Author: Arjan DE JONG

  • Bloomon: scale-ups in the fast-moving B2C online environment

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    Wednesday September 25th, 2019, the Dutch alumni were hosted by bloomon for an exciting event about scale-ups in the fast-moving B2C online environment. bloomon is a subscription-based flower delivery service headquartered in Amsterdam with international offices in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, and the UK. Dubbed the ‘Netflix of Flowers’ by the Financial Times, bloomon aims…

  • Quality in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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    Amsterdam, 19 September 2019 – Quality in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek On Thursday evening, the SIG Healthcare and Life Sciences were welcomed at the famous Netherlands Cancer Institute ”for more than 100 years at the international forefront of cancer research and treatment”. The stage was set in the impressive boardroom of the institute in which Michel…

  • INSEAD SIN & IN-BOARD Golf Tournament

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    The traditional annual INSEAD SIN & IN-BOARD Golf Tournament was held on Tuesday 2nd July 2019 under superb sunny circumstances of the Dutch summer weather. Last year’s winner, Aljosja van Dorssen (MBA1986), hosted a field of nearly two dozen contenders at the Royal Hague Golf & Country Club (“The Haagsche”), which is the leading golf…

  • Energy Club: Port of Rotterdam

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    After previous sessions on the Climate agreement by the Dutch government and on the gas phase-out in the Dutch residential sector, Industry was the focus for the latest (and quickest to sold-out) event from the Energy Club of the Dutch INSEAD Alumni Association. Kindly hosted by the Port of Rotterdam, overlooking both the city of…

  • The future of digital health and patient empowerment, SkinVision

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    19 juni 2019 – The future of digital health and patient empowerment, SkinVision Amsterdam. SkinVision, startup environment, view on Amsterdam Marina was the place to be on June 19th 2019 in the evening. Thomas Calis opened the evening by thanking Eva de Bres for 8 years of volunteering in the SIG Healthcare & life sciences.…

  • Scale-up Nation

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    Thursday June 6th, the Dutch alumni were hosted by ScaleUpNation for an interesting event on the governance of scale-ups. Founder Menno van Dijk (MBA’90) gave an overview of the rationale behind ScaleUpNation and how it aims to help scale-ups in the Netherlands succeed after which faculty member Hayat Chedid presented the latest insights on how…

  • How Board Members Really Feel About ESG: Denier or True Believer?

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    Our own Ron Soonieus, INSEAD executive in residence and managing partner at Camunico, has written a great article about how board members really feel about Environmental, Social and Governance criteria. Are you a denier or a believer? Read all about it by clicking this link or the image below.

  • 17th INSEAD Private Equity and Venture Capital Conference

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    For the 17th time, the annual Private Equity and Venture Capital conference will be held in Fontainebleau on the 24th of May. A gala dinner in Paris on the 23rd of May will be part of the conference This year keynote speakers will be: – Salim Nathoo, Head of Tech fund at Apax Partners – Christophe De Vusser,…

  • The Ocean Cleanup and Dean Ilian Mihov at Deloitte

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    Another fantastic event last Thursday. Our hosts Deloitte organized a wonderful event with Boyan Slat, founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup. In the interview on stage Boyan told us about his mission, ambition and the leadership challenges he experienced as a very young CEO of a big movement. Dean Ilian Mihov gave us an…

  • INSEAD Alumni Women’s networking dinner

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    Never knew sleep had such a big impact on performance and that digital transformation is a lot of just down-to-earth common business sense. Great INSEAD Alumni women’s networking dinner with Alexandra Jankovich, managing partner and founder of SparkOptimus and Els van der Helm, Founder of Shleep!