Seven faculty members from the leading international business school INSEAD shortlisted for the 2013 Thinkers50 Awards

Prestigious biennial honour recognises world’s best thought leadership in management and innovation

Fontainebleau (France), Singapore and Abu Dhabi, 6-11-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — Seven faculty members from INSEAD, the leading international business school, have been shortlisted for the 2013 Thinkers50 Awards. The biennial competition honours the world’s best minds in management, leadership and innovation, global solutions and future thinking and also includes an award for best book. INSEAD’s professors have been shortlisted for six of the seven distinguished achievement awards on offer.

Dubbed the ‘Oscars’ of the management world and launched in 2001, the Thinkers50 rankings shortlist for 2013 features INSEAD professors spanning three continents who, together, represent the largest collection of nominees from any one business school, exemplifying INSEAD’s diverse global offering. Overall, the school’s faculty members come from approximately 34 countries, mirroring a diverse student cohort composed of more than 80 nationalities in any given year.

Recently-appointed Dean of INSEAD, Ilian Mihov, said: “To be recognised by this prestigious management and leadership ranking is a huge accolade for our nominated faculty members, each outstanding in their own right. Beyond the individual achievement, to have so many of our faculty nominated and for so many individual distinguished achievement awards is testament to INSEAD’s global reputation.”

The shortlist includes some 70 thinkers, from which the final Thinkers50 rankings and award winners will be selected and announced during a Gala Dinner and summit in London on November 11, 2013. The INSEAD Faculty named as Thinkers50 finalists are:

• Laurence Capron – Professor of Strategy, The Paul Desmarais Chaired Professor of Partnership and Active Ownership and founder and director of INSEAD Executive Education’s M&As and Corporate Strategy programme;
• Hal Gregersen – Senior Affiliate Professor of Innovation and Leadership and former director of INSEAD Executive Education’s Learning to Lead programme
• Morten Hansen – Professor of Entrepreneurship;
• Herminia Ibarra – The Cora Chaired Professor of Leadership and Learning, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and founder and director of INSEAD Executive Education’s Leadership Transition programme;
• W Chan Kim – The Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chaired Professor of International Management and key contributor to the launch of INSEAD Executive Education’s Blue Ocean Strategy programme;
• Renee Mauborgne – The INSEAD Distinguished Fellow of Strategy and International Management and key contributor to the launch of INSEAD Executive Education’s Blue Ocean Strategy programme; and
• Gianpiero Petriglieri – Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and director of INSEAD Executive Education’s Management Acceleration Programme

Professors Kim and Mauborgne, who earned the No. 2 spot in the 2011 Thinkers50 rankings, have been nominated over repeated years for their joint work on Blue Ocean Strategy and the formation of the Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, which reinvented models of innovation and markets. This year, they are nominated for the Global Solutions Award.

Professor Ibarra, whose research and teaching focuses on professional and leadership development, as well as women’s careers and career transition, also appeared on the 2011 shortlist. This year, she is nominated for the Leadership Award.

Professor Capron, the author of Build, Borrow or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma, earned a nomination for the 2013 Strategy Award for her research into corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions and alliances.

Professor Gregersen, a leadership and innovation expert, is the author or co-author of several books, including The Innovator’s DNA and is a 2013 nominee for the Innovation Award.

Professor Petriglieri is nominated for this year’s Future Thinker Award. He is academic director for INSEAD’s Initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence, and chairs the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council focused on new leadership models. His research explores leadership, identity, development and experiential learning.

Professor Hansen, co-author of Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All, which draws on his expertise in entrepreneurship, is nominated for the 2013 Thinkers50 Best Book Award.

Candidates are identified and scrutinised through a combination of open polling on the Thinkers50 Website and input from an international team of advisers based on 10 criteria, including originality and practicality of ideas, international outlook, ability to inspire and presentation style.

About the professors
More information about the professors and their work can be found on INSEAD Knowledge – INSEAD’s Global Thought Leaders.

About INSEAD Executive Education
INSEAD is one of the largest and most prominent providers of Executive Education in the world, attracting over 12,000 executives each year. Executive Education at INSEAD is the springboard to the next level of effective performance in business with programmes created and taught by full-time, world-class faculty, based on cutting edge, business focused research and the unique multi-cultural learning environment across three campuses. The programmes address the needs of high potential individuals and senior executives seeking further career development. This is offered through both ‘Open Enrolment’ which focuses on individual development, or through ‘Customised Programmes’ tailored specifically to meet an organisation’s business objectives. To facilitate growth and meet demand, INSEAD is expanding its Singapore campus with a Leadership Development Centre. The $50 million dollar expansion project will dramatically increase INSEAD’s Executive Education capacity with a specific emphasis on the Advanced Management Programme. 

About INSEAD, The Business School for the World
As one of the world’s leading and largest graduate business schools, INSEAD brings together people, cultures and ideas to change lives and to transform organisations. A global perspective and cultural diversity are reflected in all aspects of our research and teaching.

With campuses in Europe (France), Asia (Singapore) and Abu Dhabi, INSEAD’s business education and research spans three continents. Our 146 renowned Faculty members from 34 countries inspire more than 1,300 degree participants annually in our MBA,Executive MBA, Specialised Master’s degrees (Master in Finance, Executive Master in Consulting and Coaching for Change) and PhD programmes. In addition, more than 12,000 executives participate in INSEAD’s Executive Education programmes each year.

In addition to INSEAD’s programmes on our three campuses, INSEAD participates in academic partnerships with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia & San Francisco); the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University near Chicago, and Johns Hopkins University/SAIS in Washington DC. In Asia, INSEAD partners with Tsinghua University in Beijing and with CEIBS. INSEAD is a founding member in the multidisciplinary Sorbonne University created in 2012, and also partners with Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil.

INSEAD became a pioneer of international business education with the graduation of the first MBA class on the Fontainebleau campus in Europe in 1960. In 2000, INSEAD opened its Asia campus in Singapore. And in 2007 the school began an association in the Middle East, officially opening the Abu Dhabi campus in 2010.

Around the world and over the decades, INSEAD continues to conduct cutting edge research and to innovate across all our programmes to provide business leaders with the knowledge and sensitivity to operate anywhere. These core values have enabled us to become truly “The Business School for the World.”

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