INSEAD

'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]
A leading business school, 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]

Contents

MBA

Outline of the programme

Admissions

Campuses

Post MBA Careers

INSEAD Alumni Association

Notable Faculty

Brief history

References

External links

MBA

Outline of the programme

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.
All participants are bilingual or more at entry and required to learn a third language before finishing the programme. 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]

Admissions

The Admissions Committee selects candidates from a pool of applicants on the basis of various qualities, including academic performance, career progress, interpersonal skills and leadership potential.
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).^[10]
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.

Campuses

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.
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.^[11]

Post MBA Careers

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).^[12]
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.^[13] INSEAD also participates in the MBA Global Career Forum, together with other leading business schools including Harvard, Stanford and Wharton.^[14]

INSEAD Alumni Association

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.^[15]
==Notable INSEAD Alumni==


★ Patrick Cescau, CEO, Unilever

★ Marius Kloppers, CEO designate, BHP Billiton

★ Daniel Lalonde, President and CEO, LVMH

★ Lord Simon of Highbury, Former Chairman, BP

★ Antonio Perez, Chairman and CEO, Eastman Kodak

★ Michael Pragnell, CEO, Syngenta

★ Lindsay Owen-Jones, Chairman, L'Oreal

★ Antonio Viana-Baptista, CEO, Telefonica (including O2)

★ André Calantzopoulos, President and CEO, Philip Morris

★ Franz B. Humer, Chairman and CEO, Roche AG, Designate Chairman Diageo

★ Helen Alexander, CEO, The Economist Group

★ Jens Alder, CEO, Swisscom

★ Philip Hampton, Chairman, J Sainsbury

★ Peter Job, Former CEO, Reuters

★ Simon J Critchell, CEO, Alfred Dunhill

★ Helge Lund, CEO, Statoil

★ Colin Dyer, CEO, Jones Lang LaSalle

★ Reinold Geiger, Chairman and co-founder, L'Occitane en Provence

★ Dag Jakob Opedal, CEO, Nordic conglomarate Orkla Group

★ Bernard Kasriel, CEO, Lafarge

★ Yves Carcelle, CEO, Louis Vuitton

★ Paul Desmarais, Jr., Chairman and Co-CEO, Power Corporation

★ António Horta-Osório, CEO, Abbey National Bank

★ Tidjane Thiam, CEO, Aviva Europe

★ Peter Torreele, Managing Director, World Economic Forum

★ Sir Tom McKillop, Former CEO, Astrazeneca

★ Vivienne Cox, Chief Executive; Gas, Power and Renewables, BP

★ Kenneth Courtis, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs

★ Alan Chan, CEO, Singapore Press Holdings

★ Henry Engelhardt, founder and CEO, Admiral Insurance Group plc

★ Jens Alder, CEO, TDC

★ Andy Burgess, Founder and CEO, Somerset Entertainment

★ Driss Ben-Brahim, Head of Trading, Goldman Sachs

★ Philippe Bodson, former CEO of Tractebel, former CEO of Glaverbel

★ Sir Andrew Large, Deputy Governor, Bank of England

★ William Hague, Former Leader, Conservative Party (UK)

★ Edoardo Garrone, President, Group ERG

★ Samir Brikho, CEO, AMEC

★ Cees van Lede, Former Chairman and CEO, Akzo Nobel

★ Alexander Izosimov, CEO, VimpelCom

★ Gerry Ford, founder and CEO, Caffe Nero

★ Alexey Reznikovich, CEO, Altimo

★ Mike Salmi, President, MTV

★ Kenneth Scott, CEO, Intellexis

★ Will Hutton, former Managing Editor, The Observer

★ Fabien Debaecker, CEO, Loewe

★ Martin Roll, CEO, VentureRepublic

★ Benoît Potier, CEO, Air Liquide

★ John Klein, CEO, Bunge International

★ Peter Fudakowski, Academy award winner for Best Foreign Language Film (Tsotsi, 2006)

★ Saad Hammad, COO, easyJet

★ John Burgess, Chairman Baxi Group and Amadeus, co-founder of BC Partners

★ Robert Keane, Founder & CEO, VistaPrint

★ Tommy McGloin, President, MapQuest

★ Randolf Rodenstock, Former CEO, Rodenstock

★ Samir Arora, CEO & Chairman, NetObjects

★ Michael Obermayer, Managing Director, World Economic Forum

★ Birger Steen, CEO, Microsoft Russia

★ Heinz-Joachim Neubürger, Managing Director, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co

