Date: Friday, August 25, 2023
Time: 14:00 Beijing Time
Format: Zoom – on the record
Language: English (with simultaneous Chinese-English translation)
With the unprecedented changes in the current era, enterprises are facing both challenges and opportunities for their development. In this context, having a well-defined strategy is crucial for enterprises. It guides the way a business grows and adapts, allowing it to create enduring value even amidst external uncertainties.
Weilei (Stone) Shi, Professor of Managerial Practice at CKGSB, has invited Hamilton Helmer, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Strategy Capital, and Chenyi Shi, principal at Strategy Capital, to have a conversation on this topic. Helmer, Author of 7 Powers, has elaborated a strategic analysis framework, designed to help companies build their competitive advantage by defining, categorizing, exploiting and maintaining their competitive advantage, so as to effectively build the moat of the enterprise and continuously create differentiated returns.
Weilei (Stone) Shi is Professor of Managerial Practice at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Dr. Shi graduated from Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh with his Ph.D. in Strategic Management in 2008. Currently, he is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Management Studies. Moreover, he is a member of council at the Shanghai Advanced Institute for Financial Research. Dr. Shi acts as a committee member at Chongqing Liangjiang Research Institute—Shanghai Jiaotong University. He is also a distinguished researcher at Shanghai Institute for Global City—Shanghai Municipal Government Decision Committee. Before joining CKGSB, Dr. Shi was a tenured Professor of Strategy and Doctoral Advisor at Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College-CUNY. Previously, he was also a Professor of Strategy at SAIF-SJTU and was the Academic Co-Director of EMBA/EE/GES programs there. Before that, he was the Academic Director of Executive Education at Antai School of Economics and Management between 2015 and 2019, and Executive Director of DBA Program at Antai between 2017 and 2019.
Dr. Shi worked for Roland Berger Strategy Consultancy–a top notch global strategy consulting firm, in its Shanghai (Great China) office before he entered into academia. During his consulting career, he steered many projects in retail, automobile, and machine cutting tool industries. He specialized in foreign firms’ market entry strategy, M&A and strategic alliance, post M&A integration, organizational restructure, competitive analysis between domestic and foreign firms in China. Currently, Dr. Shi is an entrepreneur advisor for top-tier incubators and he also sits on the board of multiple companies as an independent director.
