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Events Review
Professors Talk | Global Insight Sessions
 

Through thought-provoking dialogue and conversations, China Centre strives to encourage lifelong learning and bring global insights to the regional alumni community. With the aim to provide attendees with the opportunity to learn more about a diverse range of business subjects, from negotiation skills to service design, and building critical thinking to thrive in a changing environment, this quarter the China Centre invited speakers from AMBS, including Dr. Nick Collett shared about financial management, which provided an overview of the characteristics and functioning of financial markets in a global context to our prospective students on 9th  January; Professor Arif Khurshedas illustrated to audience the unit spotlight on Foundation of Finance on 27th  Feburary; Dr. Amedeo De Cesari provided an insight into recent financial trends and developments within global markets on 18th  March; Professor Malcolm Smith shared about Negotiation Skills on 25th  March, offering a great snapshot to the keys of successful negotiations, bringing to the audience a condense version of the popular negotiation skills and selling strategy module.

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Alumni Talks | Personal and Professional Development
 

On 8th March, China Centre hosted a Strategic Branding in Fashion Industrial Talk online with Vogue Business China. Mr Lawrence Hua, alumnus of MSc Fashion Retailing from The University of Manchester was invited to share his memorable studying experience. Ms Cherry Ying, Senior Business Development & Consulting Manager, Vogue Business shared the fashion trends in the global marketing during the past 10 years as to analyse the impact of the outbreak of novel coronavirus on fashion industry. On 13th March, China Centre invited Manchester Global MBA senior alumnus Mr Simon Zhou to deliver an online sharing focusing on personal and professional development . Simon also shared his personal career development and valuable learning experiences with Manchester Global MBA programme. Later in March on the 28th's afternoon, DBA alumna Ms Catherine Zhao, former country manager of MAMMUT China shared her insights of fashion industrial trend after the outbreak of coronavirus from different aspects such as health development, eco-friendly textiles and AI technology. During the alumni industrial sharing event on 15th April, Ms Aileen Wei shared with our prospective students the latest trend in fashion industry together with branding strategies and how to discover new opportunities in this dynamic world. 

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Alumni Club Activity | Marketing Club Talk
 

On the evening of 14th January, The University of Manchester China Centre Marketing Club invited Ms. Jilu Chen, from Kaizao, a Consumer Co-Creation Community to share us the mindset and tools of open innovation for creative production. She has many years of experience in product design and design management at home and abroad, and highlighted that open innovation with Consumer let target users accompany the developing process, so that to help corporations getting feedbacks from the market, reducing risks of launching new products; creating products that users really like.

 

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We are here to help | Study Tips and Experience Webinar Sharing
 

On the evening of 16th March, China Centre Student Support Team invited Mr Evan Hua, Distinction Graduate of the Year 2019 and Ms Shirley Qian, excellent current student from Jul 2019 intake to share their study tips and experience in the MBA journey. In the beginning of the webinar, Centre Director Ms Sherry Fu welcomed over 30 students from Jan 2020 and Jul 2019 intake and heartened them in the studies despite the outbreak of COVID-19. The event covered many topics, such as workshop preparation, time management, communication, etc. and received many positive feedbacks such as “very helpful to academic studies”.

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Launch of “UoM NoW” Amid COVID-19 Alumni Event Series
 

On the evening of 24th March, China Centre launched “UoM NoW” activity project during COVID-19 and welcomed its first online alumni sharing session. During the talk, Dr Sihua Fan, Manchester DBA alumnus and Co-founder of Flory Technology explored the topic of Air Quality in Public Space: safety and hygiene and shared with more than 1500 audience online some popular practices in air quality purification and ventilation. Special cases amid COVID-19 were illustrated including Dr Fan’s charitable action in leading his company in helping hospitals on the front lines across China with indoor air quality purification and ventilation by donating and installing equipment. Audience raised interesting questions via live-stream platform and learnt from Dr Fan different types of pollution they were unfamiliar with, including the underestimated Ozone where exposure to ozone can cause serious health problems in plants and people.

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