Hal Gregersen

Author's details

Name: Hal Gregersen
Date registered: April 10, 2012
URL: http://innovatorsdna.com/

Biography

Hal Gregersen is Professor of Leadership at INSEAD where he pursues his vocation of executive teaching, coaching, consulting, and research. He is particularly fascinated by how leaders in business and society generate provocative new ideas with powerful impact. Before joining INSEAD, Dr. Gregersen taught at the London Business School, the Tuck School at Dartmouth, Helsinki School of Economics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy—Tufts University, Brigham Young University, Thunderbird, and the Turku School of Economics as a Fulbright Fellow. Dr. Gregersen has co-authored several books on leading innovation and change in global organizations, such as It Starts With One: Changing Individuals Changes Organizations (Wharton, 2008), Global Explorers: The Next Generation of Leaders (Routledge, 1998). He has published dozens of articles, book chapters, and cases on innovation and change in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Human Resource Management. His research has also been highlighted on CNN and in Across the Board, Business Week, Fortune, Psychology Today, and The Wall Street Journal. Putting Dr. Gregersen’s research on leading innovation, change, and globalization to practice, he regularly consults with senior teams, conducts executive seminars, and delivers keynote speeches on these issues with companies like ADIA, Adidas, Cemex, Christie’s, Daimler, IBM, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, LG, Lilly, Marriott, Nokia, Philips, PwC, Sanofi Aventis, Tong Yang, World Economic Forum, & Yahoo! He also works with not-for-profit and NGO organizations (e.g., Teach for America) to generate greater innovation and change capabilities. Dr. Gregersen and his wife live in France and Abu Dhabi where he avidly pursues his avocation, landscape photography, to help infuse greater insight and energy into the creation of transformational change.

Latest posts

  1. A.G. Lafley’s Innovation Skills Will Weather P&G’s Storm — June 6, 2013
  2. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Apollo 11. He’s Still Innovating — April 1, 2013
  3. Transform 2013 by Turning Goals into Questions — January 29, 2013
  4. Taking the Leap: Two Moments of Innovation Truth — October 29, 2012
  5. What Do Managers Do at Work? — July 27, 2012

Author's posts listings

A.G. Lafley’s Innovation Skills Will Weather P&G’s Storm

Almost 20 years ago, I interviewed Procter & Gamble (PG) Chief Executive Officer A.G. Lafley at company headquarters in Cincinnati for a book project focused on what it takes to become a great global leader. I was looking forward to talking with Lafley because former Chairman John Pepper had endorsed him as one of the most effective global leaders at P&G.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2013/06/a-g-lafleys-innovation-skills-will-weather-pgs-storm/

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Apollo 11. He’s Still Innovating

On July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. EST, five F-1 engines lifted the 6.2 million-pound Saturn V rocket into space. (As a reference point, that’s the equivalent of tossing about 400 full-grown elephants into the air at once.) Jeff Bezos, who was 5 years old at the time, was watching—intently.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2013/04/amazons-jeff-bezos-and-apollo-11-hes-still-innovating/

Transform 2013 by Turning Goals into Questions

Transitions are ideal times to create multi-faceted change in our lives. Moving across four different countries and three different continents during the past seven years has made that truth crystal clear for my family. The start of a new year can give equal cause for recalibrating a life.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2013/01/transform-2013-by-turning-goals-into-questions/

Taking the Leap: Two Moments of Innovation Truth

Though I’m not a fan of overdosed caffeine and sugar-laden concoctions, I give complete kudos to Felix Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos team for their successful sky dive—or rather, space dive—from beyond the edge of the Earth and back, breaking the sound barrier in the process.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/10/taking-the-leap-two-moments-of-innovation-truth/

What Do Managers Do at Work?

Recently Thomas Friedman in the New York Timesargued for “the rise of popularism,” and the Wall Street Journal… Read more touted the same with its headline, “Who’s the boss? There isn’t one.” After reading these articles, my mind raced back 25 years to my first encounter with a few maverick companies attempting to manage without managers and a subsequent Saturday morning conversation while watching Yogi Bear cartoons with my three-year old son.

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/07/what-do-managers-do-at-work/

Are You An Innovative Entrepreneur?

Pop quiz:  How do you define an entrepreneur?   The typical answer—which is technically correct—is that an entrepreneur is anyone who starts a business.  That includes folks who start lawn care businesses, dry cleaners, and yogurt shops.  However, these aren’t the kinds of businesses that are the true growth engines of our economy. … Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/06/are-you-an-innovative-entrepreneur/

Here’s to the Crazy Ones

If “the quickest way to make a millionaire out of billionaire is to buy an airline,” as Sir Richard Branson once remarked, then what does that mean for billionaires who build commercial space airlines? Ask Branson or Jeff Bezos, because they are the crazy ones: They not only dream; they dream big.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/05/heres-to-the-crazy-ones/

Crush the “I’m Not Creative” Barrier

Did you know that if you think you are creative, you’re more likely to actually be creative? This surprising fact pops up again and again in our research. In our database of over 6,000 professionals who have taken the Innovator’s DNA self & 360 assessments, people (entrepreneurs and managers alike) who “agree” with the survey statement “I am creative” consistently deliver disruptive solutions — by creating new businesses, products, services, and processes that no one has done before.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/05/crush-the-im-not-creative-barrier/

Page 1 of 212