Press Releases - 2008
INSEAD Establishes Global Leadership Initiative

INSEAD, the leading international business school, has established a Leadership Initiative which brings together research and teaching on pressing issues facing international leaders.

INSEAD and Aon create new chair in international risk and strategic management

INSEAD, the leading international business school and Aon Corporation, the world's leading provider of global risk management and consulting services, today announced the creation of the Aon Dirk Verbeek Chair in International Risk and Strategic Management.

The International Leadership Association Honours INSEAD Professor with Lifetime Achievement Award

INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced that Manfred Kets de Vries was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Leadership Association (ILA).

INSEAD sets global business agenda at Leadership Summit Asia 2008

INSEAD, the leading international business school, recently held its second annual Leadership Summit Asia on its Asia campus in Singapore. The summit – drawing more than 300 distinguished business and global leaders – focused on the theme, ‘Is Asia riding – or writing – the future?’ Speakers from business, government, academia and the media discussed how recent events ranging from the U.S. presidential election to the financial crisis will impact the rise of Asia and Western interactions with the region.

Abu Dhabi’s Department of Civil Service executives begin Master Of Entrepreneurial Leadership at INSEAD

INSEAD, the leading international business school and the UAE’s Department of Civil Service, have officially launched the new Master of Entrepreneurial Leadership (MEL) degree with the start of classes at the INSEAD Abu Dhabi Centre.

INSEAD Centre receives international award for family business

INSEAD, the leading international business school, is pleased to announce that the school’s Wendel International Centre for Family Enterprise and INSEAD Professor Randel Carlock, its Director, have received the International Award for Achievement by the Family Firm Institute (FFI).

INSEAD partners with the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards

INSEAD announces today its partnership for the second year with the prestigious Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards. The awards are an annual business plan competition for women entrepreneurs from all over the world, and were created in 2006 by Cartier and the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society in partnership with INSEAD and McKinsey.

INSEAD Gender Diversity Initiative


INSEAD, the leading international business school has created the INSEAD Gender Diversity Initiative. The initiative will coordinate, support and build on the school’s many activities relating to women’s participation in business and business education. Its creation reaffirms the school’s commitment to harnessing the management potential of women from diverse cultures throughout the world.

INSEAD receives record number of European Case Awards

INSEAD, the leading international business school, dominated the European Case Awards by winning seven of the nine awards, as well as the Overall Award, for the second year in a row. The school has received the Overall Award more than 10 times in the 17-year history of the ecch European Case Awards.
INSEAD and Mubadala to create Chair in Corporate Governance and Strategy

Mubadala Development Company and the INSEAD Centre for Research and Executive Education in Abu Dhabi today announced the signing of an agreement to create the Mubadala Chair in Corporate Governance and Strategy.
INSEAD Website wins International Stevie® Award in Fifth Annual International Business Awards

INSEAD, the international business school, has won an International Stevie Award for Best Homepage in the website category of The 2008 International Business Awards, a global, business awards programme honouring great performances in business.

Recipients of International Stevie Award trophies were selected from over 1,700 entries received from businesses, in more than 30 countries. 
INSEAD introduces PhD in Management in Singapore

INSEAD today announced the extension of the INSEAD PhD in Management programme to its Asia campus in Singapore.
In the first cohort, five new PhD students will join the Singapore campus and eight on the Europe campus on 27 August 2008.
INSEAD names new Dean of MBA programme

INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced it has named Professor Jake Cohen as the new Dean of the school’s MBA programme. Effective 1 September 2008, Professor Cohen will succeed Professor Antonio Fatás who has served as the Dean of the programme since 2004.
The global debate on women in the workplace comes to Abu Dhabi

Future government leaders and senior business executives urgently need to adopt a more inclusive attitude towards women and to value their role in the workplace. That was the key message delivered at the launch today of the internationally acclaimed book Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution, by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, with former Financial Times writer Alison Maitland.
UAE tops Mideast’s IT competitiveness index

The United Arab Emirates continues to lead the Middle East’s information and communication technology (ICT) readiness index, according to the Global Information Technology Report (GITR), a joint study conducted by World Economic Forum and INSEAD, one of the world’s leading business schools with campuses in Europe and Asia and a Centre for Executive Education and Research in Abu Dhabi.
The Wharton School and INSEAD renew Alliance for four more years

