Miguel Rivera graduated from HEC in 1991. From 1992 to 1997, based out of the WUT Business School, he worked for the Fondation France Pologne, collaborating in the creation and follow-up of Franco-Polish graduate programs in management and engineering throughout Poland, as well as teaching various seminars in those programs. He joined the HEC PhD program in 1997, where he is working under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Dussauge. In 2000 and 2001, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan Business School, where he worked mainly with Prof. Will Mitchell. He is scheduled to defend before the end of 2002. His teaching experience includes teaching in English and French, at the undergraduate, graduate, and Executive Education levels, in various institutions in France, Vietnam, and Poland. Miguel Rivera's research investigates the determinants of knowledge transfers between partners in an alliance by focusing on the micro-level of analysis. Using structural modeling techniques, he identifies those factors that allow protection and those that enhance transfers between partners, and analyzes their interactions. His theory is tested on a sample of e-commerce alliances from North America, Europe, and Asia.His research interests include: e-commerce, collaboration vs. competition, knowledge transfers and spillovers.