Charles Galunic

Author's details

Name: Charles Galunic
Date registered: January 10, 2012
URL: http://faculty.insead.edu/galunic/CG_Insead/

Biography

Charles Galunic works within the fields of Organisation Behaviour and Strategy. His research concerns the social fabric of innovation and change, and at multiple levels. At the individual level, he has studied the influence of social networks on a manager’s ability to innovate. At a corporate level, he has studied structural changes and the processes which help firms to adapt. The latter work is also concerned with organization culture, including its alignment with strategy, how it changes, and the role of leadership. Finally, he is concerned with Leadership transitions, that is how managers develop their leadership skills and identity. He has served on the editorial board of Strategic Organisation and the Strategic Management Journal, as well as a former departmental editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. He has published in several academic and practitioner oriented journals, including the Journal of Managerial and Decision Economics, Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organisation Science, Strategic Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Research in Organisational Behaviour. He has been a pioneer of several courses at INSEAD, including the core MBA course in Managing Organisations. He has won best case awards, including the 2007 ECCH Best Case Award (OB/HR area). He also teaches in a variety of INSEAD executive programmes, both in Fontainebleau and in Asia, and is a programme director for INSEAD's high potentials programme (MAP). He was a nominee for the Best Core Teacher Award, EMBA 2004, 2005, 2006 and received the 2004/05 INSEAD Excellence Award in Executive Education. Professor Galunic holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behaviour/Industrial Engineering Stanford University, California; a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from Oxford University (Canadian Rhodes Scholar); and a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Queen's University, Canada.

Latest posts

  1. Lessons from Obama’s Campaign Victory — November 10, 2012
  2. The Euro Crisis – Failing to Learn from Corporate Contexts — May 29, 2012
  3. Reversal of Fortunes – Nokia and Apple — March 2, 2012
  4. Being a Bridge — January 18, 2012
  5. Leading During Downturns — January 10, 2012

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Lessons from Obama’s Campaign Victory

Government and business organizations are different in important ways (for instance, one of them is not a democracy), but a political campaign has some useful lessons for leaders of any organization. While the balance of power in democratic governments can lead to deadlock and painfully slow consensus building (in their steady state), the “simplicity” of elections (competing bodies, a deadline, a vote, a decision) is, in a strange way, closer to the reality of business organizations (at least those in flux and who face choices which cannot be made through pure hierarchical fiat).… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/11/lessons-from-obamas-campaign-victory/

The Euro Crisis – Failing to Learn from Corporate Contexts

Reading the news these past several months on the Euro crisis may have you believe that the difficulties are the result of leaders navigating in completely unchartered territory. The EU experiment is a great challenge because it is so remarkably unique.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/05/the-euro-crisis-failing-to-learn-from-corporate-contexts/

Reversal of Fortunes – Nokia and Apple

Some images are incredibly powerful. It takes just a few moments to capture the message behind the graph below. This graph measures the industry profit shares of major mobile phone vendors over the past four years, effectively since the iPhone was introduced in 2007.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/03/reversal-of-fortunes-nokia-and-apple/

Being a Bridge

Anyone who loves Apple products should profusely thank Bill Fernandez.
Who?
Bill Fernandez grew-up in Sunnyvale California in the 1960’s, near the heart of Silicon Valley, well before the valley became a household name. But he did not start Apple Computers.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/01/being-a-bridge/

Leading During Downturns

Continuing on the theme of what the current market uncertainties may mean for leaders and their organizations…
Second, management capabilities will be at a premium. Think of it this way. Normally, managers have, in crude terms, two basic resources to resolve issues and make things work better.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/01/leading-during-downturns/

“Special Forces” in Recessionary Times

A final entry on coping with recessionary times (for now), although a theme we may return to…
One of the things that is likely to occur during recessionary times is fragility in people’s identification with their companies. Firms facing financial distress are likely to see the bonds between the people and the company weaken, and both in an emotional sense (feeling down about the slump) but also in the way they think about the purpose, meaning, and values of their company.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2011/12/special-forces-in-recessionary-times/