2023 Responsible Research Summit

Hosted at INSEAD, Fontainebleau Campus

Sponsored by INSEAD and Wharton

In collaboration with RRBM

June 15 – 17 2023

Fontainebleau, France

Objectives: The 5th annual Responsible Research Summit, to be hosted in person at INSEAD (Fontainebleau Campus) aims to advance responsible resarch for its credibility and societal relevance. The event will feature diverse keynote speakers from a wider research ecosystem (i.e., Universities, International Institutions, Companies), panel discussions focused on issues impacting academic scholarship, working sessions aimed at participants to commit to actionable engagement toward RRBM’s principles and vision as well as it will showcase award-winning examples of responsible research.

 

Target Group: The event is aimed at all members of the research ecosystem within business and management fields that are interested in pushing and promoting the agenda of responsible research that is both credible and socially impactful.

 

Agenda (subject to change) :

THURSDAY 15 JUNE

 

9:00 – 17:00 PhD Professional Development Workshop

for more information, please click here

 

17:00-18:00 : Introduction to Responsible Research: Scientific Responsibility and Integrity

  • Agnieszka Chidlow (Chair in International Business, University of Birmingham)
  • Monique van Donzel (Global Director, Research Strategy, INSEAD)
  • David Reibstein (The William S. Woodside Professor and Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School and Chair of RRBM Working Board)

 

18:30 – 21:00 : COCKTAIL

 

FRIDAY 16 JUNE

 

09:00 – 10:00 : OPENINGS

  • David Reibstein (The William S. Woodside Professor and Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School and Chair of RRBM Working Board)
  • Jean-Alexis Spitz (RRBM Manager, EFMD Global)
  • Javier Gimeno (The Sauvage Family Chair for Academic Excellence Aon Dirk Verbeek Chaired Professor of International Risk and Strategic Management, Professor of Strategy and Dean of Faculty, INSEAD)

 

10:00 – 10:45 : “The case for inclusivity as a guiding principle in practising responsible, credible, and useful science.”

  • Piet Naudé (Professor of Ethics, past Director of Stellenbosch Business School and Director of EFMD Deans Across Frontiers)

 

10:45-11:15 : COFFEE BREAK

 

11:15-12:00 : “An experimental business model for industry-supported sustainability research initiatives”

  • Atalay Atasu (Professor of Technology and Operations Management and Bianca & James Pitt Chair in Environmental Sustainability, INSEAD)

 

12:00-12:15 : INTRODUCTION TO THE JOURNALS IMPACT FORUM

  • Serguei Netessine (Senior Vice Dean for Innovation and Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The Wharton School)
  • Wilfred Mijnhardt (Policy Director, Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University (RSM))

 

12:30-14:00 : LUNCH

 

14:30-15:10 : “How to measure journals’ impact: A multiple stakeholder approach”

  • Herman Aguinis (Immediate Past President, Academy of Management and Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management, The George Washington University School of Business)

 

15:10-15:50 : PANEL “Rethinking Journals Impact Metrics for Producing Impactful Scholarship by Business Schools”

  • Stephen Sammut (Senior Fellow, Health Care Management and Lecturer, Entrepreneurship, Wharton School)
  • Saonee Sarker (Professor of Informatics, Lund University and Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, MIS Quarterly)
  • Mark Smith (Director, Stellenbosch Business School)
  • James Walker, (Co-Editor in Chief Chartered ABS Academic Journals Guide initiative and Head of International Business and Strategy, Henley Business School)
  • moderated by Jennifer Howard-Grenville (Vice Chair of the RRBM Working Board and Diageo Professor of Organisation Studies, Cambridge Judge Business School)

 

15:50-16:20 : COFFEE BREAK

 

16:20-16:35 : INTRODUCTION TO BREAKOUT GROUPS

 

16:35-17:15 : BREAK OUT GROUPS

 

17:15 – 17:45 : REPORTING BACK + CONCLUSION OF THE FORUM

 

