An Inter-disciplinary Global Platform

Over the years, CKGSB has expanded its inter-disciplinary global platform through innovative collaborations and program offerings.

Driving Two-way Traffic in Business Education

Since our inception, CKGSB has served as a pioneer among business schools in fostering two-way traffic of knowledge between the East and the West.

Raising Globally-minded Chinese Business Leaders

We collaborate with other world-class institutions to offer our Chinese business students—comprised of established business leaders and rising economic disruptors—a truly global experience. Our network of 40+ top international universities - from Cornell University and UC Berkeley in the U.S. to IE University in Spain, to Seoul National University in South Korea, to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel –

provides our students with a range of opportunities to learn and succeed in other markets. We also take our students on international study trips to various countries in Asia, Americas, Europe and Africa to gain first-hand experience learning from globally-renowned companies and organizations like Google, Apple, Nvidia, Morgan Stanley, and BMW.

We collaborate with other world-class institutions to offer our Chinese business students—comprised of established business leaders and rising economic disruptors—a truly global experience.

Our network of 40+ top international universities - from Cornell University and UC Berkeley in the U.S, to IE University in Spain, to Seoul National University in South Korea, to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel – provides our students with a range of opportunities to learn and succeed in other markets. We also take our students on international study trips to various countries in Asia, Americas, Europe and Africa to gain first-hand experience learning from globally-renowned companies and organizations like Google, Apple, Nvidia, Morgan Stanley, and BMW.

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CKGSB’s global programs also follow the school’s unique top-of-the-pyramid approach, with a focus on educating the decision-makers of leading multinational companies and established family businesses, as well as founders of unicorn and unicorn-to-be companies.

Built upon our diversified partnerships, we have held 110+ open-enrolment and customized programs for renowned global companies and business executives to learn about China’s economy and zoom in on best practices in its booming industries. As a result, 4,000+ global senior executives at multinational companies have studied at CKGSB's executive education programs.

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CKGSB and Global Partners

Our global partnerships go beyond universities to include multilateral institutions, government bodies, non-profit organizations, business associations and corporations.

I have a very high impression of CKGSB, and both myself and our INCAE participants are extremely satisfified with the program we have with CKGSB. Going to China and learning from experienced professors about how companies behave, how to handle the relationship with the government, and how important Chinese culture and practices are in doing business, are important aspects which we were not aware of before

Esteban R. Brenes

Professor of Strategy, INCAE Business School

IMD

In China, IMD found that CKGSB is an ideal counterpart. Both are private institutes – they are not part of larger universities, whether private or state-owned. Both are focused on the world of business, and are experts at executive education.

Dominique Turpin

Emeritus Professor of Marketing Strategy and former President, IMD Business School

The combined strengths of CKGSB and Columbia would help develop new programs. Today’s globalized economy means new ways of thinking about how we do things together. We will combine the benefifits from both the East and the West to come up with new ways of making things happen.

Mary C. Boyce

Provost of Columbia University, Former Dean of Columbia Engineering

We are very happy to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. Congratulations Dean Xiang Bing and all the team for all the impressive accomplishments. FDC is proud of the partnership established many years ago, where we can join forces to make the world a better place through education and development. It is a big pleasure to work with all the CKGSB team!

Viviane Barreto

Executive Director of the International Advisory Council (IAC) Associate Dean for Global Strategy and International Affairs Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC)

In our search for partners that are comparable in quality and distinction to Columbia, I think we have found exactly the right partner in CKGSB.

John H. Coatsworth

Former Provost, Columbia University

I’d like to congratulate Li Ka-Shing and everybody who has been running the business school on having achieved so much already and very much hope that they build on those very strong foundations over the next decade.

Lord Chris Patten

Chancellor, University of Oxford

CKGSB has all of the right ingredients for continued success: great students, great staff, great faculty, and a vision that everyone is aligned with

Barbara Millar

Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

CKGSB’s Global Alumni Network

Comprising of C-suite executives at multinational companies, up-and-coming entrepreneurs and socially-minded organizational leaders, our 18,000-strong alumni network represents the movers and shakers shaping China’s economy, and increasingly the global economy.

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It is a daunting challenge for a business school to bring so many truly A-list business leaders together, but CKGSB has managed to hit another home run.

