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Alumni Reunion Weekend - October 2017

06 - 08 Oct '17

Alumni Reunion Weekend - October 2017

Europe campus
06 - 08 Oct '17

Alumni Reunion Weekend - October 2017

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 international wisdom.  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 look forward to sharing my plans with you and I want to hear your views.  Our Alumni Reunions team has worked hard and put together an incredible programme for you.  Besides the Plenary Session which will focus on the MBA programme and our Alumni network, our Faculty Forums will also cover important themes relevant to the 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, with a powerful network of more than 54,000 Alumni in 170 countries united, as we create an ambitious future for INSEAD.

Ilian Mihov

Ilian Mihov
Dean

Programme

Programme

*Programme is subject to changes - please check again to view any updates.
 

Friday 6 October

17.00-18.00 - Upper gallery
Registration and welcome coffee  

18.00-19.15 - Amphi A
Developing responsible leaders (in business schools): wishful thinking?
Henri-Claude de Bettignies, Emeritus Professor of Asian Business
The Aviva Chair in Leadership and Responsibility, Emeritus​

19.15 - Main reception
MBA'77 bus to Giandomenico Magliano's residence in Paris 

19.30 onwards
Informal dinners organised by classes 
MBA'72: Table des Maréchaux, Hotel Napoléon, Fontainebleau
MBA'77: 20:30 - Giandomenico Magliano's residence 
MBA'82: Bistrot des Amis, Fontainebleau
MBA'87J: Grand Café, Fontainebleau
MBA'87D: Le Mécano, Fontainebleau 

23.00/23.30
MBA'77 bus back to campus and Fontainebleau hotels

Saturday 7 OCTober

8.00-9.00 - Upper gallery
Registration and welcome coffee   

Faculty session

9.00-10.15 - Amphi A
Leadership and beyond
Manfred Kets de Vries, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change

10.15-10.30 Coffee break  

Plenary session

10.30-12.00 - Amphi A
INSEAD Present and Future

Nida Januskis, Associate Dean, Advancement and Alumni Relations
Urs Peyer, Dean of Degree Programmes, Associate Professor of Finance
Parnashi Chakraborty, MBA Participant
Ilian Mihov, Dean of INSEAD, The Rausing Chaired Professor of Economic and Business Transformation, Professor of Economics

Networking with your class

12.15-14.00
Lunch and group photos

14.00-14.30
Fireside chat with the Dean
Ilian Mihov, Dean of INSEAD, The Rausing Chaired Professor of Economic and Business Transformation, Professor of Economics

FACULTY SESSION

14.45-16.00 - Amphi A
New Challenges for Europe
Jonathan Story, Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy
The Shell Fellow in Economic Transformation, Emeritus

Social and networking events

16.15-17.30
Class meetings organised by volunteers and/or free time
MBA'72 class session with Professor Henri-Claude de Bettignies
MBA'77 class meeting
MBA'82 class session with Professor Linda Brimm
MBA'87J class meeting
MBA'87D class meeting with Professor Roger Lehman

18.00-19.15 - Cercle 
Dean's Leadership reception (by invitation only)

19.45-00.45 - Château de Fontainebleau
Reunion class dinners followed by dancing
Dress code: black tie/evening dress or cocktail attire/cocktail dress

    
 

Sunday 8 october

10.00-12.00 (meeting point: INSEAD bar)
MBA'87J&D walk in forest guided by Olivier Aron, MBA'86J
Other promotions are welcome to join!

12.00 -13.00
Session on Mindfulness with Rani Bhatia-Durand, MBA'91D - Amphi B

12.00-14.45 - INSEAD Restaurant
Farewell lunch

 

Speakers and presentations

Speakers


Developing Responsible Leaders (in business schools): wishful thinking?
Speaker: Henri-Claude de Bettignies

Media reports – quasi daily and in many countries - situations where corporations, their leaders and managers, seem to have a broken moral compass or engage in questionable behaviour. Government hopes to regulate, society reacts negatively, trust in business and in its leaders has vanished, with serious consequences for corporations. Taking examples from China (with the use of a short case) and from the rest of the world, we will question where change could come from? Can business schools really do something about the situation and avoid producing a few moral morons??


New Challenges for Europe 
Speaker: Jonathan Story
 

Leadership and beyond
Speaker: Manfred Kets de Vries

We need to be realistic rather than idealistic in terms of what we expect from leaders. This implies observing the actions of leaders, not just what they say, accepting that leaders sometimes have to do unpleasant things to be effective and that their actions and behavior should fit their operating reality.

