The future has always been impossible to predict; but in recent years this has never been more apparent. Had you told me when I was growing up, that after university I would move to Shanghai, live there for over four years, including through a global pandemic, and then start an MBA at CEIBS, I woul…

   While many of China’s major industries are localising, the printer market is still dominated by multinational corporations (MNCs) whose brand recognition keeps them at the top of the pile. Things are changing, however, as burgeoning Chinese innovation and entrepreneurship push the creation of pr…

Born and bred in Shanghai, a city of near-constant change, Hugo He is well placed to talk about transformation. The MBA 2019 alum upgraded his career from Technical Support Engineer at SAP (pre-MBA) to Industry Operations Expert at Alibaba’s financial arm Ant Group (post-MBA). Now, three years on f…

The CEIBS Global EMBA programme recently held its Beyond the Classroom - GEMBA Groupthink event on the theme of "Stepping out of Your Comfort Zone / Gateway to Becoming a General Manager." The event was attended by over 60 GEMBA alumni and current students from various cohorts. During the event, I…

The prospect of interning during your MBA will likely be a far cry from any internship when you were first starting out on your career path. No coffee runs, no photocopying, no ‘busy work’ from colleagues who don’t know what to do with you. Interning with leading companies as an MBA student should b…

The electrification of automobiles is one of the most critical sustainability trends unfolding across the world today – but the clean energy revolution is also reaching into other areas, including the carbon-intensive business of public works projects. For Olivier Brault (Global EMBA 2019), this re…

For the most recent Global EMBA student intake – the Global EMBA 2021 class – a full 60% of its membership were referred to the programme by active CEIBS students and alumni. This statistically significant proportion underlines what marketing academics have already known for a long time – that word…

The Capstone Project is an integral part of every Global EMBA student’s learning journey during their time as CEIBS. It requires them to bring together everything they’ve learned so far during the programme, while contributing their own unique abilities to their chosen project team. Not only that,…

*/ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ Kevin James Shimota landed his dream job after graduating from the CEIBS MBA programme. In his own words, he went from being a lowly supply chain coordinator at Boeing in the US to sitting with the likes of P&G's CEO and Burberry's CTO at the top table at WeChat. Afte…