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CKGSB—Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business This is the official page for Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, China’s independent business school.

https://english.ckgsb.edu.cn
Beijing | Shanghai | Shenzhen | Hong Kong | New York | Los Angeles | London | Paris | Seoul Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) aims to cultivate business leaders with a global vision, a humanistic spirit, a strong sense of social responsibility and an innovative mind-set. Established in Beijing in November 2002 with generous support from the Li Ka Shing Foundation, CKGSB is China’s first faculty-governed, non-profit, independent business school. Since its founding, CKGSB has developed into a prominent business school with more than 40 full-time professors, who have earned their PhDs or held tenured faculty positions at leading business schools such as Harvard, Wharton and Stanford. Their research has provided the basis for nearly 400 case studies of both China-specific and global issues. CKGSB also stands apart for its unmatched alumni network. More than half of CKGSB’s 10,000+ alumni are at the CEO or Chairman level and, together, their companies accounted for one sixth of China’s GDP in 2015. CKGSB strives to understand business in a more well-rounded capacity, beyond the traditional boundaries of business schools. For instance, in 2004, CKGSB pioneered the integration of the humanities into its curricula to give students a long-term and holistic view of business and development. The school’s EMBA students—more than 80% of whom are above the Vice President level—are also required to complete six days of community work before receiving their degrees. In 2014, CKGSB was the first Chinese business school to develop a philanthropy program aimed at equipping the school’s alumni with expertise on setting up and managing foundations and engaging in philanthropy. CKGSB is also mainland China’s most globalized business school. Besides its three campuses in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, the school has established offices in London, New York and Hong Kong. Moreover, it has formed strategic partnerships for joint programs and research with leading schools worldwide, such as Harvard Kennedy School in the US, IMD in Switzerland and FDC in Brazil. The school offers the following innovative courses: MBA; Finance MBA; Executive MBA in Chinese; Business Scholars Program (DBA); and Executive Education programs. CKGSB’s English Website: http://english.ckgsb.edu.cn/

CKGSB’s Chinese Website: http://ckgsb.edu.cn/

Going global is not a single playbook.One approach is ecosystem-led: a lead company enters a new market with key supplie...
24/09/2026

Going global is not a single playbook.

One approach is ecosystem-led: a lead company enters a new market with key suppliers, technical capabilities, logistics and service support moving together.

The other is network-led: smaller businesses use platforms, partners and shared infrastructure to test demand, learn quickly and localize step by step.

If you are thinking of taking your business abroad, do you need to recreate an operating ecosystem abroad? Or can you start light, validate demand, and add local capability over time?

In our report jointly launched with IE University, Chinese Companies’ New Playbook for Going Global, our Professor of Economics Wei Li examines these two approaches through Chinese companies’ experience. But the questions are relevant to any leader planning international growth.

Swipe to learn more about the approaches. Follow us as we share more insights into China's business, economy and management knowhow.

https://english.ckgsb.edu.cn/knowledge/report/chinese-companies-new-playbook-for-going-global/

What can a Chinese emperor and a Gucci heir, 1,400 years apart, teach us about succession?Our Dean Li Haitao explores tw...
22/09/2026

What can a Chinese emperor and a Gucci heir, 1,400 years apart, teach us about succession?

Our Dean Li Haitao explores two remarkably similar succession failures — and what today’s family business leaders can learn from them.

Swipe through for the key insights, and read the full analysis: https://english.ckgsb.edu.cn/knowledge/professor_analysis/succession-tragedies-emperor-yang-maurizio-gucci-family-business/

Follow us as we share more insights into China's business strategy and management knowhow.

🤔The old advantages of brand and technology are no longer enough for a foreign company to succeed in China today. 💡Stuar...
21/09/2026

🤔The old advantages of brand and technology are no longer enough for a foreign company to succeed in China today.

💡Stuart Dunn of the British Chamber of Commerce Shanghai shares his views with CKGSB Knowledge on where foreign companies still have an edge.

👉 Swipe through, then read the full interview via link in bio > CKGSB Knowledge > 🔍 doing business in China

Earnings among China’s A-share-listed companies are recovering—but investor confidence has yet to catch up. 🤔💡 CKGSB’s l...
17/09/2026

Earnings among China’s A-share-listed companies are recovering—but investor confidence has yet to catch up. 🤔

💡 CKGSB’s latest Investor Sentiment Survey finds that market expectations and investment appetite weakened in Q3 2026, even as corporate earnings improved and A-share market turnover continued to rise.