For long-term sustainability of organizations it is important to develop reflective leaders. This implies, in order to understand others, we need to start with understanding ourselves. Equally, before asking others to change, we should seek to first change ourselves. We need to ask ourselves fundamental questions related to who we are and where we want to go. Also, in understanding and assessing ourselves we cannot separate our public (professional) life and private life. In helping leaders to know themselves better I have always advocated 720-degree assessments of leaders’ behavior – a 360º at work and a 360º at home. These kinds of assessments will stimulate executives to dive deeper into life and work issues.

How we as leaders interact with others is partially defined by the kind of attachment orientation we developed in childhood. In addition, to understand what makes people do what they do, I resort to the Clinical Paradigm framework to explore the subconscious forces underlying human behavior. To be more effective interpersonally, we have to learn to listen with the third ear – to use ourselves as an instrument by developing our emotional intelligence.

Finally, in my presentation some observations will be made about what brings happiness. Generally speaking, happiness is influenced by genetics, life circumstances, and intentional activities (conscious framing). The challenge becomes how to enable this conscious framing. What is the prescription for happiness? 

Making it happen

Making it happen

Get involved in the reunion organisation – Make the difference for this alumni reunion weekend.

INSEAD would like to thank our Reunion ambassadors:

CLASS OF 1972

Reunion Class Ambassador - Jürgen Dupré
Reunion Committee - Wolf-Michael Baeume, Maurizio Petitbon, Raymond Le Roy Liberge, Denis Thirouin
Reunion Fund Class Ambassador - Detlef Bindert

CLASS OF 1977

Reunion Class Ambassador - Régis Friès
Reunion Committee - Philippe Delouvrier, Vincent Desclee de Maredsous, Jean-Pierre d'Estienne d'Orves, Alain Estiot, Toni Greenwood, Nikolai Hamilton From, Antoine Le Sourd, John Metzger, Michael Obermayer, Pierre Petit, Maarten Schönfeld, Wenke Thoman, Georges Van Ussel
Reunion Fund Class Ambassador - Ulysses Kyriacopoulos

CLASS OF 1982

Reunion Class Ambassadors - Verlaine Moisset, Mary Ann O'Loughlin and Claude Perol
Reunion Committee - Mario Anid, François Barbier, Ursula Bretscher, Christopher Canty, Josseline Charas, Radhika Datta Dubash, Richard Evans, Hubert de La Villeon, Paul Kolowratnick,Tobias Krebs, Annie Luypaert, Philippe Luypaert, Mathias Peter Mangels, Ole-Christian Meyer, Stephen O'Brien, Pierre Oberholzer, Thierry-Georges Poignon, Antony Rousseas, Simon Russel Of Liverpool, Marcelle Speller, Franck Vautier 

Class of 1987J

Reunion Class Ambassadors - Sarina Dwek and Alexandra von Schroeter
Reunion Fund Class Ambassador - Alexandra von Schroeter
Reunion Committee - Gilad Avidar, Eric Bernheim, Carlo Canova, Cathryn Carlson, Gilles Destremau, Patrick Fuvel, Bruce McFee, Ishiro Myake, John Purkiss, Lionel Sauvage, Jean-François Sauvé, Suzanne Tylka, Gillian Wallace Wood

CLASS OF 1987D

Reunion Class Ambassador - Paul Lomas
Reunion Committee - Hans Berg, Matthew Cadbury, John Corrigan, Stuart Edward Jackson, Marc Lafeuille, Marc Le Borgne
Reunion Fund Class Ambassador - Hans Berg


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

Marie Ferreira, Tel: +33 (0)1 6072 4274

Giving back

Giving back

Alumni gifts provide valuable support for the INSEAD Alumni Fund.

Your contribution is an investment in enhancing the value of your school.  Every gift is important and we are deeply grateful to our alumni who support the school to mark the anniversary of their graduation.

INSEAD is special and the support of our alumni across the globe enables us to truly be ‘the Business School for the World’.

To make your gift now – please click here

Class of MBA'87J - The class of ‘87J is continuing to grow their existing MBA‘87J Special Profile Endowed Scholarship, which has already supported nine students to achieve their INSEAD dreams. They would like to increase the size of the fund by €636,000 to allow two €20,000 awards per year. Give here.

Class of MBA'87D - The class of ‘87D would like to raise a €500,000 gift for INSEAD in their reunion year. Classmates can choose where to direct their gift. So far, classmates have given to the Dean’s Annual Fund and two have created their own named scholarships. Give here.

Welcome back classes of MBA'72, MBA'77, MBA'82 and 87J&D!