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Fontainebleau
Duration
5 days
Fees
€
10,950
Programme Directors
Ella Miron-Spektor
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Ella Miron-Spektor is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and the INSEAD Dutch Alumni in Leadership, Diversity and Governance Fellow. She is broadly interested in how individuals and teams innovate and learn and how they cope with tensions and competing demands. Her recent research focuses on mindsets enabling individuals to innovate with scarce resources and on team formation processes that lead to entrepreneurial success. She also studies how individuals and teams evaluate and select creative ideas, learn from experience, and remain creative over time.
Professor Miron-Spektor received numerous awards and recognitions for her research including many best paper awards and best dissertation awards. Her work has been published in top management and psychology journals, including Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Harvard Business Review.
She received grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Fulbright, and the European Commission (Marie Curie) to study team characteristics that foster innovation, learning, and entrepreneurial success. She also co-founded and co-direct the INSEAD-Israel Research Fund.
Professor Miron-Spektor serves as a Senior Editor at Organization Science, and she co-edited special issues on creativity and digital transformation in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Academy of Management Discoveries. Ella has co-organized several international conferences, including the Academy of Management Specialized Conference, “From-Start-up to Scale-Up” (2018), the Israel Organizational Behavior Conference (2018, 2023), and the Paradox Subtrack at the European Group for Organization Studies (2015, 2018).
At INSEAD, Ella teaches Organizational Behavior (core) in the MBA program, L.E.A.D in the Master in Management program, as well as in the Ph.D. program. In Executive Education programs, she teaches modules on leadership in volatile times, creativity and innovation, cross-cultural communication, and team management. She teaches and consults companies from various industries and sectors such as Microsoft, Cleveland Clinic, Alstom, Merck, emb-papst, Trendyol, Bank Hapoalim, Elbit Systems, FMB, and others. Throughout her career, she received many Outstanding teaching awards. She was recognized by Poets & Quants as one of the favorite business professors of the MBA class of 2022.
Before joining INSEAD, she taught at Carnegie Mellon University, was an Associate Professor at the Technion and a visiting professor at Bayes Business School in London. Ella has lived in the Middle East, North America, and Europe. Currently, she resides in France and teaches on the different INSEAD campuses.
Ella Miron-Spektor
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Henrik Bresman
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Henrik Bresman is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at INSEAD and a recognized expert on leadership, high-performance teams, and organizational change. He regularly works with companies and public-sector organizations embarking on large-scale transformations.
Professor Bresman’s research draws on data from multiple contexts, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, software development, healthcare, and government. His work has appeared in leading academic and practice journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Organization Science, as well as many media outlets, including the Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, the New York Times, Time, and the Wall Street Journal.
He is the co-author of the book X-Teams: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate, and Succeed (Harvard Business Review Press, 2023), which examines how teams at all levels can take on strategic leadership roles and change the direction of their organizations.
Professor Bresman’s teaching focuses on developing leaders for an exponentially changing world. He directs INSEAD’s flagship general management program for emerging leaders, the Management Acceleration Program, and the senior executive program, Leading for Results.
Before entering academia, Professor Bresman worked in several roles as a manager, management consultant, and entrepreneur. He co-founded a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology businesses.
He is an experienced board member and keynote speaker. Bresman holds a BS and an MS in economics from the Stockholm School of Economics and a PhD in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Fulbright scholar.
Henrik Bresman
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
