Recruiting 2010

The New Year arrived over a month ago and I have been on campus in Singapore drafting my schedule and planning events. While on campus I was able to help welcome a new class, the fourth promotion to begin during my tenure here at the school. The first few days are always exciting - over two hundred students started on the Singapore campus this January, and they are now deep into a hectic P1.

To highlight some of the recent campus activity, in January, we had the pleasure of welcoming both Dominic Barton (Worldwide Managing Director, McKinsey & Company) and Alexander Cummings (Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, The Coca-Cola Company) onto our Asia Campus, in Singapore, for two evenings of guest lectures. These events, attended by MBA students and Alumni were part of the Global Leader Series (GLS) and followed a similar event in Fontainebleau last December, where Sir Win Bischoff spoke. Sir Bischoff is the Chairman of Lloyds Banking Group PLC and is the former Chairman of Citigroup.

GLS events like these are coordinated by the student body with the support of INSEAD. The interactive and informal format is designed to encourage all participants to engage in discussion and to challenge the speaker; giving MBA students the opportunity to explore what it takes to become a successful leader. There are plenty more lined up and GLS events are always something to look forward to on campus here at INSEAD.

Hopefully, some of you will meet me on the road in the near future. There are no MBA fairs in Asia-Pacific at this time so I will supplement with my own activities - Information Sessions and what we call Master Classes, which are an opportunity for us to share with you what a class might feel like at INSEAD. In Shanghai and Hong Kong, I will be joined by Professor Claudia Zeisberger, Affiliate Professor of Decision Sciences and Academic Co-Director of the Global INSEAD Private Equity Initiative.

I will also be in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing and Taipei – dates are posted here: http://mba.insead.edu/form/mba_events.cfm. For those based in Australia; I will be there too. Dates still to be confirmed but stay tuned!