Discovering myself If I have to define my life in one word, it would be ‘discovering’. I come from Chile, a very narrow and large country located at the bottom of the world. In the north you can find the most arid desert on the planet, and in the very south you find lush forests, icebergs and beau…

I am Yusuke Son from Yokohama, Japan. Let me take you through my life from Japan to China and CEIBS via the US, India, Vietnam and Thailand. Born and raised in a very traditional Japanese family, I had always aspired to go abroad. My first experience outside Japan was in New York when I was 18 ye…

December 2, 2019. Beijing – In CEIBS Professor of Entrepreneurship and International Business Shameen Prashantham’s class on New Venture Internationalisation, MBA students dissect the dual challenge facing enterprises that are born global – namely, limited resources and zero brand awareness. These t…

Before I started my MBA at CEIBS, I read a book by Malcolm Gladwell called Outliers. It’s about success stories from people across different industries, such as Bill Gates and The Beatles, and discusses how there are three commonalities between many extremely successful people: being in the right…

Meeting CEIBS It was a cool and crisp autumn afternoon in the autumn of 2017. Leaves fell from the trees, grazed by the first hints of the winter wind. I remember the day so well, sitting in the only Starbucks in a small town somewhere in the central US when a quick click on Google sparked my lif…

October 29, 2019. Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan – On the long list of impressive CEIBS alumni who bring China and the West closer together, MBA 2016’s Saken Shayakhmetov stands out. From the office of Askar Mamin, Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister, Saken is not only working inside a country that literally brid…

By Zhao Xinge, Professor of Finance and Accounting, Associate Dean, and Director of the Finance MBA (FMBA) Department at CEIBS After earning my PhD from Northwestern University in the US, I taught at the long-established Raymond A. Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary in…

September 27, 2019. Shanghai – Strolling through the tree-lined streets of Shanghai’s former French concession, China’s love affair with the smartphone and a desire to straddle the European and Chinese business worlds – these were just some of the intriguing themes to emerge when Jan-Peter Boeckst…