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Programme Directors (Fontainebleau)
Dr. Atalay Atasu's research focus is on socially and environmentally responsible operations management, with topics of interest including the circular economy, extended producer responsibility, and environmental regulation. His research appeared in Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Harvard Business Review and California Management Review. He received a number of awards, including the Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award (winner 2007, runner up 2014), Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Award (2012), and Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability (2013). He serves as Editor for the POM Sustainable Operations Department, and as associate editor for MSOM.
Atalay Atasu is and is co-directing the new INSEAD Business Sustainability Programme at INSEAD.
Atalay Atasu
Professor of Technology and Operations Management
Atalay Atasu
Professor of Technology and Operations Management
Karel Cool is a Professor of Strategy and the BP Chaired Professor of European Competitiveness at INSEAD. His competitive strategy research, teaching, and consulting focus on questions of industry dynamics and competitive positioning (e.g., assessment of profit opportunities in markets; constructing competitive advantage, supply chain dynamics and management; achieving eco-system leadership; vertical integration and de-integration; industry overcapacity; achieving critical mass in platforms and innovation ecosystems; the creation of standalone and network customer value). Karel Cool is directing the Competitive Strategy Executive Education programme. His research and teaching has focused in recent years on Sustainability as a Business Opportunity and is co-directing the new INSEAD Business Sustainability Programme.
He has published in many journals, including Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Marketing Letters, Advances in Strategic Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, etc.; co-edited books such as European Industrial Restructuring in the 1990s and Industry Structuring and Restructuring; and has contributed to many books on competitive strategy.
From 1995 to 2007 he was an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal, a leading strategy journal.
He has consulted on major strategic issues of corporate and industry restructuring, and worked with various corporations including Unilever, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Daimler, Borealis, RollsRoyce, Exxon, Solvay, Novo-Nordisk Lufthansa, KBC, Whirlpool, IBM, Expedia, Banque de France, McKinsey, Starwood, BCG, Shell, ING, Aktiva, Amgen, Bayer, Nordea, World Economic Forum, KGL Kuwait, Hearst, Reynaers Aluminium, Ørsted / Dong Energy Wind Power, Vandemoortele, Mars, Illumina, Danfoss, Pictet, etc.
During the 1995-1996 academic year, he was a Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He was also for many years Visiting Professor at Northwestern University (Kellogg), and was co-chair of the 2002 Strategic Management Society Conference (Paris).
He is a seven-times winner of the Best Teaching Award in the MBA programme. In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Strategic Management Society and in 2009 received the George S. Day Distinguished Alumni Academic Service Award from Purdue University.
In September 2014, he was honoured by the Case Center as one of the best-selling case authors over the past forty years — Karel has (co-)authored more than eighty case studies.
Karel Cool obtained his PhD (1985) and MScIA (1982) from Purdue University, and his MA (1981) and Lic (1978) in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerp (UFSIA).
Karel Cool
Professor of Strategic Management
Karel Cool
Professor of Strategic Management
Faculty
Senior Affiliate Professor of Finance
Professor of Accounting and Control
Programme Director (Singapore)
Lucie Teplá is a Senior Affiliate Professor of Finance at INSEAD. She holds a PhD in Operations Research and Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University, an MBA from the Simon School of Business, University of Rochester and a BA in Management Science and Computing from the University of Kent. Her research focuses on investments and portfolio theory and has been published in leading academic journals such as Management Science and the Review of Finance. Before joining INSEAD, Lucie worked for Barclays de Zoete Wedd, Crédit Suisse and Cornerstone Research, a litigation consulting firm. Lucie has also taught graduate level and executive education courses at Stanford University and London Business School.
Lucie teaches on a wide range of capital markets and corporate finance topics in both degree and Executive Education programmes. She also directs INSEAD’s flagship Transition to General Management programme as well as company-specific Executive Education programmes for various clients, including ABN AMRO, Société Générale, HSBC, KPMG and EY. Lucie has been a multiple recipient of the Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching as well as winner of the Outstanding Teacher Award for MBA Core Courses at INSEAD. She has also received the Executive Education Award for Outstanding Programme Direction.
Lucie’s current focus is on sustainable finance, understanding how sustainability issues impact providers of capital and how owners and lenders can support businesses in becoming more sustainable. She teaches on these topics both in degree programmes as well as for banking, consulting and corporate clients in Executive Education. Lucie has co-authored several case studies on sustainable finance topics, such as low carbon investing and sustainability linked financing. She is also co-programme director for the INSEAD Sustainability Leadership for Senior Executives Certificate and chairs the committee on Responsible Investing for the INSEAD Endowment.
Lucie Teplá
Senior Affiliate Professor of Finance
Lucie Teplá
Senior Affiliate Professor of Finance
Faculty
Affiliate Professor of Strategy
Professor of Operations Management
Professor of Accounting and Control