17:45 – 18:15 : DEANS REMARKS

  • INSEAD leadership
  • Erika James (Dean and Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise, The Wharton School)

 

19:00 – 22:00: DINNER

 

 

SATURDAY 17 JUNE

 

9:00 – 9:45: SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING PANEL

  • Richard Barker (Board Member, International Sustainability Standards Board)
  • Patricia Dechow (Robert R. Dockson Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Accounting, Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business)
  • Magali Delmas (Faculty Director Center for Impact, UCLA Anderson School of Management)
  • Peter Easton (Academic Director, Center for Accounting Research and Education, Notre Dame)
  • Richard Sloan (Deloitte and Touche LLP Chair in Accounting and Professor of Accounting, Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business)
  • Moderated by Peter Joos (Associate Professor of Accounting and Control, INSEAD)

 

9:45 – 10.30: FIRESIDE CHAT

  • André Hoffmann (Vice Chairman of Roche Holding AG and Chair of the HGIBS Advisory Board)
  • in conversation with Francisco Veloso (Dean, Imperial College Business School and incoming Dean, INSEAD)

 

10:30 – 11:00: COFFEE BREAK

 

11:00 – 11.45: IMPACTFUL RESEARCH

  • moderated by Andrew Jack (Global Education Editor, Financial Times)
  • Gabriela Gutierrez-Huerter O (Assistant Professor in International Management, King’s Business School)
  • Anthony Kwame Harrison (Edward S. Diggs Professor in Humanities and Professor of Sociology, Virginia Tech)
  • Bernard Leca (Professor, ESSEC Business School)
  • Philipp Tuertscher (Associate Professor of Technology and Innovation, KIN Center for Digital Innovation, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

 

11:45 – 12:10: CLOSING

  • Javier Gimeno (The Sauvage Family Chair for Academic Excellence Aon Dirk Verbeek Chaired Professor of International Risk and Strategic Management, Professor of Strategy and Dean of Faculty, INSEAD)
  • Andrew Karolyi (Charles Field Knight Dean and Harold Bierman Jr Distinguished Professor of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Incoming Chair of the RRBm Working Board)

 

12:10 – 14:00 : LUNCH

 

14:00 – 18:00 : BUSINESS & SOCIETY SUMMIT

The Hoffmann Institute is hosting a Business and Society Summit to take stock of and celebrate 5 years of work on sustainability at INSEAD. The Summit will review progress and explore trends to consider to further integrate sustainability in business education. Speakers will include INSEAD faculty, students, alumni as well as external experts and members of the Hoffmann Institute Advisory Board. The Summit will be held in conjunction with the INSEAD Force for Good Campaign Celebrations. Registration is separate and free of charge for RRS23 participants. Please register here

 

 

Steering Committee:

  • Atalay Atasu* (Professor of Technology and Operations Management, INSEAD)
  • Agnieszka Chidlow* (Chair in International Business at Birmingham Business School)
  • Javier Gimeno (Professor of Strategy and Dean of Faculty, INSEAD)
  • Wiltold Henisz* (Vice Dean and Faculty Director ESG Initiative, The Wharton School)
  • Peter Joos* (Professor of Accounting, INSEAD)
  • Wilfred Mijnhardt* (Policy Director, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University)
  • Eric Orts* (Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, The Wharton School)
  • David Reibstein (Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School and Chair of RRBM Working Board)
  • Thomas Robertson (Professor of Marketing and Former Dean, The Wharton School and Executive Director of The Wharton-INSEAD Alliance)
  • Jean-Alexis Spitz (RRBM Manager, EFMD Global)
  • Monique van Donzel (Global Research Strategy Director, INSEAD)

(* = Co-Chairs of the Summit)

Accommodations : Participants for the 2023 Responsible Research Summit are expected to arrange their own accommodation.
We have secured a number of rooms on the INSEAD campus. Click here to proceed with your booking.