INSEAD Corporate Governance Centre

Working Paper

Crisis Management: Framework and Principles with Applications to CoVid-19 (2020/17/FIN/TOM)
by Nathanial P., Van der Heyden L. (2020).

This article tries to sum up lessons all facing any crisis should be aware of. The authors use the CoVid-19 crisis to illustrate these lessons and put them in a context that concerns us all today.

ICGC Report

The Market for Corporate Directors 2019
by Jose Luis Alvarez and Francois-Lucien Vulliermet, 18 December 2019

With this 2019 Report on Directors Job Market, the INSEAD Corporate Governance Centre looked into the call for board renewal and the development of full time professional directors.

Journal Article

Women Don’t Mean Business? Gender Penalty in Board Composition
Organization Science 30(6):1270-1288 (2019) 
By Isabelle Solal, Kaisa Snellman

New Research Shows The More Women On A Company’s Board, The More Market Value Is Lost

Case Study

Governance of the Tata Group: In Pursuit of Profitability, Philanthropy and Power
by Massimo Massa, Ludo Van der Heyden, Kaikhushru (Kai) Taraporevala
Published: 31 May 2019

This case describes the Tata Group’s governance and the role it played in overseeing 150 years of growth of the Tata empire of companies. It illustrates how a business is affected and shaped by its governance, whether by family owners, and family or charitable trusts.

Best Paper Award

2019 Prix Académique de la Recherche en Management, Finalist 
Syntec Conseil
"De-globalization: Theories, predictions, and Opportunities for International Business Research"

Book

Leading a Board - Chairs’ Practices Across Europe
by S.Shekshnia, V.Zagieva (2019), Palgrave Macmillan

This book represents the first cross-country study of the work of board chairs in Europe. It includes unique data collected through interviews with almost 200 experienced board chairs and their key stakeholders – board members, CEOs and shareholders.

Digital Article 

How Board Members Really Feel About ESG, from Deniers to True Believers
Harvard Business Review, 19 April 2019
by N. Craig Smith and Ron Soonieus

Journal Article 

Corporate Boards Are Pessimistic About Trade Between the U.S. and China
Harvard Business Review, 29 March 2019
Michael WITT

Survey Report

Leadership in Corporate Sustainability—European Report 2018
Board Agenda, Mazars and INSEAD Corporate Governance Centre
PRYER Trevor, CEREY Anthony, SMITH Craig and SOONIEUS Ron 

Award

2018 Best Paper Award Strategy as Practice
Academy of Management  
"Shaping Top Managers' Moods: Board Emotion Regulation in the Strategy-Formulation Process”
VUORI T., HUY Q.

Award

2018 CGIO Best Paper in International Corporate Governance Finalist
International Management
Academy of Management
"I Did It My Way: An International Analysis of Deviation from Corporate Governance Norms”
WITT M. A.

Award

“Ringtone” by INSEAD’s Yves Doz and Keeley Wilson wins prestigious Academy of Management’s 2018 George R. Terry Book Award

At the award ceremony, which took place at the Academy of Management’s Annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on 12 August, the judging committee commented on “the depth of the case study, the scholarly argument and the insightful account explaining the rise and fall of Nokia”.

Book

Athletic CEOs: Leadership in Turbulent Times
Cambridge: Anthem Press (January 2018)
SHEKSHNIA S., ZAGIEVA V., ULANOVSKY A.