---
id: "pisquared:interview/gatignon-aline"
type: "Pi-Squared interview"
title: "Anita McGahan in conversation with Aline Gatignon"
url: "https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/gatignon-aline"
date: "2025-09-26"
people: ["Anita McGahan","Aline Gatignon"]
summary: "Aline Gatignon is Associate Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris. Her research explores how organizations collaborate to tackle grand societal challenges..."
recording: "https://vimeo.com/1122235968"
source: "Pi-Squared (pisquared.theburnescenter.org), The Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Anita McGahan in conversation with Aline Gatignon

Aline Gatignon, Associate Professor, HEC Paris · 26 September 2025

## About the guest

Aline Gatignon is Associate Professor of Strategy at HEC Paris. Her research explores how organizations collaborate to tackle grand societal challenges. Many of her studies are on collaborations in emerging markets, such as in sub-Saharan Africa, India, and Brazil. She studies how firms work with each other and with nonprofits, governments, and communities to foster inclusive and sustainable growth. Aline’s work has been published in leading journals and has been recognized with a range of great awards. She serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science and has held leadership roles within the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.

## Related resources

- [Aline’s website](https://www.alinegatignon.com/)
- [Aline at HEC Paris](https://www.hec.edu/en/faculty-research/faculty-directory/faculty-member/gatignon-aline)
- [Google scholar on Aline](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uXRg6boAAAAJ&hl=en)
- [Aline’s paper on the double-edged sword of boundary-spanning collaborations](https://sms.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smj.3403)
- [Thinker’s 50 profile of Aline](https://thinkers50.com/biographies/aline-gatignon/)

## Recording

Video: https://vimeo.com/1122235968

## Category

[Where Do We Go From Here?](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/category/where-next)

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Original page: https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/gatignon-aline · Licence: none stated