Internship | Research Assistant, Entrepreneurship & Organizations

Founded in 1881, HEC Paris is one of Europe's leading business schools. HEC Paris’s goal is to make a positive impact on business and society via its ‘Think, Teach, Act’ tripartite approach, contributing to a more inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous world. With 160 research professors from across the world generating and imparting unique knowledge to over 4,500 students from 135 countries, the HEC Paris campus is a fully-fledged laboratory devoted to innovation and exchange that is open to the diversity of the world and the challenges it faces.

In 2010, HEC Paris joined Qatar Foundation to bring world-class management education programs and research to Doha and the region. Through its offering of degree, non-degree, and corporate programs, HEC Paris, Doha contributes to corporate competitiveness in the global economy, fully aligned with Qatar National Vision 2030 and supporting the transformation of Qatar into a sustainable, competitive, and knowledge-based economy. In addition to offering degree programs, the school partners with corporate clients in Qatar and the region to design and deliver customized executive programs addressing current business and organizational challenges.

HEC Paris is an exceptional workplace, located in state-of-the-art premises in downtown Msheireb, at the heart of Doha. Joining HEC Paris, Doha is a unique opportunity to be part of a close-knit community of talented individuals united around five core values: Curiosity, Excellence, Diversity, Responsibility and Entrepreneurial Spirit.

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3-month Internship position reporting to the Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organizations

Within the Department of Faculty and Research, the Research Assistant is responsible for providing research support to the Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organizations, to work on one of two research streams: 1) Entrepreneurship and Society, or 2) Globalization of Organizations and their Effectiveness.

The first research stream involves various projects that examine the role of entrepreneurship supporting organizations in fostering an entrepreneurial culture in their respective Arab Gulf countries, how social accelerators and incubators conceptualize and measure social impact, and the role of international exposure in mediating entrepreneurial intentions among youth.

The second stream involves research around the ways universities as organizations adapt global models and templates to their local contexts. More specifically, current research projects in this stream examine the global spread of a model of “the entrepreneurial university,” diversity, equity, and inclusion, and internationalization and critically observe the process of adaptation and contextualization of global models for innovative pedagogy. 

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct literature review of academic publications (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles, edited volumes, book chapters, etc.)
• Write extended abstracts of peer-reviewed articles as requested on relevant topics as part of the literature review process  
• Data collection, cleaning, and preliminary analysis of primary (e.g., survey data, web census) and secondary data (e.g., existing cross-country or country-level datasets)
• Conduct web-census of organizations of interest and either hand code specific information according to the coding protocol or scrape data from the web using computational methods
• Interview transcript transcription and qualitative coding according to existing coding protocol

• Undergraduate or graduate students or recent graduates (within the last year)
• Applicants must have coursework or degrees in the social sciences (e.g., sociology, business administration/management, political science, public policy, economics)
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Experience conducting qualitative and/or quantitative research (proficiency in Stata or R is a plus)  
• Willingness to learn
• Highly organized and detail-oriented 
• Ability to work independently under general direction and supervision
• Possess strong communication, interpersonal, and time-management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Prerequisite 

• Eligible candidates must be based in Qatar and have a valid QID for the duration of the internship
• Eligible candidates must be available to complete a minimum of 20 hours of work per week
• Office attendance is required (not open to remote work)
• Interested candidates should send a cover letter, resume/CV, a copy of the most recent transcript, and an academic writing sample
• Interested candidates should also indicate which research stream s/he would like to work on: 1) Entrepreneurship and Society, or 2) Globalization of Organizations and their Effectiveness

Disclaimer

This description is only a summary of the typical functions of the internship, not an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible internship responsibilities, tasks, and duties. The responsibilities, tasks, and duties of the intern might differ from those outlined in this description and other duties, as assigned, may be part of the internship.