Collaborations between journalists and NGOs forge new avenues for mutual value creation – and social impact.
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Professionals versed in several cultures have an exceptional ability to learn from experience.
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Luk Van Wassenhove
Professor of Technology and Operations Management
Luk Van Wassenhove is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management and the Henry Ford Chair of Manufacturing at INSEAD and Director of the INSEAD Humanitarian Research Group. Luk's research and teaching are concerned with operational excellence, supply chain management, quality, continual improvement and learning. His recent research focus is on closed-loop supply chains (product take-back and end-of-life issues) and on disaster management (humanitarian logistics). He is senior editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and departmental editor for Production and Operations Management. He publishes regularly in Management Science, Production and Operations Management, and many other academic as well as management journals (like Harvard Business Review, and California Management Review).
Luk is the author of several award-winning teaching cases and regularly consults for major international corporations. In 2005, He was elected Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS). In 2006, he was the recipient of the EURO Gold Medal for outstanding academic achievement. In 2009 he was elected Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Services Operations Management Society (MSOM), and received the Lifetime Achievement Faculty Pioneer Award from the European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) and the Aspen Institute. Before joining INSEAD he was on the faculty at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Luk created the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre and acted as academic director until September 2010.
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