INSEAD is all about diversity. The global INSEAD community is a unique blend of all nationalities, cultures, backgrounds, languages, religions and genders. Our goal is to provide opportunities for all, including those from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. We are proud to offer an INSEAD Reaching Out LGBT MBA Fellowship to encourage and help LGBT students to attend the INSEAD MBA programme. This is a competitive fellowship. In addition to a strong academic and professional background, applicants must demonstrate their capacity to be a leader for the LBGT community at INSEAD. We expect the fellowship holder to contribute actively to campus life, to the INSEAD blog and especially to lead initiatives that benefit the LGBT community. INSEAD is a part of the Reaching Out MBA (ROMBA) Fellowship scheme and INSEAD LGBT Fellows will have access to the wider ROMBA community and opportunities: Reaching Out MBA Fellowship.
This scholarship is an endowed gift to INSEAD from the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff). The Fund was established in 1987 by the Nippon Foundation. The Sylff programme demonstrates its commitment to education through awarding fellowships to promising graduate students in the social sciences and humanities. 69 universities and consortia worldwide, including INSEAD, have received endowments of US $1 million. The Sylff programme is now building a worldwide community of young leaders made up of the Sylff Fellows at all funded institutions. By receiving this award at INSEAD, candidates automatically join the Sylff worldwide network and gain opportunity to apply for additional Sylff support programs. As a philanthropist and the founding chairman of the Nippon Foundation, Ryoichi Sasakawa articulated a philosophy that remains the driving force of the programme today. “The world is one family”, he maintained, “and all mankind are brothers and sisters”. The Sylff programme is based on these principles. By helping to create a new generation of leaders, it seeks to overcome the divisions of nationality, religion, ethnic background and politics. Sylff would like to encourage candidates of any nationality to broaden their knowledge and enhance their career opportunities through the INSEAD MBA programme. One Sylff award will be granted in each Class.
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Rennes School of Business has established a solidarity fund for candidates from emerging countries who are facing currency devaluation due to economic or health crises.
The Andy Burgess Scholarship Fund for Entrepreneurship at INSEAD was created in 2005 with the generous support of entrepreneur Andy Burgess (MBA ’91D). This endowed fund will provide one scholarship per year for a participant in each January class, in perpetuity, to deserving candidates admitted to the INSEAD MBA programme, who through their professional experience prior to INSEAD demonstrate notable entrepreneurial accomplishments. Such individuals will commit to foster entrepreneurial talent within the INSEAD community. The fund underlines dedication to identifying individuals with strong entrepreneurial potential and real-world experience in driving innovation and success. By nurturing such talent, the scholarship aims to cultivate a vibrant ecosystem of entrepreneurship within the INSEAD community and beyond.
Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship Group channels applications for the candidates who would like to be considered for the INSEAD Reaching out MBA Fellowship (ROMBA) or for the Emmanuel Goldstein MBA ’00D Endowed scholarship for diversity and inclusion. Successful candidates may only receive one of these awards.
The global INSEAD community is a unique and diverse blend of all nationalities, cultures, backgrounds, languages, religions and genders. Our goal is to provide opportunities for all, including those from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. Emmanuel Goldstein MBA’00D established this endowed scholarship in 2020 to encourage and help LGBT students, allies and activists to attend the INSEAD MBA programme and express his support of INSEAD as an inclusive school. Applicants for the scholarship must demonstrate their capacity to be a leader for the LBGT community at INSEAD. We expect the scholarship holder to contribute actively to campus life, to the INSEAD blog and especially to lead initiatives that benefit the LGBT community. Emmanuel Goldstein has been involved in many efforts to promote diversity and inclusion more broadly at his company and when Dean Ilian Mihov launched a new initiative for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at INSEAD, it brought back memories of when Goldstein helped found the school’s first gay and lesbian club in 2000. “I decided I wanted to contribute to grow the initiative faster,” Goldstein said. “I also wanted to get the message across that INSEAD is the most inclusive school.”
The scholarship was established in 2018 thanks to the generous support of the Hinrich Foundation whose mission it is to advance sustainable global trade. The Foundation, created by Merle A. Hinrich, advances its objective by supporting trade career development, offering export trade assistance, and fostering international trade research. The Foundation believes education is an essential element to further corporate growth and sustainability. It sponsors education and careers for people who are committed to working in global trade. The objective is to help export companies across the value chain to enhance their talent development pipeline.