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15 Jan – INSEAD New Year’s Champagne Get-together in Zürich

INSEAD New Year’s Champagne January 15, 2015, Zürich Taste some of the best-known brands in Champagne and join fellow Alumni for an informal evening get-together at Pernod Ricard Swiss office, near Bellevue. INSEAD has a tradition of celebrating important dates, and the start of a New Year is the perfect opportunity to uphold the tradition.

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New Event Format : INSEAD Salon Conversations November 13

INSEAD Salon Conversations, November 13, 2014, Zürich Salon Conversations is a new event format bringing together Alumni from different backgrounds for an evening of casual discussions in a cultivated atmosphere. If you have never attended a Swiss INSEAD Alumni event, this is the one to try! Join us at the stylish Brasserie Lipp,

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Understand the Rationale Behind Today’s Billion Dollar Hotel Industry Deals

[pullquote align=”left|center|right” textalign=”left|center|right” width=”30%”]Get the story behind the headlines[/pullquote] This week the WSJ and several other papers reported Accor’s billion dollar buyback of hotels it sold in 2007. Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Katara Hospitality, owned by Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority, is seeking to acquire five hotels from the UK’s InterContinental

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INSEAD Alumns Win 9th Alumni Dragon Boat Trophy in Switzerland

[pullquote align=”left|center|right” textalign=”left|center|right” width=”30%”]Second victory for INSEAD Alumni in three years[/pullquote] Overcast skies did not deter INSEAD teamwork, spirit, and determination at this year’s Dragon Boat Trophy in August in Zürich. The INSEAD Alumni team finished first with Rochester second, Stanford finishing third, followed by HSG Omnium. It is the second win in three years

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Global INSEAD Day – Evening Event with Georges Burki in Zürich

This year we will mark Global INSEAD Day, the annual celebration of INSEAD across continents, with our annual general meeting followed by a dynamic presentation by Georges Burki on September 11th. The demand for old master violins is phenomenal with price trends defying typical economic cycles. Is investment rational? Are the old masters’

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October 2 – After Work Drinks Event in Zurich

Thursday October 2, 2014 at Imagine at HB  The Zürich Chapter of the INSEAD Alumni Association Switzerland welcomes you to an informal after work social event at Imagine, the stylish and comfortable bar and grill, located at the Zürich main train station. We look forward to seeing you for some fun and networking at

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Tapping the Emerging Middle Class in Emerging Markets

IPEC Event Report: In February the INSEAD Private Equity Club and the INSEAD Alumni Association Switzerland hosted a panel featuring André Hoffmann [MBA’90D], Non-Executive Vice President of Roche Holdings and Givaudan; Jack Clemons [MBA’94D], CEO Bata Shoe Organization, Johannes Müller, CEO of Dätwyler Cabling Solutions AG, and Andries Diener [MBA’05J], formerly Schindler’s Head of Marketing

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