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INSEAD Honours Carlos Ghosn with Second Annual Transcultural Leadership Award: Award underscores INSEAD's mission to develop leaders with the experience and understanding to operate across cultures FONTAINEBLEAU, France and SINGAPORE -- INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced it will present its second annual Award for Transcultural Leadership to Carlos Ghosn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nissan Motor...; Tags: INSEAD, leader, Leadership, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Renault; Research articles 2008-04-28
The Wharton School and INSEAD Renew Alliance for Four More Years: PHILADELPHIA & FONTAINEBLEAU, France & SINGAPORE -- Thomas S. Robertson, dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and J. Frank Brown, dean of INSEAD, announced the renewal of the partnership between the two schools for four more years. Launched in 2001, the alliance combines the resources of...; Tags: alliance, INSEAD, Wharton School; Research articles 2008-04-30
New deans, new directions: changes at the top bring innovation to the traditionally staid world of top business schools: Business school deans once cloistered themselves in ivy-covered towers within serene university settings, isolated from real world pressures. But no longer. Today, the top job at the world's top schools presents challenges akin to those faced by corporate CEOs. Competition among schools has intensified, international curriculum and campuses are now...; Tags: CEO, Columbia, Harvard Business School, innovation, INSEAD, Leadership; Research articles 2006-09-01
Light on their feet; Business-school deans.(Brief article): A bright light descends on HBS The heads of business schools are becoming like sports coaches BUSINESS-school deans are on the move. In the 1980s and 1990s it was not uncommon for them to stay in the same job for a decade or...; Tags: Harvard Business School, INSEAD, job, London Business School; Research articles 2006-04-29
LEADING U.S. BUSINESS SCHOOLS.(Directory)(Illustration)(Industry Overview): After middle managers were downsized in the 1980s, the management knowledge base dried up at many corporations. Those companies have turned to graduate business schools to replenish their ranks. Graduates from these 80 institutions will make on average more than $67,000 in their first year. In...; Tags: Administration, Arizona State University, Boston College, Brigham Young University, Carnegie-Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University, Chicago, Columbia, Computer Associates International Inc., Denver, Emory University, G., Georgetown University, Georgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School, Insead, Johnson, Jones, Kellogg, Kentucky, London Business School, Marriott, Mary, New York University, Pennsylvania State University, Rice University, Robert, Rochester, Syracuse University, Technology, Texas A&M University, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Florida, University of London, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, Wharton School; Research articles 2000-01-24

Research Note: Asterix in Disneyland. Management Scholars from France on the World Stage: Abstract In the light of the growing expansion in international scientific publication, three questions are posed here. First, to what extent do French-based authors contribute to international management journals? Second, what are the geographical home bases of French authorships? Third, what is the orientation of French authorships? These questions...; Tags: accounting, American Society For Quality, analysis, FINANCE, France, INSEAD, scholar, Strategy; Research articles 1998-12-22
The Boston Consulting Group announces new chairholder at INSEAD: BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--June 15, 1995--The Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's leading international management consulting firms, announced today that W. Chan Kim, Professor of Strategy and International Management, has been appointed as the holder of The Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair in International Management at INSEAD.The chair's endowment,...; Tags: Boston Consulting Group Inc., INSEAD, Leadership, Outsourcing, professor, Strategy; Research articles 1995-06-15
The advent of the Euroguru: management theory.: European management theory is gaining prestige in international business circles. Books and articles on management concepts written by European executives are gaining in influence. This may be due to the growing public interest in business in Europe as well as its improving business schools.TWENTY years ago Europe could muster about...; Tags: CAREER, Europe, Insead, London Business School, professor; Research articles 1995-03-11
INSEAD Online Launches eLearning Program Powered by Docent Technology; Docent and INSEAD Announce Partnership to Provide Comprehensive Corporate Online Education: Business Editors/High-Tech Writers; Tags: e-learning, INSEAD, partnership; Research articles 2000-11-14
What's in the chair?(Timken Co. endows a Global Technology and Innovation chair at the European Institute of Business Administration, INSEAD)(Brief Article): 00-00-0000 For the Timken Co. it's direct contact with the best minds at a prestigious European business school. The Canton, Ohio-based bearings and alloy- steel producer has recently endowed a chair in Global ... 00-00-0000 For the Timken Co. it's direct contact with the best...; Tags: chair, INSEAD; Research articles 1995-07-03
