How Do You Wire Essential Innovation Practices Into Your Company's DNA with Ben Bensaou

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This episode features Ben M. Bensaou, a Professor of Technology Management and Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management at INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. He served as Dean of Executive Education from 2018–2020. He was a Visiting Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School for 1998-1999, a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School of Management for 2007-2008, and a Visiting Scholar at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley for 2013-2015. His research and teaching activities focus on (1) how to create innovating capabilities and competencies as a way to build an innovating organization and culture; (2) innovation implementation and roll-out processes across the whole organization; (3) how to build social capital within firms; (4) new forms of organizations, in particular, networked corporations, strategic alliances, joint ventures, and value-adding partnerships; and (5) the impact of digital technologies on innovation. He addresses these issues from an international comparative perspective, with a special focus on Japanese organizations.