Manuel is professor of technology and operations management at INSEAD. He directs the Heinrich and Esther Baumann-Steiner Fund for Creativity and Business, the creativity-business learning platform, and the INSEAD-ArtCenter collaboration. He is visiting the Operations Management group at the MIT School of Management from January to August 2025. Professor Sosa’s research efforts are applied to improving the management of innovation. His recent research efforts focus on studying the role of design in transforming incumbent organizations into more innovative ones as well as analyzing on-line reviews for better decision making. He also investigates coordination and innovation networks in complex organizations. His research has been published in various top-rated academic journals in operations management, organization science, and engineering design. Professor Sosa’s teaching achievements include the development of a 20-year-long program with Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, California) to integrate creative and business thinking for successful innovating. He also led the development of the Creative Garage space for teaching creative thinking at INSEAD’s Asia Campus. He has published over 20 teaching cases in topics related to innovation management. He has received the INSEAD Dean’s commendation for excellence in MBA teaching multiple times and won the best teaching award at INSEAD for his MBA elective course on creative thinking in 2021. Manuel E. Sosa received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Universidad Simón Bolívar (Caracas, Venezuela) and his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His work experience includes systems engineering in the petrochemical industry, and development and deployment of computer-aided engineering software applications for the automobile and aerospace industries.
