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Florian Hoos

Affiliate Professor at HEC Paris

Professor of Sustainability and ESG accounting at IMD Business School

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  • HEC Paris
  • IMD Business School

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HEC Paris

Florian Hoos is Affiliate Professor in the Department of Accounting and Management Control, and was the Scientific Director of the Master in Sustainability and Social Innovation at HEC Paris (2016-2018). He joined HEC Paris as an Assistant Professor in 2011. From 2017-2019, Florian served as the Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Technical University Berlin (Germany). During the academic year 2014-15, Florian was a Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT Sloan School. Before joining HEC Paris, he earned his Ph.D. from HEC Lausanne (Switzerland) in 2010 and holds an M.Sc. (Diplom-Kaufmann) in business administration from the University of Giessen (Germany).

Florian has won numerous awards, including being listed as one of the 40 best Business School Professors under 40 in the world by Poets & Quants in 2014, the Prix Vernimmen by BNP Paribas in 2014, and the "Best Teaching Style" and “Best Professor Core Phase” awards of the MBA program at HEC Paris. He was awarded first prize by the German Institute of Internal Auditors for his Ph.D. dissertation, won the Prix Pralong award for an entrepreneurship venture he conducted in Ivory Coast, and received funding from two major Swiss foundations to lead an experiential learning project.

He teaches accounting and control, sustainable business model development, impact assessment, change management, responsible leadership, social entrepreneurship, value measurement, radical collaboration, negotiation, and has created Massive Open Online Courses in entrepreneurship and changemaking for the coursera plattform and in HEC's online Masters.

Florian is also an active researcher with publications in leading scientific journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics and Accounting and Business Research. He also serves on the editorial board of Academy of Management Learning & Education. His research interests include corporate governance and ethical decision making, management control and performance measurement, accounting and entrepreneurship pedagogy, (social) entrepreneurship and innovation, and impact assessment.

EDUCATION

  • 2010 Ph.D. in Accounting, HEC Lausanne - Switzerland
  • 2006 Master of Business Administration, Justus-Liebig University Giessen - Germany

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Academic responsabilities at HEC

  • 2017- Affiliate Professor, Accounting and Management Control HEC Paris
  • 2016-2017 Member of GREGHEC (CNRS) HEC Paris
  • 2011-2017 Assistant Professor, Accounting and Management Contro lHEC Paris

External Academic Responsabilities

  • 2007-2011 Research AssistantHEC Lausanne
  • 2007-2009 Lecturer eMBA programUNIL/EPFL
  • 2004-2006 Graduate Research Assistant and TutorJustus-Liebig University Giessen

AWARDS & HONORS

  • 2016 HEC Foundation Award for Pedagogical Initiative with Lise Penillard (H.09)
  • 2014 BNP Paribas Pierre Vernimmen Teaching Award
  • 2011 Best Dissertation Award 2011 from German Institute of Internal Auditors (Deutsches Institut fur Interne Revision)
  • 2010 Prix Pralong

IMD Business School

Florian Hoos is a Professor of Sustainability and ESG accounting at IMD. He is an award-winning teacher, innovator, and writer who was selected by Poets&Quants as one of “The World’s Top 40 Business School Professors Under 40” in 2014. Before joining IMD, he served 10 years as faculty member at HEC Paris, where he directed the Master’s in Sustainability and Social Innovation program, and was a visiting assistant professor at MIT Sloan School. He also accumulated 10 years’ experience in leadership positions as managing director and entrepreneur with his own firm.

An accountant by training and impact innovator by experience, his work in academia and practice focuses on the challenges of triple-impact creation: making strong profits through integrating social and ecological aspects into business. The core of his work is helping organizations from startups to multinationals to execute strategies with measurable economic, social, and ecological impact. He has designed and directed customized programs for several large multinationals, helping them to innovate business models, internal processes, and incentive and reporting systems that prepare them for a future where sustainability is at the heart of the business.

Besides his academic positions, Hoos was Managing Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship of the Technical University in Berlin, where he managed an accelerator and makerspace and advised deep-tech and tech-for-impact startups with his team of 20+ people. He has advised a wide range of companies from startups to multinationals on their ESG strategy, sustainable innovation, and business model development. As a certified radical collaboration trainer, he currently helps executives navigate the triple-impact transformation to guarantee a successful implementation of sustainable company structures such as triple-impact reporting and incentive systems.

His work has been published in leading scientific journals including the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Management Accounting Research, and Accounting and Business Research. He is also a member of the editorial review board of Academy of Management Learning & Education and won one of the journal’s 2020 best reviewer awards for his academic services. Hoos was a pioneer of online education with courses on the coursera.com platform including his course Social Entrepreneurship and Changemaking for the first fully online master’s program at HEC Paris. Besides multiple awards for his teaching in executive programs and pedagogical innovations, he won the Best Professor Award of HEC Paris (Prix Vernimmen) in 2014.

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