INSEAD

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INSEAD
Image:inseadlogon2.jpg
Motto: "The Business School for the World"
Established 1957
Type: Private
Dean: Frank Brown
Staff: 144
Postgraduates: 900+, mainly MBA
Location Fontainebleau and Singapore, France and Singapore
Campus: Fontainebleau and Singapore
Website: www.insead.edu

INSEAD is a graduate business school and research institution with campuses in Fontainebleau (near Paris), France and in Singapore. In 2006, an INSEAD Executive Education centre was inaugurated in Abu Dhabi.

The official name of the school is INSEAD (phonetically/pronounced IN-SEE-ADD), originally an acronym for Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires.[1]

One of the world's leading business schools, INSEAD's main differentiation factor lies in its global perspective and multicultural diversity.[2][3][4][5][6]

143 faculty members from over 30 different countries teach nearly 900 MBA students, 56 Executive MBA candidates, 6,400 executives and 71 Ph.D. students from over 75 countries on its two campuses.[7]

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The MBA curriculum is made of a range of required core courses covering traditional management disciplines including finance, economics, organizational behaviour, accounting, ethics, marketing, statistics, operations management, international political analysis, supply chain management and corporate strategy. MBA participants are graded on a relative curve and the MBA programme is renowned for its intensity.

All participants are bilingual or more at entry and required to learn a third language before finishing the program. The school officially emphasizes it is a global school, neither a French nor a Singaporean school.[8]

INSEAD's student body comprises more than 70 nationalities, with no nationality representing more than 15% of the student body. Mother tongues of MBA programme participants, July and December 2006 classes, are: English 17%, French 13%, Hindi 8%, Spanish 6%, German 5%, Mandarin 4%, Portuguese 4%, Other 43%.[9]

The Admissions Committee selects candidates from a pool of applicants on the basis of various qualities and look in particular for excellent academic performance, career progress, interpersonal skills and leadership potential.[10]

All applicants must hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent, be fluent in English and are required to submit a lengthy application with detailed essays supporting their case, two recommendations, their Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score and academic transcripts. MBA participants' average GMAT score is currently 702 (class of July 2007).[11]

Applicants who successfully pass the initial screening process by the Admissions Committee are invited to two separate interviews conducted by alumni in their country of residence.[12]

INSEAD has two full facility campuses in Fontainebleau, France, and in Singapore. They are officially called Europe Campus and Asia Campus respectively. There is no distinction in admissions and most elective courses are offered across both campuses.[13]

All MBA participants can choose a preferred campus to start the MBA programme, and after the first two periods they have an option to move to either location (or to the Wharton school) in each of the third to fifth periods (in 2001, an alliance between INSEAD and the Wharton School was announced). Professors also move between campuses throughout a year. More than 70% of December 2006 class MBA participants have opted to exchange between the two campuses.[14]

Main employers of 2005 class MBA participants and the number of graduates employed were McKinsey & Company (74), Boston Consulting Group (40), Bain & Company (30), Deutsche Bank (18), Booz Allen Hamilton (13), Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (12), Barclays Capital (11), Google (11), Credit Suisse (10).[15]

INSEAD has a reciprocal agreement with Harvard, Kellogg, and Stanford to share career services. Current students and alumni of the four schools have access to job opportunities database of each other.[16] INSEAD also participates in the MBA Global Career Forum, together with other leading business schools including Harvard, Stanford and Wharton.[17]

INSEAD has an active knowledge sharing portal which showcases the research of faculty, PhD students through articles, working papers, case studies, podcasts and videocasts. Portal is updated frequently and subscription is a must for any aspiring business graduate. Video and audio of interviews with global business leaders are available on the portal as well.Link to INSEAD Knowledge [18] [19]

INSEAD alumni live in over 150 countries across all continents. Today there are 25 countries around the world in which over 100 INSEAD alumni live and work. Most INSEAD alumni are members of the INSEAD Alumni Association with its 40 national alumni associations, and return for their alumni reunions on campus.[20]

The INSEAD Energy Club is a forum of discussion and networking for energy and environment related issues for all of the INSEAD community. By leveraging its alumni network and corporate relationships across both campuses, they are able to support future entrepreneurs in nascent industries such as alternative energy technologies and carbon trading, and reach across the entire energy spectrum from nuclear, oil & gas, and coal through to the newer "clean" technologies.

