Friday, July 6, 2012

Does European Competitiveness Have a Future?

Senior international executives and INSEAD faculty discuss competitiveness vis a vis the future of the European economy and business.

European competitiveness is one of the issues INSEAD students are studying today, made more challenging by heavy debt burdens of companies and countries, digging the continent into a deepening crisis. "It would be easy for INSEAD to ignore these challenges," said INSEAD Acting Dean Peter Zemsky," but we do not. "INSEAD was born in Europe in the mid 1950's at a time of European integration...and INSEAD would not have been possible without this European context into which we were born."
Zemsky pointed out that INSEAD's founder, George Doriot, was the founder of venture capital and a graduate of Harvard who, with several other young Harvard graduates, decided Europe needed a different kind of business school. That became INSEAD.

"Half of our students are from Europe today," said Claude Janssen,  Chairman Emeritus of INSEAD and one of those students who founded the school with Georges Doriot more than 50 years ago. "At this time of crisis in Europe, where competitiveness is discussed it is important to spend a day like today on the topic. INSEAD wishes to continue to contribute to the understanding of European problems and we will do whatever we can to help solve these problems in Europe."" 

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