May-Anne
Very

May-Anne Very is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic Management Department. Her research lies at the intersection of corporate strategy, sustainability and computational methods. She investigates how firms reconfigure their resource base to address major strategic challenges, and how these choices affect firms and their stakeholders. Her primary stream of research has focused on sustainability. For instance, her papers have examined the impact of sustainability-driven acquisitions, and recent projects explore the role of climate change in shaping corporate strategy decisions. Her work has been published in the Global Strategy Journal and received the 2026 Distinguished Paper Award in Nonmarket Strategy from the Academy of Management.

She uses computational methods and AI to study strategy questions that are difficult to address with traditional data and methods. She is particularly interested in how emerging data sources and analytical approaches can broaden the scope of strategy research. Her work draws on satellite data, text analysis and large-scale analyses of consumer packaged goods markets.

At IESE, she has been teaching Corporate Strategy and Competitive Strategy in the MBA, EMBA, Master in Management, Executive Education and Custom programs, as well as the Strategic Management course in the PhD program. She holds a Ph.D. in Management (Strategy) from INSEAD, an M.Sc. in Management from HEC Paris, and completed a one-year program specializing in Economics (M1) at École Polytechnique / Université Paris-Saclay. Prior to joining academia, she worked in M&A and consulting across Europe and Asia.