Thursday 11 July, 2019
Hi <<First Name>>,
Don't miss a potential opportunity to gain stardom at one of our next Random Dinners in September. A previous dinner was featured in June's edition of Epicure magazine. Click here to read the full article, starring alumni hosts Cintia Tavella MBA'07D and Gilberto Gaeta MBA'07D and alumni guests Virginia Brumby MBA'09J, Bernice Lin MBA'13J, Andras Torok MBA'07J and their guests. Sign up today to become a host or be a guest.
Tickets for Global INSEAD Day 60th Anniversary of INSEAD celebration in Singapore and member-only event Thinking Strategically about Impact with Prof. Jasjit Singh are selling very fast. Get yours now.
"Stardom should be a discovery. You don't hammer it onto people's heads. You don't demand it. You command it." Priyanka Chopra
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Career Superdrive Playshop
Career Development and Lifelong Learning Series
Saturday 20 July, 2.00pm – 5.00pm at INSEAD
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Seriously, Play with your Career! A Board game-based Playshop for Career Discovery
Do you feel uncertain about your career direction? Unsure about how to make career choices? In this ever-changing environment, with an explosion of options and expansion of pathways, you need to take agency and drive your own career discovery-- a discovery of yourself, your story, your situation and your career strategy.
Career discovery goes beyond job search, and seeks to integrate your personal needs and preferences with the external world, so that you can achieve your goals. What if there were a fun, interactive way to do this?
INSEAD NAA Career Development and Lifelong Learning bring you this Career Superdrive board game playshop where you actively play and participate to:
- Uncover gems about your personal and professional priorities and motivations
- Imagine how one would navigate potential career decisions and scenarios, and spark action plans
- Have meaningful conversations in a fun, relaxed space, and learn from others' experiences and perspectives
 The playshop will be facilitated by Darlene Uy MCCC'18Feb-S, Co-Founder of the career design company My Working Title and co-creator of Career Superdrive board game. She holds an Executive Masters in Consulting and Coaching for Change from INSEAD (2018) and has worked in supply chain management and learning & development in companies like Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Essilor. She is passionate about guiding others through their self-discovery journeys.
To keep the playshop meaningful and interactive, we are limiting the size to a maximum of 25 participants only.
For more details, please contact event organizer, Ankit Kedia MBA’14D
- INSEAD NAA members pay: $20 - use promocode: PLAY
- INSEAD Non-NAA members pay: $50
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INSEAD Wine Club - Wine 101 masterclass: Learn how to taste a wine!
Thursday 29 August, 6.30 - 9.00pm at INSEAD Amphi 102
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Become a wine connoisseur in one hour!
As part of the Wine Club foundation, we thrive to bring INSEAD alumni and students the fundamentals of wine appreciation: how to taste a wine. Join us for the class that should be in any INSEAD program!
We will discuss how to observe, smell and taste wine. We will talk about all the components that make a wine. You will gain the knowledge of how to appreciate any wine you will encounter in the future.
Come as you are, it will be fun, with little games to help you integrating the main principles of wine tasting! After taking this class, you will be able to fully enjoy our next events!
The price includes:
- the masterclass, the fun, the knowledge, the networking
- 4 different wines (2 whites, 2 reds)
- light buffet
Please contact Mimi Giraud EMBA'18Dec at +65 96571610 if you have any questions.
- INSEAD NAA members and a guest each pay: $35 - use promocode "WINE101"
- INSEAD Non-NAA members and a guest each pay: $65
Join the INS-AL Wine Club(s) Telegram group for updates on INSEAD Wine Club events.
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INSEAD Wine Club - Riedel Wine Glass Masterclass: size and shape do matter!
Thursday 12 September, 6.30 - 9.00pm at INSEAD
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Size and shape do matter for Wine tasting and appreciation!
Join us for a unique wine and glass tasting experience where we explore how the different shape and size of a glass can affect your perception of wines! Victor Ulrich, Vice President of Riedel Crystal Asia, will personally guide you through this exclusive masterclass using Riedel Performance, the latest Riedel collection of glassware.
