---
id: "pisquared:interview/kivleniece-ilze"
type: "Pi-Squared interview"
title: "Anita McGahan in conversation with Ilze Kivleniece"
url: "https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/kivleniece-ilze"
date: "2025-07-07"
people: ["Anita McGahan","Ilze Kivleniece"]
summary: "Ilze Kivleniece is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. She holds a PhD in Strategic Management from HEC Paris, and a Master of Science in..."
recording: "https://vimeo.com/1099390540"
source: "Pi-Squared (pisquared.theburnescenter.org), The Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Anita McGahan in conversation with Ilze Kivleniece

Ilze Kivleniece, Assistant Professor, INSEAD · 7 July 2025

## About the guest

Ilze Kivleniece is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at INSEAD. She holds a PhD in Strategic Management from HEC Paris, and a Master of Science in International Business and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics. Prior to joining INSEAD, she was a faculty member at Imperial College London. Ilze’s research connects the strategic management of firms with broad issues related to the public, political, and social environment. She writes about the emergence and performance of novel organisational forms as important mechanisms of value creation and capture. Her work has been published in a number of prominent academic. She is the recipient of the Strategy Research Foundation Scholar 2011 grant from the Strategic Management Society. Before entering the PhD program, Ilze held senior account management and corporate development positions in the advertising, telecommunications, and IT industries.

## Related resources

- [Ilze's website](https://www.insead.edu/faculty/ilze-kivleniece)
- [Ilze's book chaper on public-private collaboration](https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/edcoll/9781783479573/9781783479573.00039.xml)
- [Ilze's chapter on creating and distributing sustainable value](https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781839105340/book-part-9781839105340-36.xml)

## Recording

Video: https://vimeo.com/1099390540

## Category

[Where Do We Go From Here?](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/category/where-next)

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Original page: https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/kivleniece-ilze · Licence: none stated