On 15^th January, 2013, the induction of the MBS Jan 2013 intake for China Centre was held, along with this great event, a “Tower Building Contest” began in all seven MBS International Centers.

The new cohort totally has 63 students and they were randomly divided into 9 groups, each group has 6 members. According to the rule, the groups were requested to build tower with newspaper, scissors and scotch tape in a very limited period of time. The tower should be strong enough to stand and can even hold an orange on top of it. The group who build the highest tower will be the winner.

These 63 students don’t know each other before, in a short time, they must choose a group leader, the leader should assign tasks and correct any mistakes made by members.

When time is up, each group should send a representative to make a speech, introducing the meaning of the tower and the creativity behind it and talking about the experiences of doing this.

Finally, a China group became the winner, the group members are: Michael LEE, Xiaosheng FENG, Kevin DONG, Iris SUN, Bin WANG, Yury YU and Haojiong ZHANG. They built a 3.8 meters tower!

When talking about the experience, they emphasized the importance of setting a clear goal and make reasonable and feasible plan, all members must work hard toward a common goal to win.

09^th March, Sherry Fu, Director of MBS China Center presented trophy to this winning team. Sherry encouraged students to keep striving in the coming MBA journey.

During the speech, she said that this is absolutelynot just a game, but a miniature of MBA class and real world business situation. Through the learning journey of Global MBA program, each course will require team work. Each member of the team will have special role to play, work innovatively and cooperate seamlessly to ensure a successfulgroup project. This creative way of learning enhances students’ participation and cooperation, encouraging innovation and inspiring creative thinking to solve real world problem. This is exactly what we mean by“Original Thinking Applied”.

 

On 29 March, 2013, Manchester Business School China Centre welcomed a noble guest, Lord Wei.

Lord Wei, also known as Nat Wei or Baron Wei, is a social entrepreneur, interested in social reform, the youngest member of the House of Lordsand is the first British born person of Chinese origin in history to have become a member of it. He was previously an adviser to the UK Government on their Big Society project.

Sherry Fu, Director of Manchester Business School China Centre welcomed Lord Wei and introduced to Lord Wei about the activities and development of Manchester Business School China Centre.  Lord Wei is impressed with the achievement of MBS Chia centre to help China to cultivate many business talents with UK education.  And then Lord Wei gave a speechto students who were attending the MIBS workshop at the moment. He also shared with students about his own career experience and life stories.

In the evening, Lord Wei gave an inspiring speech and had dinner with University of Manchester Alumni. He talked about his past experiences as social entrepreneur and his futureefforts to help enhance economic and cultural communication between UK and China, especially linking Manchester and other UK cities with China.This will inspire many great opportunities for both parties.

As one Global MBA students said, “Lord Wei’s speech is so inspiring and enlightening, he himself is a shining example to let usthink more about how to help others, because with great ability, there comes great responsibility.”

Lord Wei’s next stop is Beijing, where he will attend University of Manchester Alumni Dinner on 13 April.

On 14 March 2013, MBS Regional Director Ms. Sherry Fu, on behalf of Manchester Business School China Centre donated cash RMB 10,000 to Unilever Hope School Project.

The donation ceremony was held at Unilever North Asia Headquarter in Shanghai. Mr. XiwenZeng, Unilever North Asia VP of Corporate Affairs, presented and accepted the donation. Ms. Helen Zhu, Senior Corporate Communications Manager, Ms Melanie Hu, Corporate Communications, Donators Ivan Tjong-A-Hung (2009 Intake, MBS (Finance) MBA alumnus) and Simon Feng( 2013 intake, Global MBA student), Yiyi Chen, MBS China Centre External Officer attended the ceremony. Simon and Ivan won auctions sponsored by Virgin Atlantic Airway, and as planned, MBS China centre donatedthat money to Unilever Hope School Project in China.

Manchester business school is one of the first business schools in the UK and becomes a global leading business education provider after nearly 50 years development. MBS China Centre which was launched in 2008 is committed to provide world-class business education opportunities to the Chinese people, continuously making contribution to the society and development of regional education by actively participating CSR events and projects.

On 9^th April, 2013, Manchester Business School China Center and China Economic Review co-hosteda session of businesstraining for 40 company executives and working professionals, mainly from international companies.

The Topic is focused on how to achieve business success in China. Because many companies come to China with high expectations of capturing a share of China’senormous market opportunities, yet some have concretely experienced challenges from China’s business practices and hence they are now seeking to straighten things out in China.

Unfortunately, following the business patterns that work back home is not the right solutionin most cases. Namely, in addition to cultural issues, a developing economy thatopened up to the rest of the world no more than 30 years ago is engaged in businesspractices that are simply different, sometimes even strange compared to the markets indeveloped countries.

C.J. Ng, a world-class sales force effectiveness (SFE),leadership and strategic thinking expert was invited to present and speak about “Do’s & Don’ts of Achieving Business Success in China”. Heoffered an important lesson to be learnt, when you grow your business inChina.The speech is provokingly inspiring and brought many thinking and introspection by the audience on how to improve their strategy, operation and adapt better to Chinese market.

Marketing team of Manchester Business School China Center also attended the event and made introduction to the audience about China Center and Global MBA program.

