Gilbert Probst is Professor for Organisational Behaviour and Management and Co-Director of the Executive-MBA program at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He is also Managing Director and the Dean of the Global Leadership Fellows Program (World Economic Forum). Professor Probst is an award-winning author and editor of a number of books and articles in prestigious journals (Oraganization Science, Academy of Management Executive, European Management Journal). He served as a consultant for various major companies such as Kuoni, Holcim, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, Winterthur Insurance, Deutsche Bank, DaimlerChrysler or Swisscom, and has been a board member for Holcim, Kuoni and several SMEs.

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Research of Prof. Probst and his team focus on three pillars: organizational growth, ambidextrous organizations, and learning organization. These three researach areas may be considered as organization's major challanges.

In order to intensify the research regarding organizational growth, the Center for Organizational Excellence (CORE) has been created. Its aim is to analyze the major growth issues organizations face. Investigations on the subject of ambidexterity strive for resolving the difficult task of balancing simultaneously exploitative activities (daily business) and explorative activities (innovations). The third research area focuses on knowledge management as well as on learning organizations. Fruit of this research area is the creation of the Geneva Knowledge Forum in 1995.

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