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Clearing the digital blur

Rajiv Jayaraman MBA’08J

What do Google, Amazon, Facebook and Alibaba have in common? Collectively referred to as “GAFA”, these companies represent a new breed of competitors disrupting one industry after another and succeeding where most companies have failed. In this book, you will see how these digital giants look at the world around them and get insights on how to thrive in the digital age.

China takes over

Edouard Prisse, MBA'68

When in 1990 the two Germany’s united, this author predicted massive bankruptcies in the ex-DDR and explained why. These bankruptcies then horribly happened. No other such predictions were found.
In this little book, he does it again and predicts Chinese hegemony over the West unless an end is called to Beijing’s huge enrichment.

Creating Passion

Daniel Bloch, MBA'96J

Which factors are crucial for a business's success? Entrepreneur Daniel Bloch locates the difference in building a sense from creativity and passion, giving small businesses above all the strength to keep up with the frontrunners of the market. He narrates anecdotes from his company that lead to a great future project & establishes a new concept for human-orientated and successful entrepreneurship.

Chamonix Mont-Blanc in 3D

By Peter Blair, MBA'93J

Chamonix Mont Blanc in 3D presents over 200 historic 3D images of the Alps, including a few modern ones taken by the author to highlight the staggering changes wrought by climate change on the local glaciers.

Cocktails & Kicktails – Life-saving recipes and rhymes to lift body and soul

Hugh Stewart MBA'81

23 recipes, wonderful cartoons, wacky anecdotes, witty poems and wicked information (like five pages of hangover cures!)

Hear what others think: “Mildly amusing” (author’s wife), “Chuckles galore, it is GREAT FUN!” (retired teacher).

Disruption Denial

By David Guillebaud, MBA’75

David Guillebaud is a senior advisor to CEOs and top management teams on strategy and transformation issues, especially on digital disruption.

Digital Stratics

By Chris Outram, MBA'77

Chris Outram is Founder and Chairman of OC&C, a leading strategy consultancy. He has been a strategy consultant for more than 30 years.

Digital Africa

By Jesper Drescher EMBA'15D

“Impact investing” is one of the biggest buzzwords in finance today. In Digital Africa, Jesper Drescher, a successful investor in the African tech scene, explains the potential and the perils of investing in sub-Saharan Africa. Most of all, he outlines how digitalisation is key to creating the biggest impact possible with your resources.

Evolutionary Leadership

By Naveen Khajanchi, EMDCCC’13

Fluid Organisation

Arne de Vet MBA'99J

Arne de Vet MBA'99J has served many companies around the world as a consultant for McKinsey & Company and is now an independent consultant in strategy and organisation. In his new book, Fluid Organisation, he offers a practical guide mixing self-management and moderated hierarchy for companies to face the evolution of technology, markets and regulations that impacts our business models.

Fun, Fearless and Female

By Frances Pordes, MBA'91J

At thirteen, Frances Pordes had a dream: travel the world as soon as she graduated from high school. More than a dozen years and four university degrees later, Frances’s dream was still…a dream. As she joined thousands of other commuters riding the subway to and from an uninspiring job each day, she wondered, “Is this really it?”

Fall in love with Love with me?

By Dr. Rachna Chowla MBA’09D

A first collection of poetry, exploring the infinite angles of Love, through the lens of the cosmos, the eyes, and Love itself. The author reflects...‘Poetic musings that found their way through this mysterious existence, into my heart, and now find themselves resting in your hands. I cannot say that they are mine, they just arrive, and I simply listen.

God's Wolf

By Jeffrey Lee, MBA'99J

Jeffrey Lee worked as a TV journalist before INSEAD, reporting and producing news and current affairs in more than 30 countries.

Hold Successful Meetings

By Caterina Kostoula MBA’09J

Meetings allow us to bring people together to inspire each other, solve problems and make a difference. Yet, we all spend too much time in dull, frustrating meetings where little is achieved and even less is followed up on afterwards. In Hold Successful Meetings, Caterina Kostoula will change all this with her unique framework to hold fewer more purposeful meetings and create a creative and inclusive environment.

Humanizing Strategy

By Geert Vercaeren EMC’19

Geert Vercaeren is a business consultant and coach with 25 years of experience. His book provides an unconventional approach on how to humanize your strategy and make it work. Based on leading research, real stories, case studies and practical tools, he shows how dealing consciously and effectively with human dynamics significantly impacts the performance of organizations and the successful realization of strategies.

