
Ella Miron-Spektor
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
The INSEAD Dutch Alumni Fellowship in Leadership, Diversity and Governance
Academic Director of the PhD Programme
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Research Areas
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- Creativity and Innovation Organisational Paradoxes Organisational and Team Learning Emotions
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Teaching Areas
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- Organisational Behaviour, Team Management, Organisational Learning and Innovation, Social psychology
Biography
Ella Miron-Spektor is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and holds the INSEAD Dutch Alumni Fellowship in Leadership, Diversity, and Governance. She also serves as the Academic Director of INSEAD's PhD program.
Her research focuses on how organizations innovate and learn. Her pioneering work on the paradox mindset examines how leaders and their teams navigate competing demands, processes, interests, and identities. She also studies how entrepreneurs form co-founding teams and how venture capitalists, managers, and employees evaluate new ideas, learn from experience, and sustain creativity over time.
Ella has received numerous awards for her research, including best paper and best dissertation awards. In 2023, she was honored with the Paradox Research, Education, and Practice (PERP) Distinguished Scholar Award for her contributions to research, education, practice, and community leadership. She has also secured competitive grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Fulbright, and Marie Curie from the European Commission to study team characteristics that foster innovation, learning, and entrepreneurial success.
Her research has led to interventions that enhance creativity, teamwork, and dispute resolution, and has been published in leading journals, including Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Harvard Business Review.
Ella serves as a Senior Editor at Organization Science and has co-edited special issues on creativity and digital transformation in top-tier journals. She has co-organized several international conferences, including the Academy of Management Specialized Conference, “From Start-up to Scale-Up” (2018), and co-founded the INSEAD-Israel Fund, which aims to develop leaders and foster dialogue in the region.
At INSEAD, Ella teaches Organizational Behavior to MBA students, L.E.A.D. in the Master’s in Management program, and various Executive Education programs. Drawing on her expertise, she developed and directs the MAOZ leadership program, which helps managers navigate competing demands and paradoxical tensions. She also mentors PhD students and has served on numerous dissertation committees. She received the Dean's Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching and was recognized by Poets & Quants as one of the favorite business professors of the MBA class of 2022.
Her research focuses on how organizations innovate and learn. Her pioneering work on the paradox mindset examines how leaders and their teams navigate competing demands, processes, interests, and identities. She also studies how entrepreneurs form co-founding teams and how venture capitalists, managers, and employees evaluate new ideas, learn from experience, and sustain creativity over time.
Ella has received numerous awards for her research, including best paper and best dissertation awards. In 2023, she was honored with the Paradox Research, Education, and Practice (PERP) Distinguished Scholar Award for her contributions to research, education, practice, and community leadership. She has also secured competitive grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Fulbright, and Marie Curie from the European Commission to study team characteristics that foster innovation, learning, and entrepreneurial success.
Her research has led to interventions that enhance creativity, teamwork, and dispute resolution, and has been published in leading journals, including Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Harvard Business Review.
Ella serves as a Senior Editor at Organization Science and has co-edited special issues on creativity and digital transformation in top-tier journals. She has co-organized several international conferences, including the Academy of Management Specialized Conference, “From Start-up to Scale-Up” (2018), and co-founded the INSEAD-Israel Fund, which aims to develop leaders and foster dialogue in the region.
At INSEAD, Ella teaches Organizational Behavior to MBA students, L.E.A.D. in the Master’s in Management program, and various Executive Education programs. Drawing on her expertise, she developed and directs the MAOZ leadership program, which helps managers navigate competing demands and paradoxical tensions. She also mentors PhD students and has served on numerous dissertation committees. She received the Dean's Commendation for Excellence in MBA Teaching and was recognized by Poets & Quants as one of the favorite business professors of the MBA class of 2022.
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Case Studies
11 Mar 2024
By Miron-Spektor E., Margo J., Carrick A.