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Faculty & Research - 2019
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Learn about the ideas, innovation and inquiry driving academic excellence
Overview - 2019
Our faculty and their research power our programmes and our reputation with innovation, diversity and academic excellence at the foreWidgets
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Small wonder, therefore, that the quality of INSEAD scholarship has reached exceptional levels. Our current #5 position in the UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™ makes us the only school outside North America in the top 20 and the only standalone business school in the top 40. The lists of publications and awards on the following pages provide ample evidence of our stature as a research institution to rival the very best in the world.
The quantity and quality of our faculty and their output clearly reflect the strength of our new strategies for both Faculty and Research under the leadership of Professors Laurence Capron and Ziv Carmon respectively. That we are able to compete with the business schools of the world’s great universities testifies to the power of our focus on academic excellence and allows us to explore business as a force for good.
Another factor in our success is undoubtedly the PhD programme, which this year celebrated its 30th anniversary. Managed jointly by the Faculty and Research departments, its founding in 1989 marked INSEAD’s arrival as a research institution with a great future.
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Centres, initiatives and institutes – leading as a force for good
Other research highlights from academic year 2018/2019 that reflect INSEAD as a force for good are two projects supported by INSEAD’s Emerging Markets Institute, or EMI, the first on the strategic challenges faced by a social enterprise working on blindness prevention in Egypt and the second on the impacts of food delivery services in Indonesia. These represent just a small sample from the EMI’s research and teaching to advance social and economic progress.
Our Gender Initiative built on the success of last year’s iW50 celebration of the graduation of our first women MBA students by co-hosting the first Academic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Conference at Columbia Business School in New York. The DEI Conference is a collaboration between some of the world’s top business schools to share the best pedagogical practices, with a focus on diversity among leaders of the future.
The Rudolf and Valeria Maag INSEAD Centre for Entrepreneurship was similarly involved in initiatives to support women leaders. In September 2018 it worked with the Women’s Forum in Singapore to provide training and mentoring for female business founders.
Recognition & Awards - 2019
Our faculty open new frontiers of business research as leading knowledge creators and are recognised for their academic contributionsWidgets
New Faculty - 2019
INSEAD welcomed 14 new faculty members from all over the world – accomplished academics able to take our research and teaching excellence to the next levelWidgets
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Atalay
Atasu
Atasu PhD’07
USA/Turkey
Technology and Operations Management
Europe Campus
Atalay joins INSEAD from Georgia Tech to continue his award-winning research on socially and environmentally responsible operations management, with particular interests that include topics related to a sustainable future such as the circular economy, extended producer responsibility and environmental regulation.
Boris
Babic
Canada
Decision Sciences
Asia Campus
Boris joins INSEAD after a postdoctoral position at Caltech, a PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a JD from Harvard Law School. Before that, he was a lawyer in Los Angeles, representing major companies and entertainment studios, as well as investors in complex securities litigation following the 2008 financial crisis. His research interests include the ethics of decision-making via artificial intelligence and the regulatory architecture for medical machine-learning systems.
Amit
Bhattacharjee
USA
Marketing
Europe Campus
Amit holds a PhD from Wharton and joins INSEAD from the Rotterdam School of Management. His research lies at the intersection of moral judgement, economic reasoning, cultural beliefs and consumer well-being. He uses experimental methods to investigate how consumers navigate the moral and social backdrop of the marketplace.
So Yeon
Chun
South Korea
Technology and Operations Management
Europe Campus
So Yeon joins us from Georgetown University. Her data-driven research focuses on customer loyalty reward programmes, revenue management and risk management in a range of sectors. In addition to a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology, she holds several industry patents for demand analysis and decision support systems.
Dylan
Glover
UK/USA
Economics and Political Science
Europe Campus
Dylan’s most recent projects have involved studying the effects of discrimination, the impacts of changing organisational recruiting and the relationship between geographical mobility and unemployment. He is also investigating how the rich perceive wealth inequality and questions of redistribution. No stranger to INSEAD, he was previously an INSEAD postdoctoral researcher following his PhD from Sciences Po.
