Lydia J. Price Professor of Marketing, CEIBS When I was a PhD student at Columbia University in late 1980s, some of the professors there travelled to China to teach at the China Europe Management Institute (CEMI). CEMI was an aid initiative – it received financial and intellectual aid from Europ…

Rama Velamuri Professor of Entrepreneurship,Chengwei Ventures Chair in Entrepreneurship,Department Chair (Strategy and Entrepreneurship), CEIBS I first heard about CEIBS in 2003 when I joined the faculty at IESE. My colleagues there, Prof. Pedro Nueno and Prof. Alfredo Pastor, were the President…

A Small Girl in a Big World My name is Stephanie. Born and raised in the beautiful city of Zhenjiang in China’s Jiangsu province, I moved to Toronto, Canada, with my parents in 2003. After graduating high school as an Honours Student, I attended the University of Waterloo, majoring in Mathematics…

It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when my journey to CEIBS and Shanghai started. The truth is that long before I had ever known what a business school was, I had in the back of my mind this notion that one day I would head east to China. That Idea was probably sparked from early childhood experi…

Hi! My name is Shefali. I was born in Mumbai, educated in the US and previously worked in the for-profit social impact investing space. That was until a unique opportunity to move to China presented itself, a move that paved the way to begin the most exciting phase of my life so far. Moving to Ch…

Discovering myself If I have to define my life in one word, it would be ‘discovering’. I come from Chile, a very narrow and large country located at the bottom of the world. In the north you can find the most arid desert on the planet, and in the very south you find lush forests, icebergs and beau…

I am Yusuke Son from Yokohama, Japan. Let me take you through my life from Japan to China and CEIBS via the US, India, Vietnam and Thailand. Born and raised in a very traditional Japanese family, I had always aspired to go abroad. My first experience outside Japan was in New York when I was 18 ye…

December 2, 2019. Beijing – In CEIBS Professor of Entrepreneurship and International Business Shameen Prashantham’s class on New Venture Internationalisation, MBA students dissect the dual challenge facing enterprises that are born global – namely, limited resources and zero brand awareness. These t…

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…