Introducing the Maag International Centre for Entrepreneurship Team

Philip Anderson, Director
The INSEAD Alumni Fund Chaired Professor of Entrepreneurship

Phillip is responsible for all academic initiatives of the Centre including research, teaching and certain outreach programmes

Philip Anderson has an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of California at Davis, and he received his PhD in Management of Organizations from Columbia University. A former Army officer, Professor Anderson has also worked as an independent computer consultant, and an MIS manager and Assistant to the President of a large nonprofit organization and an entrepreneurial start-up organization.

He currently teaches courses in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and the strategic management of innovation, and has written over 75 original cases and notes for these classes. 



His research interests include the formation of entrepreneurial firms, managing growth, venture capital dynamics, and complexity theory. Professor Anderson is on the editorial board of Administrative Science Quarterly, and has been the chair of the Technology and Innovation Management division of the Academy of Management.

He is co-author of “Managing Strategic Innovation and Change: A Collection of Readings” (with Michael Tushman), published by Oxford University Press in 2004 (second edition), and “Inside the Kaisha: Demystifying Japanese Business Behavior” (with Noboru Yoshimura) published by Harvard Business School Press in 1997. “Inside the Kaisha” was named 1997 Booz Allen & Hamilton/Financial Times Global Business Book of the Year for Industry Analysis/Business Context.

His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as the Harvard Business Review, the Sloan Management Review, Research & Technology Management, CIO, Datamation, the Academy of Management Executive, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, and the Academy of Management Journal.

He has consulted and/or conducted customized executive programs for companies such as 3i, Aetna, Air Products, American Express Financial Advisors, BOC, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Centennial Funds, CIO Magazine, Commerce One, Cyanamid, Dow, Eaton, Glaxo SmithKline, HeidelbergCement, Hewlett-Packard, J.M. Huber, Intel Capital, John Deere, Malden Mills, Markem, McGraw-Hill, Medallion Enterprises, Merrill, Monument Group, Navis Partners, the New York Times, North Atlantic Capital Partners, Petronas, Polaris Ventures, Praxair, Procuritas, RCN, Roche, Sonera, Telenor, and Unilab. He is a member of the Center for Venture Education’s Educational Advisory Board and advises several startup enterprises.

Anya Navidski (08J)
Director

Anya is the general manager of the centre and is responsible for all non-academic activities and initiatives of the Centre and development and implementation of the INSEAD strategy in this area.

Previously she was on the board of Elliott & Thompson where she was responsible for internal restructuring of the business. She also undertook freelance consulting work for Barchester Group, which specializes in board level strategic and corporate finance advice to a portfolio of high growth and mature companies.

Prior to that she worked for NERA Economic Consulting – a leading international firm of economists specializing in creating strategies, studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations. There she led an international team investigating regulatory transparency of utility operators around the world on behalf of the World Bank and wrote regulatory transparency guidelines with support from the World Bank and PPIAF, currently being implemented by the African Forum of Utility Regulators. She also managed international projects designing new regulatory frameworks, or their elements, for large utility regulators and regulated infrastructure companies around the world. She is a co-author of various reports on market regulation including “Review of Implications of the De-merger of the Former Aer Rianta for the Regulation of Airport Charges in Ireland” – a report for the Dublin Airport Authority, “Estimating Opex and Capex Efficiency” – a report for Water UK, and a report on “Screening of Water Pricing Policies, Cost Recovery Mechanisms and Economic Instruments for Inclusion in Programmes of Measures and in Relation to Article 9 of the Water Framework Directive” for the Collaborative Research Programme on River Basin Management Planning Economics.

She is a co-author of a book “The Impact of Household Metering on Consumption: Further Analysis”, published by the UK Water Industry Research. While at Warwick University she co-authored a paper on “Road Pricing Around the World” with Professor Andrew Oswald.

Anya grew up in Russian, the USA, and the UK. She holds a BSc in Economics from Warwick University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Patrick Turner (‘78J)
Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship

Patrick provides valuable mentoring and support for entrepreneurial students and alumni requiring assistance with their entrepreneurial ventures

Professor Turner’s career includes seven years with the UK chemical company, ICI and ten years with Levi Strauss Europe where his various postings included two years as Director of Strategic Planning, and three as Marketing Director for Spain. He left Levi’s in order to launch his own jeans marketing company, after which he subsequently acquired and managed another small company, both in Spain.

Since 1999 he has been a Professor at INSEAD in the area of entrepreneurship, specifically teaching MBA courses on acquisitions, new business creation, and managing growth ventures, on both the Fontainebleau and Singapore campuses.

In January 2003 he relocated to the Singapore campus to launch the new International Centre for Entrepreneurship. In addition to the entrepreneurship courses he teaches at INSEAD, Professor Turner is a Visiting Professor at Reykjavik University, Iceland, and has also taught courses in France, Spain, Estonia, and South America. In addition he has given guest lectures at a number of institutions across Asia.

He is co-author of a book on ”Entrepreneurship in Asia” published by John Wiley & Sons in March 2005, and is currently working on another book on entrepreneurship to be published by the same publisher later this year. He is on the board of directors of a young start-up company in Singapore, and acts as advisor to a number of other young ventures, including one venture capital fund. He is a member of the Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE), launched by the Singapore government in 2003. Aside from professional interests, his major passion is classical music, and in 1999 he published a book on Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations, of which the second edition was published in 2007.

Professor Turner holds a BA from Oxford University, and an MBA from INSEAD.

Magdalene Khng
Centre coordinator, Asia campus

Magdalene supports and assists the Directors in the management of the Centre’s operations on the Asia campus

 

 

 

Jayne Brocklehurst
Centre coordinator, Europe campus

Jayne assists the Directors in the management of the Centre’s operations on the Europe campus.

 

 

 

Both Magdalene and Jayne also work closely with the INSEAD faculty, staff, alumni and students of the entrepreneurial community at large to ensure the smooth running of the Centre.

If you have any comments or feedback, feel free to contact us at entrepreneurship@insead.edu.