In late October, the week-long GNW overseas course came to an end. The students of Fudan working MBAs went to many top business schools around the world through the cloud, and learned from professors and scholars who are well versed in business and academic achievements, as well as elite students from different regions and cultural backgrounds. In a cross-cultural and cross-field context, expand your global vision, study cutting-edge business concepts, and enhance your professional competitiveness.
After experiencing these unknown countries,
After experiencing the wonderful courses of different business schools, what are their feelings and gains?
Let’s take a look at the sharing of Fudan MBA students!
Fudan MBAer Wonderful course experience
● At five o'clock in the morning, we will study "Finding the Tree" together.
● Space-time, learn knowledge while planting chocolate, and place an order passionately!
● It turns out that a simple model can also be eye-opening.
● Spell the theoretical abbreviation in alphabet soup.
● In transaction negotiations, we have a grasp of the right degree between "staying sincere" and "silly and sweet".
● It feels great to meet a confidant!
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multi-course selection
Cross-cultural learning "constant surprises"
GNW Overseas courses are jointly provided by 32 world-class business schools in the global high-end management alliance initiated by Yale University . The course resources are rich, the content is diverse, and it involves cutting-edge knowledge in multiple disciplines and fields. The courses provided every year are closely related to the changes of the times and the development trends of the industry. They are dedicated to creating and customized special quality courses for major business schools.
This year, the GNW overseas courses provided by the Fudan MBA are from Yale School of Management (USA), ESMT Berlin (Germany), Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University (Nigeria ), SDA Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University (Italy), UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School (Ireland), Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Economics Indonesia ( Indonesia ) and other business schools, covering hot topics such as digital transformation , ESG, sustainable development, management behavior science, entrepreneurship and corporate growth.
Q1: Why take GNW overseas courses? Why do you prefer this course in this school?
Angelababy
Choose GNW's digital transformation course, hoping to absorb knowledge from top international business schools about industry insights and management concepts, reshape management thinking patterns, accumulate business practical experience, and help the company understand market changes, improve efficiency, and help new product development .
Yizilin
As we all know, Italy is the birthplace of many blue blood brands, and it is also the birthplace of Renaissance . We must have a very deep understanding of brands, art, etc. The course topic is related to my career content, and I hope to learn more about the dynamics, concepts and practical experience from a global perspective in the same field.
Li Zao
Choose Yale School of Management, looking forward to taking this opportunity to appreciate the style of professors from top business schools in the United States, participate in the collision and discussion of thinking under different cultural backgrounds, and have a more international and comprehensive mentality about the future business environment. At the same time, I think behavioral science is a very important cognitive course in management science. It provides systematic theoretical support for the management thinking and behavior of modern enterprises from a practical perspective, and is of great practical value.
Zhenzhen
I am engaged in the carbon neutrality industry, hoping to understand the understanding and development of carbon neutrality in other regions around the world through the GNAM network. I also hope that through this course, I can have a deeper understanding of Nigeria and Africa, and want to see what kind of business opportunities are happening in this vast land, and what kind of development and opportunities exist in the future.
Shiyu
Since the profession I am engaged in belongs to the financial sector, the ESG direction combined with sustainable development Financial investment and evaluation are still relatively new in China, so I want to learn about some of the more cutting-edge theories and practices of ESG financial investment in Europe through courses, which will trigger more thinking about the industry.
Q2: Does the course meet your expectations? What surprises did it bring?
Lu Wenwen
Bocconi University's courses have invited many guests from the luxury goods industry. They can combine theory with practice to understand and understand the luxury goods industry and develop ideas. venchi brand guests brought chocolate to the class to share with students, so that everyone can understand the characteristics of the product more intuitively. Although our online classmates couldn't taste it, they immediately placed an order online to buy it, and planted grass while learning knowledge.
Zhenzhen
Surprisedly found that some Nigerian classmates had studied in China and were still using WeChat. So I became friends with them outside of the zoom class. In and out of the classroom, I felt the strong desire of Nigerian classmates for opportunities, development and entrepreneurship. Even a conversation with the speaker at the lecture can evolve into a successful contract. On the business school platform full of thought collisions, these entrepreneurs are using their all their passion to change the status quo of the country bit by bit.
Shiyu
The little "surprise" that impressed me the most is the way the teacher asked questions, especially when introducing some abbreviations of concepts, the teacher first asked us to find these abbreviations in alphabet soup, and then let everyone guess the meaning of the abbreviations through online voting. Finally, the answer was announced and explained, deepening our memory of the concept.
Exploring business secrets in the cloud
Global vision helps career growth
In the context of the globalization of the post-epidemic era, "being able to discover, analyze and solve practical management problems in the complex global business environment and cross-cultural context" is one of the future-oriented leadership training goals of Fudan MBA. GNW overseas courses are an excellent platform for directly communicating with world-class professors, scholars, student elites and entrepreneurs. They can effectively broaden students' international horizons, understand the mysteries of global business civilization, and cultivate international and diversified cultural concepts and ways of thinking. They are of great benefit to all-round assistance to the career development and transformation and upgrading of "future business leaders".
