International Women’s Day is here! In this special interview, the CEIBS Alumni International Chapter (CAIC) sits down with Jessie Zhang (Global EMBA 2018) and Yangyang Guo (MBA 2023) to talk about two exciting upcoming events for participants of all genders. Jessie and Yangyang are both accomplished…

It is the one thing that worries new and potential CEIBS MBA students more than any other part of the programme: Introduction to Financial Accounting. But why? What is it about financial accounting that causes students to pause and wonder if FA will present them with unscalable walls, rather than op…

With the Chinese healthcare market in a state of explosive growth and rapid maturity, global investors are looking on with avid interest. At the same time, more Chinese healthcare product developers are looking to expand beyond the country's borders. In 2016, Olivier d'Arros co-founded MAVIE Techn…

The successful applicants who make up each year’s new Global EMBA class are drawn from across an expansive range of personal and professional backgrounds. The chances of gaining a place in the same class as someone you interned with over 16 years ago are slim, but that’s exactly what has happened…

The Merlion (a popular symbol of Singapore) As the photo above suggests, I’m Singaporean! I left Singapore fairly young, when I was just 17, motivated by a restless desire to see more of the world beyond my tropical (and far too humid) island home. I was fortunate enough to win a scholarship to att…

Even before the pandemic, the luxury retail market in China was in a state of expansive growth and rapid transformation. Increasing digitalisation, greater inclusivity, and the enthusiastic participation of a new generation of luxury shoppers have all combined to consolidate China’s place as the big…

While the global pandemic has severely curtailed movement around the world, trade in goods has bounced back to be even higher than pre-pandemic levels, with China one of the main drivers. China’s food and beverage market is the largest in the world, with many countries eager to get their own piece o…

In July 2021, with a ridiculously expensive one-way ticket, countless number of nasal swabs and a blood test, I was finally on board a plane heading home to Shanghai from San Francisco. This is a story of how a Shanghainese native who did not spend much of his life in this city, found his way back h…

A graduate of the CEIBS MBA Class of 2015, Felix Zhu has had a long and varied career that has taken him from China to the US and back again. Today, he and his wife Morgan are the pulling power behind one of the newest beverage brands to hit Shanghai’s bars, Hard Candy. We caught up with Felix to di…