The club takes corporate social responsibility seriously, and promotes sustainability issues through close cooperation with the INSEAD International Development Club, also known as INDEVOR, and the INSEAD Social Innovation Center. [21]

The INSEAD Women in Business club is a forum for collaboration and community building among MBA students interested in the role of future women business leaders. The goals of the club are to provide networking opportunities with alumnae and successful businesswomen in order to provide role-models for current students; support the professional, academic, and social interests of women in business; strengthen INSEAD culture by promoting an environment of tolerance and respect for all students; and attract more qualified female participants into INSEAD’s programs.

[22]

  • W. Chan Kim, The Boston Consulting Group Bruce D. Henderson Chair Professor of Strategy and International Management, author of Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
  • Renée Mauborgne, Distinguished Fellow and Affiliate Professor of Strategy and Management, co-author of Blue Ocean Strategy
  • Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Professor in Human Resource Management, author of Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane
  • Luk van Wassenhove, The Henry Ford Chaired Professor of Manufacturing, world expert in operations management
  • Jens Meyer, Adjunct Professor, developed the Strategy Regeneration Process Framework.
  • Herminia Ibarra, Chaired Professor of Organisational Behaviour, author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing your Career
  • James Teboul, Emeritus Professor of Operations Management, author of Service Is Front Stage: Positioning Services for Value Advantage
  • Bruce Kogut, Eli Lilly Chaired Professor of Strategy, author of Corporate Governance and Capital Flows
  • Robert U. Ayres, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Political Science and Technology Management, a pioneering interest in material flows and transformations (industrial ecology or industrial metabolism); and most recently to challenging long-held ideas on the economic theory of growth.

  • 1957 INSEAD founded, three months after the Treaty of Rome.
  • 1961 INSEAD Alumni Association founded by alumni
  • 1969 Opening of the school's Fontainebleau forest campus.
  • 1974 First programme on Asian business.
  • 1989 Launch of the PhD programme.
  • 1995 Launch of the first INSEAD Development Campaign.
  • 2000 January: First Singapore MBA class - 53 "Pioneer" students from 26 countries
  • 2000 August: INSEAD's first development campaign achieves €120 million in corporate and private sponsorship.
  • 2000 October: Official opening of the INSEAD Asia Campus in Singapore.
  • 2001 March: Announcement of the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance.
  • 2003 Launch of the INSEAD Executive MBA programme
  • 2004 Launch of the second INSEAD development campaign with a target of €200 million.

Deans of INSEAD

(Source: INSEAD From Intuition to Institution JL Barsoux 2000) [23]

  1. ^ "...over the years, the school has extended its European roots to Asia, and has become increasing[ly] known as INSEAD (pronounced IN-SEE-ADD). It is no longer known as, nor is the name European Institute for Business Administration, used. Like Harvard is Harvard and Wharton is Wharton, INSEAD is INSEAD" Answer to "Is INSEAD an acronym? What does it mean?" in INSEAD's official FAQ page
  2. ^ http://education.independent.co.uk/graduate_options/business_schools/article2084602.ece/
  3. ^ http://www.insead.edu/discover%5FINSEAD/faqs.htm
  4. ^ http://www.ft.com/businesseducation/mba
  5. ^ http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/06/full_time.htm
  6. ^ http://mba.eiu.com/
  7. ^ Faculty.
  8. ^ "Why aren't you considered to be a French or Singaporean business school?" in INSEAD's official FAQ page
  9. ^ http://www.insead.edu/mba/life/classes.htm Class profile page of INSEAD's official website]
  10. ^ [1]
  11. ^ Class profile page of INSEAD's official website
  12. ^ [2]
  13. ^ [3]
  14. ^ MBA 2007 Brochure in INSEAD's official website
  15. ^ Careers Report in INSEAD's official website
  16. ^ Career Services in INSEAD'S website
  17. ^ MBA Global Career Forum website
  18. ^ http://knowledge.insead.edu INSEAD Knowledge
  19. ^ http://knowledge.insead.edu/video INSEAD Knowledge video
  20. ^ http://www.insead.edu/alumni/alumninetwork/index.htm
  21. ^ http://www.insead.edu/clubs/energy%5Fclub/index.htm
  22. ^ http://www.insead.edu/clubs/iwib/index.htm
  23. ^ Barsoux, Jean-Louis (September 2, 2000). Insead: From Intuition to Institution. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 031223385X. 

Coordinates: 1°18′01″N 103°47′16″E / 1.30028, 103.78778

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