INSEAD,a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires",is a non-profit graduate business school that maintains campuses in France,Singapore,United Arab Emirates,and the United States. Its degree programs are postgraduate-only,taught in English and include a full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA),an Executive MBA (EMBA),Master in Management (MIM),Doctor of Business Administration,Executive Master of Finance and executive education programs.
Robert Charles Pozen,known as "Bob",is an American financial executive with a strong interest in public policy. He is the former chairman of MFS Investment Management,the oldest mutual fund company in the United States. Previously,Pozen was the President of Fidelity Investments.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a professor of business at Harvard Business School. She co-founded the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and served as Director and Founding Chair from 2008 to 2018. She was the top-ranking woman—No. 11 overall—in a 2002 study of Top Business Intellectuals by citation in several sources. She was named one of the "50 most powerful women in Boston" by Boston Magazine and one of the "125 women who changed our world" over the past 125 years by Good Housekeeping magazine in May 2010.
Rakesh Khurana is an Indian-American educator. He is a Professor of Sociology at Harvard University,Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School and the Dean of Harvard College.
Lawrence D. Hite is a hedge fund manager who,along with Ed Seykota,is one of the forefathers of system trading. He is the author of the book,The Rule:How I Beat the Odds in the Markets and in Life—and How You Can Too, which was named a Wall Street Journal,LA Times,and Porchlight Books bestseller.
John Anthony Quelch CBE is a British-American academic and professor. Quelch is the executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan,China. He is the former dean of the University of Miami School of Business at the University of Miami in Coral Gables,Florida from 2017 to 2022.
Richard A. D'Aveni is an American academic,thought leader,business consultant,bestselling author and the Bakala Professor of Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is best known for creating a new paradigm in business strategy and coining the term “hypercompetition”which led Fortune to liken him to a modern version of Sun Tzu.
Raymond Thomas Dalio is an American investor and hedge fund manager,who has served as co-chief investment officer of the world's largest hedge fund,Bridgewater Associates,since 1985. He founded Bridgewater in 1975 in New York.
Stewart D. Friedman is Emeritus Professor of Management Practice at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. He has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984 and has been recognized for his research,teaching,practice,and advocacy in the fields of Leadership Development,Human Resources and Work–Life Integration. In 2001,Friedman completed a two-year assignment as the director of the Leadership Development Center at Ford Motor Company,where he ran a 50-person,$25 million operation.
Doug Guthrie is an American academic administrator,sociologist,and China scholar. He is currently professor of global leadership and director of China initiatives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at The Arizona State University. He was previously the dean of The George Washington University School of Business,and professor of management and sociology and director of executive education and NYU's Stern School of Business. He has also served as a visiting professor of management at the business schools of Columbia,Stanford,Harvard,Emory,and INSEAD and as director of the Business Institutions Initiative at the Social Science Research Council.
Steven George Mandis is an American investor and the founder of Kalamata Capital. He is an adjunct associate professor in finance and economics at Columbia University Business School. Previously,he worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and as a senior advisor to McKinsey. He is the author of three books:What Happened to Goldman Sachs:An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and its Unintended Consequences,The Real Madrid Way:How Values Created the Most Successful Sports Team on the Planet,and What Happened to Serie A:The Rise,Fall and Signs of Revival.
Stephen Leeb is a money manager and investment adviser. For more than 45 years he has been guiding investors via newsletters,books,blogs,and appearances on financial news networks including CNN,Fox News,NPR and Bloomberg TV.
Mauro F. Guillén is a Spanish-American sociologist and political economist who is currently the William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management at the Wharton School. In March 2021,he was named Dean of the Cambridge Judge Business School,and a Fellow of Queens' College at the University of Cambridge;he returned to Wharton in 2023. Until July 2021,he directed the Penn Lauder Center for International Business Education and Research,and was the Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies from 2007 to 2019. His book 2030:How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything was a Wall Street Journal bestseller and a Financial Times Book of the Year.
Phil Simon is an American speaker,professor,and author. He writes about management,technology,disruption,communication,and analytics.
A state-owned enterprise is a legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government. Their legal status varies from being a part of government to stock companies with a state as a regular or dominant stockholder. There is no standard definition of a government-owned corporation (GOC) or state-owned enterprise (SOE),although the two terms are often used interchangeably. The defining characteristics are that they have a distinct legal shape and they are established to operate in commercial affairs.
Sangeet Paul Choudary is a business executive,advisor,and best-selling author. He is best known for his work on platform economics and network effects. He is the co-author of the international best-selling book Platform Revolution:How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You.
Amy C. Edmondson is an American scholar of leadership,teaming,and organizational learning. She is currently Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School. Edmondson is the author of seven books and more than 75 articles and case studies. She is best known for her pioneering work on psychological safety,which has helped spawn a large body of academic research in management,healthcare and education over the past 15 years. Her books include "Right Kind of Wrong,the Science of Failing Well",“The Fearless Organization,Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning,Innovation,and Growth”(2018)) and “Teaming:How Organizations Learn,Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy”(2012).
Soren Marcus Kaplan is an author,consultant,and speaker on the subject of innovation and innovation culture in organizations. He is an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business,founder of the consulting firm InnovationPoint,co-founder of the software company Praxie.com,and is a columnist for the Innovate column of Inc. Magazine.
Michelle Penelope King is a white South African born journalist,writer,women's rights activist and advocate for gender equality. Since December 2019,King has been director of inclusion at Netflix,a department responsible for inclusion and diversity among corporate employees.
Thomas J. Roulet is a French-British social scientist,management thinker and professor at the University of Cambridge where he holds the Chair of Organisational Sociology and Leadership. He has advanced the concept of negative social evaluations and is known for his research on wellbeing in the context of remote work. He is a Faculty at the Judge Business School,and a Fellow of King's College Cambridge.
