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Fontainebleau
Duration
4 days
Fees
€
8,500
Programme Directors
Andrew Shipilov
Professor of Strategy
Andrew Shipilov is a Professor of Strategy and the John H Loudon Chair of International Management at INSEAD. In 2014, Professor Shipilov received a prestigious Emerging Scholar Award from the Strategic Management Society. He is an expert in the areas of strategy, innovation, and networks. His current academic research examines how social networks, strategic alliances, and partnerships affect firm's competitive advantage.
His newest book is blog on Networks and Innovation.
At INSEAD, Professor Shipilov teaches and directs Executive Education programmes on competitive strategy, collaborative strategy, and Blue Ocean Strategy. From 2010, he is an Academic Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy open programme. Andrew Shipilov is directing Building Digital Partnerships and Ecosystems and Managing Partnerships and Strategic Alliances.
His clients include Abbott Labs, IBM, Microsoft Corp., Bayer, BNP Paribas, Royal Dutch Shell and other well-known companies.
Professor Shipilov's work has been published in the leading management journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Social Networks, Strategic Organization, Industrial and Corporate Change, Managerial and Decision Economics. He also published in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Talent Management Magazine.
He is an editorial board member of the Strategic Management Journal and the Strategic Organization, two premier journals in strategy.
His research received prizes from the Academy of Management, the leading international association of management researchers.
Andrew Shipilov
Professor of Strategy
Fares Boulos
Affiliated Professor of Practice in Strategy
Fares Boulos is Affiliated Professor of Practice in Strategy at INSEAD. In 2007-2008, Fares held the Kermit O. Hanson Visiting Professor appointment at the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington.
Fares has taught the Core Strategy course in the MBA and GEMBA programs as well as the Blue Ocean Strategy GEMBA/TIEMBA elective. Fares also directs/teaches in various other programs, including: the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy open enrolment program, the PwC Understanding the Client’s Strategic Agenda program, and a multitude of custom programs for companies in The Americas, Europe, Australia and the Asia Pacific region in a variety of industries. Fares co-directs the the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy programme.
Fares was the co-academic director of the Directors’ Education Program (DEP) in Vancouver for seven years; DEP is the premier corporate governance program in Canada developed by the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management in partnership with the Institute of Corporate Directors and offered across Canada by Rotman and other leading schools of business.
In 2009, Fares received the Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching for his teaching of the core Strategy course at INSEAD and was nominated by his MBA students for the Core Best Professor award. In 2005 he taught the 1st year MBA core Competitive Strategy course at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, where he won the Professor of the Quarter award for best teaching, an award he won again in the spring 2008 quarter for his teaching of the Global Strategic Management course.
Fares served on the Dean’s Advisory Board at Rotman from 2003-2013. He is a member of the Advisory Board of NovoBind, a Vancouver-based Ag-Technology company and is a Senior Advisor on Vonzeo Capital, a Search Fund company that provides guidance, support, mentorship, insights and capital to MBAs aspiring to acquire and grow companies around the world.
Prior to joining INSEAD, Fares held several senior positions in the investment industry in Canada, including Director of Research for Wood Gundy, now part of CIBC, and Portfolio Manager for Jarislowsky Fraser, one of Canada’s biggest independent investment counselling firm. Before entering the investment world, Fares was a senior consultant with The Canada Consulting Group, a strategy-consulting firm that has since merged with The Boston Consulting Group.
Fares holds an MBA and B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and a Diploma in Writing for Film, Television & New Media from the Vancouver Film School.
Fares Boulos
Affiliated Professor of Practice in Strategy
Faculty
Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy
Adjunct Professor of Strategy
Professor of Strategy
