In October 2025, Walmart announced a landmark partnership with OpenAI to bring shopping directly into ChatGPT. Through a new Instant Checkout feature, Walmart customers can browse, select, and complete purchases entirely within the ChatGPT interface, with Walmart managing fulfilment.

At the CEIBS Annual Forum 2025, recently held on the CEIBS Shanghai campus, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and member of the American National Academy of Sciences Michael Levitt shared wide-ranging perspectives on evolutionary biology, the creativity of youth, artificial intelligence, and personal development, in a keynote speech entitled “How Should Humanity Navigate the Era of Great Intelligence?

At the recent CEIBS EMBA 30th Anniversary Celebration, Kevin Kelly, the Founding Executive Editor of WIRED and author of "2049: Possibilities of the Next 10,000 Days", delivered a keynote speech, painting a picture of a future in which humans live alongside AI.

Alibaba's Amap ranking feature is latest salvo against Meituan in China's e-commerce wars.

“The most logical strategy for Canada, China, the EU and Mexico is to collude and do nothing!”

”Chinese companies' championing of open-source AI models is also important when it comes to amplifying Beijing's influence over other nations' tech infrastructure choices.”

Join us for a CEIBS Executive Forum on October 9, 2025, with Mr. Manny Maceda, Chairman of Bain & Company, who will have a fireside chat with CEIBS Associate Dean, Director of MBA Programme Zhang Lingling on the theme of Leadership Priority and the Role of AI.

The Department of Economics and Decision Science of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) invites you to attend the 3rd CEIBS Decision Sciences Symposium in Shanghai on July 15, 2025. The Department holds its annual academic symposium (with an alternating focus on economics and decision science each year) to facilitate the intellectual exchange of new ideas about economic and business challenges in China and around the world.

AI is transforming the rules of strategy and competition, not just as a tool for efficiency, but as a groundbreaking force reshaping how organisations design and implement strategy.