What Eight Weeks in South Asia Taught Me About Access

It's early morning in Old Delhi, and I'm watching a line of homeless residents wait patiently for a standing chest X-ray, one after another. At the same time, a health worker carefully records each person's contact information into an archive so they can be found again if something comes up. No fuss, no resistance, just people quietly showing up for themselves. I remember thinking: this is what “access” actually looks like. Not a supply chain diagram. Not a slide.

My Summer Internship: Unlocking Corporate Fundraising for MSF in Latin America

My path to humanitarian fundraisingBefore INSEAD, I spent four years at Mastercard Advisors working on growth and go-to-market strategy for banks, fintechs and retailers across Latin America and the Middle East.  Most of my projects came down to a single question: how do you build a revenue stream that lasts?  

From Biopolymers to Water Sensors: What the Turner MIINT Programme Taught Us About Impact Investing

This blog was co-authored by MBA'26J students Ana Velozo dos Santos, Gabrielle Walzel, Kad Rajan,  Luke Robitaille and Maxim DoironImpact investing is often described in simple terms: backing companies that deliver both financial returns and positive social or environmental outcomes. Evaluating those opportunities is far more complex. The Turner MBA Impact Investing Network & Training (MIINT) programme gave us the chance to experience that complexity firsthand.

The Abu Dhabi Exchange: A Defining Moment of My INSEAD Experience

Writing this from Fontainebleau, I'm struck by how indecision can rob us of life's greatest moments. I wasn't meant for Abu Dhabi's exchange, telling everyone that I was a ‘good finance person’; there was no financial ROI in campus exchanges. Had that been the end of this story, I would have missed out on what is unequivocally the best part of my INSEAD MBA experience. As bidding for campus exchanges closed, three individual conversations with my colleagues Shahzen, Abhi, and Anusha forced me to reevaluate why I was here and what ROI truly means.

From Aspiration to Market Reality: Turning Ambition into Market Fit

By Rhoda Yap, Executive Director, INSEAD Career Development Centre | 2 February 2026Career transitions are often framed as personal journeys—stories of ambition, reinvention and courage. These narratives are compelling and often inspiring, but they rarely tell the whole story. In practice, many stalled or frustrating career transitions do not progress as expected; not because individuals lack talent, motivation, or clarity of purpose, but because effort is often concentrated on the self without a sufficiently structured way of engaging with market realities. 

Master Strategist Day 2025: How Our Team Built a Bold, Credible Path for BGA in the United States

This blog was contributed by MBA'26J students Alex Byun, Farah Behkaazi, Giovanni Leone, James Campin and Yuexiao Li.Master Strategist Day (MSD) has a very particular energy at INSEAD. Part strategy sprint, part pressure test, it is the moment where weeks of classroom discussions suddenly turn into a real consulting engagement with a real organisation, real ambiguity, and limited time. It is also the moment you see how your study group works under pressure.
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