Quy Huy

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Name: Quy Huy
Date registered: January 27, 2012
URL: http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/profiles/qnguyenhuy/

Biography

Dr. Quy N. Huy, CFA, P. Eng., is a strategy professor at INSEAD. Dr. Huy’s research on strategic change won several international awards and was published in prestigious management journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, the Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, and MIT Sloan Management Review. As an academic, Huy is known for his pioneering research work linking ‘soft’ micro human behaviour such as emotion, symbols, and time to macro strategic processes. Dr. Huy has worked as a consultant and educator for numerous multinational organizations that operate in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. He worked in the industry for 16 years before becoming an academic. Dr. Huy’s ideas and research have been widely reported in the world wide business press, such as The Wall Street Journal/MIT Sloan Management Review (USA & Europe), The Chicago Tribune (USA), Harvard Business Review (USA and first China edition), the Financial Times (UK), the Sunday Telegraph (UK), Financial News (UK), Le Figaro (France), La Tribune (France), Business Digest (France), Les Échos (France), Semarino Economico Management (Portugal), Observer (Denmark), Borsen (Denmark), The Globe and Mail (Canada). Harvard Business Review chose Huy’s “In Praise of Middle Managers” as lead article in its September 2001 issue and featured it in the journal’s annual "List of Breakthrough Ideas for Today's Business Agenda." Huy is currently working on a book linking emotion to strategy to be published by Harvard Business School Press next year. Dr Huy was educated in Vietnam, France, and Canada. Huy is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Professional Electrical Engineer. His 16-year managerial career covered three main areas: Systems and software engineering; management of sales and marketing; corporate finance, where he worked on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, and turnarounds of firms with turnover up to 10 billion dollars.

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  1. How a Scandinavian Firm can teach The World on how to use Social Media inside their Organizations — October 25, 2012
  2. Middle Management: The Undervalued Asset of Developed Economies — January 27, 2012

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How a Scandinavian Firm can teach The World on how to use Social Media inside their Organizations

When we discuss about European competitiveness, there is often gloom and doom thinking about European non-competitiveness. We believe that such thinking conveys an over-pessimistic picture of Europe’s competences in many aspects of business. In this short text, we want to focus on European managerial competence and to underscore that there are executives in Europe who are exceptionally good at managing both the hard and the soft aspects of management to achieve competitive advantage.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/10/how-a-scandinavian-firm-can-teach-the-world-on-how-to-use-social-media-inside-their-organizations/

Middle Management: The Undervalued Asset of Developed Economies

The business press and business schools have implicitly or inadvertently focused the public’s attention on extraordinary CEOs and top executives and continued to undervalue the role of middle managers, who  are defined as managers who do not report directly to the top CEO and who are one level above front line workers.… Read more

Permanent link to this article: http://blog.insead.edu/2012/01/middle-management-the-undervalued-asset-of-developed-economies/