The BI-Fudan MBA Program organized an open lecture on December 11th at Radisson Blu Hotel Shanghai. The event was held as part of a recruitment session to present the part-time MBA Program to potential students, as well as to give them an idea of the teaching methodology for the courses.
Prof. Xu Huizhong, Executive Director of the BI-Fudan MBA program, opened the event by welcoming all guests and speakers. While introducing the BI-Fudan MBA Program, he emphasizes the core values of our MBA Program, and presents the current student profile. Recently the BI-Fudan MBA program was ranked globally as No. 3 Part-time MBA Program by Financial Times. Further on he explains the admission process and reminds everyone that the new class will open on May 31st, 2019, and the coming entrance exam is on January 19th, 2019.
Prof. Jan Ketil Arnulf, Dean Executive of BI Executive programs gave an interesting lecture on “Leadership across barriers”. He is a professor with leadership, organizational behavior and consulting as his research field. Throughout his lecture he talked about what does the leadership really mean and discussed if there is a standard leader? Why do people do as they are told to? And the difference between leadership and management. He actively searched for engagement from the attendances during the lecture. In our MBA program, professors sometimes challenge the students, and students are encouraged to challenge their professors as well. By doing so in this lecture, Prof. Arnulf provided a good illustration of how the course is conducted.
We were also joined by two alumni; Jodie Tan, Munters Vice President of HR for APAC, and Jack Wang, CEO for Leading Group AS. Both of them shared their personal journey and experiences from their time as a part-time student with the BI-Fudan MBA Program. “I know what I don’t know after 2 years study” Jodie said and to dig out the potential is the aim why she took an MBA program. Jack Wang , who has experienced multinational company, state-owned company and now is building up his own business feels making mistake is the best practice of learning. He encourages his staff not to fear of making mistakes.
The event finished off with a Q&A part, followed by networking.
