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Alumni Reunion Weekend - June 2019

28 - 30 Jun '19

Alumni Reunion Weekend - June 2019

Europe campus
28 - 30 Jun '19

Alumni Reunion Weekend - June 2019

Europe campus
Welcome

Welcome

Dear Alumni,

As you have experienced for yourself, INSEAD is a truly unique institution. We graduate inspired individuals equipped with sound business knowledge and a strong global mindset. Through the vision laid out by our founders, we have truly become an independent and entrepreneurial business school with an unmatched global outreach and unparalleled diversity of students, executive participants and alumni.

This weekend, I am excited to share my plans with you and look forward to hearing your views. Our Alumni Reunions team has worked hard to put together an incredible programme for you. Besides the Plenary Session that will focus on the MBA programme and our alumni network, our Faculty Forums also will cover important themes relevant to the quickly-evolving business world of today.

Throughout the weekend’s Social and Networking events, your Reunion will provide you with the ideal opportunity to expand your horizons – a chance to not only reconnect with your former classmates, but also to interact with alumni of other classes that hold the same INSEAD spirit.

I look forward to sharing many conversations with you this special weekend and invite you to join me in imagining the incredible potential of INSEAD. We have a powerful network of over 58,500 alumni in 176 countries. United, we can forge an ambitious future for our school.

Ilian Mihov
Dean

 

Highlights from the last June Reunion

 

 

Programme

Programme*

*The programme is subject to changes - please check this webpage regularly for updates.

Making it happen

Making it happen

Get involved in the organisation of your reunion. Make a difference to this alumni reunion weekend.

INSEAD would like to thank our Reunion ambassadors:

CLASS OF 1994J

Reunion Chairs - Peter McWhinnie, Marc Thomas
Reunion Committee - Alessio Ascari, Margaret Bawden, Isabelle de Boysson, Sergio Fogel, Jose Fortunato, Berthold von Freyberg, Elisabeth Kalman Sarkis, Paula Kirby, Julia Levy, Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz, Sandrine Montsma, Bernard Nicolay, Tim Selman, Konrad von Szczepanski, Mariam Toulan, Miguel Zurita Goni
Reunion Fund Committee - Nick Elliott, Sergio Gonella, Roberto Italia, Paula Kirby, Peter McWhinnie, Eduardo Moradas

CLASS OF 1994D

Reunion Chair - Henning Holter
Reunion Committee - Norbert Backhaus, Mariana Belmar Da Costa, Jean-Marc Cannet, Martin Fleming, Anne Chacour Hawkins, Laura Huckabee-Jennings, Mariana Marques dos Santos, Natalhie Mosquet, Helen Or, Joachim Palmé, Maria Romero Miguel, Marc Truchet, Simon Wensley
Reunion Fund Chair - James Pitt
Reunion Fund Committee - Jolyon Barker, Martin Fleming, Anne Chacour Hawkins, Paolo Andrea Rossi

CLASS OF 1999J

Reunion Chair - Andrea Poptsis
Reunion Committee - Candy Bowles, Harri Chakoori, Sheila Coutts, Alok Goyal, Georgina Grenon, Rene Griemens, Andrew Land, Maria Peña, Alasdair Thomson, Michiko Sakamoto, Navdeep Sheera
Reunion Fund Committee - Candy Bowles, Diederik Van Rappard

CLASS OF 1999D

Reunion Chair - Sebastian Reschke
Reunion Committee - Fredrik Ahlberg, Kako Dubs, Marina Niforos, Laurence Shorter
Reunion Fund Chair - Adam Norwitt
Reunion Fund Committee - Maribelle Beckmann, Sebastian Reschke, Martin Roll

If you would like to learn more about becoming an alumni volunteer, please contact:

Marie Ferreira
Associate Director, Alumni and Institutional Events
Tel: +33 1 60 72 42 74

Giving back

Giving back

All four returning 20 and 25 year reunion classes are fundraising for INSEAD.

Gifts can be made to any INSEAD cause and all gifts made between 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2019 will be counted to the class total, and also count towards participation in the INSEAD Force For Good campaign.

New Salamanders will be presented at the Dean’s Leadership Reception during the reunion weekend. To find out your lifetime giving total and how far you are from the next Salamander level, or for any questions about your giving, please contact [email protected]

Find out more about INSEAD’s Force For Good campaign and make your gift here.

