Gerges-Yammine Rand | ESCP Business School

Rand Gerges-Yammine

Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship

Department : Entrepreneurship
Campus : Paris

Rand Gerges-Yammine is an Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship at ESCP, Paris Campus. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Innovation & Entrepreneurship group at Imperial College Business School. Prior to joining ESCP, she was a Research Associate at Imperial College, where she worked on an EU-funded research study titled "Networking for Innovation." Her research revolves around interfirm collaboration in open contexts, networking behaviours of tech entrepreneurs in ecosystems, and entrepreneurial response to uncertainty and extreme crisis situations. Rand also has a particular interest in topics revolving around digital entrepreneurship, interorganizational networks, open innovation, arts entrepreneurship, and creativity. Preceding ESCP and Imperial, she was a visiting scholar at SCANCOR at Stanford University. She was also involved with Stanford’s school, where she participated in an extensive one-year program on Design Thinking. In addition to academia, Rand convenes Design Thinking workshops and consults for high-growth start-ups in tech, creative industries, and luxury, primarily in Silicon Valley, London, and Paris. Rand holds a PhD in Management from EMLYON Busi...

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15 publications

Academic Articles

2025

BUREAU, S., R. , R. G. GERGES-YAMMINE, D. BATTAGLIA, J. ZHOU

Legitimising destructive entrepreneurship: the case of a crypto-entrepreneur

SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

BUREAU, S., A. WHITAKER, R. GERGES-YAMMINE

Regaining control in troubled times: Art Thinking as a method in a PUCA world

ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-19-EN

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., C. PINGAL

Building the fundraising gender gap in Europe: Why can’t women entrepreneurs find investors?

ESCP Impact Papers, 2024-21-EN

Academic Articles

2023

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., A. TER WAL

Firm exit from open multiparty alliances: The role of social influence, uncertainty, and interfirm imitation in collective technology development.

RESEARCH POLICY, 52 (4), 104705

Conference Proceedings

2021

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., A. TER WAL , N. MALHOTRA

Transitioning to Circles That Matter: How Entrepreneurs Navigate Networking Arenas to Build Social Capital

Danish Research Unit on Industrial Dynamics (DRUID)

ESCP Impact Papers

2021

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., A. MOHIL

Will there be innovation after now? Rethinking innovation after the Covid -19 crisis

ESCP Impact Papers, 2021-17-EN

Conference Presentations

2020

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., A. TER WAL, N. MALHOTRA

Transitioning to Circles That Matter: How Entrepreneurs Navigate Networking Arenas to Build Social Capital

Strategic Management Society

Conference Proceedings

2020

GERGES-YAMMINE, R., A. TER WAL, N. MALHOTRA

How Entrepreneurs Navigate and Create Networking Arenas to Build Social Capital

Academy of Management (AOM)

Research and expertise

News & events

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Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance

04 June 2026 - 05 June 2025
07.00 am - 02.00 pm

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Women’s Health as an Economic and Innovation Frontier

26 Mar 2026
05.00 pm - 08.00 pm

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Academic Articles

2025

Legitimising destructive entrepreneurship: the case of a crypto-entrepreneur

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

Regaining control in troubled times: Art Thinking as a method in a PUCA world

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

Building the fundraising gender gap in Europe: Why can’t women entrepreneurs find investors?

Academic Articles

2023

Firm exit from open multiparty alliances: The role of social influence, uncertainty, and interfirm imitation in collective technology development.

Conference Proceedings

2021

Transitioning to Circles That Matter: How Entrepreneurs Navigate Networking Arenas to Build Social Capital

ESCP Impact Papers

2021

Will there be innovation after now? Rethinking innovation after the Covid -19 crisis

Conference Presentations

2020

Transitioning to Circles That Matter: How Entrepreneurs Navigate Networking Arenas to Build Social Capital

Conference Proceedings

2020

How Entrepreneurs Navigate and Create Networking Arenas to Build Social Capital

Research and expertise

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