The six-month collaboration between Dr Sébastien Fernandez, (Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at EHL) and Alberto Casciano (PhD candidate in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Trento University, Italy), has been the first of its kind and has set the wheels in motion for similar future academic research partnerships at EHL. This association between an EHL research professor and an external PhD student - which came about tentatively and provisionally - has proven to be extremely fruitful, both personally and professionally.