Sai Kiran Somala got his internship through a networking event on the CEIBS MBA. Opportunities in healthcare for MBAs in China are on the rise

Arpit Mishra got a job working with AI at Intel in China after an MBA at CEIBS. The Chinese government has made the development of AI one of its top priorities

Jeffrey Tchui has worked across the Asia-Pacific. Since completing his MBA at CEIBS in Shanghai, he’s opened his eyes to the business opportunities across mainland China

May 30, 2018. Germany – “The Edelmann Group has a strategic roadmap to do something bigger in China. We are actively looking into expanding our footprint there,” says the company’s CEO Oliver Bruns, speaking on the phone from their HQ in Heidenheim, in the south of Germany. “China has been an important focal point in our business strategy and I hope to use my knowledge and the relationships I built in China over the years to shape our path for the future.”

Eduardo tells MBA Admissions about his favourite Xiaomi gadget, the difference between Chinese and Spanish office cultures and his views on CEIBS’ role in preparing the next generation of alumni to make an impact between China and Europe. This is part of a series of alumni stories to highlight the role CEIBS has played, and will continue to play in the years ahead, as a role model of effective China-EU cooperation, a platform to further enhance China-EU communication and cooperation – both in business and culture – along with providing a window into China's reform and opening up in the education sector.

May 9, 2018. Shenzhen – Joo Yi had never heard of QQ or Tencent in 2008, when she was a year into her CEIBS MBA studies. Back then, she was still using MSN to keep in touch with friends and family in South Korea. Tencent only made its way onto her radar after she began looking for a summer internship that would help her reach the very clear goal she had set herself when enrolling at CEIBS: get a job with a Chinese company. Eight years later she is still with Tencent. The job initially took her back home to Seoul but now she works out of the company’s Shenzhen headquarters as Director of Business Strategy in the Mobile Internet Group.

April 26, 2018. Shanghai – “If I had to choose a Game of Thrones House to belong to, it would definitely be House Targaryen. It’s an easy choice, because they have dragons,” says CEIBS MBA 2010 alumnus Joseph Yu. He is reflecting on the craft of bestselling, internationally renowned writer George RR Martin. The author of the worldwide phenomenon that is Game of Thrones recently announced Joseph as the winner of his inaugural Terran scholarship, which includes a ticket to join Martin and a host of award-winning novelists at the prestigious science fiction and fantasy writing workshop, Taos Toolbox, in the US, this June.

MBA 2009's Gulnara Abdullina on how CEIBS MBA took her from Russia to the world's largest solar manufacturer in Italy

Vincent Ghossoub started Falafel Games after an MBA from the top-ranked China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)

The CEIBS MBA has this year been ranked among the top 10 programs in the world by the Financial Times

MBA 2016’s Ted Haley on how the right internship and overseas exchange combination helped open the door to a global M&A role

MBA 2016 Alum Ivan Vostrikov on how CEIBS MBA helped him to transform his career back in Russia.  

Besen Fu faced big obstacles taking the GMAT and applying to business school while based in Angola. It was worth it—after CEIBS, he landed a HR job at Microsoft in Beijing

Why China is the ideal playground for tech professionals seeking the next big thing

September 22, 2017. Shanghai – In the medical industry today, many of the greatest technical innovations that we are seeing tend to come from outside the walls of hospitals. CEIBS MBA 2012 alumnus Dr. Kohta Satake says this is about to change. “We are seeing exciting advances, for example, in wellness and diet apps that are developed independently from hospitals, but in the next five years I believe China and Japan will witness a flurry of innovation from within hospitals,” he says.

Devon Nixon, great nephew of Richard Nixon, the former president, studied for an MBA at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai. He reflects on his time there and on the rise of China's entrepreneurial economy in conversation with the FT's Jonathan Moules.

As a Marketing Strategist for Ford in Shanghai, Rishi Dhawan is responsible for aligning the global and regional strategies for advance technology features across Ford’s portfolio of vehicles in the Asia-Pacific market. Before enrolling at CEIBS, Rishi worked in software engineering and techno-commercial roles on the supplier side of the automotive industry in India before making the career switch into the OEM side of the industry. We recently caught up with this CEIBS MBA2014 alumnus to hear about his career in China’s automotive industry. He shared with us his thoughts on the Indian professional community in Shanghai, driverless automation technology and the value of his CEIBS MBA.

Eastern Europe’s technology startup scene has experienced astronomic growth in recent years. 10 Eastern European cities – including Warsaw, Tallinn, Sofia, Prague, and Budapest – feature in the European Digital City Index’s top 60 cities in Europe for digital entrepreneurs.