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Jason Davis
Associate Professor of
Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise
Jason Davis
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
and Family Enterprise
Jason Davis is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD. He is an expert on digital transformation and innovation in large enterprises and the strategies of startups in digital platform ecosystems. His research has focused on issues of collaboration and adaptation by 'big tech' computing companies in Silicon Valley and Seattle, fast experimentation by mobile app ventures on the iPhone and Android platforms, and the social media strategies of the Fortune 500 companies using Twitter and Facebook. He applies these insights to large organizations as they seek to create value with new digital technologies and systems like artificial intelligence, automation, platform-marketplaces, blockchain, and super-apps, and to new ventures in his MBA courses on Digital Entrepreneurship and Crypto Entrepreneurship. Jason has focused effort on investigating business model innovations by big tech companies in Asia, having developed teaching cases about how companies such as Go-Jek, Grab, Alibaba, and ByteDance are innovating in the region, and how Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google compete globally. Prior to joining INSEAD, Jason was an Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management in the MIT Sloan School of Management where he taught Technology Strategy.
Jason earned PhD and MA degrees from Stanford University, where his research was supported by the National Science Foundation. He also earned MS and SB degrees from Caltech and MIT where he did thesis research in computation theory and molecular biology. His research has been published in top academic journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, American Economic Review, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, and Academy of Management Review. Jason has served as editorial board member at Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Strategic Organization. He has received multiple research awards including the AOM Academy-Wide Newman Award for Best Paper from a Dissertation (2009), the TIM Division Best Doctoral Dissertation Award (2009), the TIM Division Best Paper Award (2009), the OMT Division Best Paper Award (2008), and the ACAC Competitive Advantage Best Paper Award (2014). Jason also received an Honorable Mention Award for the Granovetter Prize for best article in Economic Sociology from the American Sociological Association (2012). He is also the recipient of the Academy of Management's Technology Innovation Management Emerging Scholar Award (2012). Finally, Jason was selected to receive the ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution (2015) given to “the most significant paper published in ASQ five years earlier.” His research has also been featured in a variety of popular and industry publications like Harvard Business Review, BBC, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist Podcast, Wired, Channel News Asia, South China Morning Post, Jakarta Post, Huffington Post, Sloan Management Review, Computer World and Technology Review. Jason has also consulted, advised, or spoken about his research or conducted executive education at multiple companies including Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Google, Broadcom, ESI, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Citibank, Bank Indonesia, BCA, Pertamina, Astra, Go-Jek, Axiata, Natixis, Frasers, Prudential, Aviva, CIMB, Jardines, JG Summit, Lenovo, Vale, Tata Consulting Group, Avery Dennison, Public Bank, and various startups. Recently, he is a recipient of the EFMD EiP Gold Award (2020) in executive education and Case Centre Best Case Award in Entrepreneurship (2021). At INSEAD, he serves as Program Director for customized executive education programs about Digital Strategy & Leadership and the Leading Digital Transformation and Innovation open enrolment program on INSEAD’s Asia campus.