The price includes:
- 4 different wines comparison tasting (Cabernet, Pinot Noir, Oaked Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc) using 4 different Riedel varietal glasses
- A demonstration of decanting
- Lindt Chocolate pairing
- At the end of event, participants will take home the glasses which they used for tasting (*)
Some finger food (light buffet) will be provided.
- INSEAD NAA members and a guest each pay: $120 - use promocode "RVU"
- INSEAD Non-NAA members and a guest each pay: $150
Please contact Mimi Giraud EMBA'18Dec at +65 96571610 if you have any questions.
(*) RIEDEL PERFORMANCE tasting set 5884/47 Recommended Selling Price is: $204.00
Join the INS-AL Wine Club(s) Telegram group for updates on INSEAD Wine Club events.
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Random Dinners - September edition
Saturday 28 September, 7.00 - 10.00pm at a dinner table near you
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We now are recruiting for hosts, please fill out this host registration form if you are interested in hosting.
Interested in joining as a guest? Read on and get your tickets here.
Still wondering what are Random Dinners?
Spend an enjoyable and convivial evening, getting to know new and like-minded people over food and wine in a relaxed small-group setting. A Random Dinner is essentially a dinner party hosted by an INSEAD alum in his/her own home where dinner guests are fellow alumni who will most likely not have known each other before. We typically have between 8-10 hosts on that evening and total group sizes of between 6-8 people at each dinner.
There is a suggested contribution from each guest, of which the bulk will go towards helping the hosts cover the costs of providing a sumptuous 3-course meal and non-alcoholic drinks. Guests are welcome to contribute wine.
- INSEAD ALUMNI NAA Members and a guest each $40 - use promocode "RD1909"
- INSEAD ALUMNI Non-NAA members and a guest each $60
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Elevate Your Career and Leadership by Honing Your 'Inner Game' with prof. Narayan Pant
Professor's Lectures Series
Friday 16 August, 6.30pm – 8.30pm at INSEAD
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There comes a level of seniority in leadership where you discover that there are others who know more about how the world works, than you. This is inevitable. Yet leaders often struggle – they try and learn the latest thing about blockchain or Fintech to keep up with those pesky younger people (or maybe just to sound cool). Think about this as focusing on the “outer” game.
There’s nothing wrong with focusing on the outer game. What is fascinating though, is why people simultaneously ignore the “inner” game. Think of this as all the doubts, hopes, anxieties and aspirations that flood us as we contemplate decisions about the “outer” world.
Professor Narayan Pant's premise is that leaders above a certain level of seniority will gain far greater boosts for their careers and leadership with a little more attention to their “inner” games. This talk will illustrate what that means and how you can go about doing it.
Professor Pant works with leaders to improve leadership effectiveness. He directs INSEAD’s senior leadership programme – LEAP: Leadership Excellence through Awareness and Practice. The program focuses on enabling leaders to transform organizations through transforming themselves.
Prior to joining INSEAD, Narayan taught strategy and policy at New York University's Stern School and worked as a strategy consultant with the Monitor Group. He worked with companies in FMCG, financial services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, retail and many others. Since joining INSEAD, Narayan has been Associate Dean of Executive Education for Asia, and Dean of Executive Education for all INSEAD.
- INSEAD NAA members and a guest each pay: $15 - use promocode 'GAME1608'
- INSEAD Non-NAA/DUAL members and a guest each pay: $45
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De-Globalisation and Sino-US Conflict: Causes and Implications
Saturday 24 August, 8.30am – 5.00pm at INSEAD
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The US-China conflict and what it means for doing business
Tensions and turbulent shifts in trade policy, economic power and geopolitics are creating new uncertainties for business organisations. The last 30 years provided a stable rules-based framework, globalisation opened up many new markets for trade and investment, and multinational corporations built globally integrated supply chains. Today, we see the United States struggling to maintain supremacy, China rising, resurgent nationalism across the globe, and the democratic model losing its sheen.
HE Jawed Ashraf, High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Singapore, noted at a recent INSEAD Forum, “that we are all being untethered from our moorings. It is no longer a case of history moving forward in linear fashion. We are entering an unpredictable world where we will all have to reckon with finding strategies that enable us to prosper in different sets of circumstances, different markets and different environments.” The challenge for corporate leaders is to be aware of impacts beyond our direct control.
