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Custom Program for C-Suite Executives

An exclusive program designed for C-Suite executives and board members to navigate the complexities of global markets and technological transformation.

Custom Program

The program’s duration, location and language can be customized to your needs.

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    Custom C-Suite Executive Program Overview

    Rapid advances in AI, robotics, smart manufacturing, and other technologies are changing how companies compete, while geopolitical and economic shifts are forcing leadership teams to reassess global strategy. Our C-suite program is commissioned by organizations that want a tailored development experience for their senior leadership team, with C-suite executives and board members attending the program itself.  

    Led by CKGSB faculty, industry experts, and business leaders, the bespoke closed-door program gives your leadership team space to examine the strategic issues most relevant to your organization. The content can address technology-driven growth, China and Asia, global markets, policy, new business models, and other priorities agreed during the design process. 

    You leave with a program built around your organization’s own strategic questions, along with insights and clearer priorities that your leadership team can apply after the program.

    Why CKGSB Custom Program

    By joining the tailor-made CKGSB Custom Program, your global leadership team gains access to China-focused insight, CKGSB’s business network, and practical perspectives that can inform decisions across your organization.

    The program can help you understand developments in China and the wider region, local policy-making, China-ASEAN opportunities, emerging business models, global positioning, and other strategic issues relevant to your organization.

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    What Your Leadership Team Gains

    Gain deeper understanding of the region

    • Build a broader understanding of China and the region and identify opportunities relevant to your organization.
    • Combine faculty-led learning with on-the-ground company visits.
    • Engage directly with industry practitioners and build business connections.

    Access to China’s business ecosystem

    • Connect with CKGSB’s 25,000+ alumni, around half of whom are at chairman or CEO level, alongside our wider network of entrepreneurs, policymakers, and investors.
    • Gain perspectives from business leaders who are closely involved in China’s economy and industries.
    • Draw on a network that includes senior decision-makers across major Chinese companies.

    Develop at board level

    • Work with CKGSB’s 55 faculty members to design learning around your organization’s priorities.
    • Receive support from pre-program research and design through delivery and post-program review.
    • Build a program that reflects the strategic questions your board and leadership team are actively working through.

    Program design

    Fully customizable

    The program is tailored to your company’s specific strategic interests and needs.

    Location of your choice

    The program can take place on any of CKGSB’s campuses in Beijing, Shanghai and/or Shenzhen campuses; or any other location according to your preference.

    Dedicated support

    Our program team will work with your organization closely to ensure quality delivery and maximum impact.

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    How we deliver your program

    01
    Define

    • Assemble a project team, involving stakeholders from both sides for in-depth conversations
    • Understand needs and prepare field research (5 days)
    • Conduct field research (3 days)
    • Collect feedback and conduct analysis (5-10 days)
    • Propose solution and fine-tune program based on partner feedback (10 days)

    02
    Develop

    • Leverage CKGSB faculty and alumni networks to create customized program
    • Co-design modules, learning goals, schedules and delivery format for cohorts at different levels (10 days)
    • Build delivery plans and coordinate resources (10 days)

    03
    Execute

    • Allocate resources, carry out administration, travel assistance, technical support and on-site logistics
    • Deliver program: lectures, discussions, company visits, networking, sprint workshops etc.
    • Conduct continuous evaluation throughout the program

    04
    Evaluate

    • Refining the program in real-time based on participant feedback
    • Hold in-depth conversations and follow-up sessions with key stakeholders and participants
    • Share program report & carry out debriefing
    • Offer action planning & coaching
    • Provide ongoing CKGSB community & alumni network support

    Key Focus Areas and Faculty

    China's Scaling and Innovations

    XIANG Bing

    XIANG Bing

    Founding Dean and Dean's Distinguished Chair Professor of China Business and Globalization

    China's Decision-Making Process

    FU Chengyu

    FU Chengyu

    Professor of Management Practice of Governance and Innovations at Large Corporations

    Tariffs, Tensions, and the Future of Global Trade: The U.S.–China Story

    LI Wei

    LI Wei

    Professor of Economics and Associate Dean for Asia and Oceania

    Smart Manufacturing and Industrial Big Data

    Global Digital Transformation & AI Innovation

    SUN Tianshu

    SUN Tianshu

    Dean's Distinguished Chair Professor of Information Systems, Executive Academic Director for Business Scholars Program and Director of the AI and Industrial Transformation Lab

    Strategic Innovation in China

    TENG Bingsheng

    TENG Bingsheng

    Professor of Strategic Management and Associate Dean for Strategic Research

    Leadership & Organizational Transformation

    ZHANG Weining

    ZHANG Weining

    Professor of Accounting

    Chinese Financial System: Risks and Opportunities

    OU-YANG Hui

    OU-YANG Hui

    Dean's Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean

    Marketing in the AI Era

    LI Yang

    LI Yang

    Associate Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean for MBA Program

    AI Awakening: Scaling Intelligence and Redefining Business

    Jon LIAO

    Jon LIAO

    Professor of Managerial Practice, Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    Strategic Transformation: Reimagining, Reinventing and Reconfiguring

    ZENG Ming

    ZENG Ming

    Chairman of the Academic Council of Alibaba Group

    What participants say

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    Malcolm SWEETING
    Former Senior Partner, Clifford Chance

    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 China 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.

    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 China 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.

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    Kobayashi YOSHIMITSU
    Chairman of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings

    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.

    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.

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    Sir Tom HUNTER
    Founder, West Coast Capital

    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 a well-rounded Executive Education experience.

    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 a well-rounded Executive Education experience.

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    Jack MA
    Founder of Alibaba, CKGSB alumni

    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 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.

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    FU Chengyu
    Former Chairman, SINOPEC

    CKGSB has elevated business education to a new level, imparting wisdom on how to mobilize and leverage global resources associated with the market and political environments.

    CKGSB has elevated business education to a new level, imparting wisdom on how to mobilize and leverage global resources associated with the market and political environments.

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    CKGSB Custom Program: Frequently Asked Questions

    • Can a CKGSB custom program be delivered outside China?
      • Yes, your program can be delivered outside China at another location that suits your organization. The location is agreed upon as part of the program design process.

    • Which languages can a CKGSB custom program be delivered in?
      • Our primary teaching languages are English and Chinese. We also have experience arranging translation into Russian, Spanish, Korean, Japanese, and Portuguese, depending on the requirements of the program.

    • Can we request specific CKGSB faculty for our program?
      • Yes. We are happy to consider requests for specific CKGSB faculty and will try to align the faculty team with your preferences and program objectives. Final faculty assignments depend on the program design and faculty availability and may be subject to change.

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