An executive education programme created by INSEAD and its partners is making a measurable, enduring impact on early childhood development.

Corporate boards facing the pressure to direct their firms towards greater sustainability can feel conflicted when they see their fiduciary duty as mainly owed to shareholders. But boards cannot turn ...

The authors show that firms with fragile stocks have a lower incentive to repurchase their shares, since the stocks’ high liquidity attenuates the positive price impact of share repurchases. They also ...

Extraction, power and the dark side of the race for AI dominance. “We really need to think of companies like OpenAI as new forms of empire,” Hao said. “If you consider the sheer economic and political ...

When Anna, the chief financial officer of a global manufacturing firm, completed a six-month coaching programme at INSEAD Executive Coaching (IEC), her CEO asked her a simple question: “So, what did ...

Because this transformation is different. AI’s general-purpose nature means it touches every part of the organisation, but there’s no single roadmap to follow because the right application depends on ...

A new world order is unfolding as the US-China AI race meets geopolitics. When a rising power meets with an established one, it inevitably leads to conflict. Is the Thucydides trap indeed playing out ...

Flawed assumptions in business theory are pushing firms off course. Theory and education ought to encourage our students to creatively seek a “joint minimum” of costs and harm. This way, MBA can come ...

In early 2025, Chinese company DeepSeek released a new open-source LLM (large language model) that sent the tech world – and the stock market – into a frenzy. DeepSeek-R1 does not only perform on a ...

For the fifth year running, the Edelman Trust Barometer has identified business as the leading institution to address urgent issues in society. The 2025 survey – which captured the sentiments of ...

Gemini, O1, Grok, Claude, Llama, Yi and Mistral. The number of Large Language Models (LLMs) seems to have grown exponentially since OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness in late 2022.