Prof. Olivier Tabatoni

Olivier Tabatoni is a visiting faculty in Executive Education, at Mahindra Univeristy. He is Professor of Finance at IAE Aix-en-Provence, France. He is an Associate Fellow from the Saïd Business School, Oxford University, U.K and adjunct Professor at HEC Paris, France. He was a Visiting Professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University and at the Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley. He is a fellow from the Ford Foundation.
He has also taught in leading universities and business schools from Europe to the Far East; he regularly teaches in Bangkok, Beijing, Hong-Kong, ISB Hyderabad in India, and Shanghai. He has won awards for excellence in the classroom on numerous occasions. He recently received the Kellogg- WHU Executive MBA Best Teacher Award.

His current areas of interest includes Profitable Growth, Real Options, Value Creation, Strategic Flexibility and Change management. More generally it focuses on the interactions between Strategy, Finance and Leadership.
Professor Tabatoni has also been involved in designing and teaching executive programs for large multi-national organizations all over the world. Some of his most recent clients include: Dr Reddy Labs, Air France-KLM, Alcatel-Lucent, Atos, BASF, Bharti Infratel, BP, Bouygues, Eurocopter, RPG, Ericsson India, Gammon India, Holcim, ING Bank, Infotech Entreprises, MAN AG, MBDA, Mondadori, Nokia-Siemens Networks, Publicis, QTEL, Schneider Electric, SKF, ST Microelectronics, Total, Thales, ThyssenKrupp, UHDE, Volvo Trucks.
He has designed many Business Game simulations for executive education, which focus on Value Creation in manufacturing industries, service industries and the luxury industry.
Olivier Tabatoni holds a Doctorate in Analysis and Economic Calculus from the University of Aix-Marseille. He received his Master in Finance and his Ph.D. in Finance and Quantitative Analysis from New York University’s Stern School of Management.