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[Jul 06] si si ay be el oh ji

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[Jul 09] The Forest of Fontainebleau

Back in the Swing of things in Xela - Well, I’ve been back in Guatemala for a week now after my HBS interview. The restlessness of over analyzing and sometimes even dreaming about January 16th...
20 hours ago
[Jul 07] Apres l'Insead

ホワイトデー for me.（笑）　（Sweet gift for myself） - 今日はホワイトデー。で、写真は一足早いマイ・ホワイトデー（笑）。職場の女性陣には、昨日買ったスイーツが好評だったみたいで、選んだ僕としてもうれしい限りです。^^ それにしても、ここのスイーツは美味しい。ちょっと並ぶのが難点か・・・^^; --------- Today, we celebrate (?...
2 days ago
[Jul 08] Res I(p)sa

Jet lag - I know, I know, I'm slipping again. Two weeks without a post. Which means I made it barely two months before breaking my unwritten new year's resolution to...
5 days ago
[Jul 08] Laura in Singapore

Stresseraser - A couple of weeks ago Barry and I went to Fauxnesia to get some extra relax. You have to be careful lest your shirt catch fire! In more stressful adventure...
6 days ago
[Dec 07] Ms. Traveler

Cash With Payday Loans Without Scams - A no credit check payday loan is not a gimmick. You are not going to fill out the program and then get unhappy due to the fact there are other things stand...
1 week ago
[Jul 09] INSEAD insight

OB insights: Rewarding the effort, not just the outcome - Back in one of my Organisational Behaviour classes called the Psychology of Management, we learned about how to motivate people the right way. Often we focus...
4 weeks ago
[Jul 07] [Min] - (Tal) * 0 ™

Beautiful Sydney - I left the place 15 years ago with the convinced idea that Australian Sydney was the best city on the planet to live in. I returned to it with the firm con...
2 months ago
[Jul 08] The N Files

Losing - When you lose a parent, you lose so much more than only your mom or dad. You lose the feeling of being a daughter or a son, you lose family traditions that ...
2 months ago
[Dec 10] Ricky Wong's Blog

American Airline: Chapter 11 Restructuring? - Two days ago, I tried to change my American Airline ticket to an earlier day. The agent won't change it for anything less than $650. I tried to explain to...
3 months ago
[Jul 06] APOLOGOI

Not just updating the frameworks. Updating the frameworks of the frameworks. - Yesterday, the OECD hosted a roundtable on “Conflict and Fragility -- International Engagement in Fragile States -- Can’t We Do Better?” to accompany thei...
5 months ago
[Jul 06] The Life of Guy

GuyQuotes>Cowboys - "The things that get you fired for when you're young are the same things you win lifetime achievement awards for when you're older." - Francis Ford Coppola
5 months ago
[Jul 06] Scribbles

How Google+ Turned the Tide on the War for Talent - Cross posted from my Google Plus profile. Could Google+ be a turning point for Google against its competitors? Not in the product or revenue sense, but in ...
7 months ago
[Jul 10] NamrataInk's Weblog

Dear Diary, I am sorry for the ignorance but I am back in action now… - It’s been almost half a year since my last post and yes I can list 500 excuses but truth be told – I have been too engrossed in my life here in India… Back...
7 months ago
[Jul 07] C'est combien?

A Rocky Time - For the July long weekend we met up with some friends in Jasper for a weekend of camping, hiking and eating ice cream in town. Malign Canyon Hike (well ok,...
8 months ago
[Jul 08] Necromonger

Break-even... Payback Period... Whatever - Yep. Lot of people worry about break-even and pay-back for the MBA. Thought you might find it interesting to know that I broke even around Feb 2011. My cal...
9 months ago
[Jul 10] Global Citizen Experiment

Hey! Look Over There… - Over there in the side bar. You see that? No, not the “Follow me” widget. Keep going down. Now you’re looking at a QR Code. Keep going down. BINGO. There y...
1 year ago
[Jul 06] Running ragged

The Plan. Ish. - Right then! The race is on the 15th May, which gives me exactly 16 weeks to train.... and due to my love of wine, carbs and all things fatty, I figure it w...
1 year ago
[Dec 10] INSEAD Culinary club 2010

New food blog - Insead is now over. I moved to Moscow and started a new food blog where I share my beautiful food experiences be it a drop by a coffee shop, a book, a tri...
1 year ago
[Dec 10] My journey through an MBA

Autumn Leaves in Bourron Marlotte - The Autumnal forest has been one of the most beautiful experiences in Bourron Marlotte. Driving past trees I thought I recognised, day in and out on my dri...
1 year ago
[Jul 06] 远方世界

