Mark Mortensen Biography

Mark Mortensen works at INSEAD as an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior. Emerging Leaders in a Digital Age is co-directed by Mark Mortensen. His specialization is organizational cooperation, with a focus on two increasingly popular organizational models that do not suit typical team dynamics: internationally distributed (virtual) and project-based work. He has looked at the nature of conflict in dispersed partnerships and its link to identity, context, and communication, as well as the influence of dispersion structure – in terms of balance, imbalance, and isolation – in his study. He's also looked at the interpersonal impacts of working on several, partially overlapping, and constantly altering projects, and he's come up with a whole new model of collaboration. Professor Mortensen's work has been recognized by the academic community with awards such as the Academy of Management's William H. Newman Award, Organizational Behavior Division Best Dissertation-Based Paper Award, and Runner-up OCIS Division Best Paper Award; and the Interdisciplinary Network of Groups Researchers' Best Paper Award Finalist nomination. Organization Science, Management Science, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior and International Journal of Conflict Management are just a few of the top peer-reviewed academic journals where his work has been published. Multiple edited volumes, practitioner journals such as the MIT-Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review Online, and IESE Insight, and media sources such as The Economist, The Boston Globe, and The Globe and Mail have published his work. Professor Mortensen teaches the INSEAD MBA program's Organizational Behavior core course. He is the director of DNV GL's Global Leadership Program, teaching courses on Team Dynamics and Virtual Teams, Power, Networks, and Influence, and Organizational Change. He has taught in open Executive Education programs such as Consulting and Coaching for Change, Managing Global Virtual Teams, Manufacturing in a Global Network, and Strategic R&D Management, as well as customized programs for Associated British Foods, Astellas Pharmaceuticals, Bayer / Bayer Crop Science, HCL, KONE, Lundbeck A/S, Ma'aden, Maersk Oil, Manulife Financial, Merck KGaA, MetInvestra, and MetInvestra. Professor Mortensen is a sought-after consultant on topics such as team dynamics, worldwide cooperation, power and social networks, and organizational reform. First Solar, Generalized Reinsurance, Goldman Sachs/Pine Street, Maersk Oil, and Merck KGaA are among the firms with which he has worked. Professor Mortensen has worked at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the McGill University Desautels School of Management before joining the INSEAD faculty. Professor Mortensen has a Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, as well as an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BA in Computer Science from Colby College.

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