By Wang Yuan
From School of Economics and Management
The first class of Tsinghua-INSEAD EMBA dual degree program has successfully accomplished their Shanghai module curriculum during the national day vacation, with one week full schedule of academic, business, and cultural activities.
The Shanghai Mobile Campus provides students with three courses--marketing, macroeconomics and corporate finance, delivered by professors from Tsinghua SEM and INSEAD.
On October 3, the program invited Director of Shanghai Municipal Office of Finance Service Fang Xinghai, who's also a SEM alumnus, to deliver a lecture on Chinese financial market and Shanghai's strategy of becoming a world financial center. On October 5, participants visited the Fuji Group. As a private enterprise, the Fuji Group expanded quickly as a small food service company to have become the largest food and beverage company providing room service in China. Participants visited Fuji's manufacturing factories and supermarkets and had dialogues with the Group's managing director Wei Dong.
Participants also took part in a variety of cultural activities. Participants passed the evening of the National Day cruising the Huangpu River aboard the Captain One, feasting their eyes on the beauty of the city's night scene. The International students were surprised at the fast development of Shanghai, a sparkling pearl of East China. On October 3, participants attended a gala "The evening of Tsinghua", which brought together the Tsinghua-INSEAD participants, Tsinghua EMBA alumni from Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and prospective EMBA participants. Participants say the event helped to build closer ties between domestic and international students, and promoted the communications and interactions between the two EMBA programs in Chinese and in English.
The Shanghai study trip, attended by more than 40 participants, was the first mobile campus activity of the Tsinghua-INDEAD EMBA program. The next module will take the EMBA participants to Singapore.
The Tsinghua-INSEAD Dual Degree Executive MBA Program was initiated in 2006. It targets highly motivated, internationally-minded managers with substantial business experience.
