China Lab is a 3-month consulting project conducted by 4-student teams for host companies. Each team is composed of 2 MIT Sloan MBAs and 2 Tsinghua IMBAs with a wide range of backgrounds and expertise. Companies set the project focus and negotiate with their teams to agree on the scope, schedule and deliverables. In the past four years MIT-Tsinghua China Lab has worked with over 15 organizations in varied fields of industry. Student teams developed internationalization strategies, new market entry analyses, capital-raising strategies, sales and marketing strategies, organizational structure plans, competitive landscape assessments, and more.

This year’s Tsinghua-MIT China Lab continues to work with two old friends, Credit Ease and AE&E. During his talk with Mr. John Grant and Ms. Michellana Jester managing the Action Learning Program of MIT Sloan, Mr. Dawei Liu from Credit Ease says that the opportunity for his managers to work closely with the most competitive students from universities with the world best reputation benefits the organization in many ways and hence it is definitely worthwhile for Credit East to come back every year.

China Lab has also attracted Harbin Bank and Tsinghua Business Review as new host companies. They invite the student teams to join their effort in upgrading credit-management methodology and marketing strategy in both traditional and new media. Mr. Hongquan Li, the Vice General Manager of its Microfinance R&D Center, and his colleagues effectively communicated their needs and expectation of the project with MIT program managers and the Executive Director of Tsinghua MBA Programs, Ms. Donghui Mao. Harbin Bank also expects to cooperate with Tsinghua in various ways starting from this project.