再游印度 - 2010年10月22日，下午5点15分（印度德里时间）从Agra（泰姬陵的所在地）到Delhi(德里)，250公里的路程，我们的车开了5个小时，这还是在交通相对通畅的时段。这相当于差不多从上海到杭州的距离，开车的话，最多门对门2个小时，做火车的话1个多小时，今后有高铁了，40分钟。所有来过印度的人，对其基础...
1 year ago
[Dec 06] Drop in the Ocean

Being positive - I wasted an entire weekend being a sulky idiot! I wish to make a resolution that I will never again be negative. The power of negative thought is too gre...
1 year ago
[Jul 11] INSEAD - The Journey

Work, play and sleep - pick two! - This is the reality for all business school students, especially so at INSEAD where you squeeze in 2 years in 1. Work, play and sleep, you can only pick tw...
1 year ago
[Dec 06] Peter Bakker

3 Reasons Why your Google PageRank is Still Important. - In discussions with SEO specialists I hear a lot lately that Google Pagerank is not important anymore. The reason for this statement is that Google has sta...
1 year ago
[Dec 10] OutOfMyJeans

Guest Post :: Still Ranting & Rambling - [I needed inspiration. I needed that biting wry sense of humor bitching away about life served up straight and strong. I needed that no-nonsense attitude t...
1 year ago
[Dec 10] The Swat Analysis

First impressions - My apologies to anyone who is still following this blog. This post (which I started exactly a month after being at INSEAD) is way way overdue by any standa...
1 year ago
[Dec 10] The Fonty Python

Bootcamp and Space Energy - I spent my P1 break at Bootcamp: The Startup - a two day workshop on how to start a company and I got to work on a very cool and very real project - a sc...
2 years ago
[Dec 09] Rant & Ramble at INSEAD

Guest Post :: Delusions and Grandeur - [I promise you that a final tell-all post is still taking its form inside my head. But in the meantime, I'm letting better writers sum up their experiences...
2 years ago
[Dec 10] Inseader2010's Blog

Departure day - Dec-28th 2009: So I am sitting here in the boarding area of Munich Airport, ready for a 15 hour trip to Singapore with a stop over Paris. All that goodbye-...
2 years ago
[Dec 09] Moving on....to INSEAD !

Till I collapse. - Years ago I read an economic theory which talked about growth in emerging markets. I dont remember much of it, but it went something like emerging markets,...
2 years ago
[Dec 09] From Yangtze to The Hudson

The Smell of Singapore - The facebook updates of my INSEAD classmates in Singapore got me a bit nostalgic about the summer I just spent in Singapore for my internship, especially k...
2 years ago
[Dec 10] The BS Applicant

So you want to know how to write a good essay? - Finally, I am going to share a meaningful piece of advice on application essays. This is something I noticed only now, after the scholarship results, but I...
2 years ago
[Dec 10] INSEAD Tango

Who am I? - .....Broccoli? Only in soup.....
2 years ago
[Dec 06] Tricky Wondalund

Run, Jog, Limp — All that matters is I did it :) - I started running as way to feel close to a person that I didn’t want to forget. It seemed like as good a reason as any to start running, fitness aside. Mo...
2 years ago
[Dec 06] l'optimiste

Some of the drives we / I had taken - As we were going through the pages of http://www.greatdrivingchallenge.com/ we were reminded of one thing that should have been here on this blog – a little ...
2 years ago
[Jul 08] Yariv Hammer

HBS Wharton and Stanford Published 2009-2010 Applications - Harvard Business School, Wharton, Stanford, MIT Sloan, Northwestern Kellogg, and Chicago Booth published their application deadlines. As expected Round 1 w...
2 years ago
[Jul 07] Nick and Amy

Stinky ToFu (and other brief Taiwan tales) - So this is one of those things I really should have blogged about after the Taipei trip. After years (literally!) of talking about 'Stinky ToFu' we found s...
2 years ago
[Jul 09] INSEAD 商學院台灣學生一枚

INSEAD入門介紹 - 官方版的INSEAD入門介紹
2 years ago
[Jul 09] Ahtrap

Signing out - It's been a pleasure dumping all my thoughts/concerns/learnings over the last 9 months or so. Hopefully, this has been of some use to some of you. I will n...
2 years ago
[Dec 09] Inseader

Invest in an INSEAD MBA or a DREAM HOUSE? - Well, I know few people who were afraid of investing lot of money in an MBA. They did their MBA from an average school, got an average job and, then, decid...
2 years ago
[Jul 07] Milan

India v/s NZ ODI series...my prediction - A throwback to my old programming days! if(Umpire != Bucknor) { if(weather != rain) { India = max(0, # of scheduled matches) NZ = min(0, # of scheduled matc...
3 years ago
[Dec 09] What's an MBA all about?

