Why I Chose INSEAD Over IIMs Ft. Antoine P, Consultant, Entrepreneur

Imagine graduating from ParisTech as a mechanical engineer, and deciding to actually explore an engineering career. That's what our guest in today's video, Antoine Poirson, Partner at Antler, Co-Founder at StanPlus, INSEAD alum, Ex Project Manager Areva Solar and M.Sc. from ParisTech did. He traveled across continents and countries in his job as a project manager at Areva Solar, From India and Nigeria to Germany and Finland. This gave him a unique perspective of how businesses work from the ground up. Wanting to fine-tune his business and strategy skills as well as wanting to get into Consulting led Antoine to pursue an #MBA from #INSEAD. In this video find out why he chose INSEAD and, not an IIM!

This is Part 1 of Antoine's talk with us. Stay tuned for Part 2.

Summary:

In this video Antoine talks of his journey from being an engineer with dreams to see the world, to understanding his own place out there and finding things he feels passionate about. He shares how he chose to travel and see how things actually work from the ground up post his M.Sc.
He shares how he then felt a need to become an entrepreneur and a consultant. He talks about finally deciding to pursue an MBA. He shares how and why he chose INSEAD To Pursue an MBA instead of other international b-schools, including IIMs. He shares how he found IIMs to be a tough nut to crack and found the diversity at INSEAD to be a plus point.
Next he shares how he met his co-founders at StanPlus while studying at INSEAD and how they bonded over similar interests. If you want to know what it takes to pursue a well-rounded career, this is a must-watch for you.

Key Takeaways:
- Exploring different career pathways can help understand the basics of each and gain valuable experience.
- An MBA can help you understand the strategic aspects of any business.
- An MBA allows you to understand a business from the ground up.
- If you want to build a life & career in the USA, studying there will be beneficial.
- INSEAD is a very diverse and culturally open MBA school.
- If you want to measure the success of an MBA program, look at the graduates of that program.
- If you have the drive to build & scale a business, the earlier you start the better.
- Friendship and shared interests can be a starting point for becoming co-founders.
- Critical thinking, organizational behavior and strategic thinking about business are key skills one can gain from an MBA.

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