TRANSFORMING STUDENTS INTO LEADERS

Transforming Leaders

S te ph en S w in te k MANY BELIEVE that bias against women lingers in the business world, particularly when it comes to evaluating their leadership ability. Recently, we had a chance to see whether that assumption was true. In a study of thousands of 360-degree assessments collected by Insead’s executive education program over the past fi ve years, we looked at whether women actually received ...

Today's students, tomorrow's leaders.

Turning doctors into leaders.

Transforming vision into action

Traditionally, research on vision focused on its role in perception and our cognitive life. Except for the study of eye movements, which have been regarded as an information-seeking adjunct to visual perception, little attention was paid to the way in which vision is used to control our actions, particularly the movements of our hands and limbs. Over the last 25 years all of that has changed. R...

Transforming floundering into success

We show how logic programs with “delays” can be transformed to programs without delays in a way which preserves information concerning floundering (also known as deadlock). This allows a declarative (model-theoretic), bottom-up or goal independent approach to be used for analysis and debugging of properties related to floundering. We rely on some previously introduced restrictions on delay prim...