The Indeed Endowed Scholarship aims to encourage and help those from atypical backgrounds attend the INSEAD MBA Programme. The scholarship has been established by Indeed, the world’s leading job site, and its founders Paul Forster and Rony Kahan, both class of 1994 graduates of the School. The scholarship supports students with backgrounds that are not typical of the majority of MBA entrants, both within business, such as entrepreneurial ventures, and outside business, such as public sector, non-profit, academic, media and creative professions. The Indeed Scholarship aims to make an MBA more affordable for such individuals, reducing their debt burden and opening up broader career and entrepreneurial options after graduation. By helping to increase the number of attendees with atypical backgrounds, the Scholarship also aims to increase the professional diversity of the School and hence the richness of the academic experience for all attendees.
L’Oreal is the worldwide leader in beauty products. L’Oreal funds one MBA scholarship per class at INSEAD with the explicit purpose of fostering: (1) CREATIVITY “You must have imagination, you must dream. You must have a feeling for words and images. You must be able to see that things communicate not just because it is written down but because an image itself can communicate something, a symbol.” Lindsey Owen-Jones (MBA ’69), Cite de la Reussite, 14/02/2002. (2) DIVERSITY Our company culture fosters and values diversity. To a large extent, our strength is the diversity of our teams. People of all origins and cultures, different ages and levels of experience work together on a daily basis. Interdisciplinary – and multicultural – teams interact every day, stimulating innovation and fostering personal growth. (3) ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT Initiative and commitment, enthusiasm and a willingness to challenge assumptions are part of the required entrepreneurial spirit.
At INSEAD, diversity is a core element of our culture. The INSEAD scholarship portfolio helps the school to cultivate a diverse classroom setting with a good mix of nationalities, academic and professional backgrounds, and gender. The Qinqin and Xin Zhang Scholarship aims to support talented candidates from around the world to advance in their careers with a world-class MBA at INSEAD. For those who are set back by financial difficulties, this scholarship will help them realise their dream of achieving an MBA at one of the top business schools in the world.
It is a tradition at INSEAD that each MBA Class fundraises to become the invisible hands to admitted candidates with financial burdens. The INSEAD Robin Hood MBA Scholarship Fund was created to provide financial support from peers to a deserving MBA student in each Class. The award is granted to a candidate who demonstrates critical difficulty in raising sufficient funds for the year at INSEAD. Each recipient must take an active part in their own class on-campus fundraising appeal and to drive the initiative amongst his/her own classmates. As a recipient of the Robin Hood Scholarship, you will inspire others through a collective effort in support of scholarships. The Robin Hood Committee members of each Class participate generously of their time to achieve new giving records each year on campus.
The Tomorrow’s Leaders Programme (TMLP) is a new initiative for younger INSEAD MBA alumni who have created their own named diversity scholarship thanks to their gift to the school. Alumni who graduated between 1 and 15 years ago can participate. Gifts in support of The Tomorrow’s Leaders Scholarships benefit from ‘matching by INSEAD. These scholarships help underwrite the breadth of diversity of participants in the INSEAD MBA programme: country of origin, academic and professional background, gender etc. This scholarship programme supports INSEAD’s commitment to bringing outstanding men and women professionals to the programme, especially those who demonstrate potential to succeed. The following alumni have created Tomorrow’s Leaders Scholarships: Yee Lee MBA’06D; Jo Bertram MBA’08D; Ibad Ahmed MBA’13D; Cintia Tavella & Gilberto Gaeta MBA’07D; Zornica Zafirova & Karan Dogra MBA’13J; Peng Zhang MBA’09D; Nabila Aguele MBA’14J; Ignacio Fantaguzzi MBA’14J; Alexandre Dabbous MBA’05D;Joao Vale de Almeida MBA ’14J; Saud Al-Aujan, MBA ’14J; Rimoon Agaiby, CGM’19; Abhishek Bahl MBA ’08D; Julien Rey MBA ’14J, Peng Zhang, MBA 09D. Recipients of a Tomorrow’s Leadership Scholarship are expected to be in touch with their donor on a regular basis (contact is facilitated by the school).
Alcatel-Lucent, which operates in more than 130 countries, provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband access, carrier and enterprise IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work and on the move. One INSEAD Alcatel-Lucent Scholarship will be awarded per class, in perpetuity, to outstanding Asian participants with an engineering background or experience in telecommunications or high-tech.
Deepak Gupta MBA’93J and his wife Sunita have generously created an endowed scholarship fund targeted at students from emerging markets. Their intention is to help build human capacity and to create economic and social value in the most economically challenged regions of the world. Outstanding candidates with limited financial means will be granted scholarships and the fund will enable INSEAD to continue to attract diverse candidates onto the MBA Programme. One or two significant awards will be granted in each class
Ian Potter ’93D has generously created an endowed scholarship fund for Asian nationals. Preference will be given to candidates from developing countries and Singaporeans. The scholarship is awarded exclusively to candidates in need.
The France Telecom group is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with a global footprint stretching across five continents. The main commercial brand is Orange, which serves more than 116 million of the Group’s 177 million customers worldwide in domestic and business markets. Services include fixed-line, mobile, internet, TV and content. Through its Orange Business Services division, the Group operates the world’s largest seamless network for business customers, covering some 220 countries and territories. This endowed scholarship will support emerging market participants at INSEAD in perpetuity. Experience or an interest in telecommunications is a plus.