霍特(Hult)商学院：争取2010年度最后入学机会 赢取高额奖学金

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June 19, 2010. CEIBS Shanghai campus -- CEIBS took the INNOVATEChina 2010 trophy and a RMB30,000 cash prize during today's Grand Final which explored the theme of "Beyond Boundaries -- the next level of the Chinese economy". They beat out six other teams that had advanced to the final round: LBS, IESE, Schulich, Nanyang, Hult, and UCLA.


Taiyuan Tongze Chairman Yang Ze (left) presented the winning CEIBS team with a mock-up of their RMB30,000 cash prize. Team members from right are Bernard Cheung, Vijay Chowdhary and Ritwik Ghosh.

The Grand Final was part of the four-day student-run INNOVATEChina forum in which industry leaders, CEIBS faculty and students sought solutions to build on global interfaces to create stable, flexible and innovative strategies. The seven teams were only presented with the case three days ahead of today’s competition. It was specially designed for the event by INNOVATEChina, in collaboration with its main sponsor Taiyuan Tongze Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. and its innovation partner frog design.

The day's spirited contest began with an overview of INNOVATEChina 2010 by President Andreas Duerst (CEIBS MBA 2009) who explained that the goal was to focus on how innovation can elevate the Chinese economy to the next level of development. Teams were advised to focus on issues ranging from what kind of talent Tongze should hire as it moves ahead with its plans to conquer the global market, and how to attract these potential employees; the strategies the company needs to develop as it moves forward and the changes that will be required to its organizational structure.


The winning team with CEIBS Executive President Zhu Xiaoming (centre), MBA Programme Director Lydia Price (left) and members of the judges' panel.

The CEIBS team's winning presentation included ideas such as the creation of an Innovation Lab that would generate ideas from the grassroots engineer-level, and a focus on emerging markets such as India where they recommended that Tongze set up a rep office as a stepping stone to establishing a subsidiary location. Each member of the team took turns delivering their points and fielding questions, a factor which the judges said helped them cop the trophy. The CEIBS team also outlined the challenges Tongze now faces (stagnant growth in the domestic market and the lack of a major overseas presence) and then presented options for overseas expansion. In addition to India, they said, the company could explore the Middle East, North Africa, the US and the UK markets. They advised that the company’s current foray into India should next be followed by entry into the Middle East and North Africa.

"We had a really, really tough time; how do we select only one winner?" said the lead judge, Principal and Managing Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Shanghai office, Mr. Michael Wang. "In the end we came to a group decision: we thought, on the whole, even though no one team was perfect, in terms of delivery, practicality, team work, the final winner is CEIBS."

His comments came after he gave the audience a thorough analysis of each team's performance, including their strengths and areas that needed improvement. Other members of the panel were Chairman of Taiyuan Tongze Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. Mr. Yang Ze; Adfaith Consulting Inc. Partner and Vice President Mr. Wang Hai Wen; General Manager of GE China Technology Centre Dr. Xiangli Chen; and Executive Director for Legend Capital Mr Xia Yang.




In addition to CEIBS being named the overall winner, it was also among the three teams selected, by a delegation of Shaanxi business leaders who attended the competition, as offering the best solutions. The other two teams presented with trophies by Secretary General of the Shanxi Association for the Promotion of Industrial Technology Mr. Fan Wen Bin were Nanyang and IESE.

Earlier in the day during his welcome address, CEIBS Dean and Vice President Rolf D Cremer thanked the panel of executives who made up the judges' panel, saying the teams would benefit greatly from their valuable feedback. Drawing on lessons learned from his grandfather and Germany's recovery after World War II, Dean Cremer told the audience that diligence and creativity are vital to success.  "Hard work and the ability to innovate and change, will be what drives success," he said, as he addressed the importance of a competition in which some of the globe's best b-school students battle to see who could present the best case on the broad topic of innovation in China. The finalists represented schools from the US, UK, Canada, Singapore and China.

Taiyuan Tongze Chairman Mr. Yang Ze also spoke about the role that innovation had played in Shanghai's growth and development over the past 30 years. He was excited, he said ahead of the beginning of the competition, to hear the diverse solutions offered by the global teams. Sponsoring the competition, he said, was a win-win situation for his company and the team that would eventually emerge the winner.

The participating team members, in the order in which the teams appeared during the contest were:
-  LBS: Yefei Lu, Sandra Cafazzo and Gabriel Mas;
-  UCLA: Weiqiang Wang, Vinay Dwivedi and Jessica Li;
- IESE: Aditya Tirugokarnam, Pranav Modi and Guillem Sivecas;
- Schulich: Jeannie Fong, Alex Chirila and Luanne Zhu;
- Nanyang: Han Wei Koh; Jason Ho Fan Lee and Lin Nan;
- Hult: Anthony Perrozzi, Gregor Sunderdiek and Gopal Renganathan;
- CEIBS: Vijay Chowdhary, Bernard Cheung and Ritwik Ghosh.

