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How DBS Became the ‘World’s Best Bank’
Vinika D. Rao, Executive Director, INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute, and Robin Speculand, CEO, Bridges Business Consultancy Int. | November 15, 2021 The Singapore titan’s tech-charged quest to take the banking out of banking has paid off handsomely. The world’s best...
Innovation Is Everyone’s Business
Ben M. Bensaou, INSEAD Professor of Technology Management | November 9, 2021 Offering employees the tools and motivation to create ideas is the key to an innovative organisation. A manufacturer of the fabric used to reinforce car tyres might not seem an obvious source...
How to Create a Safe (and Open) Online Space
François Candelon, Managing Director, the Boston Consulting Group; Louis-Victor de Franssu, CEO, Tremau; and Theodoros Evgeniou, INSEAD Professor of Decision Sciences and Technology Management | October 25, 2021 Regulatory and business challenges must be met for an...
Marketing Automation: Utopia or Dystopia?
Klaus Wertenbroch, Novartis Chaired Professor of Management and the Environment & Professor of Marketing at INSEAD | October 1, 2021 Firms must take consumer psychology into account and resist the temptation to maximise short-term profits at the cost of consumers....
The Importance of Incorporating Innovation in a Firm
Felipe Monteiro, INSEAD Senior Affiliate Professor of Strategy | September 22, 2021 In this INSEAD Knowledge podcast, the author describes lessons from his work with innovation and multinationals. Bringing innovation inside an established firm, even one that has...
The World’s Most Innovative Countries, 2021
Bruno Lanvin, Distinguished Fellow at INSEAD | September 20, 2021 Tracking innovation around the globe in the face of the Covid-19 crisis. Innovation has, in many ways, flourished over the past 19 months. In the face of Covid-19, efforts to transform national...
If Your Company Were a Political Party, Which Would It Be?
Ayman Jawhar (INSEAD MBA ‘12J), INSEAD Lecturer in Product Management | September 14, 2021 Four simple questions will tell you where your organisation stands on today’s wide-ranging ideological spectrum. There’s a taboo around political conversations at work. We...
Five Lessons From Xiaomi’s Path to Smartphone Supremacy
Chengyi Lin, INSEAD Affiliate Professor of Strategy | September 8, 2021 Xiaomi’s leadership team idolised Steve Jobs. Now, it seems the student has become the master. In June 2021, a global smartphone sales report marked an unusual tipping point. According...
How Social Media Makes for Happier Families
David Dubois, INSEAD Associate Professor of Marketing | August 25, 2021 There is a hydraulic relationship between domestic happiness and exposure to social media content opposite to our views. In developed economies such as the United States, the current era is marked...
How Tech Can Make You Happier, Fitter and More Popular
Alixandra Barasch, Visiting Associate Professor of Marketing at INSEAD | August 17, 2021 Three rules to optimise the influence of your smartphone on your well-being. In 1999, the first camera-enabled mobile phone was launched in Japan. It could store up to 20 images....