50,000 EUR to ruin a relationship

One of my housemates got engaged to his girlfriend during a break between periods. According to him, three things can happen to couples at INSEAD: you get engaged, you break up, you cheat. Mind you, the three are not mutually exclusive. There are rumors of people who have come here with their fiancés, broken up [...]

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The partners of INSEAD

I continue my travels on the bus with internet! I’m spending the 4.5 hour trip browsing blogs, neurotically checking www.fivethirtyeight.com to make sure John McCain’s chances of winning the election haven’t gone up by another 0.2% to 4.8%, reading every Op/Ed piece in the NYT, and taking an online test to see if I’m racially [...]

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[Bonding over] being broke

I dated this guy in grad school.  Let’s call him Jon the Pervert.  That’s what all my friends would call him to distinguish him from Jon the Douche who was an uber-smooth HBS grad and Married John who was… well… married.    Jon the Pervert got his name after I found out that for the 6 [...]

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