Le Choix de Nelly

Jacques Cory, MBA’68

Le monde et la gouvernance des ETI

By Guy Le Péchon MBA’69 and Valérie Lejeune

This book written in French is a collective work, edited by Guy Le Péchon MBA’69 and Dr. Valérie Lejeune. It includes an article on self-disruption by Patrick Giry-Deloison MBA'91D, offering analyses, good practices & testimonials to help directors play an active role in the sustained development of their enterprises.

Le mirage du leadership à l’épreuve des neurosciences

By James Teboul & Philippe Damier

Despite all the tools at their disposal, leaders continue to disappoint. With the help of neuroscience, this book shows how all the classic models of leadership fail, particularly given seven crucial biases hardwired in our own brains. With knowledge and mastery of our cognitive predispositions we can create a culture based on cooperation and open to innovation.

Making Your Strategy Work

By Chris Outram, MBA’77

Most strategy books on the market are about formulating and developing a winning strategy. Making Your Strategy Work will show you how to get your strategy from paper to people.

My INSEAD Story

By Sian Bentson, MBA’14J and Ankur Grover, MBA’14J

INSEAD offers an intense and outstanding experience, from the unique set of classes, campus locations, and diverse students, to the built-in values of teamwork, trust, and everlasting friendships.

Nordic Model Analyses

By S.T. Evensen, MBA’71

S.T. Evensen has written 5 books in English between 2005 and 2016 – on transparent and deliberative pluralism benefiting ethics and enterprise in the real economy.

Negotiation Evolved

By Filip Hron, MBA’06D

If you only wanted to read one book on negotiation, and in the process achieve the greatest possible improvement in your negotiation skills, then what would that book be?

One million miles

By Ashley Chu MBA'15D

As of March 2020, Ashley has travelled one million miles to 138 countries. Ashley’s passion for the world and its people led her to put together a collection of her travel journals in these countries to record her experiences and stories with the local people, as well as observations and perspectives about the different societies, economies, politics, cuisines, culture, art, fashion, education, healthcare and nature.

Retail Therapy

By Mark Pilkington MBA'86J

Retail Therapy from INSEAD alumnus Mark Pilkington brings readers up to date with the state of the world’s retail industry– including the impact of both Brexit and the US/China trade war – and provides a roadmap for its potential recovery. This paperback edition features a new introduction as well as updated figures throughout.

Radikal

Olivier Castaignede, MBA'05J

Olivier Castaignède decided to leave his position of sales manager in a multinational based in Singapore to devote himself to writing and travel.
In his first novel, Radikal, the French writer explores sensitive subjects such as religion and radicalisation through the character of Hendro, a young Indonesian, techno DJ and drug addict in Jakarta.

Retail's Last Mile

Why Online Shopping Will Exceed Our Wildest PredictionS

By Jonathan Reeve, MBA'98D

Retail expert Jonathan Reeve explores the disruption of store retail by online shopping and forecasts that last-mile innovations will see shopping online overtake shopping in stores within 20 years.

Reinventing Organizations

By Frederic Laloux, MBA’02J

The way we manage organizations seems increasingly out of date. Survey after survey shows that a majority of employees feel disengaged from their companies.

Small Company. Big World

William Frost, MBA’77

William Frost has worked with close to 500 SMEs over the past 30 years. The book is dedicated to those SMEs who are curious about internationalising their business.

Strategic Cost Reduction

By Tim McCormick, MBA’72

Secrète Lalbiela

By Olivier Ahmad Castaignède MBA’05J

Secrète Lalibela tells the crossed destinies of a French businesswoman, an international reporter and an Ethiopian transgender woman who find themselves trapped together inside one of the famous rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia. As they start to suffer from the lack of oxygen, tongues loosen up and stunning confessions are made. When they come out alive, they have to confront their lies and conflicts break out.

The Uncountability of Love: A Collection of Poetry

By Dr Rachna Chowla, MBA'09D

A collection of poetry inspired by love, truth and beauty. Rachna invites the reader on an intimate journey, through chapters such as, 'Eyes, oh those eyes,' 'Love and other such beautiful truths,' and back out to the world in reflections on the year that was 'Twenty Twenty', then on to her experience of the joy of meditation, her 'Dates at eight', and a last-but-meant-to-be-chapter that invites us all to 'Leave space for Ireland too?

The Second Republic of Israel

Jacques Cory, MBA'68

Dr. Jacques Cory is an international businessman specialising in M&A in Europe, US, and Israel. Elected best lecturer at the University of Haifa, he is also a pioneering author in business ethics .His latest book, The Second Republic of Israel, maintains that Israel needs new foundations based on social, economic and governmental justice.

