Introduction
I am a freshly arrived INSEAD MBA Participant – the Dean insists on calling us participants instead of students – and I thought that I had nothing better to do with my time than gather some thoughts on the Internet. More seriously though, the purpose of this log is to share impressions, feelings, facts, ideas... For those who are thinking about doing an MBA, this modest series of anecdotes might provide some insights into the life at school. For those who are doing an MBA right now, this might be the source of endless fun…
INSEAD (www.insead.edu) is an international top tier business school. There are well over 50 nationalities represented in the student body and most of the faculty is also international. The school has two campuses, one in Fontainebleau and the other one in Singapore and offers students, sorry, participants, the possibility to switch between campuses. It has a partnership and exchange program with Wharton.
In other words, this program is some kind of round the world ticket. Some people might argue that, given the price of round-the-world ticket fares these days, they can do the same for much cheaper or many times over, or choose to stay in a 5 * hotel every night, which is a discussion that I will not fuel.