Dan
Iancu
Romania/USA
Technology and Operations Management
Europe Campus
Dan’s research lies at the interface of operations, finance and risk management. A recent area of focus is the design of better procurement, payment and financing solutions in global supply chains that impact the environment and the lives of millions of people. He holds degrees from Yale and Harvard Universities, a PhD from MIT and has taught at Wharton and Stanford.
Winnie
Jiang
USA
Organisational Behaviour
Asia Campus
Winnie seeks to answer pressing questions with research. How do people find, pursue and sustain meaning through their work in complex and rapidly changing social systems? How does the individual quest for meaning in work influence organisations? How can organisations cultivate meaningful work experiences and career growth that also benefit themselves and society? Winnie recently completed a PhD at Yale University.
Nadav
Klein
Israel
Organisational Behaviour
Europe Campus
Nadav’s widely published research deals with the basic processes of judgement by which people make decisions, process information and evaluate both others and themselves. He explores issues such as the surprising reputational benefits of being a little bit nice, the ability of groups to detect lies and people's overestimation of how much information they use to make decisions. A former consultant, he joins INSEAD after a PhD and post-doctoral post at the University of Chicago.
Michael
Y. Lee
USA
Organisational Behaviour
Europe Campus
Michael studies innovative approaches to building organisations and teams using ethnographic methods, experiments and surveys. His research explores the dynamics of radically decentralised systems and how organisations can facilitate greater self-management without sacrificing coordination. He also investigates how teams can foster positive relational dynamics. Before gaining a PhD at Harvard, he was a management consultant working on issues such as social impact. He has a special interest in meditation.
Marc
Le Menestrel PhD’99
France
Decision Sciences
Asia Campus
Marc teaches and coaches senior executives and board directors on high-level performance, leadership and the exercise of wise power in governance, sustainability, anti-corruption and risk management. As a decision scientist, his research focuses on the theory of choice; rational thinking and ethical values in decision making; and use of mathematical theories to articulate human behaviour. Marc holds a PhD in Decision Sciences from INSEAD.
Lin
Shen
China)
Finance
Europe Campus
Lin’s research addresses coordination problems and policy-relevant issues in banking, corporate finance and political economy. Her most recent financial system research investigates the impact of capital flows on the credit supply to the real economy and the design of government intervention policies to resolve panic-based bank runs and other coordination failures. Before joining INSEAD, she obtained a PhD in Finance from Wharton.
Anthony
Vashevko
USA
Organisational Behaviour
Asia Campus
Anthony’s research centres on the effects of uncertainty and innovation in markets. Organisations tend to react to uncertainty by pursuing risky innovations, which complicates the environment for their competitors, changes the market landscape and even creates whole new markets. He holds a PhD in Organisational Behavior from Stanford University and degrees in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Chicago.
Prashant
Yadav
USA/India
Technology and Operations Management
Europe Campus
Prashant joins INSEAD from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He serves on the boards of several multinational organisations and social enterprises, and has acted as an expert witness on medical supply chains for the US Congress and legislative bodies in other countries. His award-winning research has been featured in peer-reviewed journals and global media. He holds a PhD from the University of Alabama and lectures at Harvard Medical School.
Junyuan
Zou
China
Finance
Europe Campus
Junyuan’s research interests lie broadly in market microstructure, corporate finance and financial fragility. More specifically, his recent work investigates the relationship between information acquisition and market liquidity in over-the-counter markets. He joins INSEAD following a PhD in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and degrees in Economics, Mathematics and Physics from Tsinghua University.
INSEAD Knowledge - 2019
Showcasing our research on a digital platform that gives voice to our leading researchers and presents innovative ideas from our networkWidgets
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It was also a busy year internally for the team, which was restructured as part of INSEAD Communications to leverage the effectiveness of this team’s outreach, enhance the school’s reputation for excellence in research and teaching and increase visibility in the media. INSEAD Knowledge is now part of the new Research Communications and Media Relations team. The team engages the global media to highlight groundbreaking research and news from around the school, while performing the editorial work to publish INSEAD Knowledge content.
This reorganisation is already bearing fruit. INSEAD has seen an uptick of news coverage in key markets and research content produced by Knowledge has been extensively positioned in some of the most impactful management publications, including HBR, HBR France, HBR China, The Conversation, Les Echos (France), China Daily, Forbes France and Forbes India.
