INSEAD - TOP 10 KNOWLEDGE ARTICLES

Insead is one of the largest graduate business schools. You will find on their website several valuable resources and links that might be interesting for you. I really appreciated the latest list of top 10 knowledge articles:

	1. Networking is vital for businesses http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/Ibarra.htm Herminia Ibarra (left), INSEAD Professor of Organisational Behaviour, says managers who neglect to build their networks risk failing or remaining stuck in middle management. "What you know is who you know," she says.
	2. X-teams and innovation http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/Bresman.htm Henrik Bresman, INSEAD Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, says good teams can fail because they don’t work consistently and effectively outside their own boundaries.
	3. In search of blue oceans http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/BOS.htm INSEAD strategy professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne speak to Knowledge about their plans for a Blue Ocean Strategy Institute at INSEAD. (must read!!!)
	4. Entrepreneurship: Riding rapid growth in India and China http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/Turner.htm INSEAD Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise Patrick Turner examines the development of entrepreneurship in the two Asian giants.
	5. Employee value proposition http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/Black.htm A lot of companies talk about being an employer of choice, but as competition for talent heats to a boil, Stewart Black, INSEAD Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, says executives have to do more than give the concept lip service.
	6. Knowledge transfer: Use templates to pass on best practices, at least initially http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/gabriel.htm INSEAD Professor of Strategy Gabriel Szulanski says companies need to identify and validate actual examples that have been shown to produce results.
	7. Closing the deal in negotiations http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/Falcao.htm INSEAD Affiliate Professor of Decision Sciences Horacio Falcao says closing a deal can be ‘extremely hard’, because it’s the conclusion of the whole negotiating process.
	8. Marketing: Behaviour prediction and habits http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/chandon.htm INSEAD Assistant Professor of Marketing Pierre Chandon on how behaviour prediction can help reinforce good habits but break bad ones.
	9. Success: A huge business vulnerability? http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/herbold.htm Former Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Bob Herbold says success creates dangerous traps for companies around the world today.
	10. The money illusion http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/Wertenbroch.htm INSEAD professors Klaus Wertenbroch and Amitava Chattopadhyay take a fresh look at the 'money illusion', whereby a consumer’s perception of the value of money is influenced by the nominal value of the currency.