This means that business leaders, investors and consultants cannot continue ‘business as usual’ and ignore the shift in paradigm in the global order, but have to develop a new ability: the ability to understand, assess and navigate the shifting political and economic eco-system and its evolving opportunities and risks.
The purpose of this one day crash course in international political analysis is to help you develop this ability.
- INSEAD NAA Members: $ 680 - no promocode
- INSEAD NAA Non-members: $ 890
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Thinking Strategically about Impact with Prof. Jasjit Singh
Professor Lecture Series
Wednesday 28 August, 6.00 – 9.00pm at INSEAD
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 Event organised in collaboration with Harvard Business School (HBS) Club of Singapore.
Capitalism relies on a well-functioning market to allocate societal resources efficiently: producing goods and services society values, and in the process also creating jobs and wealth for people. However, market outcomes do not always align with societal objectives, such as on issues like environmental degradation or social inequality. Who should be addressing these challenges?
We will argue that different kinds of organizations – such as non-profit vs. for-profit - are best seen as complementary means of pursuing societal progress. We as individuals need to identify important societal needs we care about, and contribute to these in a manner consistent with our personal goals as well as the unique advantages and constraints of the context in which we pursue these.
Jasjit Singh has been an INSEAD professor since 2004. His teaching and research interests include Strategy, Innovation, Inclusive Business, Sustainable Development, Impact Investing and Impact Evaluation. He also regularly gives speeches on these topics, and advises investors, companies and impact ventures on how to think rigorously about their impact.
Jasjit has written numerous articles for leading academic journals as well as case studies that have won prestigious awards. He earned a PhD in Business Economics (Strategy) at Harvard Business School and an MA in Economics at Harvard University, having earlier obtained a BTech in Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Delhi and a double-MS at Georgia Tech.
This is an exclusive event for INSEAD NAA and HBS Club members. Seats are limited!
- INSEAD NAA members and a guest each pay: $20 - use promocode: IMPACT
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Global INSEAD Day 60th Anniversary of INSEAD @ INSEAD Asia Campus
Friday 13 September, 10.00am - 11.30pm at INSEAD
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Join us in Singapore on Friday, September 13 to celebrate this year's Global INSEAD Day (GID) commemorating 60 years of excellence.
 The full day celebrations will take place at INSEAD Singapore campus (1 Ayer Rajah Avenue) and end with a party till late at one of the great clubs of Singapore. Tickets will include access to activities organised by the INSEAD National Alumni Association of Singapore including a keynote speech by HE Mr Marc ABENSOUR, the Ambassador of France to Singapore, professor lectures on business as a force for good, panel discussions, and an evening of sumptuous celebrations at the Leadership Development Centre restaurant with cocktails and free-flow of drinks.
Watch out for the remaining program to be revealed soon. Seats are limited, get your early bird tickets today, only till 13 August!
EARLY BIRDS: From 13 June till 13 August
- INSEAD Alumni NAA members, Students, Faculty and Staff: SGD50 - use promocode: GID190913
- INSEAD Alumni non-NAA members and other INSEAD friends: SGD80
LATE BIRDS: From 13 August till 13 September
- INSEAD Alumni NAA members, Students, Faculty, and Staff: SGD100
- INSEAD Alumni non-NAA members and other INSEAD friends: SGD130
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INSEAD Entrepreneurship Forum - "Excellent Execution 2"
Friday & Saturday 20 - 21 September, 8.30am – 5.00pm at Accenture Madrid Digital Hub, Madrid, Spain
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The INSEAD Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF) 2019 is back with the theme "Excellent Execution 2: Deeper". This year we will continue to incorporate the INSEAD IEF’s successful ingredients:
- top entrepreneurial speakers from the INSEAD world
- a high achieving audience
- actionable insights and takeaways from useful workshops
We are also adding a new angle to our successful formula: a deeper venture pitch contest.
The 2019 IEF will see 200 INSEAD entrepreneurs and investors gather in Madrid on 20-21 September to learn more about the basics of entrepreneurship, sales, crisis management, HR, B to C, cash management, the relationship between corporate and startups, and more.
With a series of world leading keynote speakers, panelists from the global INSEAD community – including GEMBAs, MBAs and Executive Education alumni – and hands-on workshops, it is THE annual event for any entrepreneurial-minded alumni that should not be missed.
