From Romania, to Spain, to China I was born in Romania, a country with fewer people than Shanghai (where I live today). As a kid, I was often asked what I wanted to be when I grew up – as if being a grown-up was the finish line and if you just became something that that was the end. Like every ch…

My four years prior to joining CEIBS were spent in a gas field located just 100 kilometres from the Chinese border as part of a Kazakhstan-China oil and gas joint venture. Despite being so close to the country and having daily interactions with colleagues from China, the place always remained a my…

In the first instalment of our special Alumni Chapter Interview Series, Linkproved Founder, Product and Analytics and CEIBS Spanish Chapter Alumni President Albert Valero (CEIBS MBA 2014) talks with CEIBS Global CEO Programme alum Gabriel Masfurroll about representing Spain as an Olympian, buildin…

In choosing an MBA, I only considered China-based programmes. This eventually led me to pursue an MBA at CEIBS, and I believe this was one of the best decisions that I made in 2019. Looking back, it seems that there were probably two reasons why I was confident in my choice. China dream My China…

During my undergrad, I thought I wanted to be a lawyer. In the US, there are a few variables that go into attending a good law school, but it basically comes down to two things:  GPA and LSAT score. So, I chose the path of most students who want to become a lawyer, which is to pick a relatively ea…

- MBA 2012’s Eric Seidner on transforming his career in China Wednesday, January 23, 2019 was no ordinary day for MBA 2012 alum Eric Seidner. The former backpacker-turned-English teacher from the USA left his lane house in Jing’an for his first day at his dream job with Apple in Shanghai. He’d mad…

After graduating in 2017, Jesse Miller worked for Shanghai Media Group and Xinhua News in Beijing in an international development role. A year later, he decided to return to the US, and has been working for the Ford acquired scooter sharing firm Spin in San Francisco ever since. Jesse takes time out…

Guo Bai Lecturer of Strategy, CEIBS Unlike many, I joined CEIBS as a newly graduated Ph.D. student. Looking back, I cannot help but feeling extremely lucky to be able to start my academic career here. My first contact with CEIBS was around the end of 2016. I gave a brownbag seminar at CEIBS, tha…

As a German consultant working for Accenture in Zurich, I made the decision last year to relocate to Shanghai to begin an MBA at CEIBS. The country, as the workbench of the world, has always fascinated me, and like many of my peers from Europe, the words ‘Made in China’ were stamped on pretty much…