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When it comes to running businesses in China, Dr. Bing Xiang has begun to create his own Chinese version of C-level executives with a graduate business education comparable to the powerhouse programs at Wharton and Columbia. In 2002, Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing asked Dr. Xiang to help set up a business graduate program in China. Xiang left his teaching post at the Beijing University to set up the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), where he is now the dean and accounting professor.

Dr. Xiang has managed to established relationships between CKGSB and major MBA programs in the U.S. and in Europe. Students from CKGSB have gone to study at UCLA, UC Berkeley, The Wharton School, and Columbia University. Dr. Xiang says, "Our relationships with the top business schools are very important. We want our students to have a global perspective." He adds that his school has been able to recruit faculty members educated at top U.S. business schools.

The CKGSB MBA curriculum provides a unique management experience that combines global perspectives with a China focus, an experience advocating humanity and social responsibility, and an experience that exposes participants to diversity. Courses include strategic management and China strategy, business law-China perspectives, supply chain management, investment banking, corporate finance, and Confucianism and humanity, too.

Dr. Xiang says that a good understanding of humanities is a prerequisite for developing one's ability to leverage human resources. He says, "We also combine this thinking with a better understanding of how Chinese companies function and how to integrate them into the global marketplace."

In April 2006, the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in collaboration with The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and INSTEAD delivered the first China CEO program in Hong Kong. The goal of this program is to better prepare the Chinese business elite group for the globalization of commerce. Graduates of the program run the gamut from CEOs of a state-owned conglomerate like CNOOC to the new tech-era companies like Alibaba, an Internet portal that acquired Yahoo China. CKGSB also has begun to offer to expand its programs outside of China to Korea, to Japan, and to India.

Resources

Letter from the Dean, CKGSB

Sky Radio: Exclusive Talk with Dean Bing Xiang

Wharton Executive Education and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Offer Program for Chinese CEOs

Bio

Dr. Bing Xiang is a professor of accounting and founding dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining CKGSB, Dr. Xiang was a professor and a founding director of executive MBA and Executive Education programs at the Guangzhou School of Management, Peking University. He also taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong and China-Europe International Business School. Dr. Xiang has been invited to deliver executive programs at many world-class universities and corporations. He is a well-known consultant to multinational corporations and indigenous corporations. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.

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