CKGSB is widely known for having the most powerful alumni network in China and many of the school’s EMBA alumni played an active role in the recently concluded ‘Lianghui’ parliamentary sessions. Find out what they had to say about topics including agriculture, e-commerce, Internet monopolies, recycling, financial reforms and entrepreneurship.
The recent annual gathering of China’s two parliamentary bodies, known as ‘Lianghui’, recently concluded in the capital, with topics including the economy, Internet Plus and access to education all being discussed. CKGSB professors share their views on some of the hottest topics.
CKGSB Economics Professor Li Wei, creator of the CKGSB Business Conditions Index (BCI), tells a Knowledge Series audience that China must accelerate its planned economic reforms to put manufacturing resources to better use as the nation’s debt and overcapacity problems worsen.
Eight years after the first wave of Chinese bankers returned home from Wall Street, another group is following suit – and CKGSB Professor of Finance Cao Huining says that opportunity awaits when they arrive.
CKGSB’s pioneering Understanding China’s Next Move course is back by popular demand, with this year’s program centering on the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship, areas that have become central to the government’s future strategy.
Alan Yan, founder of AdChina, the Chinese Internet marketing firm recently acquired by Alibaba Group, told a CKGSB Knowledge Series audience that the online-to-offline (O2O) market remains a “huge” China investment opportunity, despite a shakeout that has raised concerns that the O2O boom is a mirage.
Women who speak up at work can rise to executive positions in companies where men make the major career-advancement decisions, an audience at a special CKGSB Knowledge Series panel discussion to commemorate International Women’s Day, Women Ascending, from Base Camp to Summit: Tools for the Climb, was told.
The Wall Street Journal’s sister company Dow Jones Newswires publishes a dedicated article on Prof Li Wei’s Business Conditions Index, a monthly survey that takes the pulse of some of China’s leading entrepreneurs and executives.
CKGSB Professor of Marketing Li Yang delivers keynote speech in some of the hottest China-related topics to an enthusiastic audience attending the term-changing conference of the Korean Chamber of Commerce in China.
Liu Ling, a managing director at New China Capital Management, the investment manager for Cathay Funds, told a CKGSB Knowledge Series event that China’s stock-market gyrations are the growing pains of a “healthy and solid” economy, highlighted by China’s middle class overtaking America’s to become the biggest in the world.
Despite going through a minor recession, China is still a valuable part of the global economy, according to CKGSB Founding Dean Xiang Bing. In an interview with influential Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, he expressed optimistic views about China’s growth as it seeks to address its wealth distribution and environmental issues.
China Daily and a host of other domestic media outlets cover the school’s prominent forum for young investors, co-hosted by CKGSB’s pioneering Chuangchuang Community, which seeks to be a growth accelerator for start-up companies.
