As part of CEIBS’ ongoing efforts to support MBA students and alumni during the COVID-19 pandemic, the CEIBS Career Development Centre (CDC) and Alumni Association have co-organised a special series of C-Suite Alumni Sharing Session webinars.

CEIBS President (European) Dipak Jain today spoke via webinar with students from the MBA 2020 and 2021 cohorts about how to best manage adversity.

With the emergence of the COVID-19 crisis and its negative impact across all major businesses and operations, there is now concern about how to make the best of this situation. To help sort through the adversity, the CEIBS Career Development Centre organised their first sharing session of the spring, inviting three industry experts to share their insights and advice.

Over the past few weeks, CEIBS faculty have shared their professional insights on the business and economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak with media outlets such as Bloomberg, Xinhua, China Daily and CGTN, serving an important guide for policymakers and business owners during this difficult time. Here is a brief round-up of some of the things they have said.

Traditionally, the Lunar New Year holiday is a time when Chinese families reunite. This year, however, the COVID-19 outbreak instead created many new challenges and left many in the CEIBS community feeling anxious.

Over the past few weeks, CEIBS has received many thoughtful and encouraging messages from our friends and partners around the world. We would like to thank everyone for your care and support. At the same time, our thoughts continue to be with those who have been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, both in China and throughout the world. We are confident that together we will overcome the epidemic.

The very first virtual MBA town hall was held today.

February 9, 2020. Shanghai – The case review and Nominated Case Award selection processes for the 2019 Global Contest for the Best China-Focused Cases have now been completed. During the September 1 to November 8 submission period, a total of 254 valid cases were submitted by authors from both China and abroad, up by 22% from 2018. Included in the submissions were 120 cases from members of the Shanghai MBA Case Development and Sharing Platform, an increase of 32% over the previous year. In all, 87% of submitted cases dealt with business-related topics such as finance, accounting and control, strategy and general management, marketing and entrepreneurship, growing by 44% compared with last year.

CEIBS Vice President and Dean Yuan Ding paid a courtesy call today to Mr. Wan Li, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Ivory Coast, at the Chinese Embassy in Abidjan.