72 — Ahead of the Curve
Interconnections — 73
CAROL LIM
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN
HUMAN CAPITAL LEADERSHIP
The week spent at the Wharton Business School
was a highlight of the programme. We had the
opportunity to spend the mornings in class to
deepen our knowledge of the subject with HR
subject experts, and the afternoons out in the
fields to interact with HR leaders of large mul-
tinational corporations like DuPont, GSK and
Comcast. The following are some reflections
and takeaways from the week spent at Wharton:
Hearing Peter Cappelli talk about the evolution
of the HR movement and American history, and
how HR practices are today, helps contrast the
HR situation in the US to that in Asia, where HR
seem to be still emerging from the ‘personnel’
view and trying to define ourselves – and influ-
encing key stakeholders that HR can be a key
partner in value creation for the organisation.
The idea of a new ‘Gig Economy’ — viewing
jobs as ‘Gigs’ (as shared by Matthew Bidwell)
— opens up a new category of job seekers in
the market and how the company can tap on
this pool, instead of offering employment for
fixed periods to manage the demand of the work
needs, without the long-term commitment of
career management.
‘Mentoring on demand’ or having a network
of experienced talent, an idea shared by Bill Filip
– with the recent company restructuring in my
organisation, there is a pool of senior workers with
strong product and company knowledge we can
tap on for specific projects or initiatives for a short
period of time, and they can also provide a critical
way of knowledge sharing to the new generation.
The week at Wharton provided an opportu-
nity to learn about human resources issues in
a global context from leading HR scholars and
HR practitioners.
S ARSHAD AHMED
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MANAGEMENT
Together with providing the essential knowledge
needed for management roles, the MM
programme has given me an opportunity to
mingle with students from different countries,
educational backgrounds and expertise. By
participating in various workshops like PDS
and career enhancement programmes, I can
broaden my horizons. The professors are well
versed in their field and are easily approachable.
The interactive seminar-style lectures
helped me prepare for the challenges in my
future job, taught me how to effectively contrib-
ute in a meeting room and how to get my ideas
around without being intimidated or belittled by
others’ ideas.
One of the greatest opportunities of this
course is being able to work with a career
coach. Coming from an engineering back-
ground, my career coach encouraged me to
take up marketing-related job roles which led
me to specialise in the marketing track. He
also emphasised the importance of starting
the job-hunting process as early as possible
which motivated me to look into career-related
programmes run by both SMU and external
agencies like Workforce Singapore.
HENRICH GREVE
INSEAD
HenrichR. Greve is Professor of Entrepreneurship
and the John H. Loudon Chair of International
Management at INSEAD, Singapore.
He holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in
organisational behaviour from the Graduate
School of Business, Stanford University along
with an Master of Arts (MA) in Sociology.
Professor Greve’s main interest is the
causes and consequences of strategic change
in organisations, but he also studies organ-
isational innovations, and organisational
founding and growth in young industries.
He has published over 70 articles in journals
including
Administrative Science Quarterly
,
Academy of Management Journal
,
Strategic
Management Journal
,
American Journal of
Sociology
and
Management Science
. He has
co-authored the book
Network Advantage:
How to Unlock Value from Your Alliances and
Partnerships
(Jossey-Bass, 2013) and authored
the book
Organisational Learning from Perfor-
mance Feedback: A Behavioural Perspective on
Innovation and Change
(Cambridge University
Press, 2003).
He is the editor of
Administrative Science
Quarterly
, where he has previously been
an Associate Editor, and has also been a
Senior Editor in
Organisation Science
. He
has been a joint guest editor at
Academy of
Management Journal
,
Organisation Science
,
Advances in Strategic Management
,
Research
in the Sociology of Work
and
Research in the
Sociology of Organisations
. He has served as
the Programme Chair and Division Chair of the
Organisation and Management Theory (OMT)
Division at the Academy of Management.
His business and policy presentations
include the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul,
Korea and the World Economic Forum Annual
Meeting of New Champions in Tianjin, China.
PHANISH PURANAM
INSEAD
Phanish Puranam is the Roland Berger Chair
Professor of Strategy & Organisation Design at
INSEAD, Singapore. He is also the Academic
Director of INSEAD’s Doctor of Philosophy
(PhD) programme.
Previously, he was School Chair Professor
of Strategy & Entrepreneurship at London
Business School, where he headed the School’s
PhD programme and co-directed the Aditya
Birla India Centre.
Professor Puranam studies the design and
management of collaboration structures within
corporations (i.e. between divisions or depart-
ments) as well as between corporations (i.e.
alliances and acquisitions). He has published
his research in internationally reputed academic
journals and has served in senior editorial roles
in such journals.
His research has won international awards
and competitive grants awarded across the
social and natural sciences. He has also worked
with organisations such as Deutsche Bank,
Microsoft, IBM, 247Customer, Unisys, Tata
Consulting Services, the Virgin Group, the
National Health Service (UK) and CapGemini in
advisory/training roles.
He currently focuses his attention on global
companies with an interest in India as well as
Indian companies that are actively globalising.
In addition, he is interested in organisation
design problems in public administration.
Professor Puranam obtained his PhD at the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
and was on the faculty of the London Business
School between 2001 and 2012, before joining
INSEAD in September 2012. In 2011 he was
listed among the “World’s 40 best business
school professors under the age of 40” by Poets
& Quants, and in the world’s “50 Most Influ-
ential Business Professors” by MBA rankings.
net in 2013. He is regularly listed by Thinkers
50 India as being among the most influential
management specialists.
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