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Event Report: State of the Private Equity Industry , April 2018

In April 2018, the INSEAD Private Equity Club of Switzerland hosted a well-attended evening conference in Zurich on the State of the Private Equity Industry, featuring INSEAD alumnus Rolf Magnus Weddigen and his colleague Moritz Vielhauer from Bain & Co.’s private equity practice, along with a panel of industry practitioners.  Follow the link for

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Digitized Democracy Trends & Implications

August 31, 2017 This summer the INSEAD Alumni Association of Switzerland welcomed forty-five guests at the elegant Zunfthaus zur Waag to engage with Alumnus Costa Vayenas, IEP01Feb, who had just published his new book, Democracy in the Digital Age: How we’ll vote and what we’ll vote about. That evening, he talked about the observation

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The Future of Energy is Distributed, De-carbonized, Data-rich

The keynote speaker at our alumni event in May 2017, Energy Transition: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be in Zurich, was Gianni Operto, the President of the Swiss Alternative Energy Association (AEE Suisse), a board member of several cleantech startups, with an energy career trajectory that highly qualifies him to challenge assumptions. His

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Executive in a PE-owned Company Report

The INSEAD Private Equity Association (IPEC) hosted an evening conference in January 2017 at the Landesmuseum in Zurich, welcoming more than 65 guests, two-thirds of whom were alumni. IPEC president, Martin Spirig, MBA’06J  moderated a discussion that was based on the premise that PE professionals believe that the probability of a portfolio company’s success is

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Fast Track Entrepreneurs in Switzerland – Buying a Family Owned Business

Seven Alums Acquire Seven Family-Owned Business in Seven Years in Switzerland Creating a bootstrapped start-up may be exciting and a big draw for INSEADers with dreams of leading a high-potential company, but there is another path to becoming an entrepreneur, acquiring and developing a small or medium-sized family business. It is one path that several

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