Before I started my MBA at CEIBS, I read a book by Malcolm Gladwell called Outliers. It’s about success stories from people across different industries, such as Bill Gates and The Beatles, and discusses how there are three commonalities between many extremely successful people: being in the right…

Meeting CEIBS It was a cool and crisp autumn afternoon in the autumn of 2017. Leaves fell from the trees, grazed by the first hints of the winter wind. I remember the day so well, sitting in the only Starbucks in a small town somewhere in the central US when a quick click on Google sparked my lif…

October 29, 2019. Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan – On the long list of impressive CEIBS alumni who bring China and the West closer together, MBA 2016’s Saken Shayakhmetov stands out. From the office of Askar Mamin, Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister, Saken is not only working inside a country that literally brid…

By Zhao Xinge, Professor of Finance and Accounting, Associate Dean, and Director of the Finance MBA (FMBA) Department at CEIBS After earning my PhD from Northwestern University in the US, I taught at the long-established Raymond A. Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mar…

September 27, 2019. Shanghai – Strolling through the tree-lined streets of Shanghai’s former French concession, China’s love affair with the smartphone and a desire to straddle the European and Chinese business worlds – these were just some of the intriguing themes to emerge when Jan-Peter Boeckst…

Click Here to Read More Alumni Stories In June, a group of dynamic business leaders travelled to Hangzhou for a special "summit". For such a high-octane crowd, the usual back-and-forth business negotiations were conspicuous by their absence. Instead, this meeting took place in a convivial atmo…