Monthly Archives: January 2015

What INSEADers Are Reading: the 5 bestelling titles from INSEAD’s online bookstore

Date
Posted by
What INSEADers Are Reading: the 5 bestelling titles from INSEAD’s online bookstore

(c) Herminia Ibarra

INSEAD hosts an online bookstore on foot-note.net that ranks books by sales. Some of the titles are INSEAD classics. Recent as well as older titles make the top five ranking.

  1. Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
  2. The Happiness Equation: Meditations on Happiness and Success by Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
  3. Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant  by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
  4. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
  5. Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career by Herminia Ibarra (pictured right)

 

INSEAD Names in News: Andreas Jacobs;Theo Vermaelen; Georges Doriot

Date
Posted by
INSEAD Names in News: Andreas Jacobs;Theo Vermaelen; Georges Doriot
newsmakers1050Business Should be a Force for Good INSEAD’s new Board Chairman, Andreas Jacobs, on the role of B-schools in an interview here
Theo Vermaelen’s Unique Buyback Fund Ground-breaking research is an INSEAD hallmark and Theo Vermaelen, Professor of Finance at INSEAD who spoke at a Swiss INSEAD Alumni Association event last summer, is no exception.  He’s taken it one step further and created a novel buyback themed-fund based on his findings. The fund performance is on a roll of late, reports INSEAD Knowledge, it’s gaining some attention beyond borders, and something else different about the fund is that it donates 10% of the earned performance fee to INSEAD’s scholarship pool for students in need of financial aid. Read The Buyback Fund That Gives Back.
New Doriot Exhibition is Now Open … and Online Too Georges F. Doriot has a remarkable legacy, not least of which is INSEAD, is now captured in an exhibition at the HBS’ Baker Library Bloomber Center “Georges F. Doriot: Educating Leaders, Building Companies” until August 3, 2015. The library has an online version. for those who cannot visit in person.