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Henrich Greve

Professor of Entrepreneurship

Biography

Henrich R. Greve is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Rudolf and Valeria Maag Chaired Professor in Entrepreneurship at INSEAD and is the Academic Director of the Rudolf and Valeria Maag INSEAD Centre for Entrepreneurship. He holds a PhD in Organisational Behaviour and MA in Sociology from the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

Henrich's research focuses on the causes and consequences of strategic change in organisations, and he also studies organisational innovations and founding and growth of organisations in young industries. He has published over 90 articles in leading journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, and Management Science. He has co-authored the book Network Advantage: How to Unlock Value from Your Alliances and Partnerships (Jossey-Bass, 2013) and authored the books Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Innovation and Change (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Organizational Learning from Performance Feedback: A Behavioral Perspective on Multiple Goals (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Henrich has been the editor of Administrative Science Quarterly where he has also been an Associate Editor, and has also been a Senior Editor of Organization Science. He has been a joint guest editor at Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Advances in Strategic Management, Research in the Sociology of Work, and Research in the Sociology of Organizations. He has served as the Program Chair and Division Chair of the Organisation and Management Theory (OMT) Division at the Academy of Management.

His business and policy presentations include the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, Korea, and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of New Champions in Tianjin, China.

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Entrepreneurship

What Female Artists Can Do About Discrimination

Henrich Greve

Participation in residency programmes and access to elite education can enhance the opportunities available to women artists.

Strategy

How Conspiracy Talk Helps People Make Sense of the World

Henrich Greve

Sharing Covid-19 conspiracy theories on online social networks helped individuals cope with fear and uncertainty during the pandemic.

Entrepreneurship

How to Tell the Age of an Innovation

H. Greve, I. Naumovska, V. Gaba

All innovations make the journey from “eureka” to “meh”. But they don’t do so according to fixed rules.

Leadership & Organisations

Can Managers Who Wear Many Hats Be Trusted?

Henrich Greve

The more diverse your goals are, the greater the temptation to muddy the waters on performance.
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Leadership & Organisations

Goals Just Before Halftime Mean More – in Football and Business

Henrich Greve

Examining why 45th-minute goals have outsized importance reveals how timing can affect the outcome of virtually all sorts of competitions.

Leadership & Organisations

Power, Politics and Crisis Response on the Board

It’s not the individual directors – it’s the competing coalitions they form that determine what boards will do.
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Strategy

How to Bend the Rules Like Beckham

The risks professional footballers take as they flirt with foul play hold lessons – positive and negative – for high-stakes competitors in every arena.

Strategy

Boards Under the Influence

H. Greve, A. Shipilov, T. Rowley

Directors need to carefully manage their reactions to what they read in the business press.

Strategy

How Airlines Manage Conflicts Between Profits and Safety

Henrich Greve & Vibha Gaba

Warning: Don’t read this just before your next flight.

Entrepreneurship

Competition in the Age of Amazon

Henrich Greve & Seo Yeon Song

Amazon’s dominance is changing the power structure of publishing – a pattern that may be borne out in several other industries.

Responsibility

The Invisible Roots of Community Resilience

Why some communities pull together in the wake of disaster, and others fall apart.

Leadership & Organisations

How Great Leaders Make Work Meaningful

Mired in day-to-day tasks, people easily lose sight of their work’s higher purpose. That’s where great communicators come in.
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Career

You Can Have More Than One True Work Identity

People with multi-pronged careers shouldn’t feel inauthentic or fear being branded as such.

Leadership & Organisations

When Extraversion Rhymes With Acquisition

Extravert CEOs have a big appetite for acquisitions, but does it benefit their firms?

Leadership & Organisations

The Teachable Moments of Financial Crisis

Squint hard enough and you can find traces of long-ago crises in the way communities do business today.

Leadership & Organisations

The Dark Side of Flattery

Flattery can trigger resentment and ironically damage the social capital of those who accept it.
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Strategy

Does Racial Bias Call the Shots in the NBA?

Henrich Greve

Even in the performance-obsessed world of pro basketball, racial preference influences how the game is played.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs Must Balance Specialisation With General Knowledge

Entrepreneurial legitimacy rests on having general and functional knowledge of an industry.
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Marketing

Using History to Motivate Change

Creative and entrepreneurial employees thrive on a sense of the organisational past.

Strategy

The Strategic Science of Delayed Compliance

No company is above the law, but some firms are allowed much more time in complying with it.

Career

Stop Blaming Women for Gender Inequality

It’s hard to “lean in” when you feel you’re being pushed out.

Leadership & Organisations

How Respect Can Set Inmates (and Employees) Free

Respect and a sense of encouragement transform workers’ identities.

