It’s a pleasure to participate in CKGSB’s Global Unicorn Program. I believe that we are entering the ‘intelligent era’ and with that we’ll have a lot of questions for where we are headed in the future. It’s a valuable opportunity to learn from experienced professors and scholars, including many industry practitioners.
I would wholeheartedly recommend CKGSB’s Global Unicorn Program to aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders. With exceptional professors, well-designed courses, and a vibrant student community, CKGSB offers invaluable resources for scale-ups looking to accelerate their growth and achieve long-term success.
One of CKGSB’s great strengths is that, being independent, it is able to project an objective view of what is happening in China. This makes for well-rounded Executive Education and a well-rounded experience.
CKGSB is the first premium business school for cultivating entrepreneurs in China. Thus, we should watch CKGSB's initiatives to understand China's future development.
Business school is about the network and CKGSB’s network is very good. The professors are second-to-none. They have a good insight of both East and West and they understand where China is heading.
With this trip, I lost my fear of operations in China.
Enriching and inspiring experience. Easy to see why China is the powerhouse it is to today and slightly scary to think about the future!
The China CEO program is a must attend program if you are interested in entering the Chinese market. Bo and the team have created the best program for networking and learning about China. Where else could you visit Alibaba and Tencent and understand their strategies. CKGSB is an outstanding school.
CKGSB continues to get stronger and stronger. From the first year that I was here, I've experienced a tremendously rewarding and successful relationship, because the faculty members are fabulous and the partnership between our two schools continues to grow and strengthen
I have spent the last 25 years building and operating international companies based on the strong use of IT. I have a strong believe in the combination of in-the-field experience combined with education, but it‘s all about timing. I want to learn even more about China so China CEO Program could be the right program for me at this point. I seek to gain the knowledge about China to better understand how to build an organization in China and how to work as a global team. I also want to create new relationships to further accelerate our business in China and to advance my personal execution."
CKGSB’s professors are excellent. They helped me establish and enhance my business knowledge system. Here I studied with outstanding classmates and alumni, who brought me different perspectives in a wide range of industries. The key reason why I decided to join CKGSB’s MBA program, however, has to do with CKGSB’s unique philosophy of social innovation, or philanthropy, which allows me to reflect the way I used to work in the NPO in a different light. All of these are very helpful for me when I think of starting my own business.
Upon arriving at program, I was certainly not disappointed by the quality of the teaching faculty, the content and the logistics team working assiduously behind the scene. These carried through to CKGSB sessions in New York. I feel so empowered to take the conclusions and content home at a wonderful timing of my life, having been a traditional marketing man, now transformed to digital. The diversity and enthusiasm of my fellow participants further added color and spice to the program for me.
I found that the well taught lessons learned during this program have been very beneficial in establishing our company brand in America. The professors are superb. I have continued to trade ideas on branding strategy with the classmates I met during this program and those relationships have become an important asset in my business. I highly recommend this program to anyone who wants to improve the branding strategy of his or her company.
I have been humbled by the access, support and opportunities on offer at CKGSB. It has been an extraordinary experience.
My experience at CKGSB has been truly exceptional. The professors are world class and the school is fully committed to supporting the students in all aspects of MBA life. The course has truly exceeded my expectations and continues to do so. I can think of no better opportunity to learn about business and life in China.
It is a daunting challenge for a business school to bring so many truly A-list business leaders together, but CKGSB has managed to hit another home run.
It has been an enlightening experience and a great opportunity to gather useful insights about the Chinese market. The information will help us a lot to understand better the current opportunities we could have if we decide to enter the Chinese market, the risks and difficulties we could face and how to approach them."
All my classmates are very experienced and successful. There is a strong desire of learning knowledge and self-improvement. We interact with each other. This is a positive learning environment.
The faculty was excellent, the lectures were thought provoking, enlightening - they presented a great global mindset to the lecture and made it very relevant."
The program is very informative and educational, it is very helpful for us to think and plan ahead. CKGSB’s data collection and research methodology are well-recognized. Also the pool of participants gives a very good representation of the business community here. I would recommend this course to people who are new to China, people who don’t have a clear picture of what’s going on in China, people who are focused on operations of business. Those people from executive level will really benefit from this course.
I’m very impressed with CKGSB’s professors. They are very knowledgeable and practical. They can answer every question in-depth. It shows that they really know what’s going on and they have a lot of contact with the industry participators or government officials so that they can get inside information and share with us. The classmates are very sophisticated. They know what’s going on. They just wanted to enhance the knowledge, to have more inspiration from different angles. I find the networking very good and dynamic.
We were friends and entrepreneurs who have admired each other for a long time. But today, everything has simplified into one single mission - and that is studying. I believe that, in order to realize a new business civilization with a global perspective, all of us will work hard. Let’s expect a change and a transcendence in the future.
I hope to combine the theories of the past with the practices of the present, so we can stand on a higher level to review the development of our industry, state and economy, while advancing ourselves to a higher level.
Technological innovation has become the theme of current world economic and social development. Revering technical advancement, actively engaging in the transformation and lifelong learning will become a trend.
With an international vision, CKGSB integrates both Chinese and Western management experience. It serves as a good platform for learning and offers a stage for Chinese entrepreneurs to exchange experience and make practical innovations.
