To his close friends, Ken Lin is an adrenaline junkie who ticks something exciting off his bucket list every year; to his high school friends, he is the one who bucked the Ivy League trend to do his undergraduate at the entrepreneurial Babson College; and to his colleagues at Invesco, he is an Assoc…

I am originally from Indonesia and have lived in Australia and the US. After graduating from Barnard College, Columbia University with a double major in Political Science and Economics, I returned to Indonesia to work for a logistics company specialising in bulk commodities. I knew I had always wa…

“So, have you looked into any MBA schools?” my friend asked. It was December 2016 and we were having a brunch in Amsterdam’s charming city centre. “I’ve looked at INSEAD and NUS, but I’ve always wanted to go to China,” I answered. “Maybe you should check out CEIBS,” she said. “I have some friend…

Reading the title of my article, you may think that you are receiving dating advice or pick-up tips for your next Tantan or Tinder date. You may also wonder what makes this write-up different – is there any advice which is not already discussed in the various magazines or in the book The Pick-up A…

Lydia J. Price Professor of Marketing, CEIBS When I was a PhD student at Columbia University in late 1980s, some of the professors there travelled to China to teach at the China Europe Management Institute (CEMI). CEMI was an aid initiative – it received financial and intellectual aid from Europ…

Rama Velamuri Professor of Entrepreneurship,Chengwei Ventures Chair in Entrepreneurship,Department Chair (Strategy and Entrepreneurship), CEIBS I first heard about CEIBS in 2003 when I joined the faculty at IESE. My colleagues there, Prof. Pedro Nueno and Prof. Alfredo Pastor, were the President…

A Small Girl in a Big World My name is Stephanie. Born and raised in the beautiful city of Zhenjiang in China’s Jiangsu province, I moved to Toronto, Canada, with my parents in 2003. After graduating high school as an Honours Student, I attended the University of Waterloo, majoring in Mathematics…

It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when my journey to CEIBS and Shanghai started. The truth is that long before I had ever known what a business school was, I had in the back of my mind this notion that one day I would head east to China. That Idea was probably sparked from early childhood experi…

Hi! My name is Shefali. I was born in Mumbai, educated in the US and previously worked in the for-profit social impact investing space. That was until a unique opportunity to move to China presented itself, a move that paved the way to begin the most exciting phase of my life so far. Moving to Ch…