Teams were given 10 minutes within which to outline their proposal then grilled by the judges on various aspects of their plan. The competition was followed by a press conference during which the winning team, members of the judges' panel, and the INNOVATEChina 2010 Team fielded questions from the media.

Tomorrow, the INNOVATEChina 2010 awards ceremony will be held inside the EU Pavilion at Shanghai 2010 EXPO.


About INNOVATEChina

INNOVATEChina is China's first Global MBA Competition, hosted by CEIBS. Now in its 3rd year, the event brings together the world's leading business minds to engage in the challenges faced by corporations as they integrate with the global economy. Held from June 16-20, the INNOVATEChina forum hosted the competition's solution showcase and speeches from high-profile business figureheads, culminating in the presentation of the INNOVATEChina 2010 winner at the Grand Final on June 19.

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Hult International Business School transforms MBA students into working consultants via Action Learning Program; Duracell, Xerox, Pfizer, and the Financial Times among companies participating in real-world management exercise

(London—June 23, 2010) Even before receiving their MBA degrees, students at Hult International Business School must showcase their hard-earned strategic mettle. Hult’s Action Learning Program (ALP), a real-world management exercise offered at the conclusion of the Hult MBA experience, lets students flex their management muscle by providing blue-chip corporations with practical solutions to existing problems.

“We challenge our students to develop hands-on management skills that will serve them well in an increasingly competitive global marketplace,” said Hult President Dr. Stephen Hodges. “Hult not only provides a solid academic program, but an opportunity to take what is learned in the classroom directly into a real-life scenario.”

Duracell, Xerox, Pfizer, and the Financial Times are among the companies participating in this year’s ALP, which will take place on Hult’s campuses in Boston, London, and Dubai. ALP teams—consisting of four to six students—compete to provide clients with innovative solutions and ideas for growth. At the conclusion of the project, each student team presents a proposal for action to representatives of the client organization.

The ALP, which was launched in 1964 and has been identified by Forbes as “highly distinctive” and in the top five MBA programs in the United States, has drawn many industry leaders in the past, including IBM, Sylvania, and Sherwin Williams. The solutions presented to these companies, created under the guidance of a Hult faculty advisor, oftentimes resonate long after the participating students graduate from Hult.

“The program continues to be a source of creative and innovative ideas from which BAE Systems will develop future business opportunities,” said Larrie Cable, Vice President, Innovation and Growth, BAE Systems. “There are few opportunities in which sponsors and students can gain so much mutual experience and benefit.”

sophychen

楼上，可不可以私底下向你请教下你的申请过程呢？他们MIB的director给我打电话了，然后我也有点纠结要不要申

sophychen

准备去2010FALL MIB的人飘过。。。我看到过别的国家MBA论坛上讨论这所学校，招的人条件都挺高的，最起码大部分都G700+ 。。。所以学校未来前景还是不错的

-- by 会员 forgetid (2010/6/10 23:41:02)

可不可以请教下你申请的过程和考虑之类的，还有G700+的数据是怎么来的，他们MIB的director说雅思6.5托福90，GMAT不是required的，听说我之前考过7分就建议我考雅思，因为比托福简单

tsangust

楼上，可不可以私底下向你请教下你的申请过程呢？他们MIB的director给我打电话了，然后我也有点纠结要不要申

-- by 会员 sophychen (2010/7/20 21:47:37)

Hult的MBA才是这个学校安身立命的根本，至于对适合应届生读的 Master of International Business的话，咱先把话说清楚，如果你有其他更好的选择(US-NEWS 排名前50)，个人感觉优先考虑其它家哈～～

在你拿不到其它TOP50的offer的前提下，如果你能拿到Hult奖学金+你的英语口语不赖，可以选择Hult伦敦校区或旧金山校区的MIB。和MBA共享的师资、同学的背景和素质、学校安排的internship、校方日常提供的服务都会相当不错。

PS：伦敦校区读Master of International Business的同学里，我在HULT BBS上看到有一个留言自我介绍叫Cecilia delgadillo的还是UC Berkeley毕业的呢，至于去旧金山读MIB的同学，至少我认识的大陆、台湾的几个学生 以及  在BBS上自我介绍的同学背景都不错

forgetid

看清楚我说的GMAT700+是MBA, MIB 对于GMAT没有要求，不过托福要上90最起码。就像楼主说的肯定优先US排名前50的学校。可能很多人考虑到学校招生要求相对来说不是很高，但是就目前即将成为校友的这些同学来看，除了符合学校的刚性要求，在经历上都有出彩的地方（有海外实习经历，国内名校。。 etc.)

至于如何考虑，每个人的情况不尽相同，依照自己的情况斟酌，信息都是摆在明面上的仅供参考，决定权还是在自己 ^_^