A Comparative Test Of The Efficiency, Focus And Learning Perspectives Of Outsourcing: Despite the fact that vertical integration has been a key question of management studies for more than fifty years, the authors still do not have a unified, coherent view of outsourcing. In particular, multiple theoretical perspectives such as transaction cost economics, industrial organization, and strategy, could explain the outsourcing decision,...; Tags: INSEAD, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting; White papers 2003-01-28
Joint Pricing And Revenue Management With General Stochastic Demand: We extend the traditional revenue management paradigm to simultaneously optimize price and inventory decisions across three phases of the revenue management process: capacity investment, product design and inter-temporal segmentation. We solve these problems under very general demand assumptions, which explain, unify and generalize state of the art models of stochastic...; Tags: Revenue, Pricing Strategy, Revenue Management, INSEAD, Operational Accounting, Finance; White papers 2005-07-04
Balanced Scorecard and Sustainability: Examples From Literature and Practice: As a part of the authors' project, their role was to survey the literature and the practice to find examples of integration of environmental and social indicators in the Balanced Scorecard. In order to do this effectively one divided the survey in two distinct parts. The first part was concerned...; Tags: Sustainability, INSEAD, Balanced Scorecard, Marketing, Marketing Research; White papers 2003-04-30
Research Issues at the Boundary of Competitive Dynamics and Market Evolution: The objective of this paper was to develop research propositions for better understanding the interactions between competitive dynamics and market evolution. It is also possible to investigate the propositions by considering the structure and behavior within market across countries. This paper should clear the path for better understanding the links...; Tags: Proposition, Dynamics, INSEAD; White papers 2003-04-01
Operational Hedging: A Review With Discussion: Motivated by the increasing prevalence of operational hedging in corporate-level risk management programs, this paper provides an extensive overview and synthesis of the existing literature on operational hedging. In particular, the paper focuses on the treatment of operational hedging in the operations management literature. The paper then explores how the...; Tags: Literature, Risk Management, INSEAD, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Management; White papers 2004-01-01
Performance of Private Equity Funds: Another Puzzle?: Though the activities of private equity PE funds are receiving increasing attention from both the investor and the academic community, using a novel and comprehensive database on the performance of US and EU private equity PE funds and their underlying investments, this paper finds that the performance of PE funds...; Tags: Private Equity, Performance, Private Equity Fund, INSEAD, Investment, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2004-05-01
Managing Projects With Unforeseeable Uncertainty: How a Learning Project Management Approach Can Improve Venture Capital Returns: Unks Unknowns are unforeseeable influences or events that emerge during the project, and cannot be included in the project plan nor mitigated by project risk management. Dealing with unks requires different project management methods and systems than a classical "plan-and-achieve-target" project. This article demonstrates the diagnosis and management of unks...; Tags: INSEAD, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Venture Capital, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Finance, Financing Startups; White papers 2004-05-17
Competition in the Changing World of Banking: This paper reviews the role of competition in banking against the background of a transforming sector. It uses industrial organization and modern financial intermediation analysis to study the relationships between the level of competition, risk taking incentives, and the regulatory frame. The consequences for market structure of the liberalization process...; Tags: Competition, INSEAD, Banking, Free Trade, Financial Services, Finance; White papers 2001-10-01
Can Buybacks be a Product of Shorter Shareholder Horizons?: This paper examines how shareholder investment horizons influence firms' payout decisions. It finds that U.S. firms held by short-term institutional investors have a higher propensity to buybacks shares instead of using dividends. Firm managers seem to respond to the preferred payout policy of investors in their shareholder base. Share buybacks...; Tags: Shareholder, Dividend, Buyback, Investor, INSEAD, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance; White papers 2004-10-18
Fair Process: Striving for Justice in Family Firms: This paper introduces procedural justice as a central notion for understanding the effectiveness of a family firm's decision making and planning processes. It posits that many of the common difficulties faced by family firms are rooted in a lack of fairness in the decision-making processes governing these business families and...; Tags: Decision-making, Fairness, INSEAD, Tools & Techniques, Management; White papers 2001-08-08