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Sami Mahroum

Sami Mahroum is Academic Director of Innovation and Policy at INSEAD.


Commentaries by Sami Mahroum

  • Newsart for Violence and Innovation

    Violence and Innovation

    ABU DHABI – In the 1949 British film The Third Man, the character Harry Lime observes that, during the Borgia family’s rule in Renaissance I…

  • Newsart for The Arab Spring’s Crowd Psychology

    The Arab Spring’s Crowd Psychology

    ABU DHABI – In 1896, the social psychologist Gustave Le Bon warned his contemporaries of the dangers of crowds, writing that, “It is necessa…

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Recent comment received by Sami Mahroum

  • Violence and Innovation

    Wangolo David Ivan: While violent territories might be show innovativeness, the cause is not the violence. The violence might however be responsible for the resilience of those population to survive and hence innovate! S…

  • Violence and Innovation

    Nathan Coppedge: Maybe it is just GDP and quality of life, which are also reflected in the power of the military. I suspect it has more to do with population and level of treatment within the population, including …