Keynote Speakers
Come and learn from Michel de Rovira MBA'04D Co-Founder of Michel et Augustin; Luca Verre MBA'14J Co-Founder of Prophesee; Bruno Bouygues MBA'02D, President at GYS; Stephanie Bompas MBA'00D, Chief Executive Officer at CMV Informatics; Arnaud Bonzom, Co-founder at Map of the Money; Saskia Gentil EMBA'16Dec, Vice President, Global Sales at CWT Meetings & Events; Xavier Milin TGM F/F'11Jun, Director at Basics Finance, Director at Startup Leadership Program…and more!
Book your ticket now.
We look forward to seeing you in Madrid!
- INSEAD NAA members: € 247.50 - use promocode IAAMEMBER
- INSEAD Non-NAA members: € 275
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Your Family Business - A Competitive Edge
New study launched on family firms in Europe and North America
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What creates competitive advantage for a business, and in particular for Family Firms in Europe & North America? While relationships and an entrepreneurial spirit are key elements at the start of a family’s journey, institutionalization is what ensures sustainability over generations. Our study aims to help you evaluate how your Family Firm compares to your peers'.
INSEAD launched a landmark study on Family Firms in Europe & North America. Beyond this survey, our long-term goal is to build a community of families who are interested in this type of research, and to bring them together regularly to meet and share best practices.
After completing a 10-15 minute online survey, you will receive:
- Free benchmarking report: The Family Business Map, a customized report allowing you to benchmark your business against your peers.
- Invitation to exclusive INSEAD events: A series of by-invitation-only events and workshops that build on this research.
- Prime access to the final report: The Institutionalization of Family Firms – Europe & North America, where we will share the challenges faced and tactics to address them.
To make the outcome for your business meaningful, the survey requires input from senior family leaders or a non-family member with deep insight into the family dynamics and the operating business.
This research project is part of a global research series – we have already completed Phase 1 (analyzing family businesses in Asia-Pacific & the Middle East) & Phase 2 (analyzing family businesses in Latin America), collecting input from over 250 family participants so far! Please help us achieve a high participation rate in your region.
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The Distinguished Universities Alumni League (DUAL) is a umbrella of 20 university alumni clubs (Harvard, LBS, Columbia, INSEAD...). Click here for more details on events. DUAL is on Facebook - stay connected.
- Saturday, 6 July, 2019, 2.00pm: Harvard Club of Singapore - High Tea & Fine Jewellery
- Wednesday, 10 Jul, 2019 06:00pm - 08:00pm - Reimagining Banking: Journey of the World's Best Bank
- Thursday, 11 Jul, 2019 07:00pm - 09:00pm - Techniques To Be More Persuasive in Your Negotiations
- Wednesday, 17 Jul, 2019 06:30pm - 09:00pm - Panel: The Future of Work
- Thursday, 18 Jul, 2019 07:00pm - 08:00pm - DUAL Drinks - Hosted by Harvard
- Thursday, 12 Sep, 2019 06:00pm - 09:00pm - DUAL LGBT Drinks
Career Opportunity – System Administrator, BEARS; a lab headed by the University of Berkeley, in Singapore. SG citizen n PR preferred but not mandatory. CV to christopher.soyza@bears-berkeley.sg by 5 July 2019.
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Office Bearers
President: Cintia Tavella MBA'07D
Vice-President: Amit Puri MBA'06J
Secretary: Jaz Athenia Chua TIEMBA'16Jan
Treasurer: Abel Van Staveren EMBA'08D
Executive Committee
Social Events & IAF: Virginia Brumby MBA'09J
Clubs & Groups: Rani Francois-Marie Saad AMP'15D
Clubs & Groups - elect: Julie He MBA'13D
Career Development & Lifelong Learning: Ankit Kedia MBA’14D
Marketing & Communications: Jean-Francois Legourd MBA'12D
Sustainable Innovation: Reshmi Rajendran EMBA'16D
Digital Innovation & FinTech: Laurent Simon TGM F/S'14Jul
Treasurer - elect: Amy Xu MBA'14J
Executive Director: Nathalie De Spiegeleire
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