Experience how the CKGSB MBA can accelerate your career in a special 4-hour MBA session on May 11th in Beijing. Explore the unique China insight that multinational firms are searching for during a MBA lecture. Discover the top career advice that helps foreigners successfully build China careers from Larry Wang, CEO of Wang & Li Asia Resources- China’s recruitment firm of the year in 2008.  Network with CKGSB alumni and students as they share the impact the CKGSB MBA has had on their professional development. The CKGSB MBA Experience on May 11th is the final chance to sample one of China’s top MBA programs for the 2013 intake.

After witnessing several years of supercharged growth, China has seen its gradual deceleration in 2013. At the same time, Japan has struggled with jumpstarting its stagnant economy in recent years. While both countries have passed a number of reforms aimed at bolstering growth to attractive and sustainable levels, it is clear that for individual businesses, opportunities lie in fast-growing markets and sectors. How should companies position themselves, both strategically and geographically, to most effectively leverage such pockets of opportunity?

“While women continue to outpace men in educational achievement, we have ceased making real progress at the top of any industry. This means that when it comes to making the decisions that most affect our world, women’s voices are not heard equally.   A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.”

In the past five years, the city of Hefei realized 4100 billion RMB in GDP, with an average annual growth of 16%, becoming the fastest growing provincial capital in China. The 2013 CKGSB Management forum will explore the Innovative and strategic growth in the region.

There is no doubt that e-commerce is skyrocketing in China, where 360buy has grown to become the largest online retailer in the country by transaction volume.

CKGSB’s Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Associate Dean of CKGSB’s European Campus, Teng Bingsheng speaks at webinar ‘Understanding the Family Business in a 21st Century China’ co-presented by CKGSB and Cornell University’s Smith Business Initiative.

Last year, Alibaba broke all records with sales of $14.3 billion on Singles Day. We take a look at how it managed to do that and hear from two professors about what’s in store for the company this time around.

Another sizeable contingent of students from INCAE Business School in Costa Rica visited Beijing for a week-long program of lectures, company visits and networking activities – and went away very satisfied!

53 students from NYU Stern traveled to Beijing this month for an intensive one-week China module program as part of their EMBA program, which was held at CKGSB. The week included a number of highlights showcasing both modern and ancient China through the dual contexts of business and culture.

CKGSB’s 10-year partnership with University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business is a wonderful event that continues to benefit both schools, said Teng Bingsheng, Associate Professor of Strategic Management at CKGSB and the Associate Dean of CKGSB’s European Campus.

Close to 600 senior participants and media attended the CKGSB-HKS 2nd Annual Global Symposium — A New Business Civilization — following on from last year’s inaugural symposium held at Harvard, itself a product of a five-year collaboration between the two schools. Nine academics from universities such as CKGSB, Harvard and Oxford joined more than a dozen speakers from the business community to shed light on sustainable entrepreneurship.

Inspired by the unicorn WeWork in the US, Chinese entrepreneurs have been starting their own co-working spaces. And renting a spot in a co-working space has become a popular option for startups. At the end of 2015, there were over 16,000 of these co-working spaces in China. Are they being formed because of real customer demand or just inflated by a startup bubble? Can they really save cost? What’s their future? How do they differ from US co-working spaces? Read our interview with Mao Daqing, CEO of URwork, the largest co-working space in China in terms of scale, to find the answers.