Jack Ma

Founder of Alibaba

Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba Group, attended CKGSB’s flagship CEO Program in 2006, several years after he founded Alibaba. Now Alibaba has grown into a revolutionary Internet empire with businesses in fields such as retailing, finance, technology and logistics.

Program: CKGSB CEO Program
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We could go and talk to the leading European business schools, we could go and talk to the leading US business schools. But if you want to get a view on globalization through a China lens then it is much more valuable for our senior management to come to Beijing to listen to the views of experts at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

Malcolm Sweeting

Pro-chancellor and Chair at the Open University

A leading global corporate finance lawyer, Malcolm Sweeting was partner at Clifford Chance from 1990 to 2010 and Senior Partner from 2010 to 2018, before joining the Open University. He has also served on the CKGSB European Advisory Board Member since 2011.

Program: Boardroom Briefing (Customized Program)
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When I was at Harvard Business School, 90% of my classmates worked at large companies, so their goal was to get promoted or get a better salary. As compared to HBS, where I was doing mostly case studies, CKGSB is unique in that it’s mostly for entrepreneurs to learn practical and real skillsets that they can apply to their business immediately – it’s experimental.

Joel Neoh

Founder of Groupon, Malaysia

Joel Neoh, Founder of Groupon Malaysia and International Vice President of Groupon Asia Pacific, chose to study at CKGSB to prepare himself to tap into the Chinese market. He has over 15 years of experience and investment in start-ups and disruptive technologies across Asia and was named by the World Economic Forum as one of Asia’s top 10 entrepreneurs in 2013.

Program: Growing Business to China
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Without the education at CKGSB, without the vision they provide, I wouldn’t be where I am today. CKGSB has a huge network which can help you not only in the medical field but in all sorts of ways. Even today, CKGSB is like a family that I can reach out to whenever I need to.

Michelle Lau

Marketing Director of Humanity and Health Group and Associate Wealth Management Director of AIA Hong Kong and Macau

A former research writer and producer for NOW TV Hong Kong on several Sino-Hong Kong hit dramas, Michelle leveraged CKGSB’s MBA program to change course and take over her family’s business - Humanity and Health Group, a leading private medical firm in Hong Kong. She now also works for AIA Hong Kong and Macau as Associate Wealth Management Director.

Program: MBA and Next Generation Global Leading Innovators Program
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Five years ago, I first experienced the power of CKGSB’s network, and its close relations with the key players in the country. Since then, we have teamed up with Shenzhen 4PX Express (Alibaba Group) in Europe & Southeast Asia (Cambodia), which integrate our solution for the management of e-commerce returns globally.

Eddy Richauvet

Founder of ShopRunBack

With over 24 years of experience in the logistics and transportation, international postal networks, and express freight sectors, Eddy Richauvet founded ShopRunBack in 2015 to facilitate e-commerce return management for retailers selling online.

Program: China Start, China CEO and Igniting Innovation for Impact
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Had I not studied at CKGSB, Milkground might not have become China’s leading domestic cheese brand.

Chai Xiu

Founder of Milkground

Chai Xiu broke into a cheese market dominated by international companies and made Milkground China’s fastest growing cheese company. She has embraced lifelong learning by participating in three programs at CKGSB.

Program: EMBA, CKGSB CEO Program and Business Scholars Program
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At CKGSB, I learnt how to be an entrepreneur, how to run a business, how to be a good leader in my company and how to create value for employees, co-workers and society.

Li Fenghua

Founder of Wicue

Seven years after founding Wicue, a manufacturer of flexible liquid crystal film, Li Fenghua signed up for CKGSB’s EMBA program in 2021. Thus far, Wicue has raised over USD 30 million in funding, filed over 100 patents and is the world’s first producer of LCD blackboards.

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There were a lot of things we were learning in the classroom that I found very insightful. Those lessons saved me a lot of time and iterations because I tried to apply them right away.

Lina Getachew

Founder of Education for Ethiopia

Lina Getachew Ayenew founded the social enterprise, Education for Ethiopia, an organization that aims to offer digital education to Ethiopian students. Drawn by CKGSB’s commitment to raising responsible business leaders with an emphasis on social innovation, she joined CKGSB’s MBA program in 2019. She continues to drive forward her social business - Education for Ethiopia and its platform – Saquama – that has served thousands of Ethiopian students by offering language and STEM lessons in Ethiopian languages. Lina holds a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale.

