From January 13^th to 19^th, 2018, SEM successfully hosted a group of Entrepreneurial Leadership Master students from Babson College to have a five-day program on “Entrepreneurship in China”. The students of Babson have over 9 nationalities and various education backgrounds, while they share a same goal, to build their own businesses after graduating from school.

The workshop consists of 3 lectures delivered by Tongji faculties, the exposure project, visits to local and int’l companies, field trips to Suzhou, Hangzhou and Shanghai, interaction with Tongji MBA students to interview foreign entrepreneurs in Shanghai. The workshop covered the topics on Introduction to Chinese Economy and Business Culture, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Technology-based and Entrepreneurship in China. Tongji faculties analyzed Chinese-featured entrepreneurial environment from macro-economic, cultural, technological and policy-oriented perspectives. Babson students teamed up with Tongji SEM master/MBA students to work on exposure projects, that interviewing 7 expats who create companies in China. Through the field trips to Alibaba, the most successful entrepreneurial company in China, and China branch of two overseas companies, SAP China and MSH China, participants gained a better understanding of O2O business model in China and the entrepreneurial environment. Students were full of curiosity and excitement, so brought many insightful questions to the companies’ management. After the one-week program, they leave China with new lenses.

Babson College is a private business school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, established in 1919. Babson’s central focus on entrepreneurship education has made it the most prestigious entrepreneurship college in the United States. Its MBA for Entrepreneurship has been ranked top 1 in worldwide for 23 consecutive years by Financial Times and its Entrepreneurship subject is ranked top one by U.S. News & World Report in America.