SEM Successfully Hosted 2015 Global Energy China Workshop for Warwick Business School
Mon, Jul 13, 2015
From July 4th to 11th, 2015, 31 Executive MBA students from Warwick Business School (UK) participated 7-day “WBS Global Energy China” workshop in Tongji-SEM.
These EMBA students with several years of working experience are from various industries, mainly in energy, architecture, IT and finance industries. They have participated in a series of activities within 7 days about China’s green economy, Chinese culture and How to do business in China. The courses are divided into three parts: lectures, company visits as well as panel discussion.
The topics of lectures involved Understanding Business in Society, Introduction to Chinese Economy, and Transformation into Sustainable Development. These foreign students discussed and communicated actively with professors who putting forward their particular insights and integrated theories with practice. To better combine the courses, students visited Shanghai Tower, Siemens Shanghai Office, and Shanghai Waigaoqiao No.3 Power Generation Co. The company visits helped students to feel the green economy execution in Chinese companies. Through the interaction with companies’ executives, students can have better understanding about Chinese companies’ effort on sustainable development.
The University of Warwick was founded in 1863, was located in junction between Central England and Warwick County. This university is consistently ranked in the top 10 of British Universities Ranking, the top 100 of Global Research Universities Ranking, and it is also a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. Warwick gains high reputation on the business industry, which is one of most popular universities in the UK. Also, Warwick is the only multi-faculty institution aside from Oxford and Cambridge to have never been ranked outside of the top ten. Financial Times ranked the Warwick Business School’s EMBA in the world’s top 20, and the Global Energy EMBA program is recognized worldwide. Warwick Business School has been awarded with the triple-crowned accreditations as AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS.
