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Location
Fontainebleau
Duration
5 days
Fees
€
10,950
Programme Director
Roderick Swaab
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Roderick is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour and the Academic Director of INSEAD's PhD programme and Academic Director, Negotiation and Conflict Management Collaborative. Roderick Swaab is directing Advanced Negotiations and Negotiation Fundamentals.
Roderick's research examines the impact of communication structures on value creation in business negotiations and conflict resolution. He also studies the emergence of hierarchies in teams and how these impact coordination, conflict, and performance. His research has produced interventions that improve negotiation, dispute resolution, and teamwork, and has been published in leading journals, such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Psychological Science. His research and service to the field has received awards from the Academy of Management, the International Association for Conflict Management, the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO), and was featured in outlets like the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Time Magazine, Economist, Scientific American, and Forbes.
Roderick's teaching received several awards. He has won INSEAD EMBA's Best Teacher Award in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 for teaching the Negotiations Dynamics course. He also received the "Dean's Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching" since 2015 for teaching the OB1 core course and the Negotiations Dynamics course, and was selected as one of Singapore’s most influential business professors aged 40 and under. His co-authored case "Ricardo Semler: A revolutionary model of leadership" won the Best Case in Human Resources / Organisational Behaviour awarded by the Case Centre. Prior to joining INSEAD Roderick held a position at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University where he taught in the MBA and EMBA programs and was nominated for the Outstanding Professor of the year award.
Roderick Swaab
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Stefan Thau
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Stefan Thau is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and the Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning. Stefan’s research examines social decision-making in groups and organizations. He has studied when and why people seek revenge, trust each other, and break rules and norms. He has also examined how people respond to social exclusion and discrimination. Stefan is also interested in improving research methodology, including how to improve the validity of experimental manipulations and research problems. Stefan’s research has been published in the Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Organization Science, and Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Stefan completed his PhD in Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and an MSc (German DiplPsych) in Psychology at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Prior to joining INSEAD, he was an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the London Business School.
Stefan is an editorial board member of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Management. He is also an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Annals. He teaches the Organisational Behaviour course in the MBA programme and the Experimental Design and Data Analysis course in the PhD programme.
In Executive Development, Stefan designs, teaches, and directs programs on leadership transitions, group decision-making, negotiations, and influence. His recent clients include Accenture, AIA, Ambank, MetLife, Changi Airports International, the Emirates Group, Endeavor, and PWC.
Stefan Thau
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