The program offers a unique cross-cultural experience and prepares students to become future global business leaders. Faculty from two world-class schools – Cornell and CKGSB – come together and offer unparalleled expertise and education. There is no other program that has such high-caliber faculty, participants and networking opportunities. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Through the coming years’ studying, I hope to fully understand the CKGSB Business Scholars Program (DBA) as well as to better understand myself and better understand society. I’m looking forward to learning and making progress together with my classmates.
One of the things that makes this program so unique and that excites me the most is that it is geared to such a diverse audience; people from different kinds of family businesses being taught by expert faculty who will tailor the learning to the needs of the participants.
The program was an incredible success. I learn more about China than I thought was impossible. I learned about myself, and I learned how to properly position myself and my company for the China market.
We are raising our business in Shenzhen, so it's being a fantastic opportunity to network and connect with other entrepreneurs who are exploring the system.
Changed my life; business-wise and personally. Now I need to learn Chinese! 100% satisfaction, truly a great program.
If you want to do business in China, attend China Start first. The CKGSB team have extraordinary access to the most powerful and influential leaders in China. The event was demanding, but packed with learning and commercial opportunities.
CKGSB’s faculty has been awesome. They seem to have real world insight, not just theory but practice and experience, experience of working with international companies and Chinese companies. So I would say the real world application of theory.
The honesty of CKGSB professors is truly admirable. They’re not trying to sugar-coat things, they are not trying to paint a picture of imaginary China, they are trying to give us the real deal China. The good, bad and the ugly, the truth. So they are giving us their utmost honest feedback and guidance on how to properly do business here, and that’s, again, priceless. So if you want to do business here, with all the positives that we said about the faculty of getting the truth, you’ve got to immerse yourself directly into this program.
I was very impressed with how CKGSB selects its pool of students and alumni. They are looking at the CEOs, the top of the companies, whereas in the US, a lot of our B-schools actually look at middle managers, which sometimes could be a little bit challenging to affect change in an organization at that level. But when you recruit the top management, you are able to make things to affect change in a more positive and a faster way.
I was really looking for professors that can take both inside-out and outside-in approaches in teaching and with a global view as well. Here at CKGSB, it has been a positive surprise but it was also part of my expectation. I think that’s the uniqueness because the class is almost real-time. I spent a lot of time on emails after class because I literally had no time as I was quite fascinated by the class. It’s energizing to be able to pull yourself out from very busy day to day work and focus on listening and learning something new. I find the program fit into a large group of audience, both MNCs trying to rethink their strategy in China market and new entrant in the market.
I was very impressed with CKGSB’s professors and with how much they believed in the school, how much they believed in the country, what they can do and how willing they were to provide us as much information and access as they could during this week, so all the good intentions, willingness and actual results of the week have been amazingly organized from an educational point of view and a logistical point of view, so I felt like they have been living up to what they were trying to deliver us, so that was really great.
I viewed China CEO as a trusted gateway to building top-tier connections and a nework in china for opportunities in country, as well as Chinese business leaders and the broader business community, looking at entering or stengthening ties in new markets such as the Middle East. Through this program, I expect to develop a deeper understanding of the Chinese market, and lessons/know how, that can be adapted elsewhere. I am seeking new partners in China for distribution, fulfillment and logistics solutions for consumer goods across the country, as well as strategic investors and partners for scale-up ventures in FinTech and Banking."
By joining the China CEO program, I expect to better understand Chinese technologies and business models, especially in the cutting edge social media industry. Furthermore, I’m looking forward to the company visits and interacting with different CEOs in China. For me, I have many years of experience to scale up the business and help companies to digitize their workflows, mainly focus on the monetization of business models and the crypto economy. I would like to share these experiences with my future CEO fellows on the China CEO program.“
Through intense learning and sharing both inside and outside the classroom, CKGSB has transformed me, both personally and professionally.
We are expecting to expand business rapidly in China. So China CEO program is the right choice for us to build networks and gain knowledge about China at CEO level, which is the key for our success. Personally, I want to get in-depth knowledge of Chinese knowledge of Chinese culture, business and leadership styles. I only believe our company will be successful if we do it in the Chinese way.”
We could go and talk to the leading European business schools, we could go and talk to the leading US business schools. But if you want to get a view on globalization through a China lens then it is much more valuable for our senior management to come to Beijing to listen to the views of experts at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business because that gives us the perspective we need to make very important decisions around our business.
When I was at Harvard Business School, 90% of my classmates worked at large companies, so their goal was to get promoted or get a better salary. As compared to HBS, where I was doing mostly case studies, CKGSB is unique in that it’s mostly for entrepreneurs to learn practical and real skillsets that they can apply to their business immediately. It’s experiential.
Fabulous program. I enjoyed a wonderful journey through 4 cities in 6 days, learning, networking and visiting some of China’s best known companies. CKGSB’s network in China is broad and deep, and I met so many interesting and knowledgeable business leaders from all sectors. I highly recommend the program to western CEOs who need to deepen their knowledge and connections in China.
CKGSB leads its competitors no matter whether it’s their MBA, EMBA or Business Scholar programs and has been highly recommended by friends around me. I think it is the best choice one can make.
As part of our strategy, we want to grow our business in China substantially. We are growing 30% year on year for the last three years in China, but this is not enough to achieve our visionary goal of expanding our business in China 10 times. I also believe in the philosophy “In China, for China” and in lifelong learning concept and constant development. Looking forward to sharing my experience in supply chain and Russian business connections with my future fellows and CEOs in China as well as bridging the gap between Russian and Chinese business communities.”
