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When Psychological Safety Has a Seat at the Board

Leadership & Organisations

When Psychological Safety Has a Seat on the Board

Stanislav Shekshnia

How smart boards build psychological safety without “drowning” in it.

Strategy

How to Get the Most Out of a Diverse Board

Guoli Chen

Formal and informal social structures can enhance the positive effect of deep-level diversity while weakening the negative impact of surface-level diversity.

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Strategy

INSEAD Insights: September 2024 Research Picks

Lily Fang

How consumers perceive loyalty programmes, the drawbacks of collective learning, what shapes a start-up’s culture and more findings from recent research.

Leadership & Organisations

Coping With Disruption

A. Aris, K. Skogen Lund

How boards of incumbent companies can safeguard value creation when launching new businesses.

Economics & Finance

Do Corporate Insiders Behave When the SEC’s Not Watching?

D. Bens, G. Ee

The 2018–2019 US federal government shutdown provided important insights into insider trading in the absence of the watchdog.

Family Business

Will the Next Founders of Family Firms Please Stand Up?

Bala Vissa

Family enterprises can rise to new heights by rediscovering their entrepreneurial DNA.

Entrepreneurship

Building Your First Board: Lessons for Founders

S. Shekshnia, V. Vyas

It takes more than intuition and expertise to assemble a team of directors who can help firms stay profitable and healthy.

Leadership & Organisations

Directors in a VUCA World: Pitfalls and Upsides

Lee Seok Hwai

Shifting geopolitics, emerging technologies, changing climates. How should board directors steer their organisations through it all?

Leadership & Organisations

Can Boeing Fix Itself?

A. Bhardwaj, L. Van Wassenhove, H. Akkermans

A systems perspective of the American planemaker’s crisis and how the company could restore confidence.

Leadership & Organisations

How Leadership Shapes Sustainability Governance

Ron Soonieus

Amid regulatory and societal pressures to meet sustainability standards, strong personal leadership in the boardroom is needed to ensure competitive advantage and corporate longevity.