243 Posts found for Source: INSEAD Knowledge

Big business has arguably become the most dominant force in many societies, subsuming the power of Church and State but not their responsibilities. As a result, the urgent human needs (for security, stability and spiritual nourishment) once met by those institutions must largely go begging.

Content: Quotation | Author: Benjamin Kessler | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Economics, Miscellaneous

A revolution is any change that alters the power structure. This [Fourth Industrial Revolution] is not a revolution. It’s a reformation, because it bolsters the existing power structure. The rhetoric of revolution is a cover-up.

Content: Quotation | Author: Gianpiero Petriglieri | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Economics

A beginners’ guide to high-value business models.

Content: Article | Authors: Andrew Shipilov, Francesco Burelli | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Business Model

Success in this new era of accelerated disruption requires a holistic approach to technology.

Content: Article | Author: Sameer Hasija | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Innovation, Management

From finding the right analogy to tapping into FOMO, learn how to sell your ideas to potential supporters.

Content: Article | Author: Nathan Furr | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Personal Development, Productivity / Work Tips

Long live product management – but not as it has been conceived up till now.

Content: Article | Author: Ayman Jawhar | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

Crowds are not inherently wise. They become so under the right set of conditions.

Content: Article | Authors: Henning Piezunka, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Linus Dahlander | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Innovation, Organizational Behavior

Before you make a political move, draw a POWER map.

Content: Article | Author: Andy J. Yap | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

When it comes to “walking the talk” of sustainability, the type of board directors matters.

Content: Article | Authors: N. Craig Smith, Ron Soonieus | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Corporate Governance

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, then, retains some of the exploitative elements that characterised the very first. What’s more, the very term “industrial revolution” has always been something of a misnomer, according to Gianpiero Petriglieri, INSEAD Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour.

Content: Article | Authors: Benjamin Kessler, Gianpiero Petriglieri | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Economics

How the right mix of experience and innovation generates a great start-up top management team.

Content: Article | Author: Nathan Furr | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Buybacks are under attack as a short-term stock price manipulation scheme, allowing insiders to cash out at inflated stock prices. This manipulation hypothesis predicts that, as a result of buybacks, companies will underinvest, undermining long-term performance and shareholder value. Recent research tests this hypothesis using an international sample that contains approximately 10,000 buyback announcements made by U.S. firms and 10,000 made by non-U.S. firms … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Theo Vermaelen | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Finance

The hype around Agile organizations needs some debunking, so that Agile’s actual value can be salvaged.

Content: Article | Authors: Julien Clément, Phanish Puranam | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Management

Having the best product won’t help your start-up without a focus on segmentation, targeting and positioning.

Content: Article | Author: Patrick ‘Mad’ Mork | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Entrepreneurship

Decades of research have uncovered the five key capabilities of effective leaders.

Content: Article | Authors: Deborah Ancona, Henrik Bresman | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Leadership

A vital tool that will help you define the very essence of your brand.

Content: Article | Author: Patrick ‘Mad’ Mork | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: Brand, Marketing / Sales

We are fans of Agile practices as a solution to a distinct class of problems in certain contexts, such as those involving a search, be it for new designs, product features or even management policies. Agile practices use rapid, parallel and inexpensive iterations to solve search problems. If there are parts of your organization that can benefit from this kind of problem solving, then Agile … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Julien Clément, Phanish Puranam | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Management

Every organization, regardless of its scale, faces the same universal problems: how to divide goals into tasks (division of labor) and how to put the results back together again (integration of effort). While these problems are universal, there are many different approaches to solving them, and a set of such solutions is an organization’s design.

Content: Quotation | Author: Phanish Puranam | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Organizational Behavior

The myths that drive the CEO pay bonanza.

Content: Article | Author: Manfred Kets de Vries | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Corporate Governance

We have identified five leadership meta-practices of athletic CEOs. Each of them allows leaders to effectively manage a particular challenge. Within each meta-practice, we found a number of very specific behavior strategies, which we called leadership practices.

Content: Article | Authors: Alexey Ulanovsky, Stanislav Shekshnia, Veronika Zagieva | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subject: Leadership