The Decision Before the Decision

Boards make far fewer decisions than management. Our role is more to oversee the people making them, the conditions under which those decisions are made, and their consequences.That is a key boundary—the board should not move into management.Yet as AI becomes part of how companies analyse information, develop alternatives and recommend action, directors may need greater visibility into how those decisions are being formed. Not to make the decision for management, but to exercise judgment over what eventually reaches the board.

#57 - The Tsinghua-INSEAD Executive MBA and the Rise of Chinese Innovation: Jireh Li

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Empowering Founders With AI: My Summer at the Visionaries Incubator

Last summer, I had the opportunity to work on the Visionaries Incubator, a programme created by Female Foundry in partnership with Google Cloud. The incubator was designed to help founders use AI to supercharge their businesses over an intense eight weeks. Through mentorship, workshops, and hands-on implementation, it became a fast-paced, eye-opening experience for everyone involved, myself included.  

Top Learnings From the First Six Months of My INSEAD MBA

Halfway into my MBA, I am surprised by the power of holistic business knowledge the degree has brought me and my fellow 430 classmates in Singapore and Fontainebleau. Its strength lies in fostering a deeper understanding of the complete business landscape, essential for cultivating effective future business leaders and managers. As our operations professor rightfully pointed out, "you don't ever just have an operations problem - you have a business problem." 

Strategic Management: A New Narrative

In today's fast-changing world, especially in business, keeping up is a challenge. Just last year, Generative AI completely changed how we think about the economy. Add to that the constant developments in geopolitics, technology, and the stakeholder demands, and it is clear how quickly things are moving.A couple of years ago, as an external lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, I was contacted by some colleagues who realised that most of the strategy textbooks used in class weren’t keeping up with these changes. 
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