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Marketing

Making High-Stakes Decisions Right

Lily Fang

INSEAD professors shed light on how people and machines can sharpen their judgement across work and personal contexts.

Marketing

Why Does Spending Money Feel So Painful?

Lily Fang

Insights on rewarding asymmetric teams, strategic decision-making, AI buildouts and more.
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Technology & Innovation

What the Next AI Revolution May Look Like

Alexandra Roulet

Move aside, large language models. Smarter, more controlled world models are the future, says prominent AI architect Yann LeCun.

Strategy

How Your Firm’s Story Affects Its Share Price

Henrich Greve

Describing your organisation in ways that align with how others view it can improve its valuation, especially if you’re branching out into new industries.

Leadership & Organisations

How to Better Harness the Wisdom of the Crowd

Lily Fang

A simple way for groups to perform better, how AI is crowding out context, the effect of trade-in programmes on profitability and more research-backed insights.

Economics & Finance

What Earnings Reveal That Cash Flow Hides

Martin Kapons

Accrual accounting can help offset seasonal cash flow swings to give a more accurate picture of firm performance.
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Entrepreneurship

The Hidden Rules of China-Gulf Investment Dealmaking

X. Wang, C. Spina

Expectation and cultural gaps are killing deals before they close. Here’s how to bridge them.

Economics & Finance

Global Oil Crisis: Are We Nearing the Tipping Point?

INSEAD Knowledge

Oil supplies are running dangerously low as the US-Iran standoff wears on.
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Economics & Finance

When Patient Capital Meets Impatient Investors

Claudia Zeisberger

The structural fault line running through the US$3.5 trillion private credit market.
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Economics & Finance

The Importance of Networks in the Gig Economy

Lily Fang

Insights on FinTech lending, how friendship powers the gig economy, hyper-competitive workplace cultures and more.

Economics & Finance

What High Oil Prices Mean for the Energy Transition

Aldona Kapačinskaitė

Today’s pump prices reveal why the firms well-placed to build a clean energy future have little incentive to do so.

Technology & Innovation

AI & Jobs: What Workers Can Do to Protect Themselves

P. Puranam, S.Y. Chun, W. Jiang, V. Sevcenko

Some jobs aren’t coming back; more are being redesigned and restructured. We size up the impact of AI on jobs in this special series.

Economics & Finance

Will AI Eat SaaS for Lunch?

Lily Fang

The doomsday thesis for software-as-a-service firms assumes a frictionless world. The real world is anything but.
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Economics & Finance

Europe's Historic Second Chance

F. Candelon, T. Evgeniou, T. Ramge

With its industrial strength and ecosystems, the Old Continent must seize the opportunity to leapfrog the US and other major economies.

Economics & Finance

Tariffs and Turmoil: Negotiating the New World Order

S. Hasija, P. Dutt

Building slack and adopting a just-in-case approach can help Asian firms address ongoing economic uncertainty.