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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Covid Cost-Cutting May Backfire in the Long Run

Macroeconomic uncertainty makes firms more profitable in the short-term, but the bill comes due later.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Scorched-Earth Strategic Thinking for Covid Times

“Disrupt yourself first” is so five years ago. The new motto is “Burn your company to the ground then rebuild it.”

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Transforming a Supply Chain Into a Social Enterprise

Creating sustainability initiatives that can scale requires innovative balancing of social impact and profit seeking.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: How to Appease Your Customers After Your Algorithm Rejects Them

No one likes to hear “computer says no”. But there may be more ways to be transparent about algorithm-driven rejections than you think.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Calmer Waters: President Biden’s Prospective Foreign Policy

The new president’s foreign policy will differ from Trump’s in style, language and tone more than in substance.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Entrepreneurship Frameworks That Work

A recent book narrates a variety of productive and powerful paths forward for all kinds of entrepreneurs.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: A Liquidity Cushion in Troubled Times: The PE Secondaries Market

Even without deep discounts, secondaries’ modest risks and returns are attracting investor interest.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Foundations for Gender Balance Can Be Built at Home

If we want a robust economic recovery and a fairer world, we must stem the tide of women fleeing the Covid-19 workforce.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: The Tension-Filled World of Luxury Consumption

Recent research highlights how luxury consumers are pulled in different, often contradicting directions.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Four Steps to Business Model Innovation

Success in this new era of accelerated disruption requires a holistic approach to technology.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Hold the Emoji and Other Tips for Successful Email Negotiations

Tactics for increasing B2B sales.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Making the Shift to Digital Sales in B2B

The old methods of demand generation won’t work in the always-online era.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: “Too Elevated”: Raf Simons’s Troubled Stint at Calvin Klein

A short-lived partnership between the sprawling American brand and the celebrated Belgian designer highlights the importance of fit in all its forms.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: How to Be a Blue Ocean Strategist in the Post-Pandemic World

A blue ocean mindset uncovers hidden opportunities amid the Covid-era economic crisis.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Goals Just Before Halftime Mean More – in Football and Business

Examining why 45th-minute goals have outsized importance reveals how timing can affect the outcome of virtually all sorts of competitions.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Seven Tools for Turning Your Ideas Into Reality

From finding the right analogy to tapping into FOMO, learn how to sell your ideas to potential supporters.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Workplace Mental Health Is a Business Asset. Treat It That Way

The most successful initiatives deliver employee well-being programmes as a strategic “product”, with four fundamental planning considerations.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: The New Business Models (and Jobs) in Blockchain

From finance to smart cities, distributed ledger technology is beginning to deliver on its vaunted potential in several key sectors.

FROM Insead Admissions Blog: What Fuels Rumours and How to Put Them Out

Unfounded rumours can be spread far and wide by anyone who knows their way around social media. We can’t stamp it out but we can – and should – fight fire with fire.