Everything You Want to Know About INSEAD

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INSEAD. The place where graduates speak three languages. And where 40% of graduates go into consulting.

Listen to the recording of our conversation with Pejay Belland, Director of Marketing, Admissions & Financial Aid at INSEAD, for great insights into the program and tips that applicants to any MBA program should know.

00:01:42 – Singapore, Fontainebleau, and the USA in 10 months?

00:03:25 – Does the exchange program come at the expense of community?

00:05:04 – Why INSEAD likes consultants and consultants like INSEAD.

00:07:33 – Entrepreneurship at INSEAD (50% of grads start their own company at some time in their career!).

00:09:52 – Changes to the INSEAD application: Really getting to know candidates as people.

00:16:25 – The new dean and his initiatives.

00:18:51 – The video essay: in the cards.

00:20:38 – INSEAD’s admissions process and what it means for applicants.

00:24:32 – Can you demonstrate “international outlook” if you’ve never left your home country?

00:25:42 – What Pejay wishes she could tell all applicants.

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Relevant Links:

• INSEAD
• INSEAD Admissions Video
• INSEAD Application Essay Tips
• MBA Admissions A-Z: 26 Terrific Tips
• 2014 Virtual Panel: Exploring European B-Schools

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inseadisthebest says

April 26, 2014 at 10:44 pm

Good job Linda in pulling up IMD. But they
sound unconvincing to even morons. Below is an extract of the chat I had with a
chinese student who is a lawyer from a top US school. “IMD is a
sinking ship. Their leadership concepts are obsolete and companies don’t
recognise any of the fish shit or putting the fish on the table. But hang on !
what does IMD know about the real world ! Nothing at all !IMD has become a
shutter island. They provoke conflicts, mentally rape and morally impair sane
students so much so that eventually they get addicted to shrinks. Control freak
program director imprisoned students over the last few years in the study rooms
as a result of which it got converted into a wine cellar and whore house. The rooms
reek of alcohol and my friend has also shared pictures which show condoms
strewn over the floor everywhere. Their career services director disappeared
last year under the pretext of sick leave when the recruitment season was its
peak and the management had no clue about her whereabouts or wellbeing. Maybe
they never cared .The program director issued an apology to cover up the
pathetic state of career affairs. The career services staff have no
understanding what so ever of what are the real world talent requirements. Nor
do they take the effort or interest to find out and feed it back to the program
for improvement. All that they do is sit and make phone calls to the common
companies which recruit on every B school campus in hordes like Mckinsey, Google,
Amazon . So what do they really deliver to a small lot of 90 students in terms
of differentiation or customisation. Bullocks !! Their career service don’t
even know that recruitment requirements are different across different
cultures. They talk about being an International B school. What is alarming
that their career services team even has no idea about the difference between
various industries and functions in any organisation. How can they guide the
students ? This guy consulted a private executive coach and was shocked to hear
that all the coaching he had received on his CV and motivation letter at IMD
were redundant in the real world. Even Swiss and European companies have little
faith in IMD. IMD has recruited several students with GMAT scores less than 600
who come from family business or china and the latter cannot even speak
English. Some students were compulsive alcoholics like a black guy from Dubai
and even bribed the program director with alcohol. Their much hyped reference
checks are baseless. It would serve them better if they stop their excessive
marketing to gullible students and rather do some ethical marketing with
companies to increase their credibility and visibility and above all develop a
program which meets the real world requirement.

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inseadisthebest says

April 26, 2014 at 10:44 pm

Good job Linda in pulling up IMD. But they
sound unconvincing to even morons. Below is an extract of the chat I had with a
chinese student who is a lawyer from a top US school. “IMD is a
sinking ship. Their leadership concepts are obsolete and companies don’t
recognise any of the fish shit or putting the fish on the table. But hang on !
what does IMD know about the real world ! Nothing at all !IMD has become a
shutter island. They provoke conflicts, mentally rape and morally impair sane
students so much so that eventually they get addicted to shrinks. Control freak
program director imprisoned students over the last few years in the study rooms
as a result of which it got converted into a wine cellar and whore house. The rooms
reek of alcohol and my friend has also shared pictures which show condoms
strewn over the floor everywhere. Their career services director disappeared
last year under the pretext of sick leave when the recruitment season was its
peak and the management had no clue about her whereabouts or wellbeing. Maybe
they never cared .The program director issued an apology to cover up the
pathetic state of career affairs. The career services staff have no
understanding what so ever of what are the real world talent requirements. Nor
do they take the effort or interest to find out and feed it back to the program
for improvement. All that they do is sit and make phone calls to the common
companies which recruit on every B school campus in hordes like Mckinsey, Google,
Amazon . So what do they really deliver to a small lot of 90 students in terms
of differentiation or customisation. Bullocks !! Their career service don’t
even know that recruitment requirements are different across different
cultures. They talk about being an International B school. What is alarming
that their career services team even has no idea about the difference between
various industries and functions in any organisation. How can they guide the
students ? This guy consulted a private executive coach and was shocked to hear
that all the coaching he had received on his CV and motivation letter at IMD
were redundant in the real world. Even Swiss and European companies have little
faith in IMD. IMD has recruited several students with GMAT scores less than 600
who come from family business or china and the latter cannot even speak
English. Some students were compulsive alcoholics like a black guy from Dubai
and even bribed the program director with alcohol. Their much hyped reference
checks are baseless. It would serve them better if they stop their excessive
marketing to gullible students and rather do some ethical marketing with
companies to increase their credibility and visibility and above all develop a
program which meets the real world requirement.