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ResearchINSEAD professors recognised in The Case Centre’s Awards and Competitions 2022
Winners in the Marketing and Ethics & Social Responsibility
ResearchINSEAD professors and PhD candidate win INFORMS Case Competition
Anton Ovchinnikov, Georgina Hall and Piyush Gulati recognised for “Integration Planning at SFB”
ResearchINSEAD professors among world’s most influential management thinkers
Four INSEAD professors in global top 50
ResearchINSEAD Professor’s book examines how creative destruction has driven economic growth and provides a blueprint for prosperity under capitalism.
The Power of Creative Destruction shows that there are ways to reward growth-creating innovators and, at the same time, prevent them from entrenching themselves.
ResearchSeven INSEAD professors among the Case Centre’s top 50 best-selling case authors
Four INSEAD faculty in the top 10
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INSEAD Professor Ben M. Bensaou’s new book offers a practical guide to building innovating companies
Built to Innovate maps out a proven system for building constant innovation into your company’s DNA
Our Research Excellence
At INSEAD we pride ourselves on the rigour and relevance of our research. Whether it is academic publications, books, cases, or practitioner-oriented publications, we strive for the highest quality and impact. We produce research that brings new ideas and new knowledge to the world, underpinning pedagogy that is useful to business leaders.
Supported by our strong links with the international business community, our research also benefits from real world testing, feedback and application, creating a powerful academic flywheel. We conduct research in an environment that nurtures intellectual exploration and knowledge creation. We disseminate our research through our teaching and engagement with the world.
Lily Fang
Dean of Research
Academic Impact
INSEAD ranks among the Top 2 business schools in the world for research productivity in General Management (UTD’s global ranking), and in the Worldwide Top 10 overall.
Our faculty members are consistently honoured for their academic leadership and excellence, receiving peer recognition from associations and societies, across ranks and disciplines from all over the world.
Our faculty engage closely with the business community where their research solves complex management challenges. You can learn more about the impact they have had by reading about some examples of our research impact below.
Real World Impact
INSEAD Knowledge
The Power of Collective Intelligence
Lessons from an ant colony. When we think about organisations – groups of people all moving towards a single goal – usually we think about a hierarchy.
INSEAD Knowledge
Should Employees Be Allowed to Choose What They Want to Do?
The degree of specialisation is the deciding factor. As far as workplace trends go, several topics have dominated popular attention and discussion, from workspace design, digitalisation, Agile methodology, to the pandemic favourite of remote working.
Harvard Business Review
Your Most Passionate Employees May Not Be Your Top Performers
People who work to achieve a sense of personal fulfillment and make the world a better place have been shown to experience stronger work and life satisfaction and feel more successful — but the jury has been out on whether that’s truly the case.
INSEAD Knowledge
Where a Firm’s Value Truly Lies
A new approach to uncovering the sum of all the parts of a modern firm. The value of a firm used to be easily calculated on a balance sheet. Assets and losses were physical entities and were tallied accordingly. But over the past 40 years, other, more intangible assets have come into play when we determine the value of a firm. Ideas, such as knowledge and brand assets, are understood to have value – but how much?
INSEAD Knowledge
Using Corporate Social Initiatives to Build a Purpose-Driven Organisation
An impact-driven intrapreneurial venture can be a useful stepping stone for changing a company’s DNA, but its unintended consequences need to be managed carefully
INSEAD Knowledge
Putting Covid-19 Testing to the Test
The pandemic has underscored the chronically poor testing capacity and calls for diagnostics strategies at the national level.
Press release
Boards are committed to addressing climate change, but knowledge and experience gaps in the boardroom may impact ability to drive future change according to new report from INSEAD and Heidrick & Struggles
INSEAD, the business school for the world, and Heidrick & Struggles (NASDAQ: HSII), a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, released today a new report, Changing the Climate in the Boardroom, that reveals how 301 board members in 43 countries, primarily in North America and Western Europe, view their boards’ action on climate change.
The survey revealed signs of continued progress in corporate commitment to climate change. 75% of boards believe climate change is very, or entirely important, to the strategic success of their companies, with 72% reporting confidence that their company will reach its climate change goals.
Press release
INSEAD Professor’s new book offers a practical guide to building innovating companies
At a time when change is the rule and the ability to adapt is essential to the success of any business, a new book by Ben M. Bensaou, Professor of Technology Management and former Dean of Executive Education at INSEAD, offers a practical guide to implementing continuous innovation within your organisation. Previous books on innovation have often focused on the brilliance of individual leaders like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs. Less has been written about pragmatic ways of integrating innovative practices and ways of thinking throughout an organisation.
Harvard Business Review
A Measured Approach to Making a Drastic Change
The pandemic has profoundly affected how we think about our work. But before we all jump on the Great Resignation bandwagon and make potentially life-altering decisions, a word of caution is in order. We shouldn’t ignore the lessons learned during the pandemic, but we should pressure test these insights against some of the most obvious biases we struggle with and try to avoid getting trapped on the wrong side of a one-way door. The author recommends splitting your focus between two distinct elements by asking yourself: a) How can I improve the data (and interpretation) going into my decision to yield a more accurate outcome?, and b) How can I improve the execution of my decision to reduce the downside risk if my conclusion proves wrong?
Centres & Initiatives
Our Centers, Initiatives and Institutes combine research, impact and knowledge exchange by connecting academia and real-world practice.
Through research, we expand the frontiers of knowledge and shape global business leadership. As such, our researchers actively contribute to the school's ambitions.
Case Publishing
INSEAD’s case studies consistently rank among the top global bestsellers. Our world-renowned faculty are notoriously close to the business community, able to unearth the most relevant management insights from deep inside the complex world of international business.
ENGIE: Powering the Energy Transition | |
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The case describes the journey of a large European energy company as it develops data and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. It covers the related organizational changes, technology investments, talent development, and external partnerships. | |
By Theodoros Evgeniou, Pal Boza Published 12 Jan 2022 Topic Leadership & Organisations | |
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Pacari Chocolate: Building a Brand that Brings Joy from Tree to Bar | |
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The case describes Carla Barbotó and Santiago Peralta’s journey building a premium, ethical chocolate brand – Pacari – in Ecuador, that has won over 160 awards including “World’s Best Chocolate” for five consecutive years. | |
By Amitava Chattopadhyay, Fabrizio Noboa, Alexandra Velasco, Anne-Marie Carrick, Andrew Lee Published 15 Mar 2022 Topic Marketing | |
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Meta: Facebook's Pivot to the Metaverse. A Dystopia or Blue Ocean Utopia? | |
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In October 2021, Facebook changed the parent corporation name to Meta and announced plans to build a metaverse, a 3D virtual world for work and fun. This case explores whether Meta’s metaverse is likely to be a blue ocean utopia for people and society at large or some form of dystopia. | |
By W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, Michael Olenick Published 19 Jan 2022 Topic Strategy | |
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