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Negotiation, disappearing phones and quiz-time
DAY 3 Breakfast in the Treehouse was buzzing with life this morning – not a single trace of timidness in sight after the many ice-building games in the forest yesterday. Breakfast was, however, not a...
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Free will, intelligence, and decision-making: don’t attend an army fitness...
DAY 4 Another big day in the splendid French sunshine! With jetlag wearing off and the students beginning to get used to the INSEAD schedule, all piled in for the morning debrief, welcomed warmly by...
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Operations management & the production of dorm-room cookies…
Day 5 It’s now day 5 of the program and it has been yet another eventful day at the wonderful INSEAD campus here in Fontainebleau. I think we’re all adjusted to the daily routine by now – the students...
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The Four Paris Tours and Google HQ
DAY 6 Yesterday was quite the day. With the morning plans, the students had to be split up into two groups, so while the first group dragged themselves out of bed at an ungodly hour and tiptoed down...
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ADRENALINE DAY
DAY 7 Stay tuned for what has been an absolutely packed day. That seems a strange way to start when the students enjoyed what was, in fact, their first and only “late morning” sleep in, dozing to the...
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DAY 8 Yesterday the students were endowed with the presence of Subi Rangan, INSEAD’s Professor of Strategy and Management. He led them through the realms of politics, economics, philosophy and...
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So, it begins…
DAY 9 The first proper YFCD day! Finally, after weeks and weeks of speculation, anticipation, and preparatory reading, the role play simulation has begun- and what a day it has been. Imagine the...
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Strategy – is there a recipe for success?
DAY 10 You know when you have to buy a house and everybody will say that the most important thing to take into account is: “location, location location”? I think we’ve all heard that saying before....
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Innovation and Inspiration
DAY 11 The final early start saw the group make their way to the Paris, once again, for another culturally and professionally enlightening expedition in the capital. With the shadow of YFCD hanging...
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Nottingham Madness
DAY 12 In anticipation of tomorrow’s many festivities, and the rigorous preparation hereof, this blog post will be short but sweet. This morning the students were faced with yet another challenge as...
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Behavioural psychology – Day 3
Hilke Plassmann, INSEAD’s Octapharma Chaired Professor of Decision Neuroscience, talked to us this morning about the basics of behavioural science and the key elements to understanding human behaviour....
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INSEAD’s very own Gandhi – Day 5
INSEAD’s very own Gandhi, Professor Subramanian Rangan, gave fascinating lectures that left us questioning the way we see the world, and even ourselves. He analysed societal progress in a realistic yet...
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Operational Excellence – Day 4
Today’s lecturer, Guillaume Roels, took the students on a journey through operational excellence and how to achieve it. Most of them were listening attentively and were eager to find out how they could...
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INSEAD in Paris – Day 6
For the first day of the weekend, we paradoxically woke up earlier than we would for class. But it was for a much more exciting purpose; going to Paris. Three tours were going on in the morning, where...
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Exploring Fontainebleau – Day 7
Sunday mornings are for sleeping in of course; and we did that right! We visited the Fontainebleau Château and learned a bit about the Napoleonic era in the late morning. We then had a nice afternoon...
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The First Fifty Days of running a company – Day 8
Monday morning kicked off with the students negotiating the acquisition of Maywood cycles with their counsellor’s who were roleplaying as Emily or Sebastian Maywood. The creative accounting practices...
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Is confidence a good thing after all? – Day 9
Miguel Lobo had the floor today, with lectures and social experiments regarding anchoring and decision making. He talked about cognitive biases and intuition errors that can be easily avoided with...
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How hard is it to start a start-up? – Day 10
Visiting Station F in Paris today has been truly inspiring for everyone. We learned about how start-up incubators function and INSEAD alumni currently at Station F walked us through their own...
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Preparing for the grand finale – Day 11
Professor Ron Adner gave an inspiring lecture about ecosystem disruption, including invaluable lessons about what leadership essentially means and how to becoming a good leader involves evolving with...
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Teenage Insead graduates! – Day 12
The day started with amazing and creative presentations to counsellors and parents, of all the work the teams had done in restructuring the company that they acquired, while handling extreme hiccups...
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