For the fourth consecutive year, INSEAD was the major academic partner of the ChangeNOW Summit (19th May – 21st May). At the world’s largest event for the planet, with more than 33,000 participants in person from 117 countries and 742 million online views, INSEAD unveiled brand new academic research at the Grand Palais Ephemere. This year’s edition of ChangeNOW, founded by… Read more >
INSEAD’s Hoffmann Global Institute for Business and Society convened faculty and experts at the SDG Tent at Davos to discuss the path to Net Zero and family-owned businesses as forces for good. Listen to INSEAD Deputy Dean, Peter Zemsky and Hoffmann Global Institute Executive Director, Katell Le Goulven, give their key takeaways at Davos 2022… Read more >
“The scientists are coming together to think about moonshots. But we, in business schools, are still working separately.” said Peter Tufano when Soumitra Dutta and I interviewed him for our book, “The World After Covid”, April 2020, during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Do you agree with him? Of course, business schools do… Read more >
“CFTE and GBSN co-develop the world’s first Center for Excellence in Fintech, connecting academia to practice to accelerate the development of Fintech education” As Fintech is becoming more prominent in financial services, training programs from government and universities must continuously evolve. It’s in that context that GBSN and CFTE announce their collaboration to promote Fintech… Read more >
But are these ads truly reflective of improvement when it comes to production practices, or is this just another example of greenwashing – when companies present an exaggerated or even false image of having a positive impact on the environment? Thanks to a growing body of research, there are a number of things you can… Read more >
Cambodia’s National University of Management (NUM) on Friday announced that the Committee of Hanseatic League of Universities, which organizes the annual World’s Universities with Real Impact (WURI), ranked NUM in the top 50 of the “WURI 2022: Global Top 100 Innovative Universities”. It said that NUM was in the top 50 for 5 innovative projects… Read more >
We are proud to announce the Africa Business Concept Challenge Top 6 Teams! The Top 6 Teams presented business concepts that stood out from competitive and diverse submissions. Breaking out from an initial 78 teams with over 290 students from 17 countries and 46 schools, we are proud to share the Final Pitch Presentations from… Read more >
Lumumba was speaking at a webinar commemorating Africa Day on Thursday, 26 May hosted by the Centre on African Philanthropy and Social Investment (CAPSI) at Wits Business School, in partnership with the Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS), the Southern Africa Youth Forum, (SAYoF), the Philanthropy Circuit, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Harvard… Read more >
There is a scene late in the movie Her where the main character Theodore, played by Joaquin Phoenix, is nervously questioning Samantha, his AI-based operating system voiced by Scarlett Johansson. By then, Theodore had fallen in love with Samantha, who was designed to learn about and serve him, claimed to love him too. In the… Read more >
6 Ways You Can Inspire Entrepreneurial Thinking Among Your Students An entrepreneurial mindset—attitudes and behaviors that encapsulate how entrepreneurs tend to think and act—enables one to identify and capitalize on opportunities, change course when needed, and view mistakes as an opportunity to learn and improve. If a student decides to become an entrepreneur, an entrepreneurial mindset… Read more >
