In March of this Spring with blossomy flowers, Tsinghua MBA Alumni Network Program (ANP) commenced in this beautiful season. Tsinghua MBA Alumni Club Beijing Branch successfully held the first meeting. On the evening of Mar. 27^th, this Alumni Club had a party at Ten Years Café, outside of the east gate of Tsinghua University. More than 70 Tsinghua MBA alumni, coming from different industries, gathered together to celebrate this moment. MAO Donghui, the Executive Director of the MBA Programs, and Xing Lijun, Director of the School Alumni Office, attended this event.

In 2007, under the support and care of Tsinghua SEM Alumni Office and leaders at all levels, as well as active participations of MBA alumni, Alumni Mentorship Program (AMP) was officially launched. This program not only provided an opportunity for current MBA students to learn from and communicate with outstanding alumni, but also helped alumni of each year build a platform of vertical communication, to meet the employment needs of alumni’s businesses.

The Book of Han·Annals of Zhong Jun says, “Today the world is united, and wind is same in thousands of miles”. In order to promote the spread of the alumni culture of Tsinghua to MBA alumni of all corners, Tsinghua MBA ANP was grandly set out in the spring of 2009 on the basis of deepening “Alumni Mentorship Program”. Tsinghua MBA ANP had Tsinghua MBA alumni as its core, and gradually constructed a Tsinghua MBA alumni relationship system, participating and dominated by alumni, aiming at bringing benefits to alumni from multiple aspects of career, life, culture, social activities and so on. This program plans to start with each single city as points, from points to lines, from lines to planes, and gradually forms a Tsinghua MBA alumni network all over the country and even the world. In 2009, Beijing is the experimental city of the program, which will construct “Tsinghua MBA Alumni Club Beijing Branch”, exploring the operation and management model of Tsinghua MBA alumni network. Based on experience, the activity model will be extended to other cities step by step.

In the meeting, Teacher Mao Donghui, the Executive Director of the MBA Programs, made a detailed introduction of Tsinghua MBA ANP to all alumni. Teacher Mao pointed out, this program can help Tsinghua MBA alumni develop personal relationship network. It would play an important promotional role in the following sides: establishing Tsinghua MBA alumni’s honor sense, cultivating Tsinghua MBA’s cultural heritage, exerting MBA students’ personal network advantages, and promoting the development of alumni cause. Teacher Mao also introduced the recent development of the school and programs to each alumni, such as some milestone events, including attaining AASCB and EQUIS accreditation; she also introduced the new version of Tsinghua MBA in particularly details to the present alumni. All alumni expressed their appraise to the new version of Tsinghua MBA launched by the school, and everyone showed their great interest in contents, such as “Soft Course”, “Curriculum of Integration Practice”, etc. and hoping to return to school to have a further study through the “Alumni Enhancement Program” in the future.

Teacher Xun Lijun, Director of the School Alumni Office, was an MBA graduate of Tsinghua SEM in 2002. In her speech, she said she was a member of Tsinghua MBA alumni, and cherished this chance to meet alumni of all years very much. She expressed her gratitude to alumni who had always been concerned and supported the school development, and hoped that every alumni can continue to support the development of the school and MBA programs with more active participations in all activities.

Xia Zongzhi, the city linkman of Beijing, introduced the ways of how to progress club activities and the recent activity arrangements to alumni. Xia Zongzhi said, apart from large gathering meeting and fixed activities, there may also be some meetings being conducted according to industry, subject and zone in the future. All alumni showed their appreciation to all those rich and colorful activities offered by the school, and expressed their will of taking part in the following activities one after anther. Alumni also put forward many constructive suggestions for the next activity, such as the place, the form and so on.

In the subsequent period of free communication, alumni gathered together, talking about the recent work and life. The organizers also arranged some games. Alumni were randomly divided into different groups to play games. These activities deepened exchanges and feelings between alumni, and also enhanced the communication between graduates and the school.

At 10 o’clock that night, alumni parted from each other reluctantly and promised to meet each other in the next meeting.

Tsinghua MBA Alumni Network Program (ANP)

Tsinghua MBA programs are the first most influential brand ones in China with brand effect. From 1991 to 2008, Tsinghua MBA programs have already recruited 19 years of students. At present, there are about 6,000 MBA alumni spreading all over the nation and into the world, and hundreds of exchange students alumni come from business schools all over the world.

Over the years, Tsinghua SEM has carried out a variety of alumni activities, which completely reflects Tsinghua’s alumni culture and Tsinghua students’ sense of responsibilities and mission. Under the support and care of Tsinghua SEM Alumni Office and leaders at all levels, as well as active participations of MBA alumni, Alumni Mentorship Program (AMP) was officially launched. This program not only provided an opportunity for current MBA students to learn from and communicate with outstanding alumni, but also helped alumni of each year build a platform of vertical communication, to meet the employment needs of alumni’s businesses. Since its foundation, AMP program has received good evaluations from all alumni. In communication, alumni also hope that the school can build a more complete alumni network to deepen contact and communication of alumni from different graduate years, from the same city, and even from different cities.

The Book of Han·Annals of Zhong Jun says, “Today the world is united, and wind is same in thousands of miles”. In order to promote the spread of the alumni culture of Tsinghua to MBA alumni of all corners, Tsinghua MBA ANP was grandly set out in the spring of 2009 on the basis of deepening “Alumni Mentorship Program”. Tsinghua MBA ANP had Tsinghua MBA alumni as its core, and gradually constructed a Tsinghua MBA alumni relationship system, participating and dominated by alumni, aiming at bringing benefits to alumni from multiple aspects of career, life, culture, social activities and so on. This program plans to start with each single city as points, from points to lines, from lines to planes, and gradually forms a Tsinghua MBA alumni network all over the country and even the world. In 2009, Beijing is the experimental city of the program, which will construct “Tsinghua MBA Alumni Club Beijing Branch”, exploring the operation and management model of Tsinghua MBA alumni network. Based on experience, the activity model will be extended to other cities step by step.

Tsinghua MBA ANP will collect and clear up the contact ways of alumni graduating from different year, gradually develop Tsinghua MBA Alumni Clubs in some important cities, develop periodical alumni activities, and decide the linkman for each category of alumni.

This program will provide alumni with value-added contents, including opening part of MBA courses for alumni to back to study, offering information about lectures, sending alumni address lists regularly and so on.