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Admissions Qualifications

The Cheung Kong EMBA Admissions Board uses multiple indicators in assessing an applicant’s qualifications, including educational background, professional competence, work experience, teamwork and leadership competencies. We aim to select the best applicants possible.

To make sure that students receive maximum value from the Cheung Kong EMBA program, our specific admission criteria are as follows:
Serving in a decision-making role at a corporate business and demonstrating leadership potential
Employer endorsement in support of the time commitment needed to complete the EMBA study
A bachelor’s degree or above
A minimum of eight years work experience, including a minimum of five years experience in general management and leadership positions

Application Fee & Tuition

The tuition for the 20-month program for classes beginning in the 2008 academic year is RMB 408,000, inclusive of the charges for textbooks, teaching materials, tea breaks and use of library and Internet facilities.

Food, accommodations, transport and expenses for study abroad are to be borne by students themselves.

Interview and Admission

The entrance examination for Cheung Kong EMBA program is an interview examining the applicant’s comprehensive competence. The Admissions Committee will admit qualified applicants based on the interview findings, school scores, career development and recommendations.

Admission Plan
Program The Fall cohort of 2008
Total Enrollment Place Amount People/Class
Beijing 2 55
Shanghai 2 55
Total 4 220
Application Deadline September 2008
Time for Interview June, July, August & Sept. 2008
Issuance of Admission Notice Within 10 working days after the interview
Classes Begin October 2008

Disciplined teaching, professional service, enlightened conversations and creative exercises are the core benefits of the Cheung Kong EMBA. Our world-class faculty combines Western management theories with Chinese applications in the classroom. Students are encouraged to develop their individual potential while bonding with each other through teamwork.

Innovative Course Scheduling and Design
The program lasts 20 months, with classes meeting once a month on a four day weekend, thus minimizing intrusion into a regular work schedule.
The curriculum is designed on the basis of modules to facilitate simultaneous learning. Students are required to spend extensive time at school in order to become familiar with learning tools and each other.
Classes held on different campuses are independent from each other, but a portion of all courses are held at the Beijing Campus for networking purposes.
A broad range of electives are offered to complement the core curriculum.

Collaborative Teaching and Learning Environment
The main working language is Chinese, with simultaneous translation and printed bilingual materials provided for those taught by non-Chinese speaking faculty members.
Teaching methods include lectures, cases, computer simulations, group discussion, and seminars, with a strong emphasis on communication between students as well as between students and faculty.
At the conclusion of each class, the students will be asked to evaluate the faculty member’s performance to ensure the quality of teaching.
While the majority of the courses offered at the Beijing campus will be local, 2 to 3 weeks are set aside for field trips which include studying the local economy, visiting well-known local companies, and engaging in discussions with local business and government leaders. The purpose of these field trips is to provide solutions for the problems faced by the local economy and its businesses.
In addition to the course offerings, numerous industry-specific organizations and geography-specific alumni associations provide additional opportunities for exchanges and networking.

A Program with Global Vision
The 15-day International Residency Program (optional and non-credit granting) offered in collaboration with other top business schools includes classroom learning and visits to some of the world’s best known companies.
“Learning with the Masters”, and “The Cheung Kong EMBA Forum” provide additional platforms for students to develop their individual learning potential, leadership skills, entrepreneurial spirit and humanistic values.

Provide students with a basic understanding of the global business environment and to discuss how corporate managers should identify global business opportunities and conduct various business strategies in creating value for their firms..

Change Management and Crisis Management

Provides the knowledge and insights to better diagnose and implement organizational change and provides managers with conceptual tools to successfully master high-pressure, complex crisis scenarios. Topics include managing issues and media, dealing with activists and interest groups, and surviving legal, legislative and regulatory challenges.

Electronic-commerce

In virtually every industry and every firm, information technology is driving change, creating opportunities and challenges. Leaders who don’t understand at least the fundamentals of information systems will be at a strategic disadvantage. This course provides broad coverage of technology concepts and trends underlying current and future developments in information technology, and fundamental principles for the effective use of computer-based information systems. There will be a special emphasis on manufacturing. Information Systems topics that will be covered include networks and distributed computing, including the World Wide Web, hardware and operating systems, software development tools and processes, relational databases, security and cryptography, enterprise applications, B2B, the semantic web and electronic commerce. Sloan LFM students with an interest in Information Systems are encouraged to register for this course.

Business Law

Introduce students to basic principles of business law. The focus is on general principles, both in China and internationally, more than on specific statutes and regulations. Coverage of specific topics will be broad rather than deep. By the end of the course, students should be able to:
• Understand a number of basic legal concepts;
• Recognize the existence of a number of legal issues in everyday business transactions;
• Understand the basic legal principles governing the resolution of those issues;
• Know when professional legal assistance will be useful;
• Discuss legal strategies intelligently with a lawyer.

Entrepreneurship and Leadership

The development of enterprises have a close relationship with their enterprisers. In some sense, entrepreneur is on behalf of the enterprise`s character. It`s significant for entrepreneur to have a good understanding and researching of entrepreneurship and leadership in order to build up their own entrepreneurship and enhance their leadership. On one hand, as an comprehensive course, 《Entrepreneurship and Leadership》requires that students must have a good knowledge of the basic theories about leadership、economics、politics、sociology、culture and so on, and abilities to solve leadership problems with these knowledges. on the other hand, 《Entrepreneurship and Leadership》is a practical course that students need do some preparing work to discuss cases in class and finish homework in time. It aims to promote consciousness and capability as an entrepreneur.

Corporate Finance

Focuses on the interactions between financial structures and the value of the underlying real assets. After a short introduction to capital budgeting and valuation methods, the course focuses on the process of capital structure decisions. Recent theories in corporate finance are illustrated through a series of examples and cases. Special emphasis is placed on the ways in which financing affects the incentive structure of financial claimants.

Strategy Management

Strategy management involves creating organizations that generate value in a turbulent world over a sustained period of time. It is a management task that involves leadership, creativity, passion, and analysis - building an organization that both generates and responds to change, developing compensation systems to reward staff, devising appropriate structures and systems, competing for funds in global financial markets, and ensuring that necessary resources are developed and allocated to worthwhile opportunities. Strategic management means managing for the present as well as creating change - thinking globally and acting locally - so that the firm continues to prosper in a global, uncertain world. this course will try to lead students to become familiar with the conditions to develop and execute various types of value creating strategies; appreciate the changing contexts when strategizing like type of industry, type of competition and type of customer base; understand what a firm is capable of, where it excels, and which resources and competences do the firm and its members need or actually possess.

Strategic Human Resource Management

This programme explores different aspects of Human Resources Management (HRM) in China’s changing environment. Participants will analyse both Western and Chinese management practices and their relevance to running a business in China today. In past years, the programme has benefited from the participation of both Chinese and expatriate managers jointly examining HRM in a Chinese context.