Anne-Laure Fayard

Anne-Laure Fayard is Associate Professor of Innovation, Design and Organizational Studies in the Department of Technology Management and Innovation at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. She is also an affiliate faculty with the Department of Management and Organizations at NYU Stern Business School. Prior to moving to New York, she was a faculty member at INSEAD Business School, both in Singapore and in Fontainebleau. She has also been visiting scholar with the Center of Sociology of Innovation at Ecole des Mines in Paris and with Design London and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at Imperial College in London. Her research interests involve collaboration, design, culture and space. Her work has been published in several leading journals such as Administration Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Harvard Business Review, Organization Studies and the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. She has been quoted in newspapers such as The New York Times and Business Week. Her book on The Power of Writing in Organizations with Anca Metiu was published by Routledge in August 2012. She co-edited with Raza Mir The Routledge Companion to Anthropology and Business which was published in July 2020. She teaches courses in organizational behavior, design thinking, leadership, and qualitative research methods in graduate and executive programs.

Anne-Laure is the faculty advisor for the Design Lab at NYU Tandon MakerSpace. and for Design for America of NYU .

She holds an MA and an M.Phil. in Philosophy from Paris – La Sorbonne, an M.Phil. in Cognitive Science from Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the Ecole des Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

Research Interests:

My research centers on collaboration, innovation, and technology.

Building upon theories from fields such as sociology, philosophy and design, I study collaboration within and across teams, in online communities, as well as in the context of partnerships, to uncover the conditions that trigger and nurture the production of new ideas or new practices and how various technologies affect these activities. In recent years, I have developed a stream of research exploring the role of collaboration in the context of open innovation and cross-sector partnerships for social innovation.

Education

University of Paris I-Sorbonne 1991 Master of Arts (Maitrise of Philosophy ), Philosophy

University of Paris I-Sorbonne 1992 M. Phil. (Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies ), History and Philosophy of Science

Ecole Polytechnique 1993 M.Phil. (Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies ), Cognitive Science

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales 1998 Doctor of Philosophy, Cognitive Science

Awards

• Runner up for the OMT Best Symposium for a symposium on Materiality and Organizations, Academy of Management Meetings, 2009.
  
• Roland Calori Award, Best Paper Published in Organization Studies, 2009 for Photocopiers and Water-coolers: The Affordances of Informal Interactions, Organization Studies, 2007, Vol. 28, No. 5, 605-634
  
• UC Davis Qualitative Conference, Best Paper Award, 2007. For Beyond Orality and Literacy: Letters and Online Interactions
  
• Academy of Management, OCIS Division, Best Paper Award, 2004. “Language games in Online Learning Forums”
  
• Ph.D Scholarship, French Ministry of National Education, Advanced Instruction, and Research, 1993-1995
  

Honors:

• Distinguished Teaching Award, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, June 2017
  
• Best Student Advisor as the advisor of Design Tinkering Student club, Spring 2015 and Spring 2020
  
• Best Student Advisor at the advisor of Open IDEO student chapter, Spring 2012
  
• NYU-Poly Distinguished Service Award 2013 for Dedication to i2e
  
• Nominated as an Outstanding University Innovator for the Dell Social Innovation Challenge (Summer 2012)