INSEAD
International business school
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INSEAD (/ˈɪnsiæd/ IN-see-ad; French: Institut européen d'administration des affaires)[5] is a non-profit business school with locations in France (Fontainebleau), Singapore, the United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi) and the United States (San Francisco).
Institut européen d'administration des affaires | |
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| Motto | The Business School for the World |
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| Type | Grande école de commerce et de management (private research university business school) |
| Established | 1957 |
Academic affiliations | Sorbonne University, Conférence des Grandes Écoles |
| Endowment | €400 million[1] |
| Chairman | Kristin Skogen Lund[2] |
| Dean | Francisco Veloso[3] |
Academic staff | 250+ 98% PhD.;[4] 22% female;[4] 91% international[4] |
| Students | ~1,540 (~1,000 in MBA) (~300 in EMBA) (~202 in MIM) (~50 in MFin) (~86 in Ph.D.) |
| Location | |
| Language | English |
| Website | insead |
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As a graduate-only business school, INSEAD offers a full-time Master of Business Administration, an Executive MBA (EMBA), an Executive Master in Finance, a Master in Management, an Executive Master in Change,[6] a PhD in management, a Business Foundations post-graduate certificate and a variety of Executive education programmes delivered at campuses in France, Singapore and Abu Dhabi.[7]
History
INSEAD was founded in 1957 by venture capitalist Georges Doriot, and his former students Claude Janssen, and Olivier Giscard d'Estaing. Original seed money was provided by the Paris Chamber of Commerce.[8][9]
Campuses
INSEAD's founding campus (the Europe Campus) is located in Fontainebleau, near Paris, France. The second campus (the Asia Campus) is in the one-north district of Singapore next to one-north MRT station and the third campus (the Middle East Campus) is located in Abu Dhabi. INSEAD expanded its presence to North America in 2020 with the opening of the INSEAD San Francisco Hub for Business Innovation.[6]
Grande école system
INSEAD is a grande école, a French institution of higher education that is separate from, but parallel and connected to the main framework of the French public university system. Similar to most universities in the world, grandes écoles are academic institutions that admit students through a competitive process.[10][11][12]
Academics
Master programmes
Master in Management
Launched in May 2019, the INSEAD Master in Management (MIM) is a 14- to 16-month full-time programme for young graduates starting their careers in management. The average age of students on the INSEAD MIM is 23.[13]
MBA
The programme is delivered across INSEAD´s campuses in Europe and Asia. It lasts 10 months, with two cohorts joining per year, in September and January. [14]
Global Executive MBA
The institution runs a modular Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) programme across its Asia, Europe and Middle East campuses. It also offers the Tsinghua-INSEAD EMBA (TIEMBA) programme.[15] Since 2024 it has offered the GEMBA Flex programme, a master's programme for executives.[16]
Rankings and reputation
QS World Universities Rankings has been ranking INSEAD #2 globally in the Subject Ranking for Business and Management since 2018, behind Harvard University.[21]
The INSEAD MBA programme was ranked first globally by the Financial Times in 2016, 2017, and 2021, and has ranked among the top five in subsequent years, including #2 in 2026.[22][full citation needed] INSEAD's MBA program was ranked third globally by Linkedin in 2025.[23]
Alumni
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The INSEAD alumni community consists of 68,861 individuals across 179 countries with 171 nationalities.[24]
The MBA programme has produced the second-highest number of Fortune 500 CEOs, behind Harvard Business School.[25] It is amongst the largest 20 producers of ultra high-net-worth individuals across all educational institutions,[26][27] and is also amongst the top 10 producers of billionaire alumni amongst global MBA programs.[28] INSEAD's MBA alumni are fourth worldwide in terms of capital raised, founder count, and company count (only behind Harvard's, Stanford's, and Wharton's).[29]
Faculty
Research
INSEAD’s faculty comprises about 170 permanent members from over 40 nationalities, spanning fields such as strategy, organisational behaviour, marketing, finance, and economics.[30] INSEAD ranked ninth in the University of Texas at Dallas's Top 100 Business School Research Rankings (2020–2024) and tenth in the Financial Times global business-school research ranking (2024).[31][32] Faculty output includes journal articles, books, and teaching cases published through institutions such as The Case Centre.[33]
Notable faculty members
- Philippe Aghion, Professor of Economics and the Kurt Björklund Chaired Professor of Innovation and Growth, 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction" [34]
- W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, Professors of Strategy, co-authors of Blue Ocean Strategy.
- Soumitra Dutta, former Professor of Business and Technology (1989–2012), former Dean of Oxford's Saïd Business School, founding dean of Cornell University's SC Johnson College of Business, pioneer of innovation rankings.[35]
- Christoph Loch, former professor (1994-2011), former Dean of the Cambridge Judge Business School from 2011 to 2021.[36]
- Philip H. Gordon, former Affiliate Professor of Economic and Political Sciences [37] US National Security Advisor (2022-2025) to the Vice President Kamala Harris , former US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2009-2011) and Special Assistant to the President Obama.[38][39]
- Arnoud De Meyer, former professor (1983-2006) where he was Dean of MBA programme, former President of Singapore Management University (2010-2019), former Dean of the Cambridge Judge Business School from 2006 to 2010.[40]
- António Borges, former Dean of INSEAD, former Director of the European Department of the International Monetary Fund during the European Debt Crisis, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International.[41]
- Bruce Kogut, former professor known for knowledge-based theory of the firm.
- Edith Penrose, former professor (1978-1984), known for resource-based view.
- Ronald Stuart Burt, former professor, known for structural holes.
- Lars-Hendrik Röller, former professor (1987-1999), former chief economic advisor to Chancellor Angela Merkel, known for his works on industrial economics.
- Ming Zeng, Assistant Professor of Strategy (1996-2002)[42], Chief Strategy Officer at Alibaba Group (2004-2017)[43][44]
See also
- Blue Ocean Strategy – a book and strategy concept developed by INSEAD faculty
- Management science
