Career Principles with INSEAD Professor Dr. Linda Brimm

Linda Brimm is Emeritus Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD, teaching both in the MBA and executive programmes. Along with her teaching responsibilities, Dr. Brimm created and ran the psychological service for the MBA programme at INSEAD.

Trained as a clinical psychologist, she also works with both individuals and families at a centre she co-founded in Paris.

Career Principles with Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert Shiller

Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics

Yale University

About this masterclass

• Mental models for expanding your thinking
• Advice for young graduates
• Universities of the future
• Careers in academics

Nobel Laureate Robert J. Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management.

Some argue that the age of American dominance is beginning to fracture, as rival powers rise, global trust erodes, and the institutions that once upheld U.S. leadership lose their force. Others contend that talk of decline is overstated, and that America remains the world’s central economic, military, and cultural power, however contested its position may now be.

We explore whether the United States is witnessing a temporary crisis of legitimacy or the deeper unravelling of an empire. We debate the meaning of a more multipolar world: whether it promises a healthier diffusion of power, or a more unstable international order marked by uncertainty, conflict, and competing spheres of influence. Along the way, we examine the enduring power of the dollar, the challenge posed by China and other rising states, and the global systems that still bear the imprint of American primacy.

Our discussion also turns to the moral dimension of empire. Has America lost the authority to present itself as a force for freedom and stability, or was that claim always more myth than reality? We engage directly with difficult questions about war, soft power, and political legitimacy, and ask whether the end of American hegemony would mark the beginning of a fairer world, or simply the arrival of a more dangerous one.

Shownotes: Read Utkarsh’s article, “We are all birds of a distant land” here: https://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/2026/Mar/22/we-are-all-birds-of-a-distant-land