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| INSEAD Research Examines the ‘Innovator’s DNA’
Innovation is the ‘secret sauce’ of business success, but discovering innovative people and ideas remains elusive to many companies. In a study conducted over a six-year period, INSEAD, in partnership with Brigham Young University and Harvard Business School, identified the unique traits that are inherent to innovative entrepreneurs. |
INSEAD Releases Ranking of the World’s
Best-Performing CEOs
With the focus on short-term corporate thinking under fire, a new ranking of the world’s best-performing CEOs by professors at INSEAD reveals that a surprising number of star CEOs do not live up to their reputations. The study also overturns a number of common assumptions about what constitutes effective long-term leadership. While many chief executives are highly respected and admired, it points to an interesting question – does the business community place a higher emphasis on reputation over performance? |
INSEAD Launches Global Private Equity Initiative
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced the launch of its Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI). The Initiative combines the energies and talents of the school's research and educational capabilities with INSEAD alumni and global professionals in the private equity industry. The GPEI’s primary focus is to develop research on new frontiers in the private equity industry, specifically on topics related to emerging markets and the needs of Limited Partners. |
Résultats de l'étude INSEAD/LOGICA sur l'Innovation en Europe
Logica, acteur majeur des services informatiques, rend aujourd’hui public les résultats d’une étude réalisée par l’INSEAD, portant sur les pratiques des grandes entreprises en matière d’innovation. Celle-ci révèle que les dirigeants européens ont la ferme conviction que l’innovation est la meilleure arme contre la crise, mais que les ressources investies en ce domaine risquent de l’avoir été à perte, en raison d’un déficit d’organisation dans la gestion de l’innovation. |
INSEAD Partners with Sodexo and Centre for Work-Life Policy to Host Panel on Leadership
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced it will host a breakfast panel on how to engage organisations’ leadership during difficult economic times on 8 January 2010 in Paris. Hosted in partnership with Sodexo and the Centre for Work-Life Policy, panellists will identify how organisations can better support and motivate top talent to survive the current downturn and emerge stronger during the recovery.
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INSEAD to Host Conference on Leadership Development
In today’s turbulent environment, leaders are faced with increasing expectations to address the challenges facing business, societies, and the planet, while offering greater predictability, transparency, and agility to navigate unchartered domains. INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced it will host a forum to address these questions titled, ‘Developing Leaders: Challenges to concepts, practices and research,’ from 3-5 December 2009 on the school’s Europe campus in Fontainebleau.
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Global Business Leaders Look to the Future at INSEAD Leadership Summit Asia
INSEAD, the leading international business school, recently hosted its Leadership Summit Asia on
6 November 2009 at the school’s Asia campus in Singapore. Under the theme of ‘Reinventing the Future of Business,’ distinguished leaders from around the globe presented their views on, and led discussions around, the topics of finance, innovation, and the role of government in business.
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INSEAD to Host 22nd Alumni Sustainability Executive Roundtable on Energy
Monumental changes are in place to move toward a more sustainable energy infrastructure. Many of these changes centre on implementing high-payoff energy conservation projects and improving the prospects for innovation and diffusion of decentralised and renewable energy sources. |
Les Etats de la France
The fourth annual Etats de la France convention for economic policy and business leaders and decision-makers was held on 12 November 2009 at the Palais du Luxembourg. To accompany the convention, TNS Sofres, a partner of Etats de la France, was commissioned to conduct a survey into the French population's perceptions of the economic crisis. |
INSEAD to Host Leadership Summit Asia 2009
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced its 3rd Annual Leadership Summit Asia will take place on 6 November 2009 at the school’s Asia campus based in Singapore. More than 300 global leaders from business, government, media and academia will come together to discuss the lessons learned from the financial crisis and new models that will influence the future shape of business. The Summit will also mark the Asia launch of INSEAD’s 50th anniversary celebrations, which will run for the 2009-2010 academic year. |
INSEAD Partners with the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards
INSEAD, the leading international business school, announced its partnership for the third year with the prestigious Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards. The awards are an annual business plan competition for women entrepreneurs from around the world, and were created in 2006 by Cartier and the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society in partnership with INSEAD and McKinsey.
