Sustainable Businesses & Positive Impact
MBA’18D student Komal Syed describes her experience in the social impact and sustainable development space at INSEAD
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The Language of Heinrich Heine by Thomas Heine-Geldern
In the old days, INSEAD advertised itself as a trilingual school. French, English and – yes, German would be permitted…
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No Time Wasted by Stefan Culen
When the INSEAD programme started in September, there were still four weeks before my wife and our two daughters were…
Read MoreJacques Borel, Once Forgiven! by Claudio Pareto
On a quiet winter Saturday evening dining at La Residence, the Jacques Borel of dining complete with the excellent foil-capped…
Read MoreINSEAD Time Management as related by Hugo Steinhauer
In recorded history – in any case since INSEAD started in 1960 – there has never been a more miserable…
Read MoreAll INSEAD Animals are Equally Brilliant and Some are More Equal by Teddy Taptiklis
It was noon on Friday, September 6th, when the sixteenth INSEAD promotion received the first documents to prepare for the…
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Class photos of MBA 1975
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth by Common observation
Provided the INSEAD address book is correct, in the fifteen years before our famous 16th Promotion there was never a participant…
Read MoreHero of the Day by Richard Baker
It was the first weekend in February 1975, when the world of sports held its breath in view of the…
Read MoreViking Advice by Lars Moeller
A Viking’s advice is simple, short and works! Lars Moeller: I have no money to finance my studies here. Bertil…
Read MoreAgent Provocateur by Jürg Fischer
Preconceptions are wrong. Preconceptions about certain nationalities are particularly wrong! Jürg Fischer was a special case. After all, our moral…
Read MoreViking Advice (continued) by Lars Moeller
Bertil: I won’t survive a year in Fontainebleau without a girlfriend! Lars: I agree, so why don’t we try to meet…
Read MoreA Gentleman in the Middle East as related by Monica Culen
During the Easter holidays of 1975, our Lebanese colleagues with the help of some local anciens organised a trip to…
Read MoreCalling Puerto Rico as witnessed by many
Preface 1: For the younger generation: A phone box was a public telephone installed in a small structure on a…
Read MoreCanard de Papa at the Tour d’Argent by Norbert Bierbaum-Hillejan, Thomas Bittner, Mario Fabri, Peter de Haydu, William Thomas
This INSEAD study group had been invited to dinner in Paris by Norbert Bierbaum, Hillejan’s father, to celebrate their –…
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