Speaker

W. Chan Kim is Co-Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute and The Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management at INSEAD, France (the world’s second largest business school). Prior to joining INSEAD, he was a professor at the University of Michigan Business School, USA. He has served as a board member as well as an advisor for a number of multinational corporations in Europe, the U.S. and Pacific Asia. He is an Advisory member for the European Union and is the Country Advisor to Malaysia. He was born in Korea.

Kim is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum. His Harvard Business Review articles, co-authored with Renee Mauborgne, are worldwide bestsellers and have sold over half a million reprints. Their Value Innovation and Fair Process articles were selected as among the best classic articles ever published in Harvard Business Review.

Kim received the Nobel Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking 2008. Thinkers 50’s 2009 global ranking of business thinkers places Professors Kim & Mauborgne at number 5. L’Expansion also named Kim along with his colleague Renee Mauborgne as “the number one gurus of the future”. The Sunday Times (London) called them “two of Europe’s brightest business thinkers. Kim and Mauborgne provide a sizeable challenge to the way managers think about and practice strategy.”

Kim co-founded the Blue Ocean Strategy Network (BOSN), a global community of practice based on the Blue Ocean Strategy family of concepts. BOSN embraces academia, consultants, executives, and government officers.

“Instead of letting the environment define your strategy, craft a strategy that defines your environment.”