Explore the key findings, and follow CKGSB as we share more insights into China’s economy and capital markets.

Read the full report via link in bio > CKGSB Knowledge > Research

Our joint report with IE University found Chinese corporate globalization has entered a third phase—exporting capabiliti...
15/09/2026

Our joint report with IE University found Chinese corporate globalization has entered a third phase—exporting capabilities:

① Product exports: supplying global markets through contract manufacturing
② Channel exports: reaching overseas buyers through cross-border e-commerce
③ Capability export: taking technology, supply chains, service, branding and business models overseas to build locally rooted businesses

💡For Southeast Asian businesses and MNCs, this creates new partnership opportunities, a shifting competitive landscape, and inspiration for their own global expansion strategies.

👉 Read the report via link in bio > CKGSB Knowledge > Publications

🚀China has spent two decades proving it can build a space program. The harder question is: can it build a space industry...
15/09/2026

🚀China has spent two decades proving it can build a space program. The harder question is: can it build a space industry?

👆Swipe to see a comparison of the two distinctive models of support in the US and in China.

📖 Read CKGSB Knowledge's full analysis to see the possible next phase for China's space plan via link in bio > CKGSB Knowledge > Space

😃Read the new book 📖  by our Professor of Marketing Rui (Juliet) Zhu: Business for Good: The Power to Create Change.📖 Th...
11/09/2026

😃Read the new book 📖 by our Professor of Marketing Rui (Juliet) Zhu: Business for Good: The Power to Create Change.

📖 This book explores a question facing many business leaders today: How can companies create positive social impact while continuing to grow?

💡Through practical frameworks and real-world examples—including Patagonia, Haidilao and LEGO—Professor Zhu shows how social value can become part of a company’s core strategy, rather than simply a separate CSR initiative.

🙌 Follow us for more insights into China's business strategy!

Explore the book via link in bio > CKGSB Knowledge > Publications

💡Something among Chinese businesses changed in Q2. That could be an important signal for the second half of 2026.Each qu...
02/09/2026

💡Something among Chinese businesses changed in Q2. That could be an important signal for the second half of 2026.

Each quarter, our Professors of Finance Erica Xuenan Li and Jie Gan study more than 2,000 Chinese companies from the industrial sector.

👀Their Business Sentiment Index in Q2 edged down from 54 to 53 – on the surface, business sentiment had cooled slightly.

🤓But the more interesting story was what companies actually did:

👉Production jumped from 45 to 53, while the share of firms making fixed-asset investments rose from 18.7% to 22.2%.

In other words, among China’s industrial businesses, sentiment was a little softer—but businesses were starting to act with more confidence.

After a difficult start to the year in Q1, Chinese companies began getting moving again in Q2.

🙌Follow us as we release more data about the real Chinese economic conditions.

Learn more about the index via link in bio > CKGSB Knowledge > Research

🚗China’s EV market is one of the most competitive and dynamic in the world—but what opportunities does it present for bo...
26/08/2026

🚗China’s EV market is one of the most competitive and dynamic in the world—but what opportunities does it present for both domestic and international players?

💬 We're continuing the conversation from our Beijing seminar in Shanghai on September 1.

👉Join our Professor of Economics Li Wei and industry practitioners from Volvo Cars Greater China and Bosch China as they decode the business models in the competitive Chinese EV market, and what the development means for global businesses looking to participate in—and learn from—the market.

Sign up via link in bio > Events

🚗What is driving China’s EV innovation as the world’s largest EV manufacturer and exporter?🚙How are Chinese EV makers ex...
19/08/2026

🚗What is driving China’s EV innovation as the world’s largest EV manufacturer and exporter?

🚙How are Chinese EV makers expanding globally?

🚌How are European and Chinese automotive players identifying new growth opportunities amid evolving trade, regulatory and geopolitical dynamics?

💡Join us in Beijing on August 25 for a closed-door seminar, as our Professor of Economics Wei Li and industry leaders from Dow Jones and Scania examine the forces behind China’s EV boom, the “new Chinese-style” approach to global expansion, and the implications for European companies operating in China.

🤝This seminar is cohosted by CKGSB and the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.

👉Seats are limited. Learn more via link in bio.

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