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INSEAD Wins Top Global Case Study Award: ecch Case Awards 2012

(Financial Times, Della Bradshaw, "Insead scoops top award with tale of toilet paper", February 2, 2012)

ecch Case Awards 2012 produce winners from across the globe

20 February 2012

An unprecedented thirteen schools from seven countries in four geographical regions have produced winners in the 2012 ecch case awards and competitions. The annual case awards are made in Nine Categories, plus One Overall Winner, and one prestigious award recognising an Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method. The two competitions are for a new case in a Hot Topic (this year Social Media and Change), and for a New Case Writer.

• The Overall Winning Case was authored at INSEAD
• The Richard Ivey School of Business’ James A Erskine, Michiel R Leenders and Louise A Mauffette-Leenders scooped the Outstanding Contribution to the Case Method award
• Harvard Business School won Two Category Awards and the Hot Topic Competition
• Cambridge Judge Business School, Cranfield School of Management and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University each won a Category Award
• IBS Research Center and ICMR Center for Management Research each won a Category Award
• An Ivey Publishing case authored at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business won a Category Award
• Stanford Graduate School of Business won a Category Award
• MIT Sloan School of Management, in partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital, shared the award for a New Case Writer with London Business School.

Please see Notes for Editors below for full details of award winners.

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Overall winner
ecch, Renova Toilet Paper: Avant-garde Marketing in a Commoditized Category
Yakov Bart, Pierre Chandon, Steven Sweldens and Raquel Seabra de Sousa
INSEAD

A INSEAD video case study focusing on the marketing strategies of Portuguese paper company Renova has won the overall global award for the best case study from ECCH (formerly European Case Clearing House). Renova differentiated itself from its peers -- some of whom are international paper companies such as Georgia Pacific -- through innovation...and the creation of Renova Black toilet paper, launching the rolls from supermarket shelves into fashion shows and designer boutiques. The project was directed by marketing professor Pierre Chandon and the video component was produced in-house at INSEAD. Professor Chandon and Renova CEO Paulo Pereira da Silva introduce the first video segment of the video case study...

 

 

G20 Challenge on Inclusive Business Innovation

www.g20challenge.com

The G20 Challenge on Inclusive Business Innovation seeks to recognize businesses with innovative, scalable, and commercially viable ways of working with low-income people in developing countries.

Application period: December 1, 2011 - February 29, 2012.

M&Spencer's "Plan A" - 2011 Oracle World Retail Award winners

plana.marksandspencer.com

Plan A, wikipedia entry

On 15 January 2007, M&S launched an initiative, known as "Plan A", (because there is no Plan B!), to dramatically increase the environmental sustainability of the business within 5 years and expected to cost £200 million.^[42]

The plan covers "100 commitments over 5 years to address the key social and environmental challenges facing M&S today and in the future" with the tag-line "Because there is no Plan B". The commitments span five themes: climate change, waste, sustainable raw materials, 'fair partnership' and health,^[41] with the aim that, by 2012, it will:^[43]

2011 Oracle World Retail Award winners at the World Retail Congress.

From Branson's new book, which coins Capitalism 24902 (chapter 1 downloadable for free)

It’s really pleasing to see these wonderful small businesses
making a difference, but what about the responsibility of
some of the larger ones? One of the companies that certainly
has taken this challenge on board at the core of their business
is Marks & Spencer. M&S, the huge UK-based retailer
with £10 billion in annual revenue, with whom just about
everyone in Britain is familiar, has set out to be the world’s
most sustainable retailer by 2015. In 2007, they launched
Plan A (obviously because there is no Plan B!). This plan is

Thinkers50 - Professors Vijay Govindarajan, Herminia Ibarra, Rita McGrath and Linda Hill - Studiotalk.tv

http://www.studiotalk.tv/show/business-leaders-live

Vijay Govindarajan, Herminia Ibarra, Rita McGrath and Linda Hill were live online on Tuesday 15th November.

The world’s leading business brains are gathering in London for the Thinkers50 Summit, a world-class management conference and awards celebrating the best and brightest global management thinkers...

Many of these pivotal ideas have been published by the Harvard Business Review Group and four of these leading thinkers are joining us in a special live webTV show to discuss how their ideas are impacting the business world are:

• Vijay Govindarajan, shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award for ‘ The $300 House’ – an idea he put forward in a 2010 blog that set off a campaign to re-invent housing for the world’s poorest people. Vijay coined the term ‘reverse innovation’ and his long-awaited new book on the subject publishes next year. VG is Professor at the Tuck School for Business, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

• Herminia Ibarra is shortlisted for the prestigious Thinkers50 Leadership award. The Cuban-born INSEAD professor made an impact with her 2003 book, Working Identity.  Now, her research asks: Are you a collaborative leader?

