Integrating Performance and Progress

Programme Director

Subramanian Rangan

Professor of Strategy and Management
The Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court Endowed Chair in Societal Progress

Subi Rangan is professor of strategy at INSEAD where he holds The Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court Endowed Chair in Societal Progress. His work explores how enterprises can better integrate performance and progress, and thus rebuild trust in capitalism. In 2013 he initiated the Society for Progress, a fellowship of eminent philosophers, social scientists, and business leaders (www.societyforprogress.org). Their first work was published as Performance & Progress: Essays on Capitalism, Business, and Society (Oxford, 2015). His other research explores the strategies and operations of transnational firms. In 1998 he was awarded the Academy of International Business’ Haynes Prize for original work by scholar under forty. In 1995 that academy awarded him the Best Dissertation Award. In 2010 his research won the Emerald award for Top 50 papers in management. Subi earned an MBA from MIT and a Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard University.

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Interview with programme director Subi Rangan

"Economic performance and societal progress are the “twin peaks” of professional and organisational success that every manager must scale in the 21st century... Integrating Performance and Progress will educate and energise you to integrate performance and progress, and to do so at scale." says programme director Subi Rangan.

“In the sphere of ideas, the notion of fairness has grown in importance.”

INSEAD professor of strategy and management Subramanian Rangan explains that, in a new era of sustainable performance in business, companies must embody considerations of justice, diversity and integrity, as well as efficiency.