Top 50 Bestselling Case Authors 2022/23: No. 33

Gianpiero Petriglieri
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
INSEAD

Gianpiero Petriglieri is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD and an expert on leadership and learning in the workplace. He directs the Management Acceleration Programme, the school’s flagship Executive Education programme for emerging leaders, and is the Academic Director of the INSEAD Initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence.

Gianpiero's award-winning research and teaching focus on what it means, and what it takes, to become a leader. He is particularly interested in the development of responsible leadership in the age of "nomadic professionalism," in which more and more people have deep bonds to work but loose affiliations to institutions, and authenticity and mobility have replaced loyalty and advancement as hallmarks of virtue and success. All his work aspires to humanise leadership in this age, that is, to help leaders be grounded as well as adaptable, sustainable while being effective, purposeful and portable.

Gianpiero's research has appeared in leading academic journals such as the Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Organization Studies, Human Relations, and Organization Theory. He also writes essays regularly for the Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. His work has been featured in a range of media including the BBC, Financial Times, The Economist, The Guardian, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Le Figaro, El Pais, and he is listed among the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50.

Gianpiero won the Human Resource Management/Organisational Behaviour category at The Case Centre Awards and Competitions 2018 with his case, Tony Hsieh at Zappos: Structure, Culture and Change. He also won the Responsible Leadership category at the EFMD case writing competition in 2018 with his case series, Google and Project Maven (A): Big Tech, Government and the AI Arms Race, and Google and Project Maven (B): An Eventful Week in June. His MBA class on value-based leadership won the Aspen Institute’s “Ideas worth teaching” award in 2021, and his experiential leadership workshops for several multinational corporations have been recognised by multiple excellence and innovation awards within INSEAD and in the industry at large.