I am from Guilin, a city in Southern China famous for its limestone karst hills. In my childhood, I wondered what was beyond the town’s scenic view. My father is a worker at China Railway, and most of my friends from childhood are workers in China Railway just like their fathers. I studied Computer Science, therefore most of my college classmates are software developers. However, I am different. I am a sales manager at a telecom provider and I have lived in Southeast Asia for the last four years.

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Dear Readers, Nice to meet you all. I am one of the INSEAD student bloggers from class of 2019 December, and will begin in Jan' 2019. Here is my first blog on "The INSEAD MBA Experience" which explains some of the reasons that I pursued the MBA programme with INSEAD. Hope it helps and good luck !

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I found him sitting down on some small stairs on the rooftop part of the building, looking at the city night view. Beer can in his hand. It would be dawn in several hours, the time when the sky should be the darkest. But it is never truly dark in a Singapore night, as the lights of the millions of souls living in the city brighten up the eternally starless night sky. “That was one hell of a party,” I said, sitting down on one stair above him. “Well, it’s one hell of a year.” He took a sip from his can.

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Today, I go off the beaten track to share something that has left a huge impression on me personally. This happened a few weeks back at The Global Luxury Forum, an annual event organised by RCLG (Retail, Consumer and Luxury Goods Club).

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Greetings, Readers!  I’ve volunteered to be one of the INSEAD 19D student bloggers, so let me take a moment to introduce myself.  I’m Nadine, a former diplomat and career public servant, probably not your typical MBA candidate. I'm American at heart, and also Canadian on paper. I grew up in Texas and have also lived in Washington, Jakarta, and Brussels. The stars aligned, and now I’m about to embark on my MBA journey at INSEAD as a 19D admit. In a previous guest post, I explained many of the factors that led me to choose INSEAD over other MBA programmes in the US and Europe. Today, I’ll tal

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“I loved my time at INSEAD. Not only because of the amazing people I met and the life-changing experience, but also because it gave me the occasion to think about the professional I wanted to be”. My first interviewer during my INSEAD application (which was utterly interesting, by the way) ended our conversation with these words .

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I wanted to pass along a few contributions from successful applicants who were not my clients, but part of my INSEAD thread on GMAT Club. I think you will find at least one or two things helpful!

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There are eleven official languages of South Africa: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, SiSwati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu. Popular comedian Trevor Noah recites funny stories in his book “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” on navigating this multilingualism, when he was growing up in apartheid-era South Africa.

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It started way before I jumped on that plane to Singapore… It probably started when I was five or six…

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Dear all, I love observing people. Often, I am looking for inspiration: How are others doing things? Is there anything I can learn from them? Especially in new settings, foreign countries or when I am with people I think highly of. But sometimes, I simply get lost watching and then my brain takes me places.

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