Manchester business school is one of the first business schools in the UK and becomes a global leading business education provider after nearly 50 years development. MBS China centre which was launched in 2008 is committed to provide world-class business education opportunities to the Chinese people, continuously making contribution to the society and development of regional education.

On 12^thMarch, 2013, Professor Martin Bennettpresented the Accounting Workshop Taster and share with candidates and applicants the most up-to-date Accounting theories and cases concerning how Accounting could be in a fast changing environment.



On 23^rd March, 2013, a Workshop Taster andInfoBrunch Gathering was held at The Yangtze BoutiqueShanghai Hotel, this provided MBA candidates and applicants with a chance to find out moreabout the part-time Global MBA bymeeting star ProfessorandChina Centre Directorfrom MBS.Professor FrancisChittenden presented the Workshop Taster of Negotiation Skills and SellingStrategies. Sherry Fu, MBS China Center Director gave a speech to talk about Career impact of a global MBA. Both received warm applause for their excellent coaching and speech.

On 21^st Feb., MBS China Centre hosted a Panel Discussion focusing on “Why MBA”. Five high-profile executive coaches and experts were invited to share their insights into the latest trends around the globe and in China: study an MBA.

Mr. Yimin Wang, Founder and Executive Coach of Sense Consulting, Mr. Stephen Chen, CEO of SECA Academy & Network Coach of Sense Consulting, Ms. Terry Li, Director of Strategic Planning & Operation of Analog Device & Network Coach of Sense Consulting, Linda Wang, Director of Horton Executive Search and Ms. Sherry Fu, Director of Manchester Business School China Centre all attended the Panel Discussion as panelists.

The event sought to answer the question of not just why working professionals need an MBA, but also how MBA helps them to enhance their career progression. All the panelist commented on the theme identified and managed to develop a “road forward” by illustrating their own MBA experience and career ladder.

As one of the panelists, Ms. Sherry Fu, Director of MBS China Centre also shared the attendees with MBS Part-time Global MBA Programme’s strength of high global recognition and study flexibility as well as the value of ‘Original Thinking Applied’.

The panel also took questions from the floor on the issues raised during the debate and their own experience; all moderated by Mr. Yimin Wang, founder and Executive Coach of Sense Consulting.

The topic attracted around 40 attendees from different professional backgrounds. This was an excellent opportunity for potential candidates to better understand how to develop personal experiences, systematical knowledge and practices through an MBA.

On 16th March, 2013, another “Why MBA” was organized, Yimin Wang, together with Jenny Li，Managing director of Marley Engineered Product and Weil-Mclain China, Tony Wang, BU Head, Siegwerk & Sense Consulting network career mentor, Yinyin Shu (Sharon), Senior HR Manager, Johnson & Johnson China Ltd Co.& Sense Consulting network career mentor and Sherry Fu, Director of MBS China Centre presented the discussion.

On 8^th March, an Afternoon Tea Gathering was held in Marriott City Centre in Shanghai, which was exclusive for female candidates and prospective students for Global MBA on the occasion of 2013 International Women’s Day. We invited a high-profile panel of women who are operating at the top of their respective fields and have an eye on business and higher education industry in China and abroad.



During the event, they evaluated the impact of Global MBA for career enhancement with all the attendees. One of the panels Ms. Ying ZHAO, Managing Editor of WhichMBA.netcommented the latest trend of MBA in China and proceeded to answerthe question of “How Female Professionals Can Make a Difference?” Ms. Trudie Li, Operations Director of the SPACE Groupspoke as the MBS Global MBA student representative discussed further about her own experience in the MBA journey with MBS. Together with the panel, Ms. Sherry Fu, China Centre Director of MBStook questions from the floor on the issues raised during the event and their own experience.

“When Chinese people want to study, I want to make sure they come to Manchester University and make sure they also make use of the Manchester Business School China Centre in Shanghai,” said Mr. George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer of UK at the Launching Ceremony of Manchester-China Forum on 26April.

The Manchester-China Forum is a new business-led initiative aimed at increasing Greater Manchester’s commercial connectivity, including trade and investment with China.

Manchester business school is one of the first business schools in the UK and becomes a global leading business education provider after nearly 50 years development. MBS China Centre which was launched in 2008 is committed to provide world-class business education opportunities to the Chinese people, continuously making contribution to the society and development of regional education.

In 2011, MBS China Centre received the award of “Top 10 MBA Program in China” and is the only foreign business school to win the award.

With more engagement between China and UK, MBS and its China Centre will be continuously playing an important role in forging UK links with China Business.

View more about Mr. Osborne’s speech:http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/business-news/george-osborne-manchesters-set-new-3181214

During his visit to China, Prof. Michael Luger was invited to a video interview by a leading portal website SOHU.COM to talk about the reputation,uniqueness and strength of Manchester Business School. In addition, he also shared the strategy of Manchester Business School, seven international centers, and also the value and conceptof “Original Thing Applied”.

View the video http://bschool.sohu.com/20130205/n365628948.shtml

At Home Abroad

Prof. Michael Luger was interviewed by China Economic Review, a leading business media in China and the report published both in the magazine and also the website.

During the interview, Prof. Michael Luger shared his thought on the trend of business school, the competition of businessschools and how MBS differentiate itself in the market place. In addition, Prof. Michael Luger also introduced the advantages that MBS can bring to students around the world.

View the article: http://www.cermba.com/node/495