INSEAD Business Press
INSEAD and Palgrave Macmillan Publishers have launched a new series of management books under the imprint INSEAD Business Press. Our ambition is to provide corporate leaders , thoughtful business executives, professionals in consulting firms, and students and management scholars with thought provoking books that combine conceptual rigour with practical and actionable relevance to companies and organizations.
News
Manfred Kets de Vries has been presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Leadership Association (ILA). For the first time, this prestigious organisation honoured founding professionals in the development of leadership as a field and as a discipline. Kets de Vries, Director of the INSEAD Global Leadership Centre (IGLC), is considered one of the world’s leading thinkers on management and has over 30 years of teaching experience in organisational behaviour and leadership studies.
‘Manfred Kets de Vries is a true pioneer in the field of leadership and we are delighted to acknowledge his lifetime achievements with this award,’ said Shelly Wilsey, Director of the International Leadership Association. ‘His exemplary work has been instrumental in the development and continued advancement of global leaders,’ added Cynthia Cherrey, President of the ILA.
Kets de Vries holds the Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chair of Leadership Development at INSEAD and is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations. He is the author of 'Coach and Couch' and his new book 'Sex, Money, Happiness and Death' published in April 2009.
New for 2009
Humanitarian Logistics
Rolando Tomasini and Luk van Wassenhove
Imagine planning an event like the Olympics. Now imagine planning the same event but not knowing when or where it will take place, or how many will attend. This is what humanitarian logisticians are up against. Oversights result in serious consequences for the victims of disasters. So they have to get it right, fast.
February 2009 £25.00
9780230205758
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Global Latinas
Latin America's Emerging Multinationals
Dr Lourdes Casanova
Foreign Direct Investment from emerging economies reached $130 billion in 2005, the highest level ever recorded. The number of multinationals from emerging economies in the global Fortune 500 has increased from 19 in 1990 to 47 in 2005, with about ten of them coming from Latin America. This book focuses on understanding this new phenomenon.
February 2009 £25.00
9780230219960
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Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death
Musings from the Underground
Manfred Kets de Vries
The four main tenets of life are explored in this unique new book that examines the interface between psychology and management. Based on his experiences as a clinician, psychoanalyst, leadership coach and professor, the author explores how 'Sex, Money, Happiness and Death' affect our work and our lives in general.
April 2009 £25.00
9780230577923
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Sustainability Strategies
When Does it Pay to be Green?
Renato J. Orsato
This book is opportune for the practice of environmental management. It connects the variables implicated in the formation and implementation of environmental strategies in firms. Managers will be able to prioritize eco-investments based on solid management principles, and align the environmental and the generic strategy of the company.
April 2009 £25.00
9780230212985
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The Business Leader's Health Manual
Tips and Strategies for getting to the top and staying there
Juliette McGannon and Dr Michael McGannon
Many business leaders do not take care of their health. Each chapter of this interactive manual explores an aspect of the health and vitality of the modern business leader, and provides solutions based on up-to-date medical science, and the experience at INSEAD of more than 70,000 corporate executives.
May 2009 £20.00
9780230219199
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Also in the series:
Innovating at the Top
How Global CEOs Drive Innovation for Growth and Profit
Roland Berger Soumitra Dutta; Tobias Raffel and Geoffrey Samuels
A collection of eye-opening interviews with CEOs from major international corporations - Nokia, Unilever, Toyota and Bosch are just some of the many included. The CEOs discuss their innovative approaches to new challenges and opportunities in their business. A fascinating insight into the minds of global leaders.
November 2008 £20.00
9780230575738
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The Global Business Leader
Practical Advice for Success in a Transcultural Marketplace
J. Brown
This book introduces up and coming leaders to the skills and techniques needed to succeed in todays, and tomorrows, organizations. Covering areas such as networking, building teams, crisis management and the work/life balance, this is a practical and accessible guide. Written with 25 years of leadership experience, this is an invaluable guide for success.
October 2007 £21.00
9780230522152
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Coach and Couch
The Psychology of Making Better Leaders
M. Kets de Vries; K. Korotov; E. Florent-Treacy
The INSEAD Global Leadership Centre was founded and is directed by Professor Kets de Vries. This book is a volume of essays on leadership development topics. Drawing upon substantial research the book presents the essential leadership models and equips practitioners with tools for developing executive coaches and working with business leaders.
' Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders’ is a powerful reminder that Leadership, very much like Art, blends irrationality and rationality. This book explores the clinical perspective and applies it to the business context. I have found that this approach, which focuses on self-reflection and the observation of others, is particularly helpful in confronting the challenges of leadership. ' - Edward Dolman , CEO, Christie's
May 2007 £27.00
9780230506381
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The Marking Enterprise
Business Success and Societal Embedding
J. Thoenig; C. Waldman
Enterprises such as Ikea, First Direct, Apple, Royal Canin or Starbucks are models not only because of their economic performances, but also because they leave a mark on society. Marking enterprises are special and think and act in a specific manner. Marking enterprises succeed because they invent alternative approaches about branding, marketing and strategizing. This challenging book makes them explicit and replicable. It offers a ground breaking new framework to business practices and to management sciences.
October 2006 £27.00
9780230001879
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Service is Front Stage
Positioning Services for Value Advantage
J. Teboul
This book contains a simple but powerful definition of services based upon a separation between back-stage and front-stage activities. Services deal with front interactions, production and manufacturing with back-stage operations. Teboul uses this distinction systematically to explore the important issues of the field within a coherent set of concepts and maps, including the service mix, the service triangle and the service-intensity matrix. This is a novel approach to services that challenges the traditional view.
September 2006 £27.00
9780230006607
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Mergers
Leadership, Performance and Corporate Health
D. Fubini; C. Price; M. Zollo
How can CEOs and other senior managers define a merger leadership role for themselves that adds significant value to the work of integration teams? While merger catastrophes continue to grab headlines, a small but growing number of companies have learned to avoid the common mistakes and to reliably achieve respectable outcomes for their mergers and acquisitions.
This book looks at long-term solutions to integration, preserving the health of the organization beyond short-term goals. The authors of the present volume have thoroughly researched this critical but widely neglected need. Drawing on their own extensive integration experience, on that of almost thirty executives, on the systematic analysis of 167 mergers, and on cutting edge academic research, they identify five common leadership challenges to be tackled for the achievement of what we call “corporate health”, the most thorough and sustainable test of merger success.
October 2006 £27.00
9780230019720
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