INSEAD Healthcare Alumni Summit

8th October 2009

The upcoming INSEAD Healthcare Alumni Summit 2009 will take place in Basel, Switzerland, on 8 October 2009. This full-day, international conference will focus on the following themes: Reinventing Healthcare Innovation, Consumer Healthcare – Up Close & Personal, Healthcare Businesses. More...

ISEP Conference & Alumni Reunion

Social Entrepreneurship: Reaching for Impact” 

25-28th June 2009

The INSEAD Social Entrpreneurship Programme - Alumni Reunion is a unique opportunity for ISEP network members to meet colleagues from other parts of the globe, to meet local entrepreneurs from Paris and France. The conference started in the evening on Thursday 25 June with a reception dinner. On Friday 26 June the 4th INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Conference open to the public, focused on burning issues around social entrepreneurship through plenaries, workshops, discussion groups. More...

Book "Mainstreaming Corporate Responsibility"

Publication on June 26th 2009

As managers find that they must grapple with increasingly complex social and environmental problems as an integral part of business strategy and operations, they require different knowledge, skills and competencies than in the past. "Mainstreaming Corporate Responsibility" is based upon a curriculum development project run by the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, London Business School and EABIS, this book, available through http://eu.wiley.com, is a collection of texts and cases for use in courses across the business disciplines as well as courses on corporate responsibility. To watch the video interview on mainstreaming corporate responsibility with N. Craig Smith, please click here:

21st Alumni Sustainability Executive Roundtable

4 & 5 June 2009

"Sustainability Strategies -

When Does it Pay to be Green" is the topic for the 21st Alumni Sustainability Executive Roundtable. The roundtable will be held at INSEAD, Europe Campus in Fontainebleau, France and will take place on thursday 4 and friday 5 June 2009 from 10 am-4 pm.

This roundtable will feature insightful discussions with thought leaders and valuable debate among experts about Sustainability Strategies. The Roundtable will help managers better understand how to prioritize eco-investments, so that environmental challenges can be transformed into sources of competitive advantage and new market spaces. More...

Book "The Economic Growth Engine"

Published on April 27th 2009

By INSEAD Emeritus Professor Robert Ayres and Senior Research Fellow Benjamin Warr. Would you want your great-children in 2100AD to have a 22nd-century industrial economy? If so, read this book to grasp how strongly wealth depends on energy and its efficient use.

Start treating fossil energy, not as continuing income, but as one-time energy capital to spend on efficiency and long-term sustainable energy production. Otherwise, your descendants will inherit a broken 20th-century economy that only worked with cheap fossil fuels. They will not be rich and they will wonder what their ancestors were thinking.’ – John R. Mashey, PhD, ex-Chief Scientist, Silicon Graphics. More...

Book "Sustainability Strategies -

When Does it Pay to be Green"

Published on April 10th 2009

By Renato J. Orsato. The book helps managers to base eco-investments on solid grounds. Through the systematic use of analytical frameworks, Sustainability Strategies helps managers to prioritize eco-investments, and transform them into sources of competitive advantage and new market spaces. More...