Upcoming Sessions
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Location
Fontainebleau
Duration
5 days
Fees
€
10,600
Programme Directors
Vibha Gaba
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Vibha Gaba is The Berghmans Lhoist Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurial Leadership. She is broadly interested in how organizations learn and how it impacts their ability to innovate and adapt, especially in discontinuous environments. Her more recent research focuses on the implications of multiple goals and aspirations, organizational structure, and decision-makers attributes on adaptive change. Her work has been published in leading management journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Journal of International Business Studies. She is currently the Co-Editor of the Strategic Management Journal, a top management journal, after serving two terms as the Associate Editor there.
At INSEAD, Vibha teaches modules on Corporate Entrepreneurship, Organizational Change, and Leadership in various Executive Education programs, including Adidas, Alstom, Astra Zeneca, Bank Mandiri, Cartier, COFRA, EDF, Expedia, Heineken, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Indian Railways, KPMG, Larsen & Toubro, McKinsey, Mitsubishi, Permata Bank, Pertamina, Petronas, Randstad, RHB, Roche Diagnostics, Shell, Star Energy, Sumitomo Chemical, Swire, UNICEF, and World Medical Association. She is also the Academic Program Director for three open enrolment programs - Corporate Venturing & Innovation, Leading Successful Change, and Learning to Lead, for senior and junior executives. She has received the INSEAD Executive Education Award for Outstanding Teaching and Program Direction multiple times.
She has also taught MBA core Organizational Behavior course and an MBA elective on Leadership and Change. Her teaching portfolio also includes Ph.D. courses in Organization Theory and Corporate Entrepreneurship.
Vibha holds a Ph.D. in Management from the Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon, USA, a Masters in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Delhi University, India.
Vibha has lived on three continents – North America, Europe, and Asia. Currently, she resides in Singapore but teaches on both INSEAD campuses (France and Singapore).
Vibha Gaba
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Claudia Zeisberger
Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Claudia Zeisberger is a Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise at INSEAD, and the Founder of the school’s private equity & venture capital centre GPEI. Through the centre’s work, INSEAD has established itself as the go-to source for insights on private capital in emerging markets and impact investing.
Professor Zeisberger advises corporations, institutional investors and governments on Private Capital portfolio construction and best practices, Corporate Venture Capital, Environmental Social and Governance (ESG), EdTech, Corporate Turnarounds, Risk Management, and the launch of Sovereign Wealth Funds.
She has over 30 years of experience as a finance professional and as an expert with deep experience in risk management, private equity and venture capital, Corporate Venturing and Innovation. As a Professor at INSEAD, she is a global citizen and award-winning author as well as an angel investor. She is a member of KKR’s Sustainable Expert Advisory Committee (SEAC) and sits on the Advisory Boards of Standard Chartered Ventures, Linzor Capital, BG Ventures and KaizenVest. Passionate about the future of education, she acts as a volunteer board advisor to Girl Rising, a non-profit focused on girls' education and empowerment.
At INSEAD, Professor Zeisberger teaches courses on Private Equity & Venture Capital, Corporate Turnaround and Risk management in their MBA, EMBA and Executive Education programmes. She has won the “Best Teaching Award” and has been awarded the “Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching” annually since 2008. In 2010, she launched INSEAD’s popular course “Managing Corporate Turnarounds,” which combines in-class case studies and visits from industry professionals with an intensive computer-based simulation involving an iconic car brand and its struggle with bankruptcy.
Joining Academia in 2005 after a 16-year career in investment banking & alternative investments allowed her to leverage her extensive network and combine her passion for education & innovation by connecting academia with industry. Claudia is one of the best-networked people in the Private Capital space with extensive experience in bringing her academic and professional background to inform boards. She is an expert on Responsible Investing and ESG strategy implementation and is often invited in the role of ‘Professional Devil’s Advocate’.
Her recent work has focused mainly on private capital in emerging markets & Corporate Venture Capital. She is the author of "Mastering Private Equity – Transformation via Venture Capital, Minority Investments & Buyouts" as well as the corresponding INSEAD case book "Private Equity in Action – Case Studies from Developed & Emerging Markets".
http://claudiazeisberger.com/
Claudia Zeisberger
Senior Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Faculty
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
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