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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Why Firms Should Care About the Career Stage of China’s Officials

Tasked with a broad range of objectives, government officials will prioritise different ones depending on their career stage and mobilise firms accordingly.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Overcoming Barriers to Supply Chain Agility

A careful look at how some firms responded to the Covid-19 crisis reveals a new, more effective supply chain frontier.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Can the Subscription Economy Save Financial Services?

The traditional FSI business model is looking threadbare – and not only because of the pandemic. Some players are seeking new territory by transitioning to subscriptions.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Nokia’s Reinvention Was Emotionally Driven

No less than start-ups or SMEs, large organisations can accomplish a radical strategic shift – if they can regulate managers’ raw emotions in the aftermath of failure.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: What Ails Corporate Executive Committees?

Fragmentation among top leadership teams is widespread. CEOs should pay heed – and sharpen their most important strategy execution tool.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: How LGBTQ+ Employees Can Embrace Authenticity

Four professionals with different sexual orientations and gender identities describe their journeys.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: The Five Essential Roles of Corporate Ecosystems

Most firms that try to build an ecosystem would be better off joining an existing one. The first step is for them to know where they would fit.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: What’s Style Got to Do With Strategy?

Careful calibration of aesthetics and style can elevate companies and individuals above the competition.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: How Disempowerment Drives Demand for Risky Skin-Lightening Products

Empowering darker-skinned women in emerging markets acts as a buffer against a toxic combination of sexism, colourism and economic disadvantage.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: What It Means to Embark on a Journey of Change

Many executives have a nagging sense that something is amiss in their lives. But not all of them find the courage – or the tools – to tackle what needs fixing.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Prospects and Pitfalls for the Post-Pandemic Organisation

Big changes are coming for organisations and organisation designs. Whether they will be for good or ill depends on how leaders confront three key possibilities uncovered by the pandemic.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Not Everyone Can Be Agile

An essential checklist for Agile aspirants.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Social Media Helps Global “Dream Teams” Come Together

Academic international collaboration is now evolving beyond conferences or formal networks as constantly improving social media connects more researchers.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: The Group Dynamics That Define Well-Functioning Boards

There is an intangible aspect to successful boards that cannot be captured by curating the right CVs.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: A Post-Mortem on Product Management

Treating product management as a role, rather than a culture all its own, deadens its meaning and impact.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: The Next Decade Will Be a Leadership Game Changer

Success begins with a clear-eyed understanding of the trends that will define the years to come.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Cooking Up a Creative Community

A recipe based on INSEAD research.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: What It’s Like to Be a Gig Worker During a Pandemic

How precarious workers balance financial uncertainty, health risks and mental well-being in the age of Covid-19.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: Can State and Shareholder Capitalism Combine?

The structural “liabilities” of state-owned enterprises can, in fact, be creative assets that privately owned firms can emulate.

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FROM Insead Admissions Blog: How Happiness, Anger and Anxiety Can Help You Negotiate

Don’t suppress your emotions – harness them to negotiate better.

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