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The INSEAD Alumni Association: Beyond 2020

By Peter Zemsky,  Indira Pant
Published 10 May 2021
Reference 6660
Topic Leadership & Organisations
Industry Non-Profit Organization Management
Region Global
Length 25 page(s)
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Summary

The case describes how Sadia Khan, president of the INSEAD Alumni Association (IAA), built a thriving organisation that is largely funded and powered by a diverse group of volunteers. Under her leadership, the IAA’s extended its membership and its role in formulating and executing strategy, motivating and inspiring volunteers, and building partnerships with disparate centres of power within the global business school.

Teaching objectives

1. Making an organization that is largely funded and powered by volunteers sustainable. 2. Managing the partnership between mutually dependent but disparate organizations. 3. Developing strategy

Keywords
  • Alumni Association
  • Alumni engagement
  • Volunteer management
  • Non-profit leadership
  • Management of partnerships
  • Diversity
  • Motivating volunteers
  • Global networks
  • Collaboration agreement
  • Alumni relations
  • Strategic Planning
  • Strategy implementation
  • Strategy
  • Inspirational Leadership
  • Female protagonists
  • Diversity and leadership
  • Q22021
About the authors
Zemsky

Peter Zemsky

Professor of Strategy

Indira Pant


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