Yale School of Management will open the
Yale Leadership Center in Beijing, which will host leadership programming offered by schools and centers across the university. The Yale Leadership Center will expand the number of conferences and workshops for Chinese leaders that Yale offers in both China and New Haven.
Yale will inaugurate the center with a major conference, convened by Yale SOM on October 26-27, 2014.
The The Yale Leadership Center is centrally located in Beijing's Chaoyang District. The facility will be a hub for leadership development activities, with advanced technological capabilities to connect Beijing with New Haven and other locations around the world. It will facilitate research, act as a platform for discussions and conferences, and provide a home base for professional and executive education efforts. It will also have offices for faculty from throughout Yale to use when they are in Beijing, as well as flexible workspace for SOM's MBA, MAM, and PhD students. It will be Yale's only center in China, hosting programming from the entire university community.
The center is made possible by gifts from two Yale alumni and one Yale friend so as to deepen the relationship between the university and their home country. Neil Shen, founding managing partner of Sequoia Capital China; Bob Xiaoping Xu, founding partner of ZhenFund.com; and Brad Huang, founder of Lotus Capital Management, have together committed $16 million. Shen will chair the center's advisory board, while Xu will serve as vice chair.
The October 2014 opening conference will include: a discussion of how leaders in the business, entrepreneurial, and social sectors can advance environmental and sustainability agendas, convened by the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of Yale's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Sir Peter Crane; a discussion on how to manage assets in light of the risks inherent in the global financial system, and how to coordinate global responses to financial crises; a conversation about the challenges of maintaining economic growth while providing for the healthcare needs of large populations; and, moderated by Robert Blocker, Yale's Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music, a discussion of the management of creative assets in a global marketplace.
On October 27, Yale SOM's Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI) will host its fourth China CEO Summit—its 78th CEO event—at the newly inaugurated Yale Leadership Center.
The center will support the activities of all of Yale's schools and departments, and plans are already underway for more offerings in the center's first year. In 2015, for example, Yale's School of Architecture will convene a major symposium at the Yale Leadership Center entitled "Icons and Enclaves: New Architecture and Patterns of Urban Development in China" featuring leading Chinese architects and academics with Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern and Professor Alan Plattus for discussions about how recent projects by Chinese and international architects express, shape, and challenge the dynamics of explosive urban growth in China's cities. The symposium will also explore models of contemporary practice that are critical and sustainable with respect to the opportunities and challenges faced by Chinese and other world cities.
Yale has the longest and most substantive relations with China of any U.S. university—the study of China has been an integral part of the Yale curriculum since 1878. Since its founding, Yale SOM has built strong relationships with China as well. Students coming to the school from China constitute the largest overseas group and many alumni live and work there. The school has long operated executive education programs in China and New Haven for leading Chinese companies, including some of the most prominent state-owned enterprises.
Fellows of the school's China Enterprise Initiative and China India Insights Program include world-renowned faculty experts in accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing, and strategy, as well as anthropology, environmental management, politics, public health, and sociology.
For the past two years, the school has worked closely with Renmin University of China School of Business, Fudan University School of Management, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Business School through the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), most recently hosting a team of students from Renmin for SOM's second annual Integrated Leadership Case Competition and a group of Fudan Executive MBA students for a module on global management.
Earlier this year, Renmin and Fudan partnered to offer "Doing Business in China," a Global Network Week originally conceived and taught by faculty at Fudan that leveraged the expertise and perspective of two of China's greatest business schools in an intensive introduction to Chinese capital markets, corporate finance and governance, strategic management, and other aspects of business in China for students from Yale and other GNAM member schools.
Renmin has also offered a Global Network Week on entrepreneurship in emerging markets that focused on China as a timely case study. MBA students from Renmin and Fudan have participated in Global Network Courses, working alongside students from Yale and other Global Network schools in small heterogeneous teams on projects related to global competition policy and enforcement and global resource sustainability.
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