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INSEAD Announces the Launch of its
Global Executive MBA Programme in Abu Dhabi
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced it will launch its world renowned Executive MBA programme from its Abu Dhabi campus starting in the 2010/2011 academic year. The announcement was made by Javier Gimeno, INSEAD’s newly appointed Dean of EMBA, in the presence of Director General of Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC), H.E. Dr. Mugheer Khamis Al Khaili, in advance of the Master Class which will be held in Abu Dhabi on 14 October 2009. |
INSEAD Alumni Organise Global Healthcare Summit
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced that its alumni will host the INSEAD Healthcare Alumni Summit on 8 October 2009 in Basel, Switzerland. Coordinated by the INSEAD Healthcare Alumni Network, the Summit will draw over 150 participants, including INSEAD alumni from more than a dozen different countries and senior healthcare industry experts. Several key topics will be addressed such as: Reinventing Healthcare Innovation; Key Trends in Consumer Healthcare; and Healthcare Businesses in the Age of Globalisation. |
INSEAD Celebrates 50-Year Anniversary
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced its 50th anniversary, celebrating a half century of excellence in business education. Since its inception and first MBA intake in1959, the school has been committed to providing a unique multicultural learning environment that brings together people, cultures and ideas from around the world.
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INSEAD Appoints New Programme Deans
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced it has named new Deans for its EMBA, Executive Education, and PhD Programmes, as well as two new Deans of Faculty and Research. |
INSEAD Professors Write Breakthrough Book on Family Business
The most fascinating corporate dramas involve family businesses. In a new book, ‘Family Business on the Couch: A psychological perspective,’ INSEAD professors, Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries and Randel Carlock and researcher, Elizabeth Florent-Treacy, write that emotional issues which compound organisational problems are the most difficult challenges faced by family businesses. |
| Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s Court and INSEAD Form New Partnership INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced a new partnership with the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s Court to establish the Crown Prince’s Diwan Endowed Chair in Social Innovation and Sustainability at INSEAD’s Centre for Executive Education and Research in Abu Dhabi.
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INSEAD and France Telecom-Orange Establish ‘The INSEAD Orange Endowed Scholarship for Emerging Markets’
INSEAD, the leading international business school, and France Telecom, one of the world's leading telecommunications operators whose key brand is Orange, announced today the development of the ‘INSEAD Orange Endowed Scholarship for Emerging Markets.’ This endowed scholarship will, in perpetuity, enable students from emerging countries to pursue an MBA at INSEAD and benefit from a world-class, diverse and multicultural business education.
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INSEAD Celebrates 20th Anniversary of PhD Programme with Reunion Event on the Europe Campus
INSEAD, the leading international business school, hosted a reunion event at the end of June to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its PhD programme. 30 INSEAD PhD alumni from around the world gathered on the school’s Fontainebleau campus for a full day of discussions on the topic of the changing role of business schools. The event marked 20 years since INSEAD’s PhD programme launched in1989 with its first class of five students. |
INSEAD Becomes First Top Foreign MBA Programme to Endorse Doostang
Doostang, the leading online career advancement platform for elite professionals, today announced that it has been selected by INSEAD, The Business School for The World, to provide job and internship opportunities to its MBA and Executive MBA students. |
Unilever Establishes Endowed Research Fund at INSEAD
INSEAD and Unilever today announced the establishment of ‘The Patrick Cescau/Unilever Endowed Fund for Research in Leadership and Diversity’ with a gift of €3M in honour of recently retired Unilever CEO Patrick Cescau (INSEAD MBA'76). |
| INSEAD Marks 20th Anniversary of PhD Programme
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced the 20th anniversary mark of its PhD Programme. To honour this milestone, the school will host a reunion event on 25 June 2009 for PhD alumni from around the globe to gather on the Europe campus in Fontainebleau for a full day of panel discussions. |
| INSEAD and General Women’s Union Discuss Recent Research Findings: Between Work and Family, a New Generation of Arab Women Redefine their Role
Under the patronage of HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Al Nahyan, an event, entitled “Working Women in the Arab World: Careers, Choices and Constraints”, was organized by INSEAD Centre in Abu Dhabi and the General Women’s Union. The event showcased some of the latest research findings from INSEAD on working women in the Middle East and implications for leadership development in the region. |
INSEAD to Host 7th Annual Private Equity Conference
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced that its 7th Annual Private Equity Conference will take place on Friday 22 May 2009 on the school’s Fontainebleau campus. This conference is the largest student-organised private equity and venture capital event in Europe, and provides an exceptional forum for discussions of the latest developments, market conditions and key issues that will impact and shape the industry for years to come.
