INSEAD Thrive Lab

FONTAINEBLEAU, France – October 30, 2026 -- INSEAD has received US$3 million in funding from Google.org and Google DeepMind to establish the Research Lab for Human and Organisational Thriving (INSEAD Thrive Lab), a unit that will study how people and organisations function amid continuous technological change.

Thrive Lab sits within INSEAD's Human and Machine Intelligence Institute

The lab is housed under the Human and Machine Intelligence Institute (HUMII), a cross-disciplinary research body whose core academic team includes 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics Philippe Aghion and 2025 Oskar Morgenstern Medallist Phanish Puranam. Its research covers three domains: Learning, Working and Relating.

Winnie Jiang, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, serves as Academic Director of the lab. Lily Fang, Dean of Research and Innovation at INSEAD, is Academic Director of HUMII.