Russia’s Gaidar Forum has quickly established itself as one of the premier scientific and economic conferences on the global calendar, attracting business leaders, politicians and academics from around the world. With Russia’s own political and economic predicament attracting extra attention at the moment, this year’s Forum was even more compelling than usual.

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) have announced a collaboration inspired by CKGSB’s and HKS’s common mission: to create knowledge and disseminate it through teaching programs and other outreach methods for the betterment of global communities. 

After 40 years of engagement, two-way trade between the EU and China has now reached  €430 billion, but the potential for the two sides to engage further is huge, with two-way FDI levels not yet reflective of the partnership.

Forbes Korea recently covered CKGSB in a special feature in their December edition, in which Dean Xiang Bing talks about the school’s unparalleled alumni network, and the school’s plans for expansion. Not only will 2015 see the launch of the new Dual Degree EMBA Program with IMD, but the focus will widen from business in China to global leadership and global ownership.

CKGSB Founding Dean and Professor of China Business and Globalization Xiang Bing took time out during a recent trip to London to speak to the Financial Times’ Business Education Editor Della Bradshaw about CKGSB’s past, present and future. Dr Xiang sat for both written and video interviews with Bradshaw for the FT’s prestigious Meet the Dean section. Here are the results. 

In 2014, CKGSB and its world-class faculty were mentioned in more than 300 original articles in top-tier international media – a staggering 200% increase over 2013 – and that’s not to mention a whole range of additional coverage through reprinted articles and syndicated material.

CKGSB has partnered up with the Ivy League University to create an exciting immersion program for family businesses, with modules in both China and the US.

At a recent ASEAN Business Club Forum in Singapore, CKGSB Founding Dean Xiang Bing gave his assessment of today’s business environment in China, and laid out why China should forge more links with ASEAN.

Founding Dean and Professor of China Business and Globalization at CKGSB, Xiang Bing, joined leading business, financial and political leaders from around the world at the recently concluded World Pension Forum’s 4th Annual Aspen Summit, where he discussed China’s economic turnaround, before looking ahead to what the future might hold.

CKGSB Founding Dean Xiang Bing was a featured speaker at the first Oxford & Cambridge Symposium on Enterprise, Ethics and Development (SEED) held recently in the UK.

CKGSB and UN Women hosted a standing-room only seminar on gender diversity and women’s leadership in the workplace at CKGSB’s Beijing campus, featuring top-level participants from the business world – and even a media celebrity!

The sharing economy has threatened traditional industries in the West in the last few years. Now it’s gaining a foothold in China.