Kevin Kaiser joined the finance faculty at INSEAD in 1992 where he is currently Professor of Management Practice and Director of the Transition to General Management programme. Kevin is also Director of the ABN Amro Managing for Value Research Fund at INSEAD, and is active in conducting and sharing research and insight into how managers can better orient themselves and their organizations around value creation for long-term success. Kevin's research has appeared in academic and practitioner journals and newspapers, and his recently released book, The Blue Line Imperative, co-authored with David Young, presents the core insights around managing for value, along with practical ideas to help managers make it happen.Kevin teaches extensively in the executive and MBA programmes at INSEAD and is an eight-time recipient of the MBA award for Best Teacher for Electives, Fontainebleau campus, and a three-time recipient of the EMBA award for Best Teacher for Electives. In addition to the open enrollment programmes which he directs (the Transition to General Management programme and the Advanced Valuation programme), Kevin is also the director of several company specific programmes for a variety of corporate clients. He also teaches at numerous institutes and for private clients throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and was Visiting Adjunct Professor of Finance at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (1995-96, summer 2005, and summer 2006). Kevin was voted in the "top ten" in the Economist Intelligence Unit's world-wide competition "Business Professor of the Year" in 2013, and was then short-listed by the jury to finish in the "final four".