Strategy

Fear Can Stifle Collaboration, or Jumpstart It

During organisational change, play the radicals against the moderates to foster collaboration.

Leadership & Organisations

Board Political Leanings Determine CEO Pay

Directors with conservative proclivities are significantly more generous.
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Strategy

How Products Can Climb the Social Ladder

In a few short years, one ambitious fashionista transported grappa from reviled to respectable.

Operations

How Alessi Merged Manufacturing and Art

The marriage of industrial production and postmodern art techniques was a tough sell internally.

Family Business

When Gender Inequality Controls Whole Organisations

When cultural traditions and interpersonal relationships coincide, businesses start acting in irrational ways.

Entrepreneurship

Forecasting the Success of Innovations

Creators beat managers at predicting an innovation’s success, unless they’re predicting the success of their own work.
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Career

The Disturbing Benefits of “White-Washing” a Résumé

Four decades after the Civil Rights Act, students are “whitening” their résumés to increase their chance of getting a callback. What’s more disturbing is that research shows it works.

Economics & Finance

The Mixed Results of Motivational Rankings

Andrew Shipilov & Henrich Greve

Rankings designed to shame companies into changing their behaviour often accomplish just the opposite.

Strategy

How All-Star Employees Affect Firm Behaviour

The status-seeking moves of ambitious employees can alter the fate of a company.

Marketing

When Customers Panic

Even loose association with a similar firm embroiled in scandal or facing difficulty can mean ruin for a healthy company. But there are measures to protect your business against guilt by association.

Entrepreneurship

Who Are Apple’s New Competitors?

The Apple-Cisco partnership promises to transform the workplace; It may forge a whole new marketplace along the way.

Economics & Finance

How Greece Can Unite its People

Divisions and distrust are keeping Greece from bouncing back. Uniting the people for the sake of the nation, not of its politicians, could help.

Strategy

How Firms Change Bad Practices

Organisations don’t always respond to threats, but they change quickly when their peers do.
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Entrepreneurship

The Most Important Questions Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves

Before starting a business, there are four characteristics an entrepreneur should have, or look for in their partners.

Economics & Finance

When Three’s a Crowd: How to Upset a Good Partnership

The French state’s intrusion into Renault-Nissan may upset a very strong alliance.
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Leadership & Organisations

Loyal Cheaters: When Organisations Promote Wrongdoing

Fraudsters seem to cheat more for their organisation than themselves.
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Career

The Art of Keeping Employees from Leaving

Retaining workers is becoming a balancing act between hard data research and a human touch. It’s more important than ever to complement intuition with statistical analysis.

Leadership & Organisations

Should Organisations “Leak” on Purpose?

Netflix’s mistaken release of the latest season of "House of Cards" is a lesson in what organisations can glean by making an “error” favourable to consumers.

Entrepreneurship

iWatching Every Step You Take

All-seeing, all-knowing smartwatches that connect the information dots of our lives reflect the many alliances firms like Apple have to manage to innovate.

Marketing

Luxury Brands, Take Note: High-Status Consumers Aren’t Snobs

Many elite buyers are drawn to products commonly associated with the hoi polloi.
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Entrepreneurship

Breaking an Alliance to Take the Lead

Toyota appears to have broken an unwritten agreement among automakers, but it has done so before and won.

Leadership & Organisations

The Skandia Scandal: Whose Fault?

Reputations are valuable and easily tarnished even by association: a little care and attention can help.
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Strategy

Preparing for Growth-Accelerating Partnerships

Influential alliances can help grow your business fast. It’s never too early to start building your global network.

Leadership & Organisations

Why Female Superstars Are Often Overlooked

Men and women evaluate expertise in very different ways. This may not always be fair and can affect the effectiveness of team decisions.

Entrepreneurship

Network Advantage through complementarity

Alliances can yield complementary innovations.
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Entrepreneurship

Market Entry: Where to Start-Up?

Even highly-targeted niche start-ups need to think about their focus. What factors should you consider when positioning your company?

Entrepreneurship

Innovation Through Acquisition

Google’s acquisition of Skybox is a good example of complementary innovation.

Entrepreneurship

How Shared Interests Can Break Mergers

When firms have common clients and shared interests they are often tempted to merge. But a bigger entity can scare off clients and create overlap.

Entrepreneurship

Unlikely, But Necessary Alliances

Alliances with competitors are sometimes necessary for long-term competitiveness.

Entrepreneurship

Overseas Subsidiaries Land Where Countrymen Are Present

Europe is hungry for Chinese investment. But where Chinese firms choose to establish their subsidiaries will depend on where their migrants are.

Strategy

Learning How to Expand Overseas

Expanding into new markets? It helps if you’ve entered others.

Career

Sins of the Past

Adolescent mistakes can seriously impact a career today. It may not be fair but it happens.
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