
Top 40 Bestselling Case Authors 2019/20
No. 34 Bestselling Case Author 2019/20 | ||
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Benoit's top bestselling cases |
The Carlyle Group and the AZ-EM Buyout (B): Value Creation After the Transaction
adidas Russia/CIS and the Russian Crisis: Retrench or Double Down (A) |
Meet Benoit |
He was previously Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD and Director of the 3i VentureLab and Associate Professor and Zubillaga Chair in Finance and Entrepreneurship at Babson College, USA, from 1994 to 1999. He obtained his PhD at INSEAD, specialising in corporate finance and venture capital. His teaching cases have earned more than 20 European case writing awards so far over the past decade. Prior to his academic career, he was the head of corporate venturing for a leading agribusiness conglomerate in South East Asia. |
Key quote |
![]() “Management research and education are at an interesting crossroad: with a world becoming more and more unpredictable, recipes derived from historical datasets and large cross-sections are becoming less and less relevant, a fact compounded by the slow refereeing process in general. As an educator, it becomes more and more difficult to stand in front of a digital-native audience and argue that many ‘classic’ papers have much value left in them. “So how do you figure out today’s and tomorrow’s issues, not yesterday’s? Case research offers that perspective, flushing out issues as they emerge. My primary driver in case research has always been to stay relevant in the classroom and bring ‘issues’ to discuss, not necessarily ‘answers’. “Learning to live with ambiguities, dilemmas and fast-changing environments is what students need today. In that sense, case research becomes ever more relevant: we simply don’t have the leisure to wait for publications to introduce new knowledge in the classroom. On a personal level, the process is what really excites me, the intimacy developed with the case protagonists, the long-term relationships that often ensue, and the surprises every case brings…” ~ Benoit Leleux |