Thomas S. Robertson, Dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and J. Frank Brown, Dean of INSEAD, announced the renewal of the partnership between the two schools for four more years.
INSEAD honours Carlos Ghosn with Second Annual Transcultural Leadership Award

INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced it will present its second annual Award for Transcultural Leadership to Carlos Ghosn, President and Chief Executive Officer, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., and President and Chief Executive Officer, Renault S.A.
INSEAD Private Equity Club hosts Inaugural Panel Discussion in Asia

The INSEAD Private Equity Club (IPEC) hosted the Inaugural IPEC Private Equity Panel Discussion on ‘Investing in Asia: Opportunities and Challenges’ on 17 April 2008 at the Asia campus in Singapore.
Department of Civil Service signs major leadership development agreement with INSEAD

The Department of Civil Service (DCS) has signed a major Professional Services Agreement with INSEAD, one of the world’s leading international business schools to deliver a customised Masters of Entrepreneurial Leadership, developed to reflect the overall strategy and objectives of the Emirate.
INSEAD 2008 Transcultural Leadership Award

Mr Carlos Ghosn, President and CEO of Renault and President and CEO of Nissan, received the INSEAD 2008 Transcultural Leadership Award.  The presentation was made by INSEAD Dean Frank Brown at the second annual INSEAD Leadership Summit, the Business School for the World, at its Europe campus in Fontainebleau, France.
INSEAD hosts Leadership Summit 2008

International leaders from business, government and academia discuss global citizenship at the second annual Leadership Summit on INSEAD’S Europe campus in Fontainebleau, France
The secret to less is more - "The Momentum Effect"

INSEAD Professor’s book offers a first-hand look at how companies can deliver continuous and exceptional growth through smarter investments
INSEAD receives record number of European Case Awards

Recognised for consistent commitment to deliver quality new case teaching materials

Deutsche Bank and INSEAD launch the Deutsche Knowledge Institute based in Singapore

Deutsche Bank and INSEAD today launched the start of an innovative partnership – known as the Deutsche Knowledge Institute – which sees the institutions working together to create a sustainable programme of development for Deutsche Bank employees in Asia Pacific.

INSEAD launches Open-enrolment Programmes in Abu Dhabi

INSEAD Dean Frank Brown examines the region’s growing need for “Transcultural Business Leaders.”

First Middle East Healthcare Leadership Programme launched by Johnson & Johnson Middle East and INSEAD

Abu Dhabi, UAE (21 February 2008) – Johnson & Johnson Middle East, in partnership with the INSEAD, one of the world’s leading and largest graduate business schools, launched the Middle East Healthcare Leadership Programme. Based on a similar training programme in Europe, the Middle East Healthcare Leadership Programme (MEHLP) aims to provide healthcare managers with business and leadership skills required to deliver world class services across the region.
Europe can successfully contribute to a greener global economy

Greening the Economy: New Energy for Business is the highly topical theme of
the sixth European Business Summit (www.ebsummit.eu), co-organised by
FEB and BUSINESSEUROPE. The European Commission recently announced its energy and climate package, which sets out very ambitious objectives for 2020. Turning climate ambition into reality is a major challenge to European businesses, and especially to Belgian companies, which are already eco-efficiency leaders. To gain a better insight into how our businesses can cope with the climate challenge and to see what kind of supporting role policy can play, FEB commissioned INSEAD, the international business school, to carry out a research project.
FAST STRATEGY - How strategic agility will help you stay ahead of the game

INSEAD, today announced the launch of FAST STRATEGY, a new book co-authored by Yves Doz, Professor of Strategy at INSEAD, and Mikko Kosonen, former CSO/CIO of Nokia, now Executive VP of the Finnish Innovation Fund.
Family business transition crucial to economic stability in the Middle East

INSEAD Seminar Highlights Challenges for Local  Businesses
Dr. Franz B. Humer is new Chairman of INSEAD’s Board of Directors

The Board of INSEAD has appointed Dr. Franz B. Humer, Chairman and Chief Executive of F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd,  as Chairman-elect of the Board to succeed Mr. Cees van Lede as of 1 July 2008. Mr. van Lede will continue to serve on the INSEAD Board.
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