. Sola is a graduate of ESCP Business School and University of Turin (1998). He holds a Master’s in European Management, the Diplom Kaufmann, the Diplôme des Grandes Ecoles and the Laurea in Economia from Universita’ di Torino. He earned his doctorate in Enterprise Economics from the University of Torino with a thesis on " - Organisational transformation" - . Following graduation he became involved in several technology Start-ups, first in Oxford through the Oxford Centre for Innovation, then in London under the umbrella of a number of venture capital and private equity firms. Subsequently he moved to join the Hartley Investment Trust, a private equity firm based in London specialised in corporate restructuring and investment in fast growing organisations - there he worked as Head of New Ventures. In 2003 Professor Sola returned to Italy to join McKinsey & - Co. where he held the position of Engagement Manager in charge of several projects ranging from post-merger integration to turnaround of state-owned companies. Also in 2003, Dr. Sola was part of the team headed by Dr. Quaglia responsible for setting up the fifth ESCP Business School campus, in Torino, Italy. Professor Sola then held the position of Vice-President of the Board of the school’s Italian campus till 2010. Early in 2007, after a sabbatical year away from McKinsey & - Co. and spent at the London Campus, he joined ESCP Business School as a permanent member of faculty. Dr. Sola’s research interests are in corporate transformation, strategic renewal, entrepreneurship with a focus on the exponential phase of growth, the so called “Scale Up”. He is author of articles, policy papers, book chapters, case studies and papers presented at international research conferences (Academy of Management, SMS, EIASM, etc.). Prof. Sola is the London lead for the Jean-Baptiste Say Institute for Entrepreneurship as well as the Co-Director (with Prof. Olivier Saulpic) of the HMI – Health Management Innovation research center.

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15 publications

ESCP Impact Papers

2025

SCARSO BORIOLI, G., D. SOLA, R. QUAGLIA, A. JORDAN

Towards a Machine-Readable Standard Ontology for Business Strategy

ESCP Impact Papers, 2025-33-EN

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

SOLA, D., G. SCARSO BORIOLI

Navigating Uncertainty: The Power of Foresight in Business Strategy

ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-46-EN

Other Intellectual Contributions

2023

KUPP, M., J. RAYPORT, D. SOLA

L’extrapolation, ou la maîtrise de la rentabilité

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW FRANCE, 71-83

Other Intellectual Contributions

2023

KUPP, M., D. SOLA, J. RAYPORT

Wie Start-ups gross werden

HARVARD BUSINESS MANAGER, Vol 45, August, 63-71

Other Intellectual Contributions

2023

KUPP, M., D. SOLA, J. RAYPORT

The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW, January/February 2023

ESCP Impact Papers

2020

COUTURIER, J., G., D. SOLA

Strategic Agility in a Time of Crisis

ESCP Impact Papers, 2020-32-EN

Studies & Reports

2019

SOLA, D.

Panorama 2019 des Entrepreneurs Performants et Engagés

Academic Articles

2018

SOLA, D., F. PUCCIARELLI

Can online social networks enhance existing patient pathways and make them scalable?

BRITISH JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT, 24 (3), 127-133

Academic Articles

2018

QUAGLIA, R., D. SOLA, G. SCARSO BORIOLI

Predicting GPs engagement with artificial intelligence

BRITISH JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT, 2018 Vol 24 No 3, 132-138

Academic Articles

2015

VOYER, B., G., O. SAULPIC, D. SOLA, J. COUTURIER, E. BÉRARD, V. VERONIQUE TRAN, P. ZARLOWSKI

Editorial to the special issue on Innovation in Healthcare

BRITISH JOURNAL OF HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT, 21(3), 124-124

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ESCP Impact Papers

2025

Towards a Machine-Readable Standard Ontology for Business Strategy

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

Navigating Uncertainty: The Power of Foresight in Business Strategy

Other Intellectual Contributions

2023

L’extrapolation, ou la maîtrise de la rentabilité

Other Intellectual Contributions

2023

Wie Start-ups gross werden

Other Intellectual Contributions

2023

The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up

ESCP Impact Papers

2020

Strategic Agility in a Time of Crisis

Studies & Reports

2019

Panorama 2019 des Entrepreneurs Performants et Engagés

Academic Articles

2018

Can online social networks enhance existing patient pathways and make them scalable?

Academic Articles

2018

Predicting GPs engagement with artificial intelligence

Academic Articles

2015

Editorial to the special issue on Innovation in Healthcare

Research and expertise

News & events

Events

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