CEIBS Alumni

Blockchain is booming in Asia, and don’t Kyle Baron and Dwight van Diem know it. The China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) MBA graduates of 2016 and 2018, respectively, are at the forefront of one of the region’s fastest growing industries, and they’re using their knowledge of the Asian business scene to thrive.

Khushboo Gakhar seemed destined for a move from India to China. Her father has lived there since 2010, and she recalls spending months at a time there during holidays, immersed in the Chinese way of life.

November 27, 2018. Pune, India – What was your single biggest takeaway from the MBA experience? A simple question asked by MBA prospects all over the world, hoping that b-school alumni are able to sum-up and articulate their transformational experiences into one concise message. It is a big question and one that demands a big answer, but for MBA 2018 alumna Akshara Ajith, her takeaway was bigger than most, an entire company in fact, as she returned to India after doing her MBA with Mobike.

September 28, 2018. Tokyo - In 2012, Eiichi Okawa, a 28-year-old sales manager at Japan’s largest trading company, was pretty happy with how his career was progressing. He had successfully climbed the corporate ladder to operate in a global role, spending more than half of his time abroad, selling industrial plant equipment to clients across four continents. The world of Mitsubishi Corporation was changing around him though, shifting from a focus on sales and trading, to one of investment and managing subsidiaries. Instead of viewing this development as a threat, the ambitious Eiichi saw it as a golden opportunity to play his part in the company’s new direction. But how could he pivot his career from closing hundred-million-dollar deals to pursuing strategic investments? What he needed was a bigger skillset; which, in turn, led him to pursue an MBA.

Kevin Shimota’s fascination with China began long before his MBA at CEIBS, but the school’s China Depth Global Breadth mantra was the catalyst for his career at WeChat

Leela Greenberg and Diego Garcia Fernandez were MBA classmates at CEIBS in Shanghai. They say a China-focused education helped them land roles at Alibaba

Leela Greenberg and Diego Garcia Fernandez were MBA classmates at CEIBS in Shanghai. They say a China-focused education helped them land roles at Alibaba

Ein MBA kann der Karriere einen ordentlichen Schub versetzen – insbesondere, wenn man sich dadurch Zugang zu einem der wichtigsten Märkte weltweit verschafft. Warum das Leben in der bedeutendsten Industriestadt Chinas nicht nur aus beruflichen Gründen eine einmalige Erfahrung ist, berichten zwei Alumni der renommierten CEIBS Business School in Schanghai im Interview.

Ein MBA kann der Karriere einen ordentlichen Schub versetzen – insbesondere, wenn man sich dadurch Zugang zu einem der wichtigsten Märkte weltweit verschafft. Warum das Leben in der bedeutendsten Industriestadt Chinas nicht nur aus beruflichen Gründen eine einmalige Erfahrung ist, berichten zwei Alumni der renommierten CEIBS Business School in Schanghai im Interview.