Henning Piezunka

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ABOUT ME

  • Associate Professor at INSEAD. Visiting Associate professor at UPenn / Wharton.

  • Ph.D. from Stanford, Master from London School of Economics, Diploma from Universität Mannheim.

  • Founder-CEO of a webdesign company. 25 full-time employees, customers in 80 countries. Sold in 2015.

TEACHING
My teaching is focused on Entrepreneurship. I have received multiple Best Teacher Awards and Certificates of Excellence in Teaching.

WEBINARS
My 3h-webinar on Venture Capital has been attended by more than 23.000 people. There are two people who took it eleven times. I taught it 92 times. Currently, I offer the following webinar(s):

TRAINING, SPEAKING, & CONSULTING
In selected cases, I work with companies. I provide trainings - online or in person. For example, I often run training on how organizations and their managers can be more entrepreneurial. I also do speaking engagement (e.g., company annual events). In selected cases, I also do consulting. Recently I have supported companies in managing their leadership successions and in becoming more inclusive.

RESEARCH
You can find an overview of my papers on my Academic CV. Funny story: the list of papers can be used to find something to read – not just to count.

In one stream of my research, I study structural inclusion: I examine the kind of structures that organizations adopt to tap into the knowledge of their members. I draw upon and contribute to research on organizational learning, crowdsourcing, search, the wisdom of crowds, and information aggregation. My two core findings in this stream are that (1) despite adopting structures that should help them to be more inclusive, organizations often end up marginalizing the very members they need to hear from, and (2) that even if organizations only aim to tap into their members' knowledge, it is really a two-way street as organizations also shape their members’ knowledge. Some papers in this stream are:

In a second stream, I study how actors behave in collaborative and competitive relationships. In my endeavor to better understand what underlies the interactions between two actors, my research highlights the explanatory power of parallelly occurring relationships. Simply said, the key to understanding one relationship is often another relationship. Some papers in this stream are:

To study these topics, I rely on different methodologies, most notably large-scale archival data sets, computer simulations, and experiments. While my focus is on theory, I am fond of the empirical contexts of my research. These are (1) startups and tech companies, (2) family businesses, and (3) sports (e.g., Formula 1, soccer, and chess).

OTHER USEFUL AND INTERESTING STUFF

Don’t be a stranger. Write me: henning.piezunka@insead.edu