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Bala Vissa
Professor of Entrepreneurship
Balagopal (Bala) Vissa is Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. Based in Singapore, Prof Vissa’s research interests focus on entrepreneurship in Asian emerging economies. His research seeks to understand how entrepreneurial firms and teams in Asia build effective networks - in the context of traditional family businesses (called business groups) as well as stand-alone new ventures.
His research has received numerous awards and has appeared in prestigious academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal. He also serves on the Editorial Review Board of leading academic journals.
Prof Vissa teaches courses related to growing new ventures in the MBA and EMBA programmes, as well as on topics related to leadership and managing growth in executive training programmes.
Prof Vissa received his PhD in management from London Business School. His undergraduate degree in electrical engineering is from BITS Pilani and he holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management - Kolkata. Prior to his doctoral studies, Prof Vissa was involved in setting up and growing new businesses in different specialty chemical niches for Unilever in India.
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