Learning at INSEAD - Each of us came here to INSEAD with different priorities. Some lucky guys have been sponsored by their company, and for them it is simply a to-do step for ...
3 years ago
[Dec 09] Manish's Weblog

Living on the edge – INSEAD Housing.. - It was a very difficult decision to go to business school with a 3 month old baby. To add to it, it was difficult to decide whether to live in Fontaineblea...
3 years ago
[Dec 08] Flying along on a current of hot air

INSEAD Singapore Review P2 - Thinking back this was a strange 8 weeks. I was disappointed with the academic experience – see below – but in terms of getting to know both the section in...
3 years ago
[Dec 08] Phathu

MBA Completed... and some tips for those starting in Singapore - Today I officially attend my last class of the MBA and submitted my last 2 assignments. This has been an AMAZING year. I simply can not put across the impa...
3 years ago
[Dec 08] Alex & Lili

November 28th - INSEAD Cabaret - Yaouh! We just had an amazing Cabaret at INSEAD where we realized how much students here can be creative. Alex of course with his Lipdub, George Bles with ...
3 years ago
[Jul 08] Wim dB

MBA admissions consulting service - A friend of mine, Yariv, started up an MBA admissions consulting service, he knows all the tips and tricks, used to be our academic representative too, so ...
3 years ago
[Jul 08] Hugo

Post de encerramento - Chegou a altura de fechar este blog. Ele aqui ficará como uma fonte de informação sobre o antes, durante e depois de um MBA no INSEAD. Muito raramente fa...
3 years ago
[Jul 07] Zanat0s

Looking over Tokyo, the world in my hands - Ladies and Gentlemen, The Zani is back. DO not ask why but now that I will have more time(it is called recession) I will have more time to devote to my loved...
3 years ago
[Jul 07] INSEAD Blog by Zanat0s

Looking over Tokyo, the world in my hands - Ladies and Gentlemen, The Zani is back. DO not ask why but now that I will have more time(it is called recession) I will have more time to devote to my loved...
3 years ago
[Jul 09] Life@INSEAD

British Irish national week - High school Club
3 years ago
[Dec 06] Auris

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3 years ago
[Jul 08] Million Dollar Spatula

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3 years ago
[Dec 08] The Sunslinger ...

Kicking into high gear - P4's just started and now I'm in the senior promotion and the July 09 promotion has just started. Wow. The months just fly by in a blink of an eye. Recrui...
3 years ago
[Jul 08] FutureFusion

China trip -
3 years ago
[Jul 08] Bharath Devanathan

Warsaw - Have you ever known a kid who was sandwiched between two bullies when he was growing up? He would hardly have escaped the torture inflicted upon him by one...
3 years ago
[Dec 08] Worldly Whys

Asia. France. America. - *This posting is not much about INSEAD and may offend you if you are French. Please trust that it is not my intention to offend anyone.* I'm now one of per...
3 years ago
[Jul 09] Power Leveling at INSEAD

Pre-reading - INSEAD expects incoming students to be familiar with the basics of economics, finance, and accounting. For this purpose, we are expected to buy and familiari...
3 years ago
[Jul 08] Le blog Hog

Goodbye P4 - I'm forced to say goodbye to P4, I wouldn't if it were only possible to hold on. I'm such a nostalgic. Singapore was good fun in P4...I can only guess the ...
3 years ago
[Jul 08] D.T.L.F.

Wedesday April 2, 2008 - 23:25 94 days left. “Live At Trance Energy 04-20-00″ set – Ferry Corsten I’m sitting here decompressing from another west wing extravaganza, so hungry that...
3 years ago
[Dec 08] Bluey Road To MBA

P2 - We received our P1 examination results today. Attached to our original examination answer booklets, INSEAD provides a summary of how we fare against the re...
3 years ago
[Jul 08] Around the world in an MBA

Doing a survey for SPSD - QuestionPro Online Survey Software and ContactPro Email Marketing employs an easy to use Wizard interface to author and deploy Web Based and Email Survey...
4 years ago
[Dec 08] Sedian

Sympathy for Jerome Kerviel - A lot of things have been happening lately - banking recruitment, gargantuan write offs, American elections, FT MBA rankings, where both INSEAD and LBS g...
4 years ago
[Dec 08] Dorothy

5 weeks in already! - I wonder what was going through the Dean's mind yesterday when my fellow P1's were drinking champagne in class before his presentation on the grading syste...
4 years ago
[Dec 06] Greyscalefuzz

Atonement isn't about atoning at all - I was fortunate today: a friend of mine (who works not far from where I work) had a couple of tickets to Atonement last night. She wasn't able to make it: ...
4 years ago
[Jul 07] DomoDomo

The First 100 Days... - Ok this really is going to be the final addition to this blog. I figured out talking about the post-INSEAD experience was part of the actual deal, and that ...
4 years ago
[Jul 08] Strawberrytints

choices and changes - I should be doing a hundred other things but I also have a hundred things to write about so I'm playing hokey on strategy & finance to write this post. Its...
4 years ago
[Dec 07] Where is Manolo?