★ Oliver Tattan, CEO, Vivas Health

★ Wendy Alexander, leader-elect of the Scotish Labour Party

★ Andy Anson, CEO, ATP Europe

★ Caspar Hobbs, CEO and co-founder Mergermarket

★ Lalita D. Gupte, Joint Managing Director, ICICI Bank

★ Tsunehiro Nakayama, Chairman, Merrill Lynch Japan

★ Michael Leahy, CEO, Standard Life Ireland

★ Thomas Rottner, CEO, Platina Finance UK

★ Kevin P. Ryan, CEO, DoubleClick

★ David Kostman, Head of Global Internet Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers

★ Sam Laidlaw, former CEO, Centrica Plc

★ Joe McMillen, CEO, Cari

★ Igor Landau, former Chairman, Rhone-Poulenc S.A.

★ Andrea Orcel, Head of Global Financial Institutions Group, Merrill Lynch & Co.

★ James F. Pitts, President, Aerospace Systems Division, Northrop Grumman

★ John Rogers (CEO), former President and CEO, LucentTechnologies EMEA and former CEO, Amstrad PLC

★ Claudi Santiago, former President, GE Oil & Gas

★ Johannes Feldmayer, Member Managing Board, Siemens AG

★ David Stevens, COO, Admiral Group plc

★ Richard N. Havas, Vice Chairman Capital Guardian (Canada) inc.

★ John O'Higgins, CEO, Spectris

★ Peter Torreele, Managing Director, World Economic Forum

★ B Muthuraman, Managing Director, Tata Steel

★ Barbara Kux, Chief Procurement Officer, Phillips

★ Ian El-Mokadem, CEO, Compass Group

★ Sam Laidlaw, former CEO, Centrica Plc

★ Karien van Gennip, Minister Economic Affairs - The Netherlands

★ Lucy Cummings, COO, Erinaceous

★ Igor Landau, former Chairman, Rhone-Poulenc S.A.

★ Heinz-Joachim Neubürger, Managing Director, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co

★ Peter Hewkin, CEO, Centre for Exploitation of Science and Techonology

★ Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO, Ebay Germany

★ Jean Louis Constanza, former CEO, Tele 2

★ Niall Geoghegan, CEO, Jurys Doyle Group

★ Andrea Orcel, Global Head of Investment Banking, Merrill Lynch

★ Jusuf Kalla Vice President of Indonesia

★ Philip R. Hampton former Group Finance Director, Lloyds TSB, BT Group, and British Steel

★ Charles Watson, President, Shell EMEA and South Asia

★ Pilar Junco, COO, Private Equity, The Blackstone Group

★ Dhruv Shringi, Co-Founder, Yatra.com

Notable Faculty

★ 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, developped 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''

Brief history

★ 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

★ 1959 - 1964 Olivier Giscard d'Estaing (Director)

★ 1964 - 1971 Roger Godino (Part time Dean of Faculty)

★ 1971 - 1976 Dean Berry

★ 1976 - 1979 Uwe Kitzinger

★ 1979 - 1980 Claude Rameau (Dy Director General)

★ 1980 - 1982 Heniz Thanheiser

★ 1982 - 1986 Claude Rameau & Heniz Thanheiser

★ 1986 - 1990 Philippe Naert & Claude Rameau

★ 1990 - 1993 Claude Rameau & Ludo Van der Heyden

★ 1993 - 1995 Antonio Borges & & Ludo Van der Heyden

★ 1995 - 2000 Antonio Borges

★ 2000 - 2006 Gabriel Hawawini

★ 2006 - Present Frank Brown
(Source: INSEAD From Intuition to Institution JL Barsoux 2000)
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References

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. Class profile page of INSEAD's official website
11. MBA 2007 Brochure in INSEAD's official website
12. Careers Report in INSEAD's official website
13. Career Services in INSEAD'S website
14. MBA Global Career Forum website
15. http://www.insead.edu/alumni/alumninetwork/index.htm
16. Insead: From Intuition to Institution, , Jean-Louis, Barsoux, Palgrave Macmillan, ,

External links

★ INSEAD's official website

★ the official website of the INSEAD Alumni Association

★ Independent Profile

★ World's Top 10 Business Schools Global Career Forum