- MBA 2012’s Eric Seidner on transforming his career in China Wednesday, January 23, 2019 was no ordinary day for MBA 2012 alum Eric Seidner. The former backpacker-turned-English teacher from the USA left his lane house in Jing’an for his first day at his dream job with Apple in Shanghai. He’d mad…

After graduating in 2017, Jesse Miller worked for Shanghai Media Group and Xinhua News in Beijing in an international development role. A year later, he decided to return to the US, and has been working for the Ford acquired scooter sharing firm Spin in San Francisco ever since. Jesse takes time out…

Guo Bai Lecturer of Strategy, CEIBS Unlike many, I joined CEIBS as a newly graduated Ph.D. student. Looking back, I cannot help but feeling extremely lucky to be able to start my academic career here. My first contact with CEIBS was around the end of 2016. I gave a brownbag seminar at CEIBS, tha…

As a German consultant working for Accenture in Zurich, I made the decision last year to relocate to Shanghai to begin an MBA at CEIBS. The country, as the workbench of the world, has always fascinated me, and like many of my peers from Europe, the words ‘Made in China’ were stamped on pretty much…

Shameen Prashantham Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy I first connected with CEIBS through one of my research collaborators, George Yip. Early in my academic career, I had worked on a research project in the UK as a postdoctoral researcher with George when he was at Lond…

When I first stepped onto CEIBS’ Shanghai campus on August 5, 2019, I knew I had started a new chapter in my life. Although I was confident in my choice of institution, my mind was full of uncertainty. I had recently read an article about how CEIBS students only got about five hours of sleep each…

Nowadays, many of us have become drones or sleepwalkers, doing the same, monotonous things over and over again. Living a life like this, I would have ample regrets. I’m a person who lives life by design, not by default. I want to be the one arriving at my grave and saying, “Phew, that was an inter…

I come from Poland, a country with very warm summers and freezing cold winters, located in Central Europe and with strong links to both Eastern and Western cultures, inhabited by people who speak what is probably the most difficult language in the world to learn for non-natives. If you are Asian,…

As the saying goes, “two things are for certain – taxes and death”. As dark as it may sound, it probably is right. However, to me, it signifies an achievement. An achievement of a contribution to the economy for the former; an achievement of a life fulfilled, for the latter. In the same light, my…