 

Mini Summer at INSEAD

Mini Summer @ INSEAD

Welcome to what will be a fun and experiential learning journey! Inspired by INSEAD’s two-week Summer@INSEAD Business Awareness Summer camp, this one-day Programme takes the young participants through an exciting live case. Rather than reading about what managers in the case could do, the participants are those managers and live the case themselves over a simulated period of time. Comprising academic lectures, team work and role play, the participants will come away with some knowledge and experience of what it is like to manage a company and craft a strategy in a competitive and fast-changing world.

Adrian Johnson
Adjunct Professor, Programme Director, Summer @ INSEAD

 

During the Mini Summer@INSEAD live case simulation day, the participants will be handed the reigns of management in a startup spin-off of a large family business. The new business was founded a year ago, has a prototype product, but needs a team that can convert this concept into a business.

Working in competing teams, the participants must put together all the components needed to build the new business, from customer exploration through business modelling to crafting an executable business strategy for the company.

The day comprises cycles of plenary lectures, team work, role play, team presentations and an innovative tech learning platform. Combining experiential learning, an introduction to business, learning about the key elements of entrepreneurial business building and applying that learning in a safe and fun environment!

The day will culminate in a “vison fair”, in which the participants will present their vision and strategy for the company to stakeholders (and the participants’ parents!).

The schedule is:

Friday 28 June

 
18.45-19.30Registration and welcome Upper Gallery
19.30-20.00Kick-off drinksINSEAD Bar
   

Saturday 29 June 

 
08.00-08.30Registration and welcome Cercle
08.30-09.30Immersion into the live case
Introduction to the case, the characters, roles and the agenda for the day 
Amphi T, Cercle
09.30-10.30

Team work
Role selection
The team members meet in their break out rooms to decide the allocation of roles their team. The roles to choose from are:

CDO - Chief Design Officer
CFO - Chief Financial Officer
CHRO - Chief Human Resources Officer
CMO - Chief Marketing Officer
COO - Chief Operating Officer

Amphi T, Cercle
10.30-11.15Role Play
Customer centricity
A customer exploration exercise. Some participants play the role of potential customers and others stay in their team roles to interview the customers. The aim is to discover what the pain points are of different customer groups. The outcome is to decide on which customers they would like to focus and what problems they are really solving for those customer groups
Amphi T, Cercle
11.15-11.45Role play debriefAmphi T, Cercle
11.45-12.30Guest speaker
Entrepreneur Erwin Feldhaus MBA'99D
Amphi T, Cercle
12.30-13.30Picnic lunchCercle
13.30-14.00

Business modeling briefing

Introduction to different kinds of business models, the lean methodology, the concept of the minimum viable product, the value proposition canvas and the business model canvas.

Amphi T, Cercle
14.00-14.45Team workAmphi T, Cercle
14.45-15.15Strategy fair briefing
Strategy and Scaling
In preparation for the vision fair, introduction to what strategy is and the Blue Ocean Canvas strategy canvas and the concept of the “non-customer”.
Amphi T, Cercle
15.15-16.15

Strategy fair preparation
Preparation of the vision fair

Each team prepares a visual presentation using the concepts of design thinking. No power point or projections, but instead the teams will decorate their “booths” for their creative presentations of the strategy and vision for their company.

Amphi T, Cercle
16.15-16.30Break 
16.30-17.00The vision fair (with parents)
Each team will present several times to a rotating audience of role players representing stakeholders of the business. The parents of the participants are invited to this fun, dynamic, energetic visual vision fair.
Amphi T, Cercle
17.00-17.30Announcement of the winning team and certificatesAmphi T, Cercle
17.30-18.00Break 
18.00-19.00What's your next career step?
Thibault Seguret MBA'12J, Programme Director, Master in Management
Amphi T, Cercle
20.00Meet at Primo Bacio for dinner, Rue Montebello, Fontainebleau
Note that no alcoholic beverages will be served at the dinner. All parents must come in person and pick up their children by 23.00 latest. 

Parents who would like to take their teenager to the Château after-dinner party as of 22.30 should let us know that they give permission to the INSEAD team to bring their children to the Château in order to be under the parents’ responsibility once at the Château (a permission form will have to be signed and returned beforehand)

Practical information:
50 children maximum (registration on a first come, first served basis)
Proficiency in English language required
Cover letter from the child to support his/her application to be sent to [email protected] by 10th March 2019
Price: 180€ 

Welcome back classes of '94J, '94D, '99J and '99D!

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