Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association held its 2013 Annual Council Meeting at Lecture Hall, 2nd Floor of Main Building, Tsinghua University, on the morning of March 23, 2013. The 2012 Work Report and the 2013 Work Plan of Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association were discussed and approved at the meeting, together with the co-option of 27 directors, 17 managing directors and 8 deputy presidents and a presenting ceremony for “Group Contribution Award” and “Special Contribution Award”. Professor LI Jinliang, Associate Dean of Tsinghua SEM, attended and delivered a speech, and LONG Dawei (MBA1993), Managing Deputy President of Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association, made a special report. The meeting was hosted by JIANG Peixing (MBA1995), Deputy President and Secretary General of Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association. 64 MBA alumni directors from 16 cities and provinces (including Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Chengdu and Beijing), and 84 honored alumni and MBA teachers and students attended the meeting.
In his speech, Professor LI introduced to the MBA alumni the three transformations of Tsinghua MBA Program, the leader of China’s MBA Education, in the last five years. Particularly, with MBA education integrated with universities since 2012, “MBA+X”, “Exploring Technology Frontiers at Tsinghua”, “x-lab” and other new measures have come up to manifest the confidence and efforts of Tsinghua MBA Program in consistent pursuit and superiority, and at the same time to encourage and inspire MBA alumni to build up a closer link to the development of Tsinghua. Professor LI also invited the audience to attend the celebration event for the 30th anniversary of Tsinghua SEM in 2014, and made known Alumni Day celebrations in Hong Kong at the end of May for alumni in Hong Kong and Macao.
Professor QIAN Yingyi, Dean of Tsinghua SEM and President of Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association, has managed to arrive and have lunch with the alumni directors. He looked back into the establishment of Tsinghua MBA Program in 1991 and its development ever since, and expected the coming 30th anniversary of Tsinghua SEM to be an event accomplishing the missions of Tsinghua SEM, reflecting its history, highlighting its ideological deposits, exerting its influence and prompting innovation and leadership. He wished Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association to grow stronger with joint efforts of alumni and powerful supports from Tsinghua SEM.
Professor QIAN Yingyi
The Tsinghua MBA Alumni Relations Forum was held in Garden Lobby, Tsinghua Science Park in the afternoon, with the 100-plus attendees including directors of Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association, heads of branches in different industries and areas, alumni of the preparatory committees for graduation anniversary celebrations of classes of 1993 and 2003, and MBA students. Leaders from Tsinghua Alumni Association, including Deputy President BAI Yongyi, Secretary General GUO Liang and Deputy Secretary General JIAN Jin, ZHANG Lei, Executive Associate Director of Tsinghua MBA Programs, and professors from Tsinghua SEM such as CHEN Zhangwu, HUA Ruxing, SONG Xuebao, PAN Jiayao and YANG Xin, were present to join the reunion of MBA alumni from different parts of China.
Guests at the seminar
The first half of the forum was presided over by JIANG Peixing, Deputy President and Secretary General of Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association, with speeches delivered by GUO Liang, Secretary General of Tsinghua Alumni Association, and Professor CHEN Zhangwu. GUO introduced, progressively from organization of activities, contributions to Tsinghua and mutual support among alumni, the principle of Tsinghua Alumni Association, and warmly welcomed MBA and EMBA alumni to the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Tsinghua Alumni Association this July.
Professor CHEN’s recall of 1991, the year when the first 15 Tsinghua MBA students were enrolled, was followed by his delight and joy for the “contributions of successive alumni to the country and people”. “I prefer to be a teacher”, he concluded, and such pride was rewarded by long and warm applauses.
Back from the history, ZHANG Lei, Executive Associate Director of Tsinghua MBA Programs, presented an overview of Tsinghua MBA Programs today, as well as its reforms on courses and recruitments and new measures for strategic development. Interactive activities that are closely related to alumni, such as recruitments for alumni judges, the alumni mentor project for students, course assessment, overseas study tours and lectures by well-known teachers, were specially introduced.
Exchanges in the second half of the forum were hosted by WEN Hui (MBA1994), Deputy President and Managing Deputy Secretary General of Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association, with speeches given by alumni representatives from branches (including preparatory committees) in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Shandong, Henan, Tianjin, Shanxi, Jiangsu and Guangzhou, financial MBA (FMBA) course, and Tsinghua MBA alumni associations for medicine and health management, energy conservation and environmental protection, and education and consulting. They introduced to the audience the director groups present at the forum, shared the organizational building, activities and core concepts of the branches and their own ideas and experience at work, and put forward many suggestions for improvements or advancements.
Seminar of Tsinghua MBA Alumni
Brainstorming and discussions of the alumni, inspired by the keynote speeches, have postponed the forum to nearly 5pm, about 1 hour later than expected. More than 20 MBA alumni were interviewed after the forum, as part of the Tsinghua MBA Alumni Portraits report series.
To make sure of the success of the Annual Council Meeting and all necessary preparations, a preparatory meeting and enlarged session of directors was held by Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association on March 22. Professor QIAN Yingyi, Dean of Tsinghua SEM and President of Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association, attended and delivered an important speech. He also talked with heads of the Association such as Managing Deputy President LONG Dawei and Deputy President and Secretary General JIANG Peixing, and co-opted alumni directors. (Contributed by Tsinghua MBA Alumni Association and edited by Office of Communications and Marketing of Tsinghua SEM)
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