Global Insights: Focus on China
Stanford Graduate School of Business
In Collaboration with Singapore Management University

A Two-Week Program
Week 1 - March 15 - 19, 2009 (at Stanford, California)
Week 2 - March 22 - 26, 2009 (Shanghai, China)

Application Deadline: January 19, 2009
Program Tuition: $16,000 USD

*Tuition includes accommodations in both locations.

Positioned at the center of the Asian economic growth in the world economy, China is rapidly emerging as a global economic power. Global Insights: Focus on China, a collaboration between the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Singapore Management University, explores the unique opportunities and challenges the Chinese market represents for companies worldwide. This executive program examines the economic, political, and cultural complexities of doing business in China, as well as the managerial challenges these complexities create. World-renowned faculty assist business leaders in understanding the country's historical evolution, as well as the current business and regulatory climate, providing critical insights and best practices that will enable them to manage more effectively in a dynamic business environment. Global Insights: Focus on China offers executives an unparalleled opportunity to gain the integrated knowledge, achieve the global perspective, and build the valuable networks necessary to successfully lead their organizations in China.

Content Overview

The Global Insights: Focus on China executive program examines the key strategic challenges facing companies entering or re-entering the Chinese marketplace. The program features a unique, two-pronged approach providing both the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to identify and eliminate barriers to entry into this huge market. The first week at Stanford University enables participants to explore key research and to interact with business experts who have extensive experience in taking their organizations into the Chinese business environment and who have established successful track records in the Chinese market. The second week in Shanghai offers participants an opportunity to work directly with senior faculty from Singapore Management University and visit the Chinese operations of multi-national organizations. Through an in-depth exploration and discussion of these issues, participants will learn to:

• Improve their organization’s ability to do business in China
• Increase understanding and knowledge of Chinese cultural, economic, and business arenas
• Identify ways to improve business performance in China
• Increase the strategic understanding of leaders who have or will soon assume responsibility for leading their company’s business operations into the Chinese market

Key Takeaways

• Powerful combination of academic rigor and hands-on business expertise delivered by the best academics in their fields together with successful industry practitioners
• In-depth meetings, both at Stanford and in Shanghai, with experts who have dealt with successful business entry into China
• Insights into how companies can successfully compete in the Chinese market
• Visits to companies based in the Shanghai/Pudong area of China