• Columbia Business School’s Rita McGrath is an expert on strategic business growth in uncertain environments. Shortlisted for the T50 Strategy Award she is regarded as someone a CEO of a major corporation should turn to for practical and imaginative strategic advice. Her latest book is Discovery Driven Growth (with Ian MacMillan) which promises a breakthrough process to reduce risk and seize opportunities. DiscoveryDrivenGrowth.com

• Linda Hill is the author, with Kent Lineback of Thinkers50-shortlisted business book Being the Boss. She is also shortlisted in her own right for the T50 Leadership Award. Linda is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and her current research looks at leadership for innovation.

Olin Business School Program Wins MBA Roundtable Innovator Award

Press Release, November 18, 2011

Selection Committees

Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis has received the inaugural MBA Roundtable Innovator Award for its program called Critical Thinking@Olin. The educational initiative is designed to develop critical thinking skills in MBA students and has had measurable impact on graduates’ success in the job market.
 
The MBA Roundtable Innovator Award was created to recognize and promote innovative initiatives in MBA education and to acknowledge the institutions that are driving change in the field....

MBA Roundtable Innovator Award Finalists
Other finalists for the award were Babson College for its fast-track development of a common core curriculum for its four MBA programs; Dalhousie University for Canada’s first Corporate Residency MBA; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its online MBA program and its integration with the university’s traditional MBA program; and University of Pennsylvania for its Global Modular Courses, an accelerated study abroad program. 
 
"All of our finalists were pushing the envelope in terms of creating innovative initiatives" said Henry Eyring, a member of the selection committee, co-author of Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out, and advancement vice president at Brigham Young University-Idaho.
 
"As a judge, I looked at them with the mindset of a venture capitalist—which initiative would I want to invest in? Washington University rose to the top. Their Critical Thinking@Olin initiative is unique, it’s replicable by other institutions, and it has clear outcomes"

Selection Committee Members
In addition to Lifschitz and Eyring, other selection committee members for the MBA Roundtable Innovator Award included Robert Grosse, director of the Center for Global Business Innovation and Transformation at George Mason University; Santiago Iniguez de Onzono, dean and professor of Strategic Management at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain; Michael Jewell, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and business consultant, and founder and former CEO of Celebrate Express; and Dorothy Jones, senior director of innovation at Frito-Lay North America.

About the MBA Roundtable
The MBA Roundtable is a collaborative, nonprofit organization, founded in 1995, that facilitates the exchange of information and resources on MBA curricular innovation. More than 150 business schools from across the world are members of the MBA Roundtable.  For more information, visit www.mbaroundtable.org.
 
About Olin Business School
Founded in 1917, Washington University’s business school offers 12 degree programs at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels. For more information, visit: www.olin.wustl.edu

The Europas - Best Education, Recruitment, Media Startup

The Europas  

PeerIndex Takes The Honours As The Europas Awards Drifts Eastwards, November 18, 2011

Winner: Busuu.com, @bernardooo, @busuu  (IE Business School alumni)

busuu

Website:	busuu.com
Location:	Madrid, Spain
Founded:	January 1, 2008

busuu.com is Europe’s largest online community for learning languages. The website was launched in May 2008 and by September 2011 it had reached 4,000,000 registered users from over 200 different countries.

The users can access audio-visual… Learn More

Thinkers 50 results

www.thinkers50.com/results/2011

Dean Robert Bruner, of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, to receive the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award

News release, 12 July 2011.

Robert Bruner, dean of the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, has been selected to receive the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award upon nomination by the Stonewall Jackson Area Council and the Boy Scouts of America. The award is granted to Eagle Scouts who, after 25 years, have distinguished themselves in their life’s work and who have shared their talents with their communities on a voluntary basis.

The Boy Scouts of America press release cites Bruner for having distinguished himself “through his long and tenured career in higher education. … His reach not only extends nationally, but globally through his teaching and research in finance and management at the University of Virginia. He continues to play an integral part in community and volunteer service to the greater Charlottesville area.”

Since 1969, when the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award was implemented, only 1,850 nominations have been approved out of the two million recipients of the Eagle Scout rank. Bruner is the fourth person to receive this award in Central Virginia...

2011 EFMD Excellence in Practice Award

Download "List of winners and highly recommended - EiP 2011.docx"

Last Thursday, the winners were announced of the 2011 EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards

• Royal Bank of Scotland, INSEAD & Wharton (category: Organisational Development)
• Microsoft & Emerging World (formerly Adopt a Business)  (category: Executive Development)
• Royal Philips Electronics & Center for Creative Leadership & Wharton (category: Talent Development)
• ING & 'the world we work in' (category: Professional Development)
• ArcelorMittal & TMA World (category:  Special Cases)

Professor Lars Peter Hansen (U. Chicago) wins one of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards (400K euros)

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards seek to recognize and encourage world-class research and artistic creation, prizing contributions of lasting impact for their originality, theoretical significance and ability to push back the frontiers of the known world

The award in the Economics, Finance and Management category goes to Professor Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago “for making fundamental contributions to our understanding of how economic actors cope with risky and changing environments”, according to the jury’s citation. 

ecch Case Awards 2011 (First global awards, succeeds the annual European Case Awards)

Winners

Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2011 - Steven Klepper - "birth and growth of new industries"

"Since its inception in 1996 the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research (on Wikipedia) has become firmly established as the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship. This Prize is awarded annually and it consists of the statuette "The Hand of God”, created by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, and a Prize sum of 100,000 euros".

