Irene Asare is the founder and former CEO of CarvinClay People Development, an HR consultancy firm based in Accra, Ghana. Fresh from graduating alongside her Global EMBA 2018 classmates this past September, Irene is about to embark on another personal and professional adventure as HR Director for BBC News – the division of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for gathering and broadcasting news in the UK and around the world.

The Global EMBA 2020 class at CEIBS features nearly 10% of its students holding PhDs – with 8 students out of the cohort of 90. To find out why so many of these accomplished academics are keen to head back to school and study an EMBA, we sat down with three of our PhD-holding students and asked them.

100 students gathered at CEIBS’ Shanghai campus to begin their opening module and be formally inducted into the Global EMBA programme. 

Keeping up in one of the most rigorously challenging, and highly anticipated, modules of the academic year 2021 – Leadership in Action.

Since coming to China, fellow compatriots and Global EMBA alums Onur Turkmen and Ozan Güven have advanced from operational roles to hold senior executive positions with Turkish multinational Arcelik. Here, they share how their experiences at CEIBS have overlapped in many interesting and meaningful ways.

While the Global EMBA programme at CEIBS is rigorously academic, it is designed to offer a valuable mix of learning approaches and objectives. It’s our view that not every lesson needs to take place in the classroom, intently focused on cracking heavy textbooks and the weightier elements of business theory. The programme’s broad range of electives allow students to complement their classroom learning with a more holistic pursuit of skills and capabilities that will make them more responsible, reflective and empathetic leaders.

The colourful and profound diversity offered by the CEIBS Global EMBA experience was what first caught Baggio Song's eye when checking out prospective business schools.

It has been called the “Alibaba of Africa” (and with good reason). The Traders of Africa (TOFA) platform represents tens of thousands of independent traders located in over 15 countries across the continent. TOFA is the brainchild of Global EMBA 2016 alumna Uju Uzo-Ojinnaka, and it was conceived right here at CEIBS. We asked Uju to tell us how TOFA came to be – and where it is headed.

We are proud to announce that two CEIBS Global EMBA alumni have been named on Poets & Quants’ prestigious list of the Best and Brightest Executive MBAs for 2021. P&Q is the largest media outlet in the world specialising in MBA and EMBA news coverage.