The Insead MBA

In what would be considered a robust 10 month program, the Insead MBA incorporates thirteen core units and four elective units with each period running for a duration of eight weeks.

There is no doubts about the quality of the Insead MBA, I would have to question the time-frame and required workload - this must be a brutal workload.

One imagines the goal is to get candidates back in the workforce as soon as possible as opposed to the 2-year full-time model.

The five core courses of the first period includes financial accounting, organisational behaviour 1, business ethics, financial markets & valuation and uncertainty, data and judgement.

The first three units are fairly self-explanatory with financial markets and valuations exploring fundamental concepts in corporate finance and capital markets.

Uncertainty, data and judgement incorporates probability and statistics for data analysis and decision making maintaining the analytic outcomes of the course.

The six core units of the second period incorporates corporate financial policy, managing customer value, organisational behaviour 2, managerial accounting, process & operations management, principles of strategy analysis and practical wisdom in business.

The third period requires the core units of international political analysis and macroeconomics in the global economy plus four elective units. The fourth period four electives and the fifth period requires a further three elective units, there are 76 elective units to select from allowing a highly tailored course and outcomes.

Whilst visiting Singapore I dropped into the Insead campus for a meeting with the admissions manager but as I had already began an MBA with an Australian university with Insead unwilling to offer any credits for any units undertaken. Whilst I would be unwilling to start again, I was interested in their much shorter executive education courses. That's of course if they would even accept my application.