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Fontainebleau
Duration
5 days
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Programme Director
Bart De Roover
Adjunct Professor of Strategy
Bart De Roover is the Programme Director of the INSEAD Corporate Strategy for Board Members programme and co-directs the Managing Partnerships and Strategic Alliances programme. Bart holds a Master's in Business Administration with specialisation in marketing from The Vlerick Business School in Ghent Leuven, Belgium. He also holds a Master's in African Languages and History from Ghent University.On top of being an Adjunct Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, Bart is a functional expert in corporate strategy, business development, post-merger integration, and general management where he held senior management positions in strategy and international business development. Having been General Manager of multi-party major alliance between the two biggest European telecom groups (Orange Group HQ, Open Seamless Alliance and Head of the Program Office of the Orange-Deutsche Telekom strategic alliance) has provided Bart with first-hand experience of managing complex partnerships.Bart is also the founder & owner of Falcon Group, a boutique consultancy firm specializing in eco-system orchestration, partnerships & strategic alliances, and the Business Model Innovation Alliance platform-as-a-service. Bart’s clients included LEGO, ACCA, AkerBP, Phillip Morris, Vlerick Business School, BAC, and other companies.Some of Bart's core interests include complex strategic partnership management, strategic analysis, country strategy planning and business review, negotiating and influencing skills, and international team leadership, business eco-systems and applied AI.
Bart De Roover
Adjunct Professor of Strategy
Faculty
Ludo Van der Heyden
Emeritus Professor of Technology and Operations Management
Ludo Van der Heyden has been Professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD since 1988 and has been the INSEAD Chaired Professor in Corporate Governance since October 2010. He is the founding Academic Director of INSEAD's Corporate Governance Initiative (ICGI) and, with colleagues, still co-directs the International Directors Programme and the Modern Governance in Banking (or IDP for Bankers, with Peter Nathanial). He created the Value Creation for Owners and Directors programmes (with Massimo Massa). He directed the Advanced Management Program (INSEAD’s most senior general management programme, from 2000 to 2008), the INSEAD Zentrum Leipzig (1994-1999), was co-Dean of INSEAD (1990-1995), and also PhD Director & Associate Dean for Research (1989-1990).
Ludo Van der Heyden was the first holder of the Wendel Chair in the Large Family Firm, which initiated INSEAD's activities in family business and led to the creation of the Wendel international Centre for Family Enterprise at INSEAD. He also was the first holder of the Solvay Chair in Technological Innovation and of the Mubadala Chair in Corporate Governance and Strategy. He received several Outstanding MBA Core Teacher Awards, as well as an Outstanding Service Award in Executive Education and an Outstanding Contribution Award to Executive Education for ICGI’s role in starting governance education at INSEAD. The INSEAD International Alumni Association named him Honorary Alumnus.
Ludo Van der Heyden earned the Mercurius Award from the Federation of Belgian Distributors for his work (with Professor Arnd Huchzermeier of WHU, Koblenz) on the introduction of the Euro. He is the recipient, with Christine Blondel and Randel Carlock, of the Family Business Network 2006 Research Award for the article Striving for Justice in Family Firms. His paper Why Fairness Matters, co-authored with PhD student Thomas Limberg, was selected as one of the ten most influential papers of the International Commerce Review (2000-10), while the paper Business Model Innovation (co-authored with Jose Santos and Bert Spector) received the Outstanding Paper of the 2010 Academy of Management Conference (Section: Human Resource Management). He received (with M. Pich and N. Harlé) the ECCH European Case Award 2003 for the Marks & Spencer and Zara case and co-authored, with INSEAD faculty, Industrial Excellence, a book that identifies better manufacturing practices in France and Germany. In 2014, he earned The International Alliance for Women World of Difference 100 Award!.
Before joining INSEAD, Ludo Van der Heyden was on the faculty of the School of Organization and Management at Yale University (1980-1988) and of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1978-80). He holds an Engineering Degree in Applied Mathematics from the Université Catholique de Louvain (1974) and a Ph.D. Degree in Administrative Sciences from Yale University (1979).
He has published in a number of journals such as Harvard Business Review, Strategy & Business, International Commerce Review, The European Finance Review, Family Business Review, the Journal of Economic Theory, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, and the International Journal of Game Theory. His most recent publications are two reports on digitilisation entitled The Real Impact of Digital (2016) and Directing Digitalisation: Guidelines for Boards and Executives (2017).
Ludo Van der Heyden is a member of the Advisory Board of Bencis Capital Partners as well as a number of start-ups. He is the Chairman of Seisquare, a firm designing software for oil & gas exploration and production. He is the first Honorary Professor of the recreated Handelshochschüle Leipzig (HHL), from which he also received the Distinguished Service Medal in 2003. He is Honorary Vice-President of the Association Pôle Sud Paris which fosters economic development in the South Paris area. In 1996 the King of Belgium appointed him Officer of the Order of Leopold.
Ludo Van der Heyden is co-directing the Advanced Strategy for Directors programme.
Ludo Van der Heyden
Emeritus Professor of Technology and Operations Management
José Santos
Affiliated Professor of Practice in Global Management
Professor José F.P. dos (Joe) Santos started an academic career in engineering in the early seventies in his home town of Porto, but soon after moved into the managerial world. Twenty years later, Joe decided to retire from an intense and successful executive career after he held for ten years the position of MD of an Italian multinational group. Since 1995, Joe moved from Italy to INSEAD and devoted himself again to scholarly work, a dream from his youth. Joe’s research and teaching focus on the management of the multinational enterprise and, more generally, on corporate management and strategic governance. Joe is Affiliated Professor of Practice in Global Management at INSEAD, France. Over the years, in parallel with his activity at INSEAD, Joe participated in conferences and corporate meetings around the world and taught management courses and seminars at MIT, where he was Senior Lecturer between 2009 and 2014; at the Portuguese Catholic University, where he is “Professor Catedrático Convidado”; and, more sporadically, at the IEDC-Bled School of Management, the Università Bocconi, the Università di Bologna, and the University of Cambridge. The book “From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economy”, co-authored with colleagues Yves Doz and Peter Williamson, was published by Harvard Business School Press.
Here are some of Joe’s early remarks about his research: "Many of my research interests share an implicit motive. I had a rather successful career as an executive, namely as MD of a multinational corporation. However, during those ten years until my ‘retirement’ in 94, I only recall a couple of instances of having slept a full week in the same bed. Flying around and living in hotels was the norm. Comfortable and luxurious as those planes and hotels may have been, I feel that it should be unacceptable that both professional and corporate success be achieved with so much of an uncivilized way of life (and mind you, I do love to travel - but too much is too much). I hope I can help future generations of successful international executives live a more civilized life in a global World."
José Santos is co-directing the Corporate Strategy for Board Members programme.
José Santos
Affiliated Professor of Practice in Global Management
