Monthly Archives: October 2017

One of INSEAD’s core strengths is its diverse community. Students are encouraged to understand different perspectives and are offered tools to thrive in an ever-changing global business ecosystem through a curriculum that leverages personal differences and conflict to achieve intellectual and professional growth. Alumni continue to strive to be effective leaders in their chosen field and to advance their professional and personal goals. Most alumni rely on their INSEAD experience and alumni connections to support their ongoing efforts….Read article here.

Preparing teams to lead innovative change
Henrik Bresman, INSEAD Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, is an expert on leading high-performance teams and the co-author of the top-selling book X-Teams: How to Build Teams that Lead, Innovate, and Succeed. Preparing teams to initiate strategic change will usually require strategic investments on the part of companies. He isolates three areas of critical importance towards which companies should consider directing time and resources. Management Issues UK – 18 October

Meet INSEAD’s MBA Class Of 2018
INSEAD Dean and Professor of Economics Ilian Mihov states that the school’s mission is to bring people together from all over the world. Current participant Shane Zhu from China, declares that “it’s impossible not to be international” at INSEAD. Indeed, such cultural exchange is the heart of the programme – and its biggest attraction to the incoming class. “It all summed up to diversity,” says another INSEAD MBA participant Alda Kule Dale, a native of the Congo who worked in private equity. “I wanted a school that would provide me with the ability to travel in a classroom”. Poets & Quants
USA – 18 October

Seoul urged to open up financial market
Bruno Lanvin, INSEAD Executive Director for Global Indices, says that the degree of sophistication and efficiency of domestic financial markets are important components of national overall competitiveness. The Korea Times
Korea – 18 October

What you should –and should not– say when fundraising for a crowdfunding project
New research by INSEAD Professor of Marketing Amitava Chattopadhyay has revealed that claiming your product to be both “novel and useful” may actually ruin your chance to reach the crowdfunding goal.  e27
Singapore – 18 October

Additional coverage:
UK – Growth Business 
Singapore – The Independent

Success attracts new players to private equity
Beset by historically low interest rates, few investors can afford to ignore unlisted companies, writes Claudia Zeisberger, INSEAD Senior Affiliate Professor of Decision Sciences and Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, and Academic Director of the INSEAD Global Private Equity Initiative. LSE Business Review
UK – 18 October

Axioma’s Amaury Dauge Named Chief Operating Officer
Axioma appointed INSEAD alumnus Amaury Dauge as the company’s Chief Operating Officer, who will continue to serve as their CFO. Axioma is a leading provider of enterprise risk management, portfolio construction, and risk and regulatory reporting solutions. PublicNow
Canada – 17 October

INSEAD’s Fatas Says Central Banks Have Correct Stance
INSEAD Professor of Economics Antonio Fatas discusses central banks’ monetary policies on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.”  Bloomberg
Singapore – 16 October

Additional coverage:
UK – Yahoo finance
Bulgaria – [http://INSEAD’s%20Fatas%20Says%20Central%20Banks%20Have%20Correct%20Stance]Bullfax.com 
USA- Nasdaq.com

The deadline to submit nominations for the 2018 awards is 1 November 2017.
Read more and nominate here 

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Agenda

• Introduction: Laurent Simon and Arvin Singh
• Deep Tech Inventors:  Lenddo, CashShield.
• Deep Tech Investors: Mistletoe.

Register at 6.30pm for a precise start at 7pm.

Link here to sign up 

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The latest Thomson Reuters/INSEAD Asian Business Sentiment Index, representing the six-month outlook of 86 firms, slipped to 69 for the September quarter from 74 three months before. Business confidence among Asian companies fell for the first time in three quarters in July-September as escalating geo-political tensions outweighed an improved performance by most economies in the region.

While China, India and South Korea led the fall in sentiment in the third quarter, reflecting regional tensions and sluggish growth, most Southeast Asian economies and Australia put in a stable performance, limiting the downside in the overall index.

“Companies expressed concerns this quarter about trade and diplomatic tensions not only in the region but also in the world,” said Antonio Fatas, Professor of Economics at INSEAD. “This brought the index down, in a reflection of cautiousness because of the potential risks that could derail the current state of the economy,” he added.

To view the full report, visit here. 

Save the Date for the 2nd Annual Women in Business Conference at INSEAD. 22 November 2017. Check out events page. Proudly sponsored by BCG and Microsoft.

More details to follow 

Cricket Call-Out!

The 17D/ 18J INSEAD students would like to invite all INSEAD alums in Singapore to a weekly session of cricket on Sunday evenings, from 5.30 – 8 pm.

Cricket is held at the UWC Dover campus (a 10 min walk from INSEAD’s campus). If interested, please join the whatsapp group. Open this link to join the WhatsApp Group

INSEAD Cricket Club
Ashwin Bhat 

18J Survey about Men’s Grooming.

We are a group of MBA 18J students working on a venture plan as part of this year’s INSEAD Venture Competition.  We would like to do a market research survey to understand grooming (hair) preferences of male working professionals in Singapore, which is our initial target market. 
 

The survey will take less than 3 minutes and we will offer a free month of membership to those who participate in this survey when we successfully launch.

Please let me know if you have any concerns. Thanks a lot for your support!

Jayanth Mantri 
MBA Candidate, INSEAD 18J
+65 84361755