Q1: What kind of business knowledge and insights have you gained through multi-party linkage courses? What kind of thinking and help to your current job and career development?
Zhouyuan
The course I chose mainly invites executives of Indonesian MSMEs company to introduce the actual problems faced by the company, as well as many practices in exploring the most suitable digital path for the company after the epidemic.In this course, I learned about the economic development of in the largest country in Southeast Asia and established a preliminary connection with Indonesian students, which can expand or help the company's future internationalization development to a certain extent; as far as the course itself is concerned, the digitalization path and stable career development of enterprises are the basis for future development and decision-making in response to the post-epidemic enterprises.
Li Zao
In the fierce market competition environment, both parties to the business terms negotiation often unconsciously fall into the thinking and even trap of zero-sum game . The course of Yale made me understand how to always maintain a win-win mindset while making a big cake. The mall has never lacked intrigue and keeps sincerity. Sometimes, "no skills, it's all about feelings" will prompt both parties to make a deal. But at the same time, it is worth noting that the grasp of the degree between "staying sincere" and "silly and sweet" is the effective way to promote negotiations.
Huang Yong
I learned from the course how to find Trees in common interests from negotiations, and I realized the powerful power of Predict Markets and the role of Averaging Opinion in group discussions and decision-making, as well as how to influence customer behavior through marketing strategies. Yale's GNW overseas courses have brought me more about understanding cutting-edge ideas and theories, contacting the operating model of foreign business schools, curriculum system, career development plan, , and learning their unique insights from overseas students who are teaching together and establishing a network with them.
Gu Ting
I have learned a lot of the latest ESG evaluation reports and the scope of the indicators covered, and learned how to view the value of ESG in the long run, and how to help the company's risk control and business growth through ESG. As the company's management, I should have a longer-term vision, stand at a higher footing, and integrate the ESG concepts into all levels of company management.
Yizilin
has been working in the consumer goods industry. The course introduces the impact of the epidemic era on the European supply chain, as well as the changes in consumer consumption capacity from mid- and low-end brands to high-end brands, and analyzes the deep reasons for these changes, and shares response measures, which are of great reference and guiding significance for your career choices in your work and even in the future.
Professors have unique and novel views
Group learning collision thinking spark
GNW Although the overseas courses are only five days, the professors fully consider the characteristics of online teaching and set up teaching content in a targeted manner. The college also provides support for students' cloud course learning from various dimensions. With all-round assistance and high enthusiasm for learning, Fudan MBA students break through space limitations, overcome the impact of time difference, listen to the extensive citations and unique insights of top professors from various countries, collided with students of different backgrounds and cognitions, and gained a lot of cutting-edge business knowledge and concepts.
Q1: Which professor’s opinions impressed you? What kind of inspiration has it triggered?
Shiyu
Our ESMT course is mainly taught by teacher Hanna. Her teaching method is very funny and relaxed, and she often interacts with us in real time. Even if we cannot visit the scene in person, we can strongly feel her care for us. During her teaching process, what impressed me most was that in an SSAB case, she introduced value chain (value chain) into case analysis, forming a closed loop from manufacturing, production, transportation, and recycling, and then analyzing the possible impacts in ESG in each link, and systematically guiding us to understand all aspects considered in ESG financial assessment.I was deeply impressed by Professor Shane Frederick’s Dual Systems & Choice Architecture course. This is a 3-hour hard-core dry goods course, with a PPT of more than 100 pages, mainly talking about the working modes of the two systems of the human brain, including how to activate them, and using the corresponding working mechanism to formulate marketing strategies to influence users' behavior, etc. A total of five types of marketing strategy are mentioned. The inspiration I brought to me is that marketing is inseparable from psychology . Good marketing must be based on understanding customer psychology, otherwise there is no way to talk about it.
Li Zao
What impressed the most was the Negotiation Mindset course taught by Dr. Daylian Cain. It mentioned "Finding the Tree": that is, finding a transaction breakthrough that is valuable to the negotiating opponent and at the same time, one's own side achieves a small cost, and "always keep sincere" are very inspiring to me. Although due to the time difference, this class was very "painful" for domestic students from 1:45 am to 5 am, but Dr. Cain's humorous and easy-to-understand teaching, as well as the case interaction of classroom simulation negotiations, made us sigh that it was worth it!
About Fudan GNW Overseas Courses
Global Network for Advanced Management Global High-end Management Alliance (GNAM for short) was initiated by Yale University, with 31 other world-class business schools participating, and Fudan University School of Management is also one of them. Global Network Week (GNW) overseas short-term courses are being born here. Various business schools in the Global High-end Management Alliance provide resources to share the most distinctive and exclusive customized overseas course resources with league schools. Students can freely apply for one-week related short-term courses to obtain an international learning experience.
