Following the euphoria of gaining admittance to a top MBA programme, candidates typically spend the intervening months preparing themselves mentally for the demanding journey that lies ahead. For MBA 2019 Krizanne Ty, a fixed income trader turned non-profit entrepreneur from the Philippines, this…

Summer internships are often a defining moment in the career trajectory of a young professional. This was the case for MBA 2019’s Rodrigo Laniado, who had contrasting experiences during two of his summer vacations while an undergraduate at Emory University in the US. He spent one summer in the gla…

Click Here to Read More Alumni Stories Thoughts about Shanghai’s Monday morning rush hour traffic are enough to make anyone want to go back to bed. Your bus could be hours late, your orders ignored on Uber, your wish to ride a bike could be cut short by a sudden downpour, and even if you’re driving…

MBA 2019 Pre-course classmates I spent my early years in the Philippines then moved to the US when I was 10. I went to college in Seattle, WA, then worked in the finance industry in the US until I was 25 years old, when sadly, my mother developed a recurrence of her breast cancer. Family has alwa…

Click Here to Read More Alumni Stories How did a young criminal lawyer doing pro bono work from his hometown in Barcelona end up running fashion label Mango’s East Asia & India operations in Shanghai? It all began when he broke up with his girlfriend. One of the first things David Sancho Gra…

Click Here to Read More Alumni Stories Every autumn, CEIBS welcomes new students for the Global EMBA programme. This year, sixty business elites, highly successful but still facing challenges from both their personal and professional lives, come to the same life-changing decision: to come back to a…

It’s not unusual to see International MBAs speaking Chinese in the corridors of CEIBS Shanghai Campus, but in most cases they have picked up their language skills as part of a previous university exchange programme or expat work assignment in China. However MBA 2019 Shawn Luehrsen learned his Chines…

Click Here to Read More Alumni Stories   At a time when Chinese managers are leaving foreign companies en masse to join local media outlets, Wang Hongbin, former Vice President of Caixin Media, is going against the flow. Two years after graduating from the CEIBS Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) 2012…

Studying at a global business school in the heart of the Chinese economy provides CEIBS MBAs with many unique opportunities to develop an in-depth knowledge of the Chinese market.  Though the MBA programme is conducted in English, sometimes Chinese entrepreneurs and executives  are more comfortabl…