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Top Career Tips from Our Alumni

It is never too early to start thinking about your post-MBA career. Whether you are actively preparing for your MBA or planning to do so in the near future, these tips from our alumni will help you work towards achieving your career goals.

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The Higher Purpose

An MBA degree is much more than a means to haul yourself up the corporate ladder. Learn how INSEAD enabled our alumni to make a career change towards social enterprise and sustainable businesses with social impact.

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5 Questions to Ask Before Embarking on an MBA Programme

While there are benefits of an MBA programme, such as the classroom experience, global networks, added knowledge and skill sets, and global job opportunities, you will need to do an evaluation and ask some pertinent questions before deciding if an MBA best meets your needs.

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5 Tips on Leading Cross-Cultural Teams

With today’s increasingly global marketplace, knowing how to lead a cross-cultural team should be part of every manager's key skill set. Learn how to decode cultural differences in order to work effectively with clients, suppliers and colleagues around the world.

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The TIEMBA Experience: A Great Beginning

Our Tsinghua-INSEAD Executive EMBA (TIEMBA) participant Kok How Lee shares his experience, first month into the programme.

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6 Things I Learned During My EMBA

My 18-month Tsinghua-INSEAD Executive MBA (TIEMBA) journey is coming to an end in the coming month. I thought of writing an article to celebrate this experience and encourage others in the quest of finding a new direction. The EMBA will change your life and view if you allow yourself to be open and receptive. Here are my thoughts on the programme.

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Is an MBA Worth It?

Whether it’s founding environmental NGOs, starting nation-wide education initiatives, or helping other women with their entrepreneurial dreams, INSEAD’s women alumnae are doing it all. Learn how an INSEAD MBA value-added to their careers and gave them the confidence to do it all.

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Want to Work for a Start-up?

I am still fairly new to Singapore having just passed my eleven-month anniversary since arriving from Washington, DC. I regularly advise students to build relationships in the industry where they want to work. Relationship building can happen in many ways and one way to learn more about an industry, give back to your professional community, and build strong bonds with like-minded individuals is to volunteer.

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I start my journey with INSEAD

From the Point of the ignition to the final drive, The Point of journey is not to arrive. When I decided to do my MBA, with a bit of Google search and a few phone calls, I knew that INSEAD was the school I wanted to join. I am one of those few who applied only to INSEAD. Here's my INSEAD journey timeline: 21st April 2017 : GMAT day.

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Summer Internship with Start-up Farmers

Founded by INSEAD Alum Romain Sautrau ('12D), Start-up Farmers is a venture capital fund and startup accelerator based in Paris, France, that is dedicated to solving the challenges of feeding a growing population in an environmentally sustainable way. It works to support entrepreneurs based in France, Western Europe, and Israel who have innovative disruptive solutions for the future of agriculture.