INSEAD Keeps Growing Despite Tough Economic Times

Professor Peter Zemsky, the Deputy Dean of Degree Programmes and Curriculum at INSEAD, the international graduate business school.

He discusses:

-- If enrolment for MBA programmes have dropped as a result of the global slowdown and if B-School applications are directly proportionate to economic health

-- Which countries the applicants of the MBA programmes are they coming from, at which level of their career, and the average age of applicant

-- If MBAs and salaries matchup in Asia, and specifically Malaysia

-- How the new Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) has exceeded its expected number of admissions by 40% for the upcoming academic year

-- The importance of Asia to the GEMBA programme

-- How big the executive education business is for INSEAD

-- Why INSEAD chose to introduced a new Singapore-designed admissions exam the first time this year as an alternative to the Graduate Management Admission Test

-- How INSEAD maintain its rankings

-- The challenges the school faces in getting the right faculty members and how its working to develop local teaching talent