INSEAD Taipei Information Session Tuesday March 28 7pm

[MarkHsu]

MBA INFORMATION SESSION
Date: 7pm – 9:30 pm, Tuesday March 28, 2006
Venue: The Howard Plaza Hotel, Taipei. No. 160 Ren Ai Road Sec 3 Taipei, Taiwan 10657 ROC.

Dear
Are you seeking career advancement, world-class business education or simply the experience of a lifetime?

At INSEAD, we believe that all the world’s elite business schools will provide you with a great education and career prospects. Your mission is to determine which best fits your unique goals and aspirations.

As part of this process, we would like to invite you to an INSEAD MBA Information Session on Tuesday March 28 in Taipei. There, we will deliver an overview of the INSEAD MBA, which will be followed by a Question & Answer session with INSEAD alumni from your area. The evening will conclude with a networking and cocktail hour. We sincerely hope you will join us and come learn “What Makes Us Different?”

INSEAD at a Glance

INSEAD is widely recognised among the world's top-tier business schools as one of the most innovative and influential. It is the only business school with full-time, permanent campuses in Asia (Singapore) and Europe (Fontainebleau). It has also been consistently ranked by the Financial Times, Business Week, Forbes and others as one of the top business schools in the world.

Currently, over 140 faculty members teach more than 840 MBA students, 55 Executive MBA students, 6,500 executives and 66 PhD students from over 75 countries. INSEAD's unique global perspective and multicultural diversity are reflected in all aspects of its research and teaching.

The INSEAD-Wharton Alliance, announced in May 2001, combines INSEAD's resources with those of Wharton's campuses in Philadelphia and San Francisco, to deliver business education and research across a Global Learning Network.

As this event has limited seating, kindly register your attendance on our website at

http://www.insead.edu/mba/home/events.htm. You are free to invite guests along, but they will also need to register on the website. You may also register via email at mba.info.sg@insead.edu.

We look forward to meeting you at the event.
Yours sincerely,

Gopika Spaenlé
Assistant Director, Marketing
INSEAD MBA Programme

[asicschu]

tks for information sharing...

[lunar916]

請問在福華飯店的哪裡?

[MarkHsu]

4th floor

[connoisseur]

有人有去的嗎？要不要發表一些感想？我聽了後知道去法國校區要花到300萬左右；第二外語幾乎只有法文可選，且得另外收費；以及對轉換工作或去頂尖的公司未必有那麼明顯的助益之後傾向暫時不申請了。

[modern]

對轉換工作或去頂尖的公司未必有那麼明顯的助益
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ???

Well, if Insead cannot provide you these, then almost there's no any other school can provide you these benefits.

[Jayjay]

有人有去的嗎？要不要發表一些感想？我聽了後知道去法國校區要花到300萬左右；第二外語幾乎只有法文可選，且得另外收費；以及對轉換工作或去頂尖的公司未必有那麼明顯的助益之後傾向暫時不申請了。

For your third language requirement, you can take some elementary lessons in any major language in TW beforehand. INSEAD only needs basic knowledge for the third language. If you are a person who is committed international business and welcomes new challenges, this should not be a problem. As for your second comment, No school will hand you a job on a silver platter; you will have to fight for it. Nevertheless, INSEAD will give you a good opportunity to succeed. For some people, getting into a top-tier business school is like a walk in the park. However, for most (me included), you have to fight and scrap for a shot. I believe the same thing apply to making a successful career change and getting a prime job offer during or after your MBA tenure.

[connoisseur]

It seems my previous article is a little bit confusing. Actually what I mean it is hard for career switch, I mean those limited jobs such as investment banking( manage consulting should be easier). I checked with a guy there, and he told me that actually even you are admitted into INSEAD, in reality, most of the summer jobs and formal jobs are still granted to those who came from those industry before they go to INSEAD. Of course I know there is no such guarantee for post MBA job, what I am doing is suveying information and trying to make a better investment judgement. In this case, INSEAD may not be the best choice for me than US schools, if I have certain objective.
As to 2nd language, I don't against the idea. But I personally prefer to study Japanese or Germany than French. Of course I can take that in advance if I really apply and get INSEAD admission. It seems the most reasonable and feasible choice if I can go there, but learning a 2nd foreign language is not on my high-priority to do list so far. I may perfer to spend the same time on other study such as CFA test.

[imagenooks]

I will post my questions here.

LBS folks pressed hard upon that LBS is a highly diversified MBA school and that the student body is made by many different nations. My question to you (I am not sure if it is appropriate to compare these two MBA schools) is that comparing to LBS, how the diversification in INSEAD is different from LBS? What would be the most significant strength INSEAD has that LBS doesn’t have?