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As an NGO practitioner, CKGSB offered me unparalleled exposure to China’s most established and vibrant entrepreneurs’ community. An excellent learning journey, both in terms of intellectual stimulation and fostering cross-sectoral dialogues.

Yuan Jiakai

Vice President and China Chief Representative of United Way Worldwide

United Way Worldwide is the world’s largest privately funded non-profit organization. Yuan has devoted over a decade of his professional life to civil society work and has been a part of China’s charity sector’s huge growth. He is completing his study at CKGSB’s Business Scholars Program. With a BBA from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the University of Michigan, Yuan has also previously served as a World Economic Forum Global Young Leader (2019).

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CKGSB’s Global Events

The Women in Leadership Forum

Flagship Events

CKGSB has been hosting the Women in Leadership Forum since 2013 in partnership with the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN WOMEN). This flagship event has created a platform to not only empower female leaders and promote gender equality in the workplace, but also to celebrate those who lead for a positive impact on society.

The forum has featured distinguished opinion leaders, such as Sheryl Sandberg, then Facebook COO; Dame Barbara Woodward, then British ambassador to China; Jean Liu, President of DiDi; and Gill Zhou, Vice President and CMO of IBM APAC, as well as male champions, such as Fernando Vallina, Chairman of ExxonMobil China and Greg Gilligan, then Vice President and Managing Director Greater China, PGA Tour.

Former British Ambassador to China, Dame Barbara Woodward, highlighted at the 2018 Women in Leadership Forum that “Government plays a strategic role in social innovation and gender equality. We must set the direction with proper policy frameworks.”

Gabrielle Williams, the Minister for Women, Youth and Prevention of Family Violence for the Victorian State Government of Australia, spoke about her efforts to lead the development of Australia’s first Gender Equality Bill that would address systemic causes of gender inequality at the 2019 Women in Leadership Forum.

China Economic Symposium

Flagship Events

Since 2015, CKGSB has been hosting the China Economic Symposium annually in cities like Beijing, London and Melbourne, to convene global leaders from business, academia and governments around the world to make sense of China’s economic outlook, industrial economy, and its role in global trade.

This flagship event has featured top-notch speakers, such as

Daniel Andrews, the Premier of Victoria, Australia; Shirley Chen, Managing Director of China International Capital Corporation; Sir Douglas Flint, the UK’s Government’s Special Envoy to the Belt and Road Initiative; Tatiana Krylova, Head of the Enterprise Branch of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); Ralf Speth, then CEO of Jaguar Land Rover; and Liu Xiaoming, China’s former Ambassador to the UK.

At the China Economic Symposium in 2015, CKGSB Professor of Economics Li Wei stated the need for refinancing, while also laying out some necessary reform steps, including ending land monopolies by local government and continuing the anti-corruption campaign and crackdown on interest groups.

CKGSB Professor of Finance Gan Jie at the China Economic Symposium in 2017 shared her findings of her quarterly Business Sentiment Index with the Chief Economist of Bloomberg Economics Tom Orlik, and highlighted that China needed to strengthen R&D and form core competitiveness.

Sir Douglas Flint, UK Government’s Special Envoy to the Belt and Road Initiative, highlighted that “the scale of the Belt and Road Initiative requires the expertise and skills of all countries along the Belt and Road” at the China Economic Symposium in London in 2018.

In 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the China Economic Symposium moved online. Participants weighed in on topics such as China’s dual-circulation strategy, its net-zero carbon goal and the downward pressure on the economy caused by the pandemic.

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Events with Prominent Partners on the Global Stage

Dean Xiang Bing and Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore shared the stage at the FutureChina Global Forum (2021)

In July 2021, CKGSB partnered up with the Singapore-based think tank, Business China, to gauge the opinions of 3 Singaporean ministers, 5 Chinese provincial and city governors, and 4 ASEAN trade ministers on the future of collaboration between China, Singapore and ASEAN countries.
Mr. Heng Swee Keat (Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies) urged that “to further promote the ASEAN-China dialogue relations, we must cope with the structural challenges that are reshaping the global economy, seek new sources of growth and form new collaborations.”

