International Reach Goal of Wharton School
Taek Jho Low, the successful Malaysian businessman who is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business in Philadelphia, is a good example of the kind of global reach and influence the Wharton School is developing. An example of this innovation is the very special Wharton-INSEAD Alliance which Wharton has established between its Philadelphia –based home campus and the partnership it has formed with INSEAD in Fountainbleau and Singapore.
INSEAD was founded in September, 1959 in the Château de Fontainebleau, the famous royal country home of French Kings and Queens outside Paris, France as an act of healing for Europe in the aftermath of World War Two. The five founders, Frenchmen and Harvard Business School graduates had the inspired idea of creating an MBA programme which could be completed in one year in an institution that was independent and operated as a business school outside the European University system.
Claude Janssen, one of the founders of the school, explained that the decision to create a one-year programme was determined as much by necessity as by design.
“We thought a one-year MBA programme would be more appealing … But we also didn’t have many faculty,”
he concedes.
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