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INSEAD Research Shows Going Abroad Linked to Creativity
Living in another country can be a cherished experience, but new research from INSEAD and Northwestern University suggests it might also help expand minds. This research, published by the American Psychological Association, is the first of its kind to look at the link between living abroad and creativity. |
INSEAD Recognised by CFA Institute as a Programme Partner
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced it has joined an elite group of global academic institutions by becoming a Programme Partner with CFA Institute, the international association for investment professionals. The CFA Programme Partner Initiative recognises select colleges, universities and business schools from around the world that have incorporated a significant percentage of the CFA Programme Candidate Body of Knowledge in their degree programmes. |
INSEAD Makes Further Investment in Global Technology Capabilities
INSEAD, the leading international business school, and Ness Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTC), a global provider of information technology solutions and services, today announced a multi-year contract for outsourcing of IT services. |
| Innovation is Vital to Post-Crisis Growth in Europe and Central Asian Countries
At its 8th annual Knowledge Economy Forum, the World Bank urges countries to focus on key priorities for sustainable growth by ensuring that resources for innovation are not cut as part of fiscal consolidation, but are used more efficiently, and by approaching the crisis as an opportunity to change policies that would protect Research and Development (R&D) and investment in human capital.
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‘Global Latinas’ Offers Comprehensive Look into the
Rise of Latin American Multinationals
Most of the research on multinationals has focused on companies from developed markets. Research on multinationals from emerging economies, on the other hand, is relatively new with little attention devoted to the increase of Latin American companies as major players on the international economic scene. In her new book ‘Global Latinas: Latin America’s emerging multinationals’ , Lourdes Casanova, a lecturer in strategy at INSEAD, takes a closer look at the factors that made it possible for Latin America’s large and medium-sized companies to succeed internationally. |
INSEAD Launches Executive Education Programme to Make Sense of the World’s Financial Turmoil – ‘Deciphering the Crisis: From Understanding to Advantage’
What immediate steps can be taken to decipher the crisis that has affected every aspect of the global economy? How must business strategy evolve to minimise the effects? Are organisations well-positioned to capitalise on opportunities? To make sense of the barrage of conflicting information about the downturn, INSEAD has brought together four of its most experienced members of faculty, who are renowned experts in the areas of Economics, Finance, Marketing, and Strategy: Professors Ilian Mihov, Kevin Kaiser, V. (Paddy) Padmanabhan,Subramanian Rangan. Together, they will teach the new INSEAD Executive Education programme entitled, ‘Deciphering the Crisis: From Understanding to Advantage. |
‘Sustainability Strategies: When Does It Pay To Be Green?’
Corporate environmentalism is driving the agenda of today’s organisations, but how can managers transform sustainability issues into business opportunities? In his book, ‘Sustainability Strategies: When Does it Pay to be Green?,’ Dr. Renato Orsato, a Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD’s Social Innovation Centre, outlines the elements involved in the formation and evaluation of sustainability strategies in organisations. By helping managers prioritise eco-investments, Orsato explains how businesses can transform them into sources of competitive advantage and new market spaces. |
INSEAD – eLab to Outline Middle East Implications of Skills & Innovation Study Findings
Injazat Data Systems, the leading Information Technology and Business Process Managed Services provider in the region, has announced plans for a joint event with the INSEAD Centre for Executive Education and Research in Abu Dhabi. During the event, to be held on April 15 at the INSEAD Abu Dhabi Centre, INSEAD eLab Executive Director Dr. Bruno Lanvin will outline the findings of a new research study on skills and human capital. |
| INSEAD Redesigns the Rule Book at
Leadership Summit Europe
As global markets continue to waver, leaders are faced with new challenges and the old rules of business no longer apply. At its recent Leadership Summit Europe, INSEAD brought together leaders from business, government, media and academia to focus on how organisations can operate in the evolving economic environment. The panel sessions and expert presenters explored, with rigor and relevance, the tools and innovations leaders will need to emerge from the financial crisis and achieve sustainable growth. |
‘Dance with Chance’ Book Explores How to Predict and Influence Personal Fortune