Martin Wolf spoke at CKGSB’s “Changing Landscape of the Chinese and Global Economies” event (2017)

At this event co-organized by CKGSB and the Financial Times (FTChinese) in 2017, Martin Wolf predicted then “a stronger dollar, higher interest rates in the United States, a weaker RMB.” Joining Martin for the dialogue were IMF’s former Deputy Managing Director Zhu Min and CKGSB Professor of Strategic Management and Associate Dean Teng Bingsheng

Henry Kissinger and Dean Xiang Bing discuss China-US relations in the Trump-Xi era (2016)

Henry Kissinger sat down with CKGSB Dean Xiang Bing at this event organized by CKGSB and the Committee of 100, to discuss his then recent meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping and the state of US-China relations. Kissinger said, “If China and America are in conflict, the whole world will be divided.” Dean Xiang Bing agreed by echoing, “China and the US have a joint responsibility to make it the best of times for humanity.”

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CKGSB’s Voice at Distinguished Global Events

Boao Forum for Asia

Dean Xiang Bing has spoken at the Boao Forum on three occasions in 2012, 2013 and 2018. Above, he led a discussion at the Boao Forum in 2012, encouraging the audience to consider innovations in policy, governance and business practices that will create a sustainable future.

 

The Boao Forum for Asia is a high-profile event that brings together Asia’s top leaders across business, academia and government to discuss the most pressing issues that the region faces.

FT Banking Forum

Dean Xiang Bing joined leading economists worldwide at the FT Banking Forum in 2017, including the former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and FT’s Chief Economics Commentator Martin Wolf, to examine the complex dynamics governing today’s uncertain economic climate.

 

In his keynote speech (above) Xiang noted that although neoliberalism has generated a considerable amount of wealth over the last few decades, it has also led to a large imbalance of wealth and income distribution.

World Economic Forum

In 2017, CKGSB Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of Marketing and Associate Dean Sun Baohong spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos. This was the first time a CKGSB professor spoke at the Davos Forum.

 

She shared on the major drivers that were transforming consumption and how leaders should prepare for the new context.

Global Business Strategy: China Forum

In 2012, CKGSB co-hosted the Global Business Strategy: China Forum with the Committee of 100 and Columbia Business School to explore opportunities, strategies and perspectives necessary to be successful in the US and China markets.

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CKGSB’s Digital Events for a Worldwide Audience

In the post COVID-19 world, we continue to leverage digital platforms for both events and programs, in order to generate greater impact among a wider audience from across the world.

The Future of Sustainable Business Webinar

#Sustainability #Responsibility #Business

Against the backdrop of devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Future of Sustainable Business webinar looked at how companies can enhance their sustainability efforts and address societal problems. CKGSB Professor of Marketing Professor Zhu Rui shares her three-step approach for building sustainable business and stressed the importance to find the intersection between the company’s core competence and society’s pain points.

Impact of Oil-market Shock on the Global Economy

#Energy #Investment

Against the backdrop of falling oil prices in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Fu Chengyu, former Chairman of Sinopec and CKGSB Professor of Management Practice of Governance and Innovations at Large Corporations, joined CKGSB Assistant Zhou Li to address the reasons behind the oil price war and its impact on major economies around the world as they recover from COVID-19.

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#COVID-19 #Economy #Recovery

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert Barro, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Jun Kwang-woo, Chairman of Institute of Economics, and Xiang Bing, Founding Dean and Professor of China Business and Globalization of CKGSB, weighed in on how economies around the world would respond to the health and financial crises triggered by the pandemic.

Dean Xiang Bing said global companies need to re-think global supply chain issues take advantage of cost, economies of scale and specialization, but also diversify and prepare for potential hiccups like the pandemic in the future.

RCEP: Looking Beyond Ratification

#ASEAN #RCEP #Trade

In light of the ratification of the world’s largest trade deal – the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement (RCEP), CKGSB brought together experts across Asia-Pacific to discuss the ramifications of this agreement, addressing its likely impact on the regional economy and its practical implications for businesses operating in the region.

New Frameworks: RCEP’s Critical Role in Driving the Asian Digital Economy

#RCEP #Digitalization #Asia

Six months after RCEP came into force, CKGSB and Asia House re-examined the agreement and its impact on Asia’s digital economy, including cross-border data flows, online consumer protection and the digital environment for SMEs in the bloc. Speakers included Tran Quoc Khanh, Vice Minister of Industry and Trade of Vietnam; and Satvinder Singh, Deputy Secretary-General for ASEAN Economic Community.

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