What to expect from the ECB
According to Antonio Fatas, INSEAD Professor of Economics, the ECB will likely move ahead with its plan to slowdown asset buying. CNBC Singapore – 26 October
What workers want
According to a joint study between INSEAD and Universum, the main motivator for millennials in Asia to take a job is cultural fit—not prestige. The study found that millennials’ top fear, when it comes to their future career, is not being able to find a job that matches their personality. They also want to feel at home at work by being valued and respected. HRO Today US – October
The MBA gender gap: Poets, not quants
MBAs are frequently split into two tribes: “poets”, with a liberal-arts background who enrol on an MBA course, and “quants”, who have swotted up on the rigorous statistical knowledge that can carry them through their programme. A new study suggests this dividing line could also be applied to gender, with women, falling into the poet category, and men into the quant. That dividing line between women and men is just one of the findings of a recent paper by academics at INSEAD and Columbia Business School. The Economist UK – October
European MBAs May Cost Less Than Elite U.S. B-Schools
INSEAD was the first institution in Europe to offer an MBA programme, starting in the late 1950s. INSEAD’s one-year program became the standard model for European b-schools while most U.S. institutions have retained a two-year programme.U.S. students may want to look to Europe, where shorter programmes can lead to cost savings and faster career growth. Virginie Fougea, Director of MBA Recruitment and Admissions at INSEAD, says that INSEAD has received an increase of 35 percent of applicants from North America for its September intake compared to the previous year. US News & World Report USA – 24 October
过度忠诚会抑制创新 (Loyalty Taken Too Far Can Inhibit Innovation)
According to Morten Bennedsen, The André and Rosalie Hoffmann Chaired Professor of Family Enterprise at INSEAD, and Brian Henry, Research Fellow at INSEAD, when it comes to business models, loyalty for the sake of loyalty can become a liability and roadblock to success, since loyalty taken too far can inhibit founders of family firms from adopting innovative business models until it is too late. 家族企业 (China Family Business Review) China – September edition In Chinese