Research
Teaching
- Crypto Entrepreneurship
- Digital Entrepreneurship (MBA)
- Entrepreneurship in Action (MBA)
- Leading Digital Transformation and Innovation (OEP)
- Entrepreneurship Research: Innovation, Collaboration, and Ecosystems (PhD)
- Qualitative Methods (PhD)
- Executive Development: Digital Strategy; Digital Technologies: AI, Platforms, Blockchain; Innovation Capabilities; Business Model Innovation; Digital Transformation
Teaching Materials
- Gojek: From Ride-Sharing Super-app to Fintech Ecosystem Leader
- TikTok's AI Strategy: ByteDance's Global Ambitions
- Go-Jek (A): Launching a Mobile Ride-Sharing and Food Delivery Digital Platform in Indonesia (Website)
- Go-Jek (B): Platform Competition with Digital Entrants and Non-Digital Incumbents (Website)
- Go-Jek (C): Product Experimentation, International Expansion and Super App Status in Southeast Asia (Website)
- Grab vs. Uber vs. Go-Jek: Digital Platform-based International Competition in Southeast Asia (Website)
- Alibaba in Blockchain: Integrating Blockchain-based Remittances in Cloud Services (Website)
- ByteDance Beyond China: Leveraging Consumer Artificial Intelligence (AI) from Toutiao to Musical.ly and TikTok
- Circles.Life: Business Model Innovation and Digital Entrepreneurship in Telecommunications
- Cloud Wars Go Global: How Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba Compete in Web Services
Press Coverage
- Baonhanh247, August 11, 2021
- Cn Gold, August 10, 2021
- Chain News, August 10, 2021
- Business Fast, August 8, 2021
- Tech Telegraph, August 8, 2021
- OLT News, August 8, 2021
- Bitcoin News, August 8, 2021
- MSN Singapore, August 7, 2021
- MSN International Edition, August 7, 2021
- South China Morning Post, August 7, 2021, pdf
- Fortune, June 29, 2021, pdf
- Channel News Asia Commentary, May 04, 2021, pdf
- The Case Centre, 2021
- The Edge, March 12, 2021, pdf
- South China Morning Post, February 20, 2021, pdf
- Bloomberg News, January 15, 2021
- MSN, January 15, 2021
- Yahoo!Finance, January 15, 2021
- CNBC interview, September 21, 2020
- BBC, August 21, 2020
- Harvard Business Review China, July 28, 2020, INSEAD Wechat, pdf
- Wired, August 4, 2020, pdf
- Harvard Business Review, July 21, 2020, pdf
- EFMD EIP Executive Education Gold Award, May 14, 2020, pdf, pdf
- Bloomberg interview Feb 26, 2020
- Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2020, pdf
- Financial Times, October 24 2019, pdf
- INSEAD Knowledge, June 19, 2019, pdf
- Three Objectives for Moving Forward With AI
- Business Times (Straits Times), May 6, pdf
- Fortune, March 20 2019
- The Economist Intelligence Unit Podcast, March 5, 2019
- South China Morning Post, February 2 2019, pdf
- Financial Times Chinese Edition, January 16 2019, pdf
- Financial Times, January 16 2019, pdf
- Channel NewsAsia, November, 12, 2018
- INSEAD Knowledge, September 19, 2018, pdf
- TODAY, April 24, 2018, pdf
- The Jakarta Post, April 18, 2018, pdf
- INSEAD Knowledge, April 13, 2018, pdf
- Administrative Science Quarterly Blog, March 2016, pdf
- World Knowledge Forum speaker, October 2014, Seoul, Korea pdf
- SBR, October 23, 2014, Most Influential Business Professors Under 40, pdf
- Marketplace, August 6, 2014, pdf
- Forbes, March 8, 2014, Forbes Twitter, pdf
- The Edge, March 2014, pdf
- INSEAD Knowledge, March 5, 2014, pdf
- Smart Brief, March 5, 2014
- Forbes, January 8, 2014, pdf
- INSEAD Knowledge, December 24, 2013, pdf
- The Atlantic (Quartz), July 22, 2013, (MIT Feature), pdf
- Capturing the Value of Synchronized Innovation, MIT Sloan Management Review, June 18, 2013, pdf
- Le Monde, March 2013, pdf
- MIT Technology Review, November 2012, pdf
- Huffington Post, July 2012, pdf
- Business News Daily, May 2012, pdf
- Global Roundhouse, May 2012, pdf
- Fox Business, May 2012, pdf
- MIT Sloan Going Global Press Release, May 2012, pdf
- Learning How to Grow Globally, MIT Sloan Management Review, March 20, 2012, pdf
- NSF Innovation and Organization Change Highlight, January 2008
- Computer World, November 2007, pdf
- Network Community, November 2007, pdf
- PC World, November 2007, pdf
- MIT Industrial Laison Program Press Release, October 2007
- MIT Sloan Rotating Leadership Press Release, October 2007, pdf
Contact
Jason Davis
Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship
and Family Enterprise
INSEAD Asia Campus
1 Ayer Rajah Avenue
Singapore 138676
Tel: +65 6799 5257
Fax:+65 6799 5399
Assistant: Avegail Villanueva
Tel: +65 6799 5349
Email: [email protected]