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The arrival of December brings the end of the calendar year, but the beginning of a new Global EMBA cohort’s journey, as the class of 2023 arrived for their official opening ceremony and welcome banquet at the CEIBS Shanghai campus.

Joining the new class of GEMBA 2023 for their special night were six of CEIBS’ top leadership figures, multiple faculty members, and around 60 alumni, spanning GEMBA cohorts spread over the past 20 years, from 2022 right the way back to 2002.

Between 20-22 October 2023, the Global EMBA(GEMBA) 2021 class undertook the final part of their Capstone Project, the Oral Defense. Sat opposite a panel of CEIBS faculty professors and alumni experts from relevant fields, each Capstone group of students had to rigorously defend the structure, suggestions and overall validity of their project against the probing questions of their examiners.

For the fourth year in a row, CEIBS has been named #2 in the world in the Financial Times’ global ranking of Executive MBA programmes. This means that the school’s Global EMBA (GEMBA) programme has maintained its position as the top ranked EMBA programme in the world to be taught at a standalone school and the number one EMBA programme on the Chinese mainland.

On Sunday 24th September, around 130 alumni arrived at the CEIBS Shanghai Campus for the long-awaited Global EMBA Alumni Reunion, made up of no fewer than 25 class cohorts.

For the first time in the programme’s history, on August 18 CEIBS Global EMBA hosted a symposium event in Singapore under the theme of De-risking and its impact on South-East Asia and China. The CEIBS Global EMBA’s inaugural symposium in the country, this eagerly anticipated event was both well attended and well received by its international audience, who were eager to explore new strategies for companies looking to de-risk and keep pace with fast-evolving trends in a region that is feeling the impact of greater global VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity).

CEIBS Global EMBA alumni Anita Jiang and Andreas Hornfischer have joined the prestigious ranks of Poets & Quants' 2023 Best & Brightest Executive MBAs.

The GEMBA Automotive Club – the latest to join the growing roster of student-led clubs in the GEMBA programme – had its inaugural event on July 6th 2023. The following insights were collected from their panel discussion and Q&A session featuring top-level executives from tier-1 automotive MNCs, carmakers, consultancy firms and technology solution providers.

On July 2nd 2023, the CEIBS Global EMBA hosted its second annual symposium, providing a very welcome return to live events after the years of pandemic-related disruption. Bringing together nearly 300 CEIBS current students, alumni, faculty members as well as guest panellists and speakers, this event gave everyone in attendance the chance to consider how China will adapt to the new economic realities of the post-covid world.

Covering subjects as diverse as brand development in China, sector-specific innovation methods and the role of international collaboration in promoting stability, the symposium presented a snapshot of the key issues, challenges and opportunities China faces right now as it settles into its expanding global role.