According to the statutes the Award should be given to “a person who has produced scientific work of outstanding quality and importance, thereby giving a significant contribution to theory-building concerning entrepreneurship and small business development, the role and importance of new firm formation and the role of SMEs in economic development"

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2011 award winner Steven Klepper presented 2011-06-16.

Steven Klepper is professor of economics and social sciences at Carnegie Mellon University´s Tepper School of of Business in Pittsburgh, USA. (Faculty page)

...In looking at the evolution of industries, Klepper explores regularities in the time paths of entry of new producers, exit of incumbent firms, industry output and price, and the rate of product and process innovation. To explain these regularities, he develops theories that feature differences in firm capabilities and the advantages of large firms in appropriating the returns from their innovative efforts. The theories are also used to explain differences in firms' innovative efforts, the composition of their innovative effort and their innovative success...

Beta Gamma Sigma - The International Honor Society

www.betagammasigma.org

@BGSHonorSociety

Beta Gamma Sigma (About) is the international honor society serving business programs accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student anywhere in the world can receive in a business program accredited by AACSB International.

HGSE professor Howard Gardner wins the prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize. (Video)

Howard Gardner Havard Graduate School of Education

The John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education
Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

During the past two decades, Gardner and colleagues have been involved in the design of performance-based assessments; education for understanding; the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy; and the quality of interdisciplinary efforts in education.

May 13, 2008: A press release on Howard Gardner being named one of the top five influential business thinkers by The Wall Street Journal.

A Usable Knowledge article about Gardner's book Five Minds for the Future

An article on Howard Gardner's 'quintet of minds'

The Guardian, November 2006: A feature on Howard Gardner and his multiple intelligence theory

Gary Hamel: Crowdsourcing The Reinvention Of Management

Article of Forbes, May 9, 2011.

The winner of the world’s first MBA contest for management innovation was announced last week. The competition, the HCL MBA M-Prize, was organized by the Management Information Exchange (MIX), an open innovation platform seeking to “crowd-source the future of management.” It relies on idea-challenges called “M-Prizes” to stimulate contributions from their community of management practitioners.

In this competition, with 114 teams competing from business schools around the world, the winning team was from Harvard Business School. The team won an opportunity to implement their business idea at HCL, a real-life $3.1 billion IT global services company, with $50,000 to fund the initiative...

2010 EFMD Annual Case Writing Competition and the winners are.........

2010 EFMD Annual Case Writing Competition
and the winners are.........

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Corporate Social Responsibility
Agility: A Global Logistics Company and Local Humanitarian Partner (PDF exec. summary)
Winner:  INSEAD
Luk VAN WASSENHOVE, Margaret HANSON, Rolando TOMASINI

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Entrepreneurship
JMC SOUNDBOARD: CROSSING THE SOUND BARRIER
IMD
Benoit LELEUX, Laure LE HARDY DE BEAULIEU

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Finance and Banking
Hyflux Ltd: Progressive Project Financing
INSEAD
Pierre HILLION, Jean WEE

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Supply Chain Management
The Yogyakarta Earthquake: IFRC's Experiences with the Regionalized Supply Chain
INSEAD
Aline GATIGNON, Luk VAN WASSENHOVE, Aurélie CHARLES

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Euro- Mediterranean Managerial Practices and Issues
Novartis, Commercial strategy for success
IE Business School
Claire BASTIEN, Teresa SERRA

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Family Business
THE MERCKS OF DARMSTADT SERIES
IMD
Benoit LELEUX, Anne-Catrin GLEMSER

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Emerging Chinese Global Competitors
Shanghai Automotive and Ssangyong Motor: A Tale of Two Dragons (A)(B)
CEIBS
Raymond XU

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Indian Management Issues and Opportunities

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African Business Cases

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Responsible Leadership

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Public Sector Innovations

Management Principles and the Washington, DC Public Schools (A): Choosing a Chancellor, Management Principles and the Washington, DC Public Schools (B): Race to the Top

MIT Sloan School of Management

Leigh HAFREY, Cate REAVIS

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Inclusive Business Models
Fabio Rosa “Bridging the Electricity Divide in Brazil”
IBS Center for Management Research
Vivek GUPTA, Harish AYTHA