INSEAD’s faculty influence our understanding of people, organisations, and the role of business as a force for good. They challenge assumptions, spark new conversations, and drive meaningful change through research, teaching, and advocacy.
By equipping leaders with essential knowledge and skills, they empower them to transform business and society at every career stage.
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Alexandra Roulet
Assistant Professor of Economics, INSEAD
The Mathieu Guillemin MBA’97J Fellowship in Business and Society
Alexandra's research focuses on labour economics and has been published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics or the Journal of Public Economics.
Elizabeth Baily Wolf
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD
Elizabeth's research seeks to identify and challenge people's limiting beliefs about who and what can be professional. Her research identifies these lingering limiting beliefs, highlights their consequences, and develops interventions to change them.
Asher Lawson
Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences, INSEAD
Asher Lawson is an assistant professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD. His research investigates the biases in how people make decisions, and how we can improve those decisions with targeted interventions.
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Women Leaders Development - Debunking The Myths
Svenja Weber
Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD
Organisations are awash with myths about why fewer women than men reach senior leadership levels. These myths can perpetuate flawed thinking and delay meaningful change. It is, therefore, vital to develop an understanding of the real challenges women face and how these manifest in daily behaviours and norms in organisations.
In this webinar, Professor Svenja Weber shared about INSEAD’s ground-breaking research which sheds light on the true nature of these barriers. She believes that understanding and addressing the complex web of systemic, cultural, and structural issues that hold women back is essential to create an organisational environment where employees can thrive, reach the highest levels of leadership, and realise their full potential.
Leading Between the Lines
Jennifer Petriglieri
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, INSEAD
Contemporary organisations are beginning to recognise the importance of balancing instrumental imperatives – getting stuff done efficiently – with humanistic aspirations – helping people grow and connect across differences. Striking such balance requires leaders who value humanism just as much as instrumentality, freedom as much as efficiency. But that is, unfortunately, not yet the way leaders are raised and trained. So how are we to change that? How can we develop and become leaders who can foster that balance?
INSEAD Professor Jennifer Petriglieri will argue that one way to do so is through a deeper engagement with works of art in general, and literature in particular. She provides and elicits examples of how such works can help leaders recognise, honour, demonstrate, and foster humanity at work, and in doing so help all members of organisations thrive.
