Jean-François Manzoni is currently Associate Professor of Management at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France), where he also directs the INSEAD-PwC Research Initiative on High Performance Organizations.

Initially trained as a chartered accountant, Jean-François worked as an auditor and consultant with Ernst and Young before receiving an M.B.A. from McGill University (Canada) and a D.B.A. from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. A citizen of both Canada and France, Jean-François taught at l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montréal before his doctoral studies at Harvard Business School. He has been associated with INSEAD for thirteen years, first as a visiting professor and as a full time faculty member over the last ten years.

His research, teaching and consulting activities are focused on the management of change at the individual and organisational levels. At the organisational level, Jean-François studies the content of change (including the use of levers such as strategy, structure and systems), the management of the change process and the role of leaders therein. Some of this work appeared in Process Re-engineering, Organizational Change and Performance Improvement (with Soumitra Dutta, McGraw Hill, 1999). Other publications in this area include Performance Measurement and Management Control: A Compendium of Research (co-edited with Marc Epstein, JAI Press, 2002), and two articles comparing "Tableaux de Bord" and Balanced Scorecards and discussing their role in translating strategy into action.

A three-time winner of the Outstanding Teacher Award in the INSEAD MBA programme, Jean-François has also received awards for his research and case-writing activities, including the 1998 European Foundation for Management Development Case of the Year Awards in the "change management" and "public sector management" categories.

Jean-Louis Barsoux is Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD, where he specializes in organizational behavior, particularly cross-cultural issues and dyadic relations. His doctorate in comparative management provided the foundation for the book French Management: Elitism in Action (with Peter Lawrence) and the Harvard Business Review article "The Making of French Managers." He is the author or co-author of nine books. Among his most recent books are Managing Across Cultures (with Susan Schneider) and The Global Challenge (with Paul Evans and Vlado Pucik). His study of the uses of humor in organizations, Funny Business, won the Management Consultancies Association Prize for Book of the Year.