INSEAD
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INSEAD is often considered among the world's top-tier business schools. This is substantiated by rankings in Business Week and Financial Times. Rankings are considered an important guideline of a business school's attractiveness to certain potential MBA students.
INSEAD was founded in 1957 as a privately funded, independent European business school. Currently (June, 2005), 144 faculty members teach 870 MBA students, 6,400 executives and 71 Ph.D. students from over 75 countries.
INSEAD's global perspective and multicultural diversity are reflected in aspects of its research and teaching. The INSEAD-Wharton Alliance, announced in May 2001, combines INSEAD's resources with those of Wharton's campuses in Philadelphia and San Francisco, to deliver business education and research across a Global Learning Network.
The school has been certified by EQUIS and AMBA.Current Dean is Gabriel Hawawini.
Example of INSEAD Alumni
- Lord Simon of Highbury, Former Chairman, BP
- Patrick Cescau, CEO, Unilever
- Helen Alexander, CEO, The Economist Group
- Paul Desmarais, Jr., Chairman and Co-CEO, Power Corp of Canada
- Motoatsu Sakurai, President and CEO, Mitsubishi International
- Julie Meyer, co-Founder, Firsttuesday, named a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum
- Chong Ju Choi, Director of School, The National Graduate School of Management, Australian National University, named a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum
- William Hague, Former Leader, Conservative Party (UK)
- Cees van Lede, Former Chairman and CEO, Akzo Nobel NV
- Alan Chan, CEO, Singapore Press Holdings
- Lindsay Owen-Jones, CEO, L'Oreal
- Sir Andrew Large, Deputy Governor, Bank of England
- Peter Job, Former CEO, Reuters
- Bernard Kasriel, CEO, Lafarge
- Philip Hampton, Chairman, J Sainsbury
- Antonio Viana-Baptista, Chairman and CEO, Telefonica Moviles
- Jens Alder, CEO, Swisscom
- Kenneth Courtis, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asia
- Antonio Perez, CEO and President, Eastman Kodak
- Barbara Kux, Chief Procurement Officer, Phillips; Director, INSEAD; named a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum
- Tommy McGloin, President, MapQuest
- Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO, EBay Germany
- André Calantzopoulos, President and CEO, Philip Morris International Inc.
- Colin Dyer, CEO, Jones Lang LaSalle
- Kevin P. Ryan, CEO, DoubleClick
- Michael Pragnell, CEO, Syngenta
- Simon J Critchell, CEO, Alfred Dunhill Ltd
- Daniel Lalonde, President and CEO, LVMH Watch and Jewelry
- Sir Tom McKillop, Former CEO, Aztrazeneca
- Archie Norman, former Member of Parliament, UK
- Lord Simon of Highbury, adviser to the Prime Minister and Cabinet for Trade and Industry
- António Horta-Osório, CEO, Banco Santander Totta, Portugal; Member of the Board of Grupo Santander
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Famous Faculty
Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, whose articles on the knowledge economy are all-time bestsellers of Harvard Business Review reprints; Manfred Kets de Vries, clinical professor of management and leadership, author of Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane ; Jean-François Manzoni, author of the best-selling The Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome ; Luk Van Wassenhove, world expert in operations management.
Brief History
1957 INSEAD founded, three months after the Treaty of Rome.
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 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.
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.