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Business Scholars Program

Educating Business Leaders to Produce Original
Thought Leadership

Business Scholars Program at a Glance
5 years
Chinese
Part-time, In-person
December
Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Singapore

    Further Your Leadership Venture with CKGSB Business Scholars Program

    The CKGSB Business Scholars Program develops senior scholarly business leaders who are further along in their careers to navigate their businesses with leadership insights backed by rigorous practice-based research.

    Equip Your Leadership with Original Insights

    Business theory is at the core of the learning experience at CKGSB’s Business Scholars Program. Here we offer you a bird’s eye view and allow you to run your business with new and original management theories. You will also be offered an opportunity to create new knowledge applicable to real-world business problems based on your business practices. With this program, we aspire to promote innovative thought leadership with industry and societal impact.

    A Network of Elite Business Leaders

    Facts and Figures of Class of 2023

    46
    Average age
    95.5%
    Are at the chairman or CEO level of their companies
    41%
    Of the students run listed companies
    Building Your Thought Leadership Through Innovative Course Design

    Building Your Thought Leadership Through Innovative Course Design

    CKGSB’s Business Scholars Program seamlessly combines its research-based curriculum with what business leaders care most about. Its core courses on socioeconomics, cutting-edge technology, finance management, global value connection and social innovation, coupled with modules on the most trending topics and research-driven, industry-focused case studies, aim to offer business leaders strategic takeaways that they reflect on their businesses.

    The program leverages its strong partnership network to offer students the most rewarding study experience. It collaborates with top universities such as:

    What Our Alumni Say

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    Through my studies, I hope to benefit from the curriculum of the Business Scholars Program, so as to better understand myself and the world around me, as well as to grow with my like-minded peers.
    CHEN Yidan
    Founder of Tencent and Founder of Wuhan College; CKGSB Business Scholars Program Alumnus
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    My experience on the Business Scholars Program is a journey of self exploration. Here, having witnessed my classmates’ challenging entrepreneurial journeys, I gained new perspective to help me reflect on my own entrepreneurial path. I look forward to learning from CKGSB professors’ systematic management thinking and having in-depth exchanges with my peers, in order to make breakthroughs in my business with a better horizon and improved management capabilities.
    WU Zhixiang
    Founder and Chairman of Tongcheng Group; CKGSB Business Scholars Program Alumnus
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    During my time on the Business Scholars Program, I connected and learned from classmates of various industrial backgrounds. I could regularly visit my classmates’ companies, which I found particularly fascinating. Studying at CKGSB has been a diverse and interesting experience for me.
    Trudy DAI
    Co-founder and President of Wholesale Marketplaces of Alibaba Group; CKGSB Business Scholars Program Alumna

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