The fabled MBA triple jump. Changing location, industry and function after graduation is an achievement long held up as an example of the transformational impact of the programme. For international students coming to China, sometimes for the very first time, what can they do to maximise their chance…

Zhang Yu Associate Professor of Strategy, CEIBS I first encountered CEIBS while studying at Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) in 1995. CEIBS had been founded a year earlier on SJTU’s Minhang Campus, before its current campus was built in Pudong. Back then, I really envied the students doing th…

First, a disclaimer: I’m neither an experienced nor a particularly talented hiker. In fact, I have mild vertigo and I’m rather inflexible, which makes manoeuvring around mountainous regions a physical and mental challenge (to say the least). But that, I suppose, is the whole idea of an alpine hike…

Click Here to Read More Alumni Stories Seoul Min already had his own consulting business when he started the Global Executive MBA at CEIBS. He used the degree to accelerate his business’s growth Seoul Min is an award-winning consultant with his own consulting business and a Global Executive M…

Terence Tsai Associate Professor of Management, CEIBS I first connected with CEIBS a long time ago. It was during the final year of my Ph.D. studies at Judge Business School of the University of Cambridge in the UK. One day, one of my classmates, Keith Goodall (later one of the earliest in…

Hi, I’m Andrei Naumovich. Three years ago, my daughter came into my life. Since then, Fathers’ Day has held new meaning for me. Now that Fathers’ Day 2020 is coming – and as I prepare to start a new chapter in my life by joining the CEIBS MBA Class of 2022 – I’d love to share some of my precious fat…

  Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw   If you had asked me five years ago, where I saw myself five years down the line, I would’ve probably said that I’d love nothing more than to continue working…

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…