Reunion event will draw prominent alumni from around the globe to discuss the future of business school education
INSEAD, the leading international business school, today announced the 20th anniversary mark of its PhD Programme. To honour this milestone, the school will host a reunion event on 25 June 2009 for PhD alumni from around the globe to gather on the Europe campus in Fontainebleau for a full day of panel discussions. The event will be introduced by Dean J. Frank Brown and moderated by Christoph Loch, Dean of INSEAD’s PhD Programme and Miklos Sarvary, INSEAD PhD alumnus and incoming Dean of Executive Education. More than 30 PhD alumni will convene to participate in roundtable discussions on the future of business school education.
The event will include an address by the first PhD programme director Ludo Van der Heyden, The Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation, Professor of Technology and Operations Management. Additionally, an overview of the history of the programme will be presented by Christoph Loch, Dean of the PhD Programme. Two panel discussions will take place throughout the day addressing the topics of ‘Global Careers in Academia’ and ‘The Changing Role of Business Schools in a Globalising World.’
‘Our PhD Programme is at the forefront of business research, setting many milestones over the course of the programme’s 20-year history,’ said J. Frank Brown, Dean of INSEAD. ‘INSEAD is the first of the world’s leading business schools to offer a PhD Programme in Asia. We are deeply committed to building on solid research as the basis for excellence in teaching and training the faculty who will shape the business education of the future.’
Launched in 1989, INSEAD’s PhD in Management is designed to prepare outstanding individuals for an academic career at leading business schools. The PhD Programme has placed students at top schools in the USA, Europe, and Asia; this has also reinforced the research environment at INSEAD. Students specialise in one of six fields: Decision Sciences, Finance, Marketing, Organisational Behaviour, Strategy, Technology and Operations Management.
The expected duration of studies leading to the degree award is four to five years of full-time study. The programme commences in early September: 10 to 15 candidates are admitted each year, bringing the overall numbers to about 65 candidates from over 30 nationalities. The first two years are devoted to course work. The first year courses consist primarily of a study of the fundamental disciplines and methodologies of the practice and conduct of research in management. The second year is concerned with further, in-depth study in the student’s field of concentration, concluding with a comprehensive field examination. The third and fourth years are devoted to research and to dissertation preparation in the student’s chosen field, culminating in the submission and defense of the dissertation.
‘We have made great strides since the programme’s inception to build an internationally renowned PhD in Management offering which has produced an alumni group with positions at the top business schools worldwide,’ said Christoph Loch, Dean of INSEAD’s PhD Programme. ‘The first 20 years of the programme has laid the foundation for a future which will surely set the agenda in business management education.’
Since September 2008, the programme has been fully integrated across INSEAD’s two campuses in Fontainebleau and Singapore, both in content and via world-class pedagogical infrastructure, in teaching. Students have the opportunity to study on both campuses and interact with faculty, companies and research sites in both locations.
In addition, students have the possibility to study for up to one year at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, in the context of the student interchange that is part of the INSEAD-Wharton Alliance.
For more information about INSEAD’s PhD Programme, please visit the PhD website.
