Managing Partnerships and Strategic Alliances

Programme Director

Andrew V. Shipilov

Professor of Strategy
John H Loudon Chair of International Management at INSEAD

Andrew Shipilov is an expert in the areas of ecosystems, innovation and partnerships. His current academic research examines how ecosystems and partnerships affect firms’ competitive advantage and he was recently published in the MIT Sloan Management Review for his article on building ecosystems for innovation. Andrew's clients include Google, Abbott Labs, IBM, Microsoft Corp., Bayer, BNP Paribas, Royal Dutch Shell and other well-known companies.

He has a blog on INSEAD Knowledge and his book Network Advantage: How to Unlock Value from Your Alliances and Partnerships was published in 2014.

Faculty

Mark Lee Hunter

Lecturer

Mark Lee Hunter is a lecturer at the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, where he is the founding member of the Stakeholder Media Project. Originally an investigative journalist and author, he has divided his work between teaching and research and development in media since 2001. He is a founding member and former board member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network. His manuals for investigative reporters, Story-Based Inquiry (UNESCO 2009) and The Global Investigative Journalism Casebook (UNESCO 2012) are the most widely-distributed works in the history of their field.

Bart De Roover

Lecturer

Bart De Roover is a Lecturer of Partnerships and Strategic Alliances. He holds a Master in Business Administration with specialisation in marketing from The Vlerick Business School in Ghent/Leuven, Belgium. He also holds a Master in African Languages and History from Ghent University. Bart has occupied several senior management positions in strategy and international business development at the Orange Group HQ with hands-on experience as General Manager of the Open Seamless Alliance and Head of the Program Office of the Orange-Deutsche Telekom strategic alliance. Bart is also the founder and owner of Falcon Group, a boutique consultancy firm specialized in eco-system orchestration, partnerships and strategic alliances, and the Business Model Innovation Alliance platform-as-a-service. Bart’s clients included LEGO, ACCA, AkerBP, Phillip Morris, Vlerick Business School, BAC and other companies.