Intrigue Bankers, a report from the future - by Johnny Debacle (from http://longorshortcapital.com/intrigue-bankers-a-report-from-the-future.htm) From the future, as of January 10th, 2008: A brief his...
4 years ago
[Jul 04] Finance Monkey

Fertility Preservation and Cancer - It looks like I have gone from an extremely big to an extremely small opponent as I was diagnosed with cancer over a year ago now - and my encounter with the...
4 years ago
[Jul 08] Guns & Butter

End of O-Week - No plan ever survives first contact with the enemy. Just finished sorting through my reading for the first week — that packet could stop a bullet. Still ti...
4 years ago
[Jul 07] The Career Casino

Tombstones - I recently got told off by some readers for leaving the full sentence that has been this blog without a full stop. Or so to speak. Truth be told, I have be...
4 years ago
[Dec 08] A Nomad's Journey

Application Process - I sent my application package towards an admission (keeping my fingers and toes crossed) for the January 2008 intake. Days later, on May 17th, I got a fri...
4 years ago
[Jul 07] NYFrog's

Epilogue - This is officially the last post in this blog. From now on I'll write from my regular blog here. The year at INSEAD has been, as promised, a roller coaster...
4 years ago
[Jul 08] Don Panza

One more week @ work Yippeeee - Just another week to go and I am a free bird ( provided I don't die of the workload my employer has piled upon me first).. Yippeee!!!! And then home to a m...
4 years ago
[Jul 07] Hallonman

Done! - My last project report was handed in on Friday. My last exam was this morning. We'll have our last Dinner @ Palais Barret tonight. Tomorrow, we leave for o...
4 years ago
[Dec 07] Where is Small?

End of P2 Holidays: Cambodia and Thailand - It has been really quite a long time since I wrote anything here but my recent trip around Asia has given me a little free time to put some thoughts toget...
4 years ago
[Jul 07] Joe and Caroline

- *What I like about Singapore* 1) INSEAD - not specific to Singapore, but an amazing place all the same. I've really enjoyed my time here. 2) The weather. I...
4 years ago
[Dec 07] Invisible Ink

In Between P1 and P2 - Period 1 is over. I am sitting in the back of an A310 flying home to visit my parents. Listening to Paolo Nutini, feeling the sun on my face, dreaming of t...
5 years ago
[Jul 07] Le Blog

Geneva - Author: Megan (with Christian watching me type and scowling for making fun of him) Last night we got back from a weekend in Geneva. What a beautiful city! I ...
5 years ago
[Dec 06] Life in Eurasia

Au Revoir France - Four months have flown by, and they are amongst the best and in some ways also redefining for us.As part of the farewell festivities especially for those gra...
5 years ago
[Dec 06] Jax's Babble

Familiar faces - It's 10 days into P5 but my weekend course in Entrepreneurship made it more like 3 weeks into the term. It's so nice to see another set of familiar faces ...
5 years ago
[Jul 06] Death Spiral

- Life Spiral - A new life post INSEAD ! There are a lot of stereotypes about Top MBA programs. MBAs are perceived as relatively self-aware, ambitious, goal-o...
5 years ago
[Jul 06] Olivier Mineau

Pictures from Montmelian party - This is what the Chateau looks like when there's no party...
5 years ago
[Jul 06] Paawan

Economic success - a victory won at too great a cost? - My friend Chris wrote such an excellent piece on the cost of economic success that I feel compelled to share it with everyone here. Chris writes: Every on...
5 years ago
[Jul 06] Gaurav Batti

Being 40% an MBA !!! - Time flies when you are at INSEAD. Life has never been as much a roller coaster as its been here. We just finished our Period 2 - so that qualifies me to b...
6 years ago
[Jul 06] INSEAD 06

INSEAD gets a new Dean - http://news.insead.edu/press_releases.cfm *INSEAD APPOINTS J. FRANK BROWN DEAN* December 16, 2005 *Global Business Executive to Head Leading International ...
6 years ago
[Jul 04] Tinbus

- INSEAD Period 5 – The End! Prior to coming to INSEAD I contemplated starting the program in January as opposed to September. When I asked those alumni who h...
7 years ago
[Jul 07] Rorro y Ale

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[Dec 04] Willy Nilly

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[Dec 07] Chega de Saudade

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[Jul 06] Nick Gray

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[Dec 08] Cugwmui

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[Jul 06] MBA Blog fra INSEAD

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[Dec 03] Lucky Goldstar

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[Dec 06] -JBlog-

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[Dec 06] Le coq sportif

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[Jul 08] Pre-participation Bliss

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[Jul 08] Lea Cameron

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[Dec 06] Lindsay Watt's Story

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