Also, in the presentation, I see the career distribution is highly focused in consulting realm (38% of graduates have obtained similar jobs.) Would you say that “consulting” field is an unique strength that INSEAD posses?

If someone can answer my questions, I'd appreciate it.

[Jayjay]

I have visited both schools and INSEAD is much more diversified. At LBS, N.American (Mostly American) makes up more than 25% of the student body. On the other hand, no region makes up more than 14% of the student body at INSEAD. In addition, LBS is relatively small 2yr program (about 300 students per intake) while INSEAD is larger one-yr European school. In my opinion, LBS is a stronger finance school than INSEAD while I think INSEAD has better reputation in terms of general management. INSEAD develops large porportion of MCs because a lot of consulting firm sponsored their employees to study at INSEAD because of the school’s one yr system. (hence, low opp costs) Both schools along with IMD are considered top tier European programs. However, I would say LBS is more of finance school, INSEAD focus more on international business and IMD is more keen on developing the leadership skill of its students.

My 2 cents

[modern]

VERY HELPFUL INFORMATION from you guys!!!

[imagenooks]

Hi Jayjay:

Thanks for the detail repsonse. Since you have mentioned IMD in your reply. I am going to extend my comparsion with INSEAD to IMD.

In general, how would you describe these two schools? What kinds of strengths does each school possess? In addition, IMD's intake only admits 90 people. Smaller class means that students can get to know each other, hence they can bond with each other easily to create a more strong almuni relationship and network. Would you agree on the above statement?

Thanks in advance for answering my naggy questions!!

[Jayjay]

I think IMD alumni might be tighter because of its boutique size. However, because of INSEAD’s larger intake, its MBA alumni size is much larger. (80,000 vs. 2,500) Therefore, INSEAD connection is much more extensive and diverse. As for student interaction, I believe INSEAD also breaks up its students into groups of 80-90 students and study groups of 6-7 people from different backgrounds. Therefore, you will get that boutique feel while enjoying the advantage that larger class size brings for social and networking events. In addition, you may opt for the Singapore campus, which houses about 150 MBA students per intake in order to obtain the close-knit and interactive environment.

I have never visited IMD but I heard great stuff about it. IMD world competitive center is world-renowned and has great connection with industries. I think you really have to visit these schools and see which one fit you the best. In my opinion, if you know what you want to do in life, IMD may be better for you. The school is full of determined and committed professionals who are ready for life after MBA. As for INSEAD, you have a lot of sponsored students who are there to relax and anxious students who are looking to switch their careers. Overall, in my opinion, INSEAD’s graduates may be more entrepreneurial and diverse in term of career after MBA while IMD tends to produce a larger proportion of future executives for global corporation.

[connoisseur]

Some of my understandings to share, may not be 100% correct, correct me if I am wrong.

Differetiation of LBS & INSEAD:
INSEAD takes one year only, LBS program is longer. And INSEAD, besides mandatory English skill(Mimimum TOEFL 260, TOEIC 950), requires applicants with fluent 1st foreign langauage to get in, and adequate 2nd foreign language to get out. European and Asian applicants may be easier to be qualified for the get-in requirement. Because not every Amercian or British applicant has eloquent foreign language skill, it may not be of their interest either. Due to this, I believe that LBS will have much more students from British and America.
INSEAD has 2 campus, and majority of the students will learn in both 2 campus through the program.
And as Jayjay has mentioned, I also heard that a high percentage of INSEAD students are sponsored by their incumbent MC firms, so lots of the post MBA MC spots are belonged to these group of people. I think it is comprehensible, after all, for those who have done well in the MC without MBA degree, to spend one year in INSEAD to network and get the MBA degree is worthwhile. And from the MC firms' perspective, it is also a good investment too.

As to IMD, I did not do the research recently. But from my expression years ago, it is kind of noble class b-school. It is also expensive, and if my understanding is correct, IMD requires you to fly to Swiss for interview. And you have to make a impromptu presentation there too. With this high threshold and relatively mini class size, I think it makes more sense to study EMBA than MBA there. The most famous alumin of IMD is the CEO of AUO/BenQ, besides him, I do not know any others. So the post MBA networking might be a factor to consider as well.

My 2 cents.

[習慣仔]

I have a friend currently studying at IMD - networking shouldn't be a problem comparing with LBS and INSEAD (because of continuing relationship between IMD and large corporations and institutions) and investment payoff after MBA is almost immediate (he took loan to get into IMD).

However, key factor is to gain relevant working experience 7+ yrs in major MNCs.

The interview (I learnt from CD applicants) can be conducted either in Shanghai or Singapore for Asians.

Hope it helps ;-)

BTW, IMD is among my choice due to opp cost (and age, haha)

;-)