The Working Parent's' Guide

By Nadim Saad, MBA'02J

Working parents often battle with time pressure and guilt of being away from their children, which is where The Working Parents' Guide to Raising Happy and Confident Children comes in.

The Last Ring Home

By Minter Dial, MBA'93J

Minter Dial is the founder and President of The Myndset Company, a boutique agency providing specialised services on Branding and Digital Strategy.

The Giving Way to Happiness

By Jenny Santi, MBA’07J

Jenny Santi is a philanthropy advisor to some of the world's most generous philanthropists and celebrity activists.

The Manager

By Mike Carson, MBA’00J

From the post room to the board room, everyone thinks they can be the manager. But how do you manage outrageous talent? What do you do to inspire loyalty from your players?

The Swordmaster’s Apprentice

By Edward Burke, MBA’02J

Turning his back on the excesses of London in the credit boom, Edward Burke sets off on a year-long journey of self-discovery, to learn from some of the greatest masters of martial arts.

33 Sonnets of the Resistance and Other Poems

By Timothy Ades, MBA’76

Jean Cassou wrote the thirty-three sonnets which Aragon admired so much and which form the first part of this collection in a Vichy prison between December 1941 and February 1942.

The Office Buddha

By Edgar J. Lord

A novel about dysfunctional companies, office politics and career frustrations - and how a little philosophy can make even the worst of jobs a little more bearable.

The Project

By David Power, EMBA'09Dec

Written in the form of a novel, The Project is an insider's guide to developing a career in project management.

The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work

By Utkarsh Amitabh MBA'13D

The Seductive Illusion of Hard Work establishes that hard work is necessary but insufficient for success. The young workforce is experiencing burnout and it is suspected that the romantic proclamations and obsession about hard work has lots to do with it. This book discusses all these issues and finally offers a solution-oriented approach to the myth about succeeding in work life.

The First Shadows of Morning

By Timothy Noble MBA'70

A businessman is sent to Ukraine to formulate a strategy for his company’s subsidiary there. There is an explosion in the factory and he feels he must find out who caused it. It leads on to romance, salvaging and selling the business, involvement with criminal gangs, violence, and death. 

Two Brown Envelopes

By Hazem Mulhim AMP'02J

Two Brown Envelopes offers a refreshingly candid account of the ups and the downs of building a business in the age of globalization. Hazem started out as a shop owner, opening the first computer store in Jordan in the 1980s. Since then, he has built a global business that provides anti-money-laundering and other technology solutions for almost 10 percent of the world's banks.

Un Buisson d’Amarante

By Adrien Sarrault

Lorsque Amaury débarque à Paris dans sa classe préparatoire scientifique, il n'a de français que son passeport.

What is Water?

By Kayvan Kian MBA'10J

An entrepreneur, teacher, and management consultant, Kayvan has given guest lectures at HBS, HEC, Sciences Po, and other schools. Founder of the Young Leaders Forum, he's always been interested in understanding how some people can thrive through challenging times in life and has made it his goal to bring one another's experiences to find solutions for the greater good.

When Execution Isn’t Enough

By Claudio Feser, MBA’91D

Claudio Feser is a Senior Partner in the Zurich office of McKinsey & Company. He is a member of McKinsey's Board, and the leader of McKinsey Academy.

Where is Robin? USA

By Robin Barone, MBA'11J​​

Robin Barone is the founder of Diplomat Books, a platform dedicated to teaching children about the world trough adventure travel in a fun and creative manner.

Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets

By Ripa Rashid, MBA’00D

The war for talent is heating up in emerging markets. Without enough “brain power,” multinationals can’t succeed in these markets.

Your Guide to Succeed in University

Aly Madhavji, MBA'16D

The goal of this guide - Your Guide to Succeed in University - is to help students in university and college to become confident, well-rounded and successful in their overall education experience. This guide aims to equip you - the students - with the necessary tools for success in university and college.

Your Guide to Succeed After Graduation

By Aly Madhavji, MBA'16D

Becoming successful after university depends on more than just formal education. Features of Your Guide to Succeed After Graduation include: Expert advice from professionals and Step-by-step guidance to tackle complicated topics such as tapping into the unknown job network, developing a career strategy, personal branding & many others.

Your Guide to Get Into Medical School

Aly Madhavji MBA'16D

The book focuses on every component of the medical school application process. It differs from the many other books written on this subject by taking an experiential approach.