Predicting the future is a continuous human endeavour that most people are all familiar with in almost all domains of life. People consistently look to develop ‘models’ to accurately predict future outcomes. In their new book, ‘Dance with Chance,’ the three co-authors – Spyros Makridakis, Professor Emeritus at INSEAD; Robin Hogarth, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain); and Anil Gaba, the Orpar Chaired Professor of Risk Management and Dean of Faculty at INSEAD – explain how the ‘illusion of control’ fools us into thinking the future is more predictable and certain than it actually is. |
| INSEAD Issues Global Information Technology Report with the World Economic Forum
Denmark and Sweden once again lead the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009, released today by INSEAD and the World Economic Forum. The Report underlines that good education fundamentals and high levels of technological readiness and innovation are essential engines of growth needed to overcome the current economic crisis. |
FEB-INSEAD Report ‘Who Cares, Who Dares’ Calls for a European Skills Pact
INSEAD, the Business School for the World, and the Federation for Enterprises in Belgium (FEB) today announced the results of a report entitled ‘Who cares, who dares: providing the skills for an innovative and a sustainable Europe’, at the 7th edition of the European Business Summit (EBS). The report, sponsored by Microsoft and Shell, focuses on the skills that Europe needs the most in this time of crisis. It argues for the creation of a “European Skills Pact” between Europe’s educators, employers, investors, policy makers and citizens. |
‘The Innovation Manual’ Addresses How to Successfully Integrate Innovation within Organisations
The new realities of today’s business environment have shifted the boundaries of innovation, placing a renewed emphasis on creating new services and business models. INSEAD Professor David Midgley takes a fresh approach to the topic of innovation in his new book, ‘The Innovation Manual,’ (Wiley, 2009). Geared specifically towards managers and executives, Midgley shows how firms can keep pace by changing management practices in order to keep their innovation relevant and of value to their customers and shareholders. |
INSEAD Receives Overall Honour in European Case Awards
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced it has won four of the nine categories in the 2009 ecch European Case Awards, and the Overall Award for the third consecutive year. The school has received the Overall Award more than 10 times during the 18-year history of the awards. INSEAD cases received top honours across several categories, including Economics, Politics and Business Environment; Ethics and Social Responsibility; and Finance, Accounting and Control. |
‘Humanitarian Logistics’ Provides New Insights into Public-Private Partnerships
In this new era where organisations’ corporate social responsibility programmes have become a business imperative rather than a public relations effort, many companies turn to humanitarian organisations to contribute with their capacities and capabilities. In their book, ‘Humanitarian Logistics,’ Rolando Tomasini and Luk Van Wassenhove take a detailed look at humanitarian operations and the collaboration between private companies and humanitarian organisations. |
Executives from Region Gather to Discuss Management Best Practice in Times of Economic Global Crisis
Business executives from Abu Dhabi and the region gathered together today at a seminar entitled 'Managing People, Technology and Operations in a changing world' organized by leading international executive business school INSEAD to discuss management best practice in times of economic global crisis. |
PATIENTS FIRST: Healthcare Leaders Seek Efficiency and Quality Services for Patients Amidst Economic Turmoil – The Middle East Health Leadership Programme
This year the Middle East Health Leadership Program(MEHLP), held at INSEAD Centre for Executive Education and Research in Abu Dhabi, proudly qualifies another twenty eight (28) graduates – all senior healthcare leaders from across the Arab region. The MEHLP is an initiative by Johnson & Johnson Corporate Citizenship Trust - Middle East Branch in partnership with the INSEAD, one of the world’s leading graduate business schools. This program aims to provide healthcare policy makers with business and leadership skills required to deliver world class healthcare services to patients across the Arab region. |
Abu Dhabi’s Future Government Leaders in Singapore for Unique Masters Programme at Leading International Business School INSEAD
The Master in Entrepreneurial Leadership Programme, designed to reflect the overall strategy and objectives of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, is being offered to senior Abu Dhabi Government officials who have successfully met INSEAD selection criteria based on their abilities, performance and potential. |
INSEAD and the Confederation of Indian Industry Publish Global Innovation Index
INSEAD, the leading international business school, announced the findings of its Global Innovation Index (GII), a study which the school has jointly published with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). The GII evaluates the progress of innovation readiness in countries, highlighting the obstacles that prevent governments, businesses, and individuals from fully capturing the benefits of innovation. In its second year, the GII ranks countries on several